Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-02-25
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file without doing any work or taking
any risks. He lent money at usury
purchased and received stolen goods
levied taxes. took an active part in 10
cal politics and municipal election
and increased his income in severa
ways. His specially consisted in plan
ming burglaries.
1t often happened that the Canon
rists cheated Cuocolo and kept a grea
part Of the booty for themselves. bu
Cuocolo had a good remedy in sucl
cases. He merely denounced thu
Camorrists to the police and had then
convicted Of the burglary he planned.
One day over four years ago Cuoco
10 and his wife were murdered. Hi
body was found on the beach Of Tore
del Greco, and on 1t were forty-sever
| characteristic stabs and slashes Of the
Camorra, while his wife was found
murdered In her house at Naples
! There seemed to be no doubt that the
double murder was Camorra exc
cution.
The civil police made mild invest1'
cation and made few arrests.
Among those who testified in behalf
Of the prisoners was priest who held
the post Of municipal chaplain at the
cemetery, Don Giro vitozzi. This
priest Is Enrico Alfano's godfather.
and Enrico Alfano, nicknamed Erri.
cone, was known to be one of the
chiefs of the Camorra. The prisoners
were released and the case was prac-
tically dropped.
GARDENERS Take Case.
A Socialist member Of parliament
who did not owe his election to the
Camorra then broadly limited that the
Naples civil police were in league with
the Camorra and suggested that the in
vestigation of the murder should be
intrusted by the government to the
carabineers, who went at the case Wig
orously. They made some interesting
discoveries.
They found out that on May 26,
1908, a secret meeting of the Camorra
was held at Bagnoli which was at
tended by all the chiefs of the ten dis
tricts Of Naples and couple Of Canon
risti from each district. There seem.
ed to be no doubt that the Camorrists
assembled to sit as tribunal and
pass judgment on traitor. The pun
ishment Of a traitor Is always death.
The carabineers then made another
discovery. e
On the day the Cuocolo murder was
committed a party Of Camorrists as
sembled in a smaHsrestaurant at Tore
del Greco. where they had supper
late in the evening. The windows of
the restaurant overlooked the beach
where Cuocolo's body was found.
There was nothing eventful about the
supper except that when it was half
through a man rushed in with wild
look on his face and, going up to En-
rico Alfano, whispered something in
his ear: Alamo merely shook hands
with him, and the man left. The Ca
morrists who attended the secret meet
ing at Bagnon and those who had
supper at Tore del Greco were the
same.
The carabineers succeeding in get
ting hold of a Camorrist named Alb
batemaggio, who explained many cir
cumstances. Abbatemaggio said that
Cuocolo had been murdered because a
Camorrist named Luigi Arena, who
was then serving q long term Of rele- |
cation or coerced domicile in the island
Of Lampedusa, had denounced him as
a traitor to the tribunal Of the Canon
IA. Arena had worked under Cuocolo
and successfully accomplished many
burglaries, and yet Cuocolo had him
sent to prison and supplied the police
with the necessary evidence for his
Arena wrote to the chiefs
at Naples and exacted Cuocolo's pun |
ishment according to the code Of the
honorable society,""
Sentenced 20 Death.
The chiefs OF the Camorra passed on
Cuocolo the usual sentence Of death. |
-Four Camorrists were charged with
the execution Of the sentence. The
death Of Cuocolo's wife had not been
decreed by the CamofFa tribunal, but
It was decided on BY the murderers
who feared she would
avenge her husband. |
The carabineers then arrested all the !
Oamorrists with the exception Of Al
fano and two or three others. While
the carabineen were trying to collect |
Ill the evidence possible against the
prisoners Police Sergeant Petrosino mr.
rested Alfano at New York, where he
discovered him at banquet given In
his honor by the representatives Of the
Camorra in Elizabeth street. 1t Is
likely that the murder Of Petrosino
three years later ut Palermo was the
CAmorra's vengeance for tho arrest of
Enrico Alfano.
About thirty Camorrists were charg.
ed with completely In the Cuocolo
crime and active participation in a
criminal association, while the priest