Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-03-22
PRISONERS WEPT
AND CURSED
Trial of Black Hand Mem
bers at Viterbo Had to
Be Suspended
WOMEN SOBBED AND TAINTED
Bedlam Breaks Loose in Court
Room at Viterbo, Italy,
This Morning.

Titerbo. Italy, March 22.-Angry
exchanges this forenoon between op-
posing counsel at today's session of
the trial of the Camorrists provoked
a demonstration from the prisoners
cage beyond the control of the court
officials and that necessitated sus-
pension OF the proceedings. The ac-
cused men alternately cursed and sob
bed Historically while their women
friends in the audience screamed and
tainted, the wife of one of the pris-
oners being seized with convulsions.
Victims of False Evidence.
Viterbo, Italy, March 22.-The Ca
morrists on trial for the murder Of two
o. their number are attempting the de-
fense that they are the victims of
false evidence, manufactured by the
Legion Of Carabineers of Naples, who,
while accomplishing the apprehension
of the defendants, sought to discredit
the police of Maple and make the lat
ter appear to be hand in glove with
the criminal organization.
This was the defense set up ny Giu-
seppe Salvi when he was interrogated
at the resumption of the case today.
Salvi is one of the six alleged assas-
sins of Gennaro Cuoccolo and the lat
ters wife. 1t is charged that he is
one of those who stabbed the husband
to death and later, in company with
Corrado Sortino, executed the Camor-
rist sentence of death against Maria
Cutinelli Cuoccolo at her home in the
Via Nardones.
Today Salvi was confronted with
ring which had belonged to Cuoccolo
and which the authorities found hid
den in the mattress of a bed at the
home of a woman known as a friend
of the accused.
| Ring as Proof of Death.
| The theory of the police was that
this ring was to be sent to Luigi Arena
as proof of Cuoccolos death. Arena
asked his brother Camorrists to mu-
/ der CuoccoIo in revenge for his betray-
al He set forth that Cuoccolo wished
share OF the spoils from a robbery
committed by Arena and a few COM
panions, and, being refused, de-
nounced the robbers to the police, re-
/ sulting in their Imprisonment Cuoc-
colo was already under suspicion, and
| this final accusation against him re-
suited in the determination to put
| him out of the way.
| Salyi is a small man and he called
| the attention of the court to this fact,
saying:
The strong and dreaded Camorrists
would never think of employing man
OF my size to murder IN able-bodied
woman"
AS to the finding of the ring, he de-
clared that it had been placed in the
bed by the carabineers in deliberate
effort to make evidence against the
Camorrists. This assertion, though
not unexpected, produced something
OF sensation in court, as it made
plain that the carabineers are to be at
tackled on the ground that, having an
tagonized the police, they are pre-
pared to go to any extreme to show
connivance between the Camorrists
and the police officials of Naples.
The priest, Giro Vitozzi, is suffering
from angina pectoris, and it was
against the advice of the prison of
ficials that he went to court today.
While he was being taken thither the
springs of the wagon broke and he
was told that, in view of the weakness
OF his heart, the accident might have
resulted in his death. TO this the
priest replied:
THAT would have been a short cut
to the end of all my miseries."
The proceedings were not resumed
in the afternoon, owing to the illness
OF juror.