The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-08
EXCITEMENT OVER ! CANORRA TRIAL
Italian Authorities Trying to
 Stop Murders
BAND HAS TRAITORS
Leading Member of Camorrn Was Mur- dered and over Thirty Men Will Be Tried for Complicity
 in the Crime

yiterbo, Italy, January 7-Detachment' of police, heavily armed, and carbneer: surrounded the station here today, in an ticipation of the arrival of 32 members oi the Camorra, who are to stand trial foi the murder of James Cuocolo, a leading member of the band, who had incurred the vengeance of the Camorrists for al . legged acts of treachery. Cuocolo's body was found on the seashore near Naples in June, 1906, and the mutilated body ot his wife was discovered shortly after wards in a house nearby.
 Extraordinary precautions have been taken by the authorities to guard the prisoners and to prevent any attempt al their release. They have been in close confinement for more than three years and hundreds of their friends and rela- tives gathered at the station here today. Police attachments were stationed at va rious points and when the train arrived from Naples there was a scene of riot and disorder
 It was known that nothing would be left undone to effect a rescue and orders had been issued to the police and carbi- neers to put down any such attempt by whatever means necessary.
 The prisoners descended from the cars In groups of five chained together. They comprised all varieties of the social scale, from dandy to lazzarone. Chief among them was Enrico Alfano, better known as Erricone, head of the Caniorra, who was arrested in New York in April, 1907, by Detective Petrosni, He appeared thinner and ghastlier than ever. He was wrapped up in heavy furs and seemed hardly able to stand.
 The mob, temporarily held in check by . show of authority, broke Into cries, shreks and generations at sight of the prisoners and attempted to break through the lines to get near them, but the car- bineers pushed them back with their guns. Intense excitement reigned and the surg ing mass of people threatened an attack upon the police. The prisoners raised their voices almost as loudly as their protesting friends and relatives. The wife of Mandriere, known also as Demarinis, the most prominent Camorrist after Erri- cone, struck at the carbineers. shouting May you all be killed. May you all go to the dissecting table of the hospital
 Erricone protested seriously, saying:
 We are murdered innocents. The Wit erbo jury will take revenge on us. Thus Italy will be disgraced before the world"
 The men were marched to prison, sur rOunned by neaVy guaruS, ana the CTOWuS dispersed. Caputo, the marshal of the carbneers, who distinguished himself in exposing the Camorra, Is director of the police arrangements. The trial will begin shortly and Viterbo, which Is 52 miles from Rome. was selected for this purpose in order that all concerned in the prose- cution would be removed from direct in- fiuence of the association, which had been a name of terror to all law-abiding Ital- ians.
 It is believed that evidence will be brought out at the trial of these men which will throw light upon the murder of Detective Petrosino in %llermo in March, 1909, wither he was sent by the New York police department to secure in formation in regard to the Italian crim fnals Scores of murders are charged against the Camorrists now in the hands of the police, although the coming trial will have to do only with the asassina- tion of Cuocolo and his wife. This is the beginning of a far-sweeping move ment which the Italian government con templates against the Camorra associa- tion, which. according to the minister of Justice, and other members of the cab inet, must be rooted out.