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IQSIFEAREDM man
STAND
olIl4 Leader LasheS 81
thOTitieS.
PROTESTS HE IS INNOCENT
SWears He Is Victim of Yellow
journalism and Suffered Persecution
For Four Years.

Viterbo, Italy, April Lovers of
the dramatic had their fill at the ses-
sion of the murder trial of the thirty
six Camorrists.
Enrico AIfano, the most feared man
in Italy," reputed to be the actual head
ae criminal organization, was I'M
d lterrogation and held the crowd
in the courtroom spellbound with his
eloquent denials.-
The man is innocent or a cnIsunfi-
mate actor. The slender figure seemed
to grow until it dominated the occa-
sion, and friends and enemies alike
shrank from the gaze he fixed upon
one and then another while he poured
forth the most scathing arrangement
of the authorities ever heard IN an
Italian court.
AS the questioning proceeded and
the thrusts OF the president and the
crown prosecutor went home, Enrico
trembled with excitement. His face
hardened with anger until he looked
IKE a savage animal about to spring
upon it's prey. Suddenly he abandoned
all attempts at composure and gave
free reign to his feelings.
ut is a lie, a myth" he shouted. 81
was neither the head nor the tail of
the Camorra. | was boy among boys
of the poorer class. | was no better
and no worse than my mates.
Il was ruined first by the sensa-
tionalism of that newspaper, the Mat
tino. That is why, although ! now re
greet the deed, ali my nerves rebelled.
as member of the staff of that paper
approached me when Fwee-.ssFerisned
in court as a murderer, | could not
help splitting in his face.
Then the carbineers damned me
by making me appear as an assassin.
To call us assassins is inhuman cruel
: ty. No one has a right to so stigma
tie us-not even confessed Grim
inal who, to serve his own ends, be-
comes an assassin-only after he has
neR-condemned.'
President Bianciii requested Enr:co
to calm himself, but the only effect
\of this interruption was to cause the
prisoner to burst into tears. Sobbing
Riolently, he continued:
For four years | have suffered FER
cution and martyrdOm. Constantly
fore my eyes is a picture OF amy
r, innocent brother, dying in a
son cell adjoining my own. In my
IS ring his laments as he passed
Tough the agony of death. He was
hung and the beautiful image of his
eator. He died innocent
Enrico PAUSED. and the only sound
hme from the prisoners cage, where
1Gennaro Ibelli, alleged head of the
Camorra in the Vesuvian villages,
leaning his head against the steel
bars, cried like child.
Enrico began his business career as
an errand boy in a flower shop. Early
in life he had place of his own. Then
he established grain market and
speculated in cattle, bargaining with
the farmers who visited the fairs. He
grew wealthy and became a usurer,
with an Office in the center of the
city.
1t was left to Lieutenant Petrosino,
the American detective, to arrest and
bring to justice this man, who bad
defed the police of Italy.
Following the nrD-Ter q GENERA
Cuoccolo, he wa>arrested and charged
with instig1sg the crime, but way
to his 1ease was found in the false
test Iony of the priest, Giro Vitozzi,
guardian angel of the Camorra."
icing to America, he was rear
I'd in Brooklyn by Petrosino and
never since been free man. That
arrest was the first practical move in
the breaking up ofrns Camorra.