Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1877-07-07 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

MIBCR: ' AL. . correspor • der date • the trial • unsh for uiseppina, Gi./. yester • absorbed the at:: , ..,eapaligang , . a month, or ,r, perhaps, mine and f brought beg, .fl ever, and the t:.t.t mins: nevertheless, so great was the desir hear s!..:vs:aclict of the jury, and no great, too, whe itosites that the accused should be sentenced to *bath. tams not, person moved. The summing up by tlui.Preindent concluded at about four o'clock, when the jury retired. ad the anxiety to learn the result of a trial which hau lasted thirty-two da s was greater than Zan describe. Half an-hours. t•-• i ea tient for the jury, who returned to the court n'sou half-past four o'clock, amid the greatest Eight questions were proposed to them, the ans-ter: to which were to the effect that at the end of :locust or the beginning of September, 1875, murdered Gomorra by administering t and that he had instigated his victim ducer, the priest, Vincenzo Palos, money and of Turkish bonds. On answer was affirmative, and to the . tre eireostanze refused ?" the answer of • .:man was, "There is nothing else." Danish a. . ought in is few minutes later, tottering, trembling, and with his head bowed down: but, on sitting down, resumed his old position, folding his arms and assuming an expression of stony insensibility. The Court then retired to consider the verdict, returning at five o'clock, when the President declared, "In the name of his Majesty. Ac. the Court condemns Salvatore Danish to the punishment of death." No sooner was it pronounced than there was a burst of applause throughout the hall. The President rang his bell, the advocates for the defence shrieked for silence, and some of the superior class expressed their indignation against so unseemly a demonstration; but the feeling of the public was beyond control, and it was long before it was calmed. Had it been a simple murder in hot blood," Puvierelli" would have been the cry, but the people were maddened by the slew and premeditated mode of destroying life—by the disgusting way in which it was attempted to conceal the crime, and by the fact of Denizli having slept for eight days with the body of his victim and mistress cut in pieces and packed closely in a box under his bed. Then it was that, unable longer tAil endure the odour, he sent it off to Home. "The verdict," says a journal,"does honour Se a Neapolitan jury, and satisfies the conscience of the country." But many doubt whether the sentence will be executed—Mancini is by the side of the King, and Mancini is preparing a bill for the abolition of capital punishment.. Compared with the hyena who was condemned, Leone and men of his stamp were heroes of whom it, is- almost refreshing to think. Whatever their crimes, they carried their lives in their hands and fought and died bravely; high prices were put on their heads, and the man who shot any one of them was crowned with honour. Will it be possible, therefore, with any regard for the public sentiment, to save she life of such a cowardly, ferocious miscreant as Salvatore Danish? I have met this week with an English friend connected with commerce, who has just returned from a long ' giro' in Sicily, and he reports that the confidence of the inhabitants is much raised by the fall of Leone and others. Men were preparing to go out with the public force and destroy the last relics of the bands, for such still exist. In the Province of Palerme especially this is the case, and the journals tall of the family of Guccioni, in Alia, eight in number, with ten of their dependents, who have formed two companies for the pursuit of the common enemy. The Syndic of .ilia and his nephew, members of the same family, have given lire 10,000 towards premiums for the capture of brigands. This is all well, but had the same degree of courage and union for self-defence been shown earlier when the danger was more pressing many a life might have been saved.