The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-07-11

Has Lasted l6 months. Cost
100000 and has Broken
all Records
Regiment "f Infantry to Surround
Court When Verdict - aiven-
Some Defendants Ir.~si-Oth~r~
Died While Waiting for Trial.


Died While Waiting for Trial.
The trial Of the Camorrfsts al yltsr-
DO. Italy. IS nov nearing a cIose
after being in progress for more than
fifteen months. The Judge is nov
summing up the case. but IL may take
the jury a long time 10 decide the
cases. The Camorrists are known as
q lawless element and for many years
have been terror in certain sections
Of Italy. In speaking OF the case
now on trial. the Baitimor Sun says:
The trial OF the Camorrists at VI
terbo. Italy, shows signs ar last OF
drawing TO a close. II began March
II, 1911, and was preceded by a pre-
liminary investigation OF five years.
The cause OF the trial was the
murder of Gennaro Cuocolo, a Cam
orrist, at Tore del Greco, and of his
wife, Maria Cutinelli. in Naples
Their killing was a Camorrist execu-
ton.
During the long trial the follow
ing prisoners died: Giro Alfano, who
was arrested on the day of his mar
I riage and is said TO have died of a
broken heart; Pasquale Garigulo and
Matteo Valcarcel, who died recently,
and Giro Vitelli, who was present at
the murder, but evaded arrest and
died OF cholero last year.
although more than 700 witness
es were heard during the trial, still
the case for the prosecution almost
entirely rests on the revelations of
Abbatemaggio, the informer.
Owing to lack of evidence and the
practical impossibility of compelling
witnesses to denounce the Canon
rists, the Kings Procurator, had to
withdraw the charge of murder
against Luigi Arena and Genaro Ibel-
10, and to admit that the proof of Di
Matteo's guilt was insufficient.
The charges of criminal associa-
ton against Giuseppe Chirico and
Maria Stendardo have likewise been
withdrawn. Out of the twenty-five
Camorrists charged with criminal as
ISOLATION, a crime which cannot be
punished with more than five years
Imprisonment, seventeen prisoners
who were arrested five years ago and
hove consequently already served the
maximum term ON Imprisonment to
which they would have been SEN
fenced if convicted, have been re-
leased.
only two of the Camorrists impli-
Gated in the Cuocolo murder succeed
ed in evaiding arrest. They were
Giuseppe opposite and Andrea At
tanasio, who fed and are supposed to
be hiding abroad, probably in Amer
lea. Erricone likewise fed to Amer
lea and was arrested in New York
by Detective Petrosino, whose muir
der was probably a Camorra execu-
tnon. Giovanni Rapi, who fed to
Paris, returned to Italy and willingly
surrendered himself to the police in
order to prove his innocence.
Formalities Take Up Ten Months
THE first ten months of the trial
were taken up with formalities con-
nected with the impaneling, swearing
and challenging of the jury and with
the hearing ofevidence. In order to
induce jurymen to serve on this long
trial a special law was voted by
Parliament fixing their pay at $1.40
ia day. The last six months of the
trial were taken up with the speeches
for the prosecution and the defense,
''Originally more than fifty lawyers
for the defense appeared, but grad
ually, either because the Camorrists
had not the money to pay their fees
or because they pretended to be poor
If order to excite the pity of the
jury, the number Of lawyers was re-
duced to eighteen. The two Canon.
rists, De Angels and Amodeo falsely
accused of having committed the dou.
BILE murder, were present during the
: trial and represented by lawyers in
, order to claim eventful damages.
, Besides the lawyers speeches there
were others by experts and alienists
. appointed both by the court and the
prisoners to ascertain whether the
informer, Abbatemaggio was insane
: Regiment of Infantry Detailed.
AN entire regiment Of infantry
has been sent to Viterbo to surround
the court when the verdict is given
During the trial two companies of in
: fantry, $50 carbineers and SO detec
: tives have been permanently on duty
, The Camorra trial will cost the State
5 more than 100000. This sum in
( cludes the expenditure during the
preliminary investigation, the main
, tenance of the prisoners. the cost o
their removal from Naples to Viterbt
O and all other expenses connected
with the trial.
= "The minutes ept by the clerk o
y the court during the trial cover II,
600 pages of writing, the reports o
the investigating Judges consist o