The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-23
Lawyers Shout at Each Other,
While the Camorrists Alter
nately Curse and Weep.
WIFE OF ONE PRISONER
GOES INTO COMMISSIONS
Court Compelled to Suspend
Proceedings Until All Hands
Grow Calm.

VITERBO, Italy, March 22.-Angry
exchanges between opposing counsel at
today's session of the trial of the Ca
morrists provoked a demonstration from
the prisoners cage, beyond the control
of the court officials, that necessitated
suspension of the proceedings. The
accused men alternately cursed and
sobbed Historically, while their women
friends in the audience screamed and
tainted, tho wife of one of the prise"
ners being seized with convulsions.
The scene was enacted soon after the
resumption of the sitting, which was
adjourned at tho close of the morning
sc sion yesterday because Of the illness
OF a juror. At that time Giuseppe
Salvi, one Of those who is alleged to
have stabbed to death Gennero Cuoccolo
and his wife, was being questioned by
President Bianchi, concerning his career.
This morning Salvl was called for
cross examination. 1t Is charged that
he is the man who furnished the final
evidence of Cuoccolo s treachery in the
Camorra and so brought about his sent
encc Of death In letter written from
the prison, where he was confined for
robbery. he asserted that Cuoccolo had
betrayed him to the police because he
had given n share of the booty of his
crime to another than Cuoccolo. He
called on his brother Camorrists to
avenge him.
Murdered Mans Ring.
It is asserted that according to the
rules of the Camorra ring was taken
from the hand of the murdered man to
be sent to Salvi In proof of the fact
that his wish for vengeance had been
observed
Carabineers claimed to have found
this ring in the mattress of bed at
the home of n woman known as the COM
panion of Salvi.
Salv protested the nno was placed
IN the bed by the carabinecrs for the
purpose of manufacturing evidence,
AS the cross examination progressed
TODAY, President Bianchl suddenly pro-
duced the ring, and holding it so that
it could be seen by all In the court,
said:
"This is the ring found in the home
of your woman associate
The statement called forth volley
Of protests from the prisoners, who
it is not his'
The cries grew louder and were taken
I'D bv sympathizers in the audience.
Then Lawyer Liguori, president of the
board of attorneys of Naples, who is de-
Tending the informer, Gennaro Abbate-
maggie, pushed his way to the space IN
front of the great steel cage and, star"
ing into the eyes Of the accused men,
exclaimed;
eyes. that is Cuoccolo's ring"
This interruption brought the scores
of lawyers for the defense into the fray.
and as the eXecration of the prisoners
grew louder. threw the whole courtroom
into an uproar In the babel of tongues
one could distinguish these Oft repeated
Who pays you the price of Abbate-
-'SS3tG ::You arc paid from the secret funds of
you We're sent here under orders from
This attack was encouraged by the
prisoners. who applauded as they eN-
''1.ts! Bravo! Bravo"
Prisoners Cry Out.
For q. moment Giovanni Rapi. the al,
| LEGGED treasurer OF the Camorra. and
| known as the proprietor OF gambling
places in Naples. Rome and Paris. held
| his face against the bars of the cage and
cried: we are innocent; we have been
betrayed; we have been sold like lambs
~ Ar this point Alfano. the alleged ac-
tual head or the Camorra. cried dramati-
| Il call from the other world the soul
Of my poor brother Cino. who died In
prison. TO witness that We are iieSh ana
| blood sold by the Carabineers to the In
during judges. who lent themselves TO
this Infamous market.
BY this time both, prisoners and law
| vers were pretty we'll exhausted and sud
denly the accused men as with ono accord
burst into tears. The priest, Giro Wit
ezzi, looked as Y he had been stricken
Gennaro one OF the alleged actual as
sassins, fell to the floor In convulsions.