Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-22
GAGGED PRISONERS
CURSE AND SOB
n Widest RAGE
Court Spectators
Scream-PandemOnium at
Camorrist Trial.

VITERBO, Italy. March 22.-Angry
exchanges between opposing counsel at
today's session of the trial of the
camorr1sts provoked a demonstration
from the prisoners cage, beyond the
control of the court officials. that
necessitat,d a suspension of the pro-
ceedings.
Tho accused men alternately cursed
in a rage and sobbed historically.
while their women friends in the audi
ence screamed and tainted, the wife
OF : e of the prisoners being seized
with commissions.
The scene was enacted soon after
the resumption of the sitting. Giuseppe
Salvi, one of those who Is alleged to
have stabbed to death Gennaro Cuoc-
colo n his Nifc. was being %interro-
gated by President Bianchi concern
Ing his career.
AS the cross-examination progressed
President Bianchi suddenly produced
the ring said to have been taken from
the victims finger, and, holding it so
that 1t could be seen by all in the court
room, said:
This is the ring found in the home
- SONi Ohid dSSoSldlS.
This statement called forth a chorus
of protests from the prisoners, who
shouted: "No. no! 1t is not Cuoccolo's
ring; it is not his"
Lawyer Defies Men.
The cries grew louder and were taken
up by sympathizers in the audience.
Then Lawyer Liguori. president of the
Board of Attorneys of Naples, who is
defending the informer, Gennaro Alb
batemaggio. pushed his way to the
space in front of the great steel cage,
and, staring into the eyes Of the ac-
eused men, exclaimed: Yes, that is
Cuoccolo's ring"
This interruption brought the scores
of lawyers f.. the defense into the fray,
and as the execration of the prisoners
grew louder these lawyers mad a
verbal attack upon Liguori that threw
the whole courtroom in an uproar.
= In the babel Of tongues one coulC dis
tinguis.. these as the repeated eXcla-
nations: who pays o the price of
Abbatemaggio's shame?" You are
paiC from the secret funds of the gov
ernment,'' You were sent here under
orders iron the Carabine crs."
This attack was encouraged by h
prisoners. who a~pplauded as they ex-
claimed Bravo. bravo"
For a moment Fiovanni Rapi, the al
legged treasurer of the Camorra, and
known as the proprietor of gambling
places in Naples, Rome and Paris, held
the centre of the stage when he pressed
his face against the bars of the cage
and cried:
Like Lambs Led 10 uGh
ayxy~ 49, s,.aoortf VIZ tax,a Ioa@ ha
trayed! We have been sold like lambs
to the slaughter"
At this point Alfano, the alleged ac-
tual head of the Camorra, cried dra-
matically:
1T call from the other world the soul
of my poor brother Giro. who died in
prison, to witness that we are flesh
and blood sold by the carabineers to
the inqulring Judges who lent them
selves to this infamous market"
BY this time both prisoners and
lawyers were pretty we'll exhausted,
and suddenly the accused men, as with
one accord, burst into tears. The
priest, Giro Vitozzi, looked as though
he had been stricken with apoplexy.
The wife of Mariana De Gennaroone,
of the alleged actual assassins,
screamed and fell to the floor in con-
yulsions.
The savage invectives We're continued
for ten minutes, when the president,
unable to restore order, announced a
temporary adjournment. Throughout
the turmoil the informer, Gennerao
Abbatemaggio sat calmly observant in
his smaller and exclusive steel pen.
When the sitting was resumed An
tonic Cerrato was called for exami-
nation. He is charged with being one
of the six who executed the sentence
of death upon Cuoccolos. Cerrato
earnestly protested his innocence. His
examination was along the lines of
those of Mariana De Gennaro, Corrado
Sortino and Giuseppe Salvi.