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really been no more denunciation, no more
emotion no more tears, than IL an ordinary
criminal attorney I'm a New York City
court were summing up an important case
Court ad ,lyrns. No sooner has the
Judge departed than an cutlery is heard
from the cage.
"''I am tired-tired-tired!' exclaims an
agonized voice Il have been In prison for
five years! Everybody else talks and
have to listen | am not allowed 10 speak
and nothing ever happens! 1t is intermina-
blel I cannot stand it!'
Ut is "Erricone' having one or MS
periodical moments Of relief After all, one
is not inclined TO blame him very mucn
for there is a good deal Of truth In what
he says-owing to the way the case was
bungled in its earlier stages. The cara
hinferi rush UP. "Erricone' is pacined py
his fellow Camorrists and quiet is restored
One INQUIRIES II there is generally any more
excitement than has Just occurred ana :
told that It has been quite sensational
day. bur then-that "Erricone' Is always
yelling" good many defendants make
a noise and carry on-snd so do their rela-
tives-after court has adjourned. IN Amer
lea
Then | don't have 10 unlsarr anything
calculated the second lawyer.
The commission merchant said What Is
the Camorra. any way? Tell me, In oriet'
what the thing amounts TO. I've peen 100
busy to understand.
This was pie for the lawyer with the
iron gray temples. He put down the maya
z,ne IN cigar, and with an appreciation
noacihilitipS of his TASK
began as follows: A.
picture TO yourself thirty-nse men III
an iron cage-men brindled with the true
breedmarks of crime and hatred anu
who swear, laugh, rail, spit through I've
bars. Opposite 10 them, the orncers VI ="
stately high court Of justice. lnree Vi '"e
Judges in their robes. thirty OF the greatest
LAWYERS OF the realm, ranks OF SOLDIERS
,,,tnssses in solid blocks. Between the
Judges and the great cage, dead whlIe'
weak faced, drawn up to the fun OF MS
a,,,y stature. one man Gagged apart, the
s,ngle traitor who supports all the mag
niaeent machinery OF the law. All TINS
shut in a church that was counted
stately building before Michaei Angeo
h,,l, his churches. And outside, town
emitted of It's best citizens by FEAR OF
murder. and a black terror that lowers ike
q volcano cloud over the most beautifui OF
the kingdoms OF the earth
The commission merchant forgot ABOUT
his delinquent customer The lawyer con-
tinued:
This trial is more than the triai OIL
tbirtv-hve men and a woman present anu
of twenty-three other men in absence TOT
the murder of Gennaro Cuocolo ana ME
wife Maria. called the beautifui Sorre"-
tine. II Is even more than the uial Vi tn'
chiefs of the Camorra. Terrorism hseh -
ON trial. Since the fall OF the teudai powe''
when robbery was the acknowledged right
NJ A, great landowner. no grand organiza-
t,or. II crime has been able TO persist is'o
an soon, there has always been 'rai'o'
,yho would give the whole conspiracy away
The traitor Of the Camorra is Gehharo
Abbatemasso. All the trial centres upon
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veritable beasts Of burden with their lords
weapons. food and any children who were
too young to be left behind. accompanied
them. In a word, in those times men lived
at their ease and made their women drudge.
How great must have been the manlfold
burdens forced upon those poor female saw
ages, who had also to withstand the we'll
nigh constant strain and drain OF bearing
children II is assuredly not difficult to
believe that, as the law Of the survival OF
the fittest then worked unchecked. only
comparatively few of the strongest females
could survive-those with enormous powers
Of endurance.
Now 1t is true that as tribes grew into
nations and became gradually more en-
lightened the burdens of women were
llghtened: but they still remained heavy,
until even now, in the twentieth century,
the physical demands which are made con-
tinually upon the weaker" sex are gen.
orally greater than those made upon the
stronger"
1t should be understood that the writer
is speaking now OF the vast majority OF
womankind and not of the select rev
whose superhuous wealth enables them TO
live at ease In hotels or in houses well
supplied with servants. Most women are
not sufficiently endowed with this world
goods to keep even one servant; and these
must drudge from early morning until date
at night, doing work that would probably
kill an ordinary man within year. They
must cook scrub. sweep, wash and iron
their husbands, their own and their chill
dren's clothes. dress. undress and battle
their babies and. through il all, be racket
frequently with the heavy burdens, depie-
lions and pangs of childbirth and nursing
FINALLY, the nervous strain which women
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lifetime. and they have fully availed
themselves of It.
