Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-22
Claim Of CamorriSts Being
Tried for Murder.
Declare Themselves The Victims
Of Legion CaTablneers.
AYERS DiscrsditIng Of the Police Of
Naples Object Of Persecution.


on trial for the murder of two OF their
!. number are attempting the defence
Z that they are the victims of false evil
dence manufactured by the Legion
I Cara bneers of Naples, who, while ac-
complishing the apprehension of the
II defendants, sought to discredit the po-
I lice of Naples and make the latter APP
pear TO be hand in glove with the
criminal orga nization.
This was the defence set up by
Giuseppe Salvi when he was interro
I gated at the resumption of the case to-
I day. Salvi is one of the six alleged as
F saSsnS of Gennaro Cuoccolo and the
4 latter's wife.
Today Salvi was confronted with a
I ring which had belonged to Cuoccolo
4 and which the authorities had found
hidden in the mattress of a bed at the
( home of n woman known as a friend
1 of the accused. The theory of the police
was that this ring was to be sent to
4 Luigi Arena as proof of Cuoccolo's
death.
Arena asked his brother Camorrists
/ to murder Cuoccolo in revenge FOR his
betrayal. He set forth that CuoCcolo
wished a share of the spoils from the
robbery committed by Arena and Il
few companions and being refused de
nounccd tie robbers to the police, re
su,tins 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.
Salvi is small man and lie called
the attention of the court to this fact,
saying:
The strong and dreaded Camorrists
would never think of employing a man
of my size to murder an able bodied
woman"
II" declared the ring had been placed
4 in the bed by the Carabineers in a de-
against the Camorrists. The assertion
produced something OF sensation In
the court. and it made plain that the
Cara binecrs are to be attacked on the
ground that having antagonized the
police. they are prepared to go To any
extreme to show connivance between
the Camorrists and the police officials
OF Naples.
The priest. Giro Nitozzi. is suffering
from angina pectoris and It was
against the ADVICE Oh TIE prison Il4N-
sicians that he went to court today.
While he was being taken thther the
springs of the wagon broke and lie was
told that in view of the weakness of
his heart the accident might have re-
suited in his death. To this the pris-
oner replied THAT would have been
a short cut to the end of all my mis-
cries"
The priest said that he had made a
Will while in prison bequeathing all
his earthly possessions to his sisters.
At the close of the morning session
it developed that one of the jurors had
been taken ill and as a consequence
the proceedings were not resumed this
afternoon.
President Bianchi announced tlat
the trial would be resumed tomorrow
morning. During the day. Professor
Ottolenghi. of the faculty of Medicine
at the University of Rome, arrived
here to examine the informer. Gennaro
Abbatemagsio. He has been retained
b. the defence. which will attempt to
prove that Abbatemaggio is mentally
irresponsible. When the prisoner was
told that he was to be examined he
remarked calmly: Professor. YOU are
losing Your time" Abbatemaggio
thinks that his Interrogation by the
court will occupy about one week, dur
ing which he expects to repeat his rev.
Citations regarding the crimes of the
Camera.