Connecticut western news., 1911-03-30
CAMORRIST INFORMER
 TELLS OF MANY CRIMES
BurgIaries Committed by Band
 Is Testimony.

Gennaro Abbatemaggio, the chief in- former, was again placed on the stand for cross examination by the president of the court at the resumption of the trial of the Camorrists for the murder of Gennaro Cuoccolo, at Viterbo, Italy. !. Abbatemaggio continued his revela- ton of burglaries which he had com mitted h cooperation with Luigi Are na, one of the prisoners, who, while in jail for another crime, accused Cuoccolo of having betrayed him to the police and demanded that the Ca morro should order his removal.
 Abbatemaggio detailed the robbery of the house of Count Daquiros and the negotiations conducted by Enrico Alfano, otherwise known as Erricone, the head of the Camorra, for the return of the booty. He also told the story of the burglary of the home of Baron Consiglios and his arrest and convic- ton for this crime. The informer ex- plained how Gennaro Cuoccolo, then the leader in such affairs, planned these burglaries.
 Abbatenfaggio has received thirty let ters from admirers. These include two letters from women who offer to marry him. He says after the trial he will not go abroad to escape the vengeance of the Camorra. He will remain in Italy, but not in Naples, .=
 eEnEpA, William H. Lewis of
 .,--.,a Boston, the negro ".z 2 whose name as assist " "''~>r T@N'f<SS- ant attorney general was sent to the senate last month but not confirmed, has been sworn In at the department of justice, President Taft having given him recess ap- pointment.
 The annual report of the Central Jewish Relief league, which works in connection with leading Jews in America and England, emphasizes the adverse Jewish conditions in Russia, which it describes as worse than ever. The report points out that the emi- grafton of Jews to the United States was larger in 1910 than in any pre- vious year and speaks of the difficulty of finding homes for the emigrafts in America. =. &.
 Father Alfani, the seismologist who 1 predicted the earthquakes at San Francisco and Messina, is reported to 1 have accepted the offer of a chair of seismology in a university of one of the western states of America. Pro- lessor Alfani Is now director of the observatory at Florence, which he built at his own expense. e.
 Rear Admiral Charles H. vreeland, now in command of the second di- vision of the Atlantic fleet, has been detailed to represent the navy at the l coronation of King George V. Ad- miral Dewey declined the appointment because of the length of the journey. It is reported that Colonel Theodore Roosevelt will revisit Scandina via dur he will attend the Olympic games at 1 Stockholm and afterward be the guest 1 of Maurice F. Egan, the United States minister, at Copenhagen.
 1 A bill introduced at Albany by As- semblyman McGrath of New York amends the labor law by extending the liability of the employer for in- jury to an employee where the injury l is caused without any fault of the. latter.
 Benjamin D. Greene, convicted of fraud in the Savannah harbor i'm provements case, has been liberated from the federal prison in Atlanta after taking the pauper's oath. He completed his prison term some weeks ago. ..
 The supreme court of Arizona has affirmed the judgment fining the Grant Bros. of Los Angeles $45,OOO for the violation of the contract labor laws in importing forty-five men from Mexico for railroad construction work.
 The government has started S2,OOO,- 900 rebate case against the Hooking Valley and Sunday Creek Coal com pany of Toledo. ("