Then. 10 the false and exaggerated ca
BILE Of the correspondent the write-up man
lends his imagination; significant and i'm
portant facts are omitted altogether. and
the public is led TO believe that an Italian
criminal trial consists Of a yelling bandit
I'm a straitjacket. with an hysterical Judge
and frenzed lawyer abusing each others
character and ancestry.
The reader paused and took a sip Of
black coffee.
The second lawyer. who liked Mr.. Trains
autobiography Of Butler" laughed.
We'll. old top, you have TO hand IT to
Train for presenting the exact. indubitable
and as aforesaid facts, all right. Why.
I've received precisely that impression Of
the charming features accompanying the
trial Of the Camorra, and I got all my
ideas from the columns Of our esteemed
and energetic press.
Now, 7 suppose will have 10 unlearn
II all There were probaly no exciting in
cidents no wild men in cages in the court
room, no riots no faintng episodes; no
hasty adjournments by the Judge because
Of the frightful uproar--no You lie! Basta"
by thrty-six suspects, simultaneously.
Sometimes ! swear won't read another
newspaper as long as live
He was indignant and drew deep on his
cigarette
What else does Train ssy?'
IT was coming 10 that" replied the first
speaker 4 hold no brief for the news
papers, but as I say. the trial interested
~ Z a
subject So when ] heard that Mr.. Train
had been present and had written his i'm
pressions I bought this magazine. II you
are interested, let me give you another
sample Of Mr. Trains report He writes:
&" When such Interruptions occur the
proceedings ordinarily resemble a fairly
large gathering Of people. presided over
by a skiful moderator.
a witness is testifying In the middle
Of il (and it. consists OF not only what
the witness has seen. but what he has
been told and belieyes). one of the prison
ers rises and cries out: That is not so!
He is a liar, Abbatemsggio swore thus
and So"
Nothing OF the kind" retorts the
witness impatiently.
Yes, Yes! No Mo- chime in the
advocates.
This incident usually tends TO elucidate
the matter says DIR. Train. This is humor-
GUS. but he doesn't seem 10 realize IL. And
he adds that while TO an outsider. espe-
cially one not familiar with Italian dia-
lects. the effect may be one OF temporary
confusion. Il is nevertheless, not disor-
derIv ri. II seems. and the president rarely
40 far as the writer could zee during many
davs Of observation loses complete com
mand OF MS court NJ. Train does not tell
US whether she judge loses seven-tenths or
only four-hnhs command Of his court lie
ADDS:
AT times when everybody seemed to
be taiking at once, and several lawyers,
Abbatemaggio and one or two prisoners
we're o. their feet together his handling
Of the stGation was llttle short Of mar
yellous, ior nc could almost Simultaneous
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ask you If the following report written ny
Mr. Train does not materially weaken his
contention that our newspapers have rank
ly misrepresented the sensational features
of the trial.
Mote the literary touch that may render
enyious some Of our newspaper correspond
ents. But can you blame the newspapers
for printing the facts. such as Mr. Train
gives US here?
"'On the afternoon Of the Rapi-Abbate-
maggie confronto the professor" arose
with great dignity bowed low 10 the court
and jury. folded his hands over his stomach
and faced the audience with an air Of
patient resignation. Then the captain Of
carabinieri unlocked Abbatemaggio's cage
and the little coachman sprang to his. feet,
gave a twirl to his mustache and a CON
temptuous glance az Rapi, as If to say:
Look at the old faker see how | shall
show, him up,
With an attitude respectful toward the
court and scornful toward Rapi he takes
his stand by the procuratore del re and
awaits his antagonists attack The pro
fessor" accosts him gently, almost pathet-
icalIy Abbatemaggio answers in cold, I'M
sympathetic tones that tell the spectators
that they must not be deceived by the oily
address Of this arch conspirator. But Rapi,
with his magnificent voice. is a foe 10 be
reckoned with. and presently he enters upon
senunciaton OF the informer that is dis
tinctly eloquent and full of vehement sar-
casm Abbatema ggio 1ushes and interrupts
him. the professor attempts 10 proceed
but the little coachman sweeps him out Of
the way and pours forth a rapid fire voley
Of Neapoitan dialect IN which he accuses
Rapl Of being a hypocrte and liar and
man who lives on the crninality Of Others
referring specifically 10 various enterprises
in which they have both been engaged as
partners He pauses for breath. and Rapi
plunges in, cOntradictlng, denouncing and
accusing i'm turn. The prisoners by inter
Iectory exclama tons show their approval.
"Sh-sh-sh"' remarks IL presidente,
raising a finger.
