The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-17
TRIAL OF CAMORRA
 IS VERY DRAMATIC
Prisoners Show Signs of Emotion as Long Charge
 Is Read

Viterbo, Italy. March 16.-The rules for nominal procedure in Italy make l possible frequent dramatic incidents and it was due to this that today's session of the trial O. lie Camorraists for murder held the lively interest oi the crowd that occupied every avail able square foot in the old church of San Francisco.
 When court opened the clerk re- sumed the reading of the long indict- ment of the 36 prisoners and this took up the whole forenoon, the monotony of the recital, however, being broken by Interruptions from the prisoners cage or by others in the room whose interests were in some manner in volved.
 When the clerk read the passage re- ferring to the Priest Giro Vitozzi, the aged prisoner was visibly affected, and at the words although never con- demned Vitozzi morally is a criminal, he raised his eyes to heaven and mur- mured: Il offer my sufferings to re- lieve souls in purgatory."
 During the description of the mur- der of Gennro Cuoccolo and his wife. Maria, the beautiful sorenita,' Mar Jana De Gennaro, who is charged with
  from his seat in the steel pen greatly agitated. The reading clerk paused q moment and the prisoner, placing his hand over his heart and addressing his wife, who was among the spec tators, said:
 T swear to you I am innocent"
 With these words he burst into tears.
 On another occasion De Angelis and Amodo protested their innocence and demanded redress for having been falsely involved by the priest Vitozzi. Their arrest was due to a declara tion to the police by the priest and in aid of Erricone, the alleged brains of the Camorra
 When Erricone Ias first arrested Vii tozzi, who Is his god father. went to the authorities and with d great show of secrecy confided to them that he knew Erricone to be innocent for the reason that another one, Ascrittore, had confessed to him that he had committed the double murder
 Ascrittore was found to be a mem- Der of the Camorra and when pressed he denounced as the authors of the murders De Angelis and Amodo, both criminals and then fugitives from jus tice. After a long search they were arrested
 De Angelis seemed more upset by the accusation than Amodo did, as the former already had been con- demned for crimes of blood and 1t so happened that at the time of the mur- der of the Cuoccolos he had a fresh knife cut on the hand and at his home bloodstained garments were found These three men were able to prove that the priest had sworn falsely and to establish their innocence of the Cuoccolo crime but were held as mem- bers of the Camorra
 In court they protested vehemently against having been detained at all since their apprehension was due to assertions by a fellow prisoner now known to have been false
 Erricone. whose proper name is En- rico Alfana, does not take kindly to newspaper artists. One of the latter snapped his picture today as the pris- oners were being brought into court When the bandit chief learned that the photograph was for a paper hostile to the Camorra he spat in the face of the photographer and in a rage swore that he would kick the man into the next world" Erricone's shackles pre- vented the execution of this threat