The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-20
CAMORRA TRIAL
 MAY BE HALTED Abbatemaggio May Confess
 Complicity in Crime TRIAL IS RESUM ID
Prisoners Appear Fresh After Rest During Holidays-Priest Vitozzi
 Says He Is a Guardian Angel of Camorrists

Viterbo, Italy. April 19.-The trial of the Neapolitan Camorrists may be halted and a new investigation into the murder of Gennaro Cuoccollo and his wife ordered on the ground that the informer, Gennaro Abbatemaggio, was an accomplice in the crime. as the result of development in the cane today.
 This possibility rests on the truth of a sensational report to the effect that if the evidence already prepared by the state appears insufficient to convict the accused. Abbatemaggio will confess com plicity as picket in the assassination Of Cuoccolo.
 If this confension is made the trial will be stopped as a new inquiry into the facts of the crimes will be necessary
 After a respite during holy week. the band of shackled Camorrists trooped ir- to court today and again faced their ac- cusers from within tie steel bars of their cages
 The holiday has improved the prisoners physically and refreshed them in spirit. All of the 36 were present except Barto- lozi, who suffered a nervous attack a month ago. and is still confined to the prison hospital.
 The priest, Giro vitozzi, was perhaps the most cheerful of the lot today. As he was led into court, bound but still wearing his priestly garb, he declared that during the Easter recess he had en- gagged in fervid religious exercises, which had given him strength to endure every suffering.
 Angel of Camorra
 q am,' he proclaimed, "the guardian angel of the Camorra, spiritually ar mored against everything and every body"
 vitozzis lawyer opened the proceed ngs today with a motion that the court order that the publication of the war rants for the arrest of his client and Giacomo Accrittore, who the state all leges entered into a conspiracy to de- nounce De Angels and Amedio as the murderers of Cuoccollo in order 10 save the real assasnins.
 President Bianchi said he thought the production of the warrants was unneces- sary. The lawyer however, insisted, say ing that he wished to demonstrate that the Carrabineers had been furnished with orders of arrest in which the date head line was left blank and were prepared to make use of the warrants on any oc- casion that served their purpose.
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 Luigi Fucci, who is described as the fictitious head of the Camorrists, given a nominal office in order to protect Enrico Alfano, the guiding spirit. was called for Interrogation. Fucci averred he was neither the real nor the nominal head of he even was a Camorrist.
 "It would, indeed be most strange said the prisoner, If this society were to choose for its leader a man like myself. Why throughout my life have been con demned but once and then to only two months in prison because I had mixed in a row, during which I was well beaten.
 Tt is true that I attended banquet with a party of friends at the Aida tav- ern in Bagnoli in the spring of 1906, but it is absurd to assume that Cuoccolo was sentenced to death on that joyful occa- sion''
 Fucci then launched into a dissertation on the honor of his family. Like Ascrit- tore, he too had an octonegerian mother who was weeping histories out of the plight of her beloved son.
 And my brother,' said he. was a holy priest.'
 Two other prisoners were interrogated, but both were just cs emphatic as their predecessors on the witness stand in their denials of membership in the association One of the men, Dsarno, who is said to have been the cashier of the Camorra at one time, declared that that would have been impossible, as he was illiterate and was therefore not capable of keeping ac- counts. He said that Luigi Fucci, under whom he would have served was his enemy and it would have been impossible for them to work together. Te finally declared that the Camorra is legend.