"Excellency, Excellency =" exclaims
Abbatemaggio deprecaungly. rs II panied
that the Judge should he compelled 10 listen
10 such an outburst.
" Presently he can restrain himself no
longer. and both he and Rapi begin stimuli
taneously 10 harangue the court until the
president orders Abhatemagglo to stop and
the captain of carabinieri touches Rapi on
the shoulder. The latter is now reduced To
tears. and wrings his hands as he calls his
aged mother 10 witness that he is an inno-
cent man! Soon order II restored and the
oonfronto concludes with a sort OF sum
ming up of>his defence on the part OF the
professor" II Is model Of rhetoric,
rather TOO carefully calculated 10 appear az
sincere as his previous outbursts. He calls
down the curses OF God upon Abbatemag-
eio who listens contcmptuously; he pro-
tests the purity of his lie ana motives he
yeens AT the irony Of fate that keeps him
the morest object OF suspcon-confned In
"A loathsome prison Then he bows and
resumes his seat By the side OF Father Giro
vitozzi. 10 whom. amid the laughter Of the
..ectators he has referred as that holy
/ an there" and, apart from the rencont-e
: uetween him and Abbatemaggio iasrs has
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his evidence, his sanity, HIS general efed''
bilty.
what horrible thing the Camorra really
Is. I'm its farthest relations. may never DO
disclosed The italian government Is con-
WINGED that II is the greatest ORGANIZATION
Of crime that the world has ever seen
It's full members, all criminals, are said 20
number thousands in Italy and other thou
| sands in the United states.
1T has been openly charged with cor
ruptlng the police, the local government
and the courts of a wide district. II holds
the whole city Of Naples so In awe that
when II came 10 the trial the Kings officers
had no hopes OF obtaining a conviction II
the court sat in the city. There was even
serious fear of rescue from the Neapoli-
ran prisons For wears the very name or
the Camorra has been a menace that was
feared by three-fourths Of the people OK
Italy.
"Gennaro Cuocolo. the man for whose
murder the prisoners are being tried made
a bad record in his youth. He was often
brought before the city magistrates, much
az q Young gangster OF New York would
be. and some Of his escapades were OF no
trivial sort He boxed the ears OF Enrico
Alfano. called Erricone
"Enrico Alfano. called Erricone, vas no
person 20 strike lightly. In 1928, when he
was only twenty years old. they say, he
rad made himself the chief OF the Csrhorra
az Naples He raised IL 10 a pitch OF power
that n had never before reached He Is
credited with establishing a regular slidins
scale Of extortion, which he levied on all
thieves. compelling them 10 pay from ~ 20
AZ per cent OF their gains 10 the society.
II is said that ne. too. was. the nrst VINO
used organized terrorism in the local cleo
tions. until the Camorra had gained It's
great power in the city government tsei.
This was the man whom Gennaro Gus
ocolo struck in a public gallery. In June,
| 1905. Cuocolo's dead body was found on the
beach at Tore del Greco. not far from
Naples In his fat in the city the police
found the body OF the beautiful Sorren-
fine She was In her night gown. There
had been terrible struggle in the apart
ment and the body was torn with CHASTITY
| mutilations.
"A police oricer met Abbatemaggio. who
boasted in drink that he knew the secret
OF the Cuocolo murder. and that the police
were going far aheld He refused TO tell
the story, however. because he was bound
by his oath to the society; then at last he
agreed TO make the best of II, TO tell every
thing he knew OF the Camorra and to de-
! nounce its chiefs and the murderers OF
| Cuocolo.
| Sixty warrants were issued thirty
Camorrists were taken In one day IN
Naples. Erricone. the chief, escaped rom
the CITY, hid for several weeks In the
neighboring villages. and at last MADE ms
escape TO New York. In the spring OF i"'
Joseph Petrosino found him IN a sainolns
den In Grand street and arrested MN. mo
machinery Of extradition WORKED ana fe'-
rosino sent his man OF to Havre. "he's
the carabineers were waiting for MIN.
In all. forty-two Camorrists were ar
rested. Three have escaped. two were re-
leased under surveillance. and one Gro AZ
fano. brother 20 Erricone. the ieades' oied
10 prison.
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THE CAMORRA ON TRIAL
News Stories Of UprOar in Court
Not 0verdOne.
WRITER DISCOUNTS THEM
But His Own Magazine Descrip-
ton Depicts Scenes of Wild
Confusion.

