The Sentinel=record., 1911-07-12
PRISONERS
 RUSH CAGES
cAMoRRIsT HEAR PLAIN UNI vARNlsH STORY OF THEIR
 RLAckMAiL OPERATIONS.
Exciting Scenes In Italian Court. When Fsbroni Tells of the In. vestigation He Has Made
 Into Secret Society.

V.tebbo, Italy, July 1i.--Captaln Fabroni of the Carabineers of Na- ples, who has been Investigating the Camorra for years. took the witness stand today and denounced the or ganization as the greatest of ali crim- inal associations.
 He proved an exceptional witness, facing the prisoners in the cage with out tremor, and giving testimony which embraced. the doings of the Camorra almost from the beginning |of it's history.
 The chief object of the association, he said. is blackmail and usury. A typical example was found in the |Camorrist Danna, ostensibly cob bier, who collected $160,000. Special members of the association, he said introduced youths to women who took them to gambling places, where the, lost their money and run into debt Then the usurer completes the work. | Erricone, the alleged leader of ths Camorrists, the witness continued was on trial on such a charge.
 But he was acquitted," shouted Lawyer Boyio, for the defense. Everyone knows what acquittals mean in cases in which the Camorrc
 is concerned Fabroni said. Be sides, the lawyer defending Erricone was the brother of the president oi the court who acquitted him." This was the signal for great tu- mutt. Erricone, within the cage. lleaped to his feet and dashed at the bars, shrielrng incoherently. The lThe lawyers. especially Bovio, pro- tested against what they considered Ian insult to the Neapolitan judges land lawyers. Bovio, addressing Fab roni, accued him of vulgar insinn- ation and outrageous conduct.
 Captain Fabroni. who faced the hurricane courageously, sprang to- wards Bovio.
 After the documents you had forg- ed in Paris | refuse to lower myscn to your level,' he cried
 The excitement was intense and Carabineers rushed between Fabro- no and the lawyer. as hand to hand fight seemed imminent. The pres- dent of the court tried to auell the clamor He finally requested Fabro- nj and Bovio to withdraw their words which toth did. Fahroni explained tha. the documents to which he re- fcrred had to do with tue defense of Rapi. the a,esel treasurer of the Ca- nora, when he lived in Paris.
 When the .nterrogatioEs were con- tinued Fabroni described the gambling house conducted by Rapi and Rapi's cieyerncss in cheating at cardss Rap protested 90 violently that President Bianchi ordered him removed from the court room.
 Fabroni continued his testimony until late In the day. He said noth- ing could escape the Camorra. which makes money out of everything and every nerson. including poor emi- grants going to America.
 The witness gave several examples of how the Camorrists obtain the SUD- port of prominent persons Com mendator Petriccione, former depu- ty and president of the chamber ol commerce of Caserta, had lost q pocketbook containing. s5,0o0 he said.
 There was no doubt that it had been stolen. Later De Matteo, a prominent Gamorrist, offered to re cover the money and did So within 24 hours. Petriccione offered re- ward, but this was flatly refused. not because he was generous, but for the reason he wished to use the influence of Petriccione in more imprtant cir