ABBATEMAGGIO THE ASSASSIN
ROME, May 20. Fu-ther dramatic outbursts occurred yesterday at the trial or the Camorrists in Yiterbo. While the informer Abbatemaggio was giving his evidence one of the prisoners, Desiderio, who is charged with being an accessory to the murder of Cuocolo and his wife, sought to confuse the witness by all sorts of taunts. Once he cried out, "You have not learnt your part well this morning!" to which the informer calmly replied, "You put yourself to unnecessary trouble in trying to confound mc." Father Vitozzi repeatedly exclaimed, "Abbatemaggio the assassin!" "You are the real murder!" The Italian Press was bitterly attacked to-day by Enrico Alfano, the reputed head of the Camorra, who asserted that the newspaper correspondents had misrepresented him in their reports of the trial. They had, he declared, made statements that tended to inspire feelings of hostility towards him. Some of the jurors joined in the denunciation, vehemently asserting that the Press had Bold itself to the enemies of the prisoners.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 124, 26 May 1911, Page 6
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