They were at luncheon at the Lawyers
Club. when an article in current issue u
one OF our monthly magazines was men
toned
T think he has failed 10 prove his case
ssid the lawyer with iron gray temples
As former assistant District Attorney
7 think Arthur Train. good lawyer ana
q facile writer. instead Of succeeding, mas
made rather amusing failure in this par
ticular instance He has presented his case
With literary grace. but the facts seem 70
b. against him. II is interesting, but IN
convincing
Has Train been writing some more nc
tom" asked Lawyer No. 2 Whats the
titleo You know. l liked HIS 'Autobiogra-
ply Of Butler"
This article 1 have Just finished IS not
advertised as fiction. although 1 maintain
that considerable fiction has crept into H.
responded the first speaker.
T have been very much interested In the
Csmorra trial Mr.. Train spent the sum-
mer in Italy, attending the trial at VI
terbo and studying the history OF the "a
mora and methods Of italian jurispru-
dence ] have been an omnivorous reader
~ the newspaper accounts Of that proceeu-
lng, the lawyer continued, turning Oho
pages Of the magazine until Mr. Train
article was found, and IL any newspaper
IN New York City has exceeded Arthur
Train in depicting the remarkably sensa-
tional scenes that occurred in the Italian
court have failed 10 run across II. This
has been unfortunate for me, because II
would have been spicy reading"
What's the point" inquired the third
man. d client Of Lawyer No. ! and a COM
mission merchant. who had arranged TO
lunch with his attorney in the hope Of
sScortaining some witching way to realize
on a bad account Newspaper reporters
are not supposed. are they, to be as pol
ished writer's as regular authors Ike SIR.
Train "
The point I make is simply this" re-
piled the lawyer
Put Iet me quote. Mr. Train SAYS here
that unfortunately. the reporters at
Vitcrbo have sent in only the most SEN
satlonaI accounts Of the Dgocee/nes, since,
unless their stun is good copy The ex-
pensc Of collecting and cabling Europesn
news deprives 90 OF market. The press
men al Niterbo have given The American
EDITORS just what they wanted. snch an
Opportunity occurs only once OF twice IN q
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stamina as do the unjustly, as we think
condemned sex.
Indeed. he would be bold who would as
sert with positiveness that when Miss
Margaret A. Graham. a young mill girl
ran the hundred, in skirts, in II IL seconds
she displayed a bit less endurance consid-
ering her handicaps, than the renowned
Duffy. who late up" the same distance in
- S-5 seconds One might as consistently
load a trunk on the back Of runner and
then chide him after he has been beaten in
the footrace with having less endurance
than his unhampered competitors
There have been as great rife shots
among women as among men, and in the
new sport of aeropianing, in which wom-
ans physical conformation is not unfavor-
able. she is fast coming to the front. More
over quite recently, a lady golfer easily
beat one OF our foremost men champions.
In the animal world there seems to be
little difference in physical agility be-
tween the sexes Female bears, lionesses,
tigresses. etc. can hug or strike as hard as
the males of their species Neither are fe-
male wolves inferior to the males in
strength and staying power, and among the
fast trotters Maud s and Lou Dillon we're
in their time unrivalled.
II now il be granted that women have
more endurance than men. one naturally
asks the reason therefor
From earliest times women have been
compelled to endure physically more than
men. While the selfish primitive males
loafed about their huts their wives and
daughters fetched water cooked. washed
cared for their children. dug trenches and
even erected tine new dwellings which were
often required. When their masters desired
10 hunt or to fish the wives. packed Ike
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between Miss Elaine Golding, Miss Lillian
Howard and Mrs. Clara BoutOn, the course
being from the Battery to Steeplechase
Park, Coney Island. The long sprint was
won handy by. Miss Golding, with Miss
Howard second. 1t was estimated that the
two women covered fourteen miles. what
gave this contest special interest, however
was that Of eleven life guards who started
over the same course on the same day, In
the annual swimming meet OF the United
States Volunteer Life Saving Corps, only
one finished, and his time was slower by
five minutes than was Miss Goding's.
In many other athletic sports, however.
il must be admitted that women are still
considerably behind the men. For example,
Miss A. s. Woods record Of 20 S-5 seconds
for the 22)-yard dash falls far short Of
Bernie wefer's p is seconds for the same
distance and Miss Helen Dorothy Clark s
running high jump of only feet 25s inches
is more than two feet less than NJ F.
Sweeney's great leap Of 6 feet 5B inches.
Yet how about the severe haIdicaps under
which the women labor? A woman's com
paratively large hips and short legs seri-
ously interfere with her sprinting and
jumping ability. to say nothing OF the great
amount Of general fat she has usually TO
carry: and, again. her arm and shoulder
are anatomically not so well adapted Tor
ball throwing as are those OF a man.
