The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-05-04

he was in communication with those
OF tho honorable society who had
found a profitable Held for their sor-
did and criminal activities I'm the
United States. Alfano was arrested.
but Don Giro Vitozzi. a priest, who
held the post OF municipal chaplain
ut the Naples cemetery and who had
stood as sponsor for Alfano at bap-
tisIn. came forward and gave his god
child character 0like for sobriety
and sanctity. This brought Alfano's
release, and Immediately thereafter
he started for America. Once in New
York city, as the records show, a
banquet was given In his honor by the
Camorra, and thither. too. Detective
Petrosino bent his steps He took AL
tano away from the open chianti bot
tie and Neap0litan eloquence and
shipped him back to Europe. Italian
detectives met him at Havre and
made him a prisoner.
Nitozzi. the priest had In the mean
time been arrested. His zeal In pro-
tecting his godchild had made him
forget the binding character of an
oath taken with hand on the Book
He had sworn that under the seal OF
the confessional another had confess
ed theS murders falsehood. they
now say.
OF witnesses for the State or against
IL there are close upon a thousand
more than three a day for all the court
days in never ending session of a year
Some of the witnesses are already
here. others are In France and Eng
land and elsewhere i'm Italy waiting
Tor word. The government hopes to
prove its cases ten times over before
half of it's $50 witnesses have looked
upon the Gagged prisoners. The italian
Minister of Justice is well aware Of
the international Importance of the
trial. and the government has spent
years preparing for IL. for. be II re-
mem bered, the assassination of the
CuoccoloS was not an incident of yes
terday. but OF June 3. 1906, and the
machinery OF investigation has been
steadily grinding and at great expense
ever since.
The thirty-six sitting in rows within
the great iron cage present a picture
winch several noted criminologists are
now studying. Vitozzi, the priest, as
concession to sentiment. is permitted
To sit outside the cage. He once off,
ciated at the altar in this very church.
lie Is heavy specialized and wears a
skullcap. His nose hooks up. Some
day they Will almost touch, II he does
not die mad from solitary confinement
Giuseppe Salvi, alias Peppe o Curto,
is handsome and blackhaired. He
looks the type OF an undersecretary
capital. Sortino's is soldiers face.
Alfano's face is the least Interesting
lie has FOX eyes and the curl Of lip Of
one without feeling.
punishment.
The thirty-six were to have been
forty-twO, but one died in a dark cor
ner of his cell two managed TO con-
vine" the authorities that they We're
only half bad, and three slowed them
selves away in the foul holes Of ships
bound for the earth's far ends and
became fugitiNes.
Italy Furnishes murdcrers by keep
Ing them alive. Once sentence Is pro-
bounced the convict knows no more
D.a n.n..NN y -. a II
becomes six feet by nine. Except as
ne fashions his own calendar he
knows not the coming and going of
days. He hears only his own voice.
He may pluck his hair. otherwise he
may not know that IL is turning gray.
And So the weeks become months, and
the seasons change and years Pile up
until the mind wanders, and the brain
reels. and in a time short or long they
carry forth the shriVeled form OF that
which once was "A man.
The thirty-siN know this. yet with a
braVado that Is always unreal. they
had taken his place In the jury box
They laughed. but il wasn't sincere.
This trial OF the CamOrra Was bound
to come. but the confession OF Abbate-
maggiO helped IL along amazingly
Abba emaggio, with the dull wit of a
coachman. opened his mouth. which the
bound. and told all he knew. which was
every thing, and To his everlasting
CilteSlln ne lOiO II not TO n utNll-nllN
care young Sandman briRand. as he
thought. but to Erminio Capizzuti, an
alert honor man among the non com
misSioned officers OF the army. who had
come up from the inland garrison
where life is a few drills and per
petual yawn. to do secret service
Work of CapI1zuti.
Wideawake fellow this Capizuti a
man OF the PetrosinO type. clean. eau
tious. and cunning. lie actually Joined
the Camorra and attained the distinc-
ton OF having shaken the hands OF
proud but still unsatisfied man killers.
he moved up by easy stages through
the beBgRr class and the thieves class
until his seat was with the worry cabi-
net OF cut-throRts- No need here OF the
10000 word confession. LOOK down
from the press gallery. which occupies
the organ loft Of the ancient Gothic
Church and upon the thir0y-siN In the
cage. Here IL Is.
At the close or today's trial the
throng moved across the plaza where
the historic fountain plays as IL did In
the days when the Popea OF old lived
here during the midsummer months.
Gregory received the Flsherman's keys
in this very town. and the dust OF two
other Popes IS deposited here. The
thirty-siN We're driven in their rumb-
ling cars 30 the prison. and the night
patrol swung with easy stride into the
streets. From the churches one could
hear the chant OF the priests-Speciai