Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-03-31
HYSTERIA BREAKS
OUT AT TRIAL OF
ITALIAN BANDITS
Examination of Alleged Assas.
sin Adds to the Melodrama
Of the Court Hearing
at Viterbo.

Viterby, Italy. March 23.-Angry ex-
changes between opposing counsel at
today's session of the trial of the
Camorrists provoked a demonstration
from the prisoners cage, beyond the
control of the court officials. that
necessitated a suspension Of the pro-
ceedings. The accused men alternately
cursed and sobbed Historically, while
their women friends in the audience
screamed and tainted, the wife of one
OF the prisoners being seized with con-
vulsions.
The scene was enacted soon after the
resumption OF the sitting, which was
adjourned at the close Of the morning
session yesterday because of the illness
of a juror. At that time Giuseppe Sal
vi, one of those who is alleged to have
stabbed TO death Gennaro Cuoccolo and
his wife, was being interrograted by
President Bianchi concerning his
career.
SaIvi Back in Stand.
This morning Salvi was called for
cross examination. 1t is charged that
ne is the man who furnished the final
evidence of CCoccolo's treachery in the
Camorra, and so brought about his
sentence Of death by the band. In a
letter written from the prison where
he was confined for robbery, he assert
ed that CuoccOlo had betrayed him to
the police because he had given n
share of the booty of his crime to an
other than CuoCColo. He called I'll his
brother Camorrists TO aVenge him.
1t is asserted that according to the
rules of the Camorra a ring was taken
from the hand of the murdered man TO
be sent TO Salvi in proof Of the fact that
his wish for vengeance has been OBJ
served.
Carabineers claimed to have found
this ring in the mattress Of q bed at
the home of a woman known rs the
companion Of SalVi. Salvi protested
that the ring was placed in the bed
by the carabineers for the purpose OF
manufacturing evidence.
Lawyer Flashes Ring.
As the cross examination progressed
today President Bianchi suddenly pro-
duced the ring, n holding so that it
could be seen by all in the court room,
said:
This is the ring found in the home
of your woman associate"
The statement called forth 2 chorus
of protests from the prisoners. who
shouted: mo! No! 1t is not CuOccolo's
ring; it is not his!"
The cries grew louder. and were talk
en- up by the sympathizers in the au-
diencc. Then Lawyer Liguori, president
of h board Of attorneys OF Naples,
who is defending the infor11cr, Gen
marc Abbatemaggio, pushed his way to
the space in front of the great steel
cage and staring into the eyes of the
accused men, exclaimed:
Yves; hat is Cuoccolo's ring"
This interruption brought the scores
of lawyers for the defense into the
fray, and as the execration of the
prisoners grew louder, threw the whole
cOur room into an uproar. In the
hahal pf fpp u,Ipg pYon nnYY1T H{Sffp ON oh
those of repeated explanations.
who pays you the price of Abbate-
maggio's shame? You are paid from the
secret funds of the government. You
were sent mere under orders from the
carabineers."
This attack was encouraged by the
prisoners who applauded as they ex-
claimed: Bravo! Bravo!"
Gambler in Spotlight.
For a moment Giovanni Rappi, the al
legged treasurer Of the camorra and
known as the proprietor Of gambling
places in Naples, Rome and Paris, held
the center of the stage when he pressed
his face against the bars of the cage
and cried:
I'VE are innocent. We have been be-
trayed. We nave been sold like lambs
to the slaughter"
At this point Alfano, the alleged ac-
tual head of the camorra, cried, dra-
matically:
II 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 inquiring judges, who lent them
selves to this infamous market"
General Shedding of Tears.
BY this time both prisoners and law
yers were pretty well 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 Gennaro. one Of the al
legged actual ~assassins, fell to tho floor
in commissions. The vas invectives
were continued for 10 minutes, when
the president, unable TO restore order,
announced a temporary adjournment.
Throughout the turmoil, the informer,
Gennaro Abbatemaggio, sat calmly OBJ
servant in his smaller and exclusive
steel pen.