Hence the mere fact that women fail 20
excel or even to equal men in very many
athletic sports cannot be looked upon as
proof that the former have any less physi-
cal endurance. for II is reasonable to sup
pose that were men as little adapted both
physiologically and anatomcally for gem
eral athletics as are women, then might
men display not even so much activity and
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mo- MOI No"

mo. MOI No"
That Is not Cuocolo's ring! 1t is not
his ring!'
Beast"
Then Llguori, lawyer for Abbatemaggio
the informer strobe across the court ana
thrust his face against the bars
YES" he roared. Men Of the Ca
mora, that is Gennaro Cuocolo's ring
From inside men rushed at the bars,
screaming with rage. The lawyers for the
Camorrists were on their feet In an instant
and dragging Liguori away Shouts came
from witnesses and public
Who pays you
60 The traitors blood money"
The governments secret fund
80 The Carabineers have bought YOU.
Bravo, Rravor barked the prison
ers. as the insults were heard through the
tumult.
A livid, hideous face was seen within
the cage as man held himself up, apelike,
by the bars II was Rapi. said 10 be the
treasurer Of the Camorra and owner Of
gambling dens in three European cities.
I've are innocent" he shouted. we
have been betrayed We have been sold
like lambs TO the slaughter"
'Erricone stood UP on his chair clank-
ing his irons.
4 call from pursatory the soul Of my
poor brother he walled. Giro, Giro,
Dead in prison Bear witness that We.
flesh and blood, were sold by the Cara
bineers TO these judges of inquisition. The
judges-the iudges-they lent themselves 10
this Infamous trade
'Gennaro's wife. still seated in the gal
lery as she had been on every day since
the first of the trial, shrieked and fell in
commissions Vitozzi, the priest. sank back
in his chair like a man stunned. Cara
bineer approached the cage to quiet the
men, and some one from within spat at
him. Through it all Gennaro Abbatemas-
gio. the informer, sat in his little cage.
his arms folded. bitter smile on his face.
Maria Stendardo and 'Nitozzi. the
nriest did not enter the court until the
spectators had taken their places. The
woman was limping. but she had her bag
gard. still almost handsome. head held high
in defiance. The priest was bowed and
broken: he was almost carried into the
room on the arm OF "A court officer Just
behind the woman.
see. the priest marches at the end.
IL was whispered. Regular piocessloId'-
devil worship! BAH
1.-The cage stands on tomb. was
another rumor.
ct is true. Beneath the floor Of the
TRANSIENT is the grave OF Lorenzo da Nlter-
bo. painter OF famous coronation Of
the Virgin" His body was laid there IN
1925
Everything considered, especially after
.oaJt,o Mr. Trains article. 1t seems to
me " saId the lawyer. that the newspapers
have been almost conservative.
"You cannot criticise newspapers Tor
,,rintinp as striking Il piece OF Information
as that" said the commission merchant.
Mr.. Train hnds fault with these things
and Their goes on and gives rs most graphie
rict,lr.g Of sensational things that he Jaw
happen. don't catch his point, perhaps.
said lawyer No. l. but ! "euld Ike t.
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are under constantly is very great. ana
than that nothing is more exhausuns'
Children get on their nerves. But ths
mothers must stand it, because the fatherS
won't-possibly can't.
With her greater natural endurance WA
woman ever surpass man. now that she -
at last permitted to compete with him7 NO
one can tell; but we know she 10 at LEAST
fast overtaking him The woman OF to-
day is broader of shoulder, deeper OF chest.
stronger OF will than she was In the Oh"
days: her hips are narrower. and she Is ne
coming more muscular. Should she get the
suffrage, as | believe she viii eVentuahys
that. coupled with the mental deVeiopfne"s
which she is now acquiring through conn
rotition with men I'm business. will push
her still further ahead.
AS to the outcome, who can say we
men have laughed first; but II may be thas
women will laugh last and therefore best
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Ethel Vera and Beatrice Due Fort Ham
ilton misses. all swan the Narorws. and
have accomplished since even greater teats
Evelyn Howell a mere schoolgirl; Augusta
Gallup and Clara Hurst were among those
who finished in a race from Brooklyn
Bridge to Coney Island, and Mrs. Lena
Brandenburg, of St Louis, performed
pleasant little natation OF five miles, TO
prove that a woman OF sixty years is not
necessarily eligible for chloroform.
The greatest womens swimming race
which has been held recently was that