CITY RULED BY CRIMINALS

Grey River Argus, 12 May 1911, Page 2

CITY RULED BY CRIMINALS

.4 ALES POLICE OOKRUPTK'.") in WUMI.4'S WiLJiIS. . At the very outset .01.. tne taking of . testimony in ithe famous trial of thir-ty-six 'Caxnomsts tJie curcum is ibeiug in Lea upon scenes or . iveapontan liic surpassing in Jiorror . tlie most lurid description of ><c by decadent dramatists, vvxoce tne correspondent of an American paper on March 18th. At tlie hearing- to-day Nicola Morra who was indicted, as one of the actual murderers of , Gennaro Cuccolo ana the latter' s 'beautiful girl wife, established on cross-examination the alibi he set up previously on his direct examination, when he swore that at the time of the murders he was under the surveillance of the police of Naples. This will probably clear, him of direct implication in. the assassination, but he remaftns /under chaig.es of being- a member of the damcava, the greatest criminal conspiracy of modern times. The story of his life, as ibrought out in court, forms' an eloquent condemnation of the Camorra. His admitted association with Maria . Steudardo reveals the lowest depths of feminine depravity. A~t Morfa's bidding she offered her beauty to corrupt the police, thus paying "the price of shielding; the frequenters of her house. Her /so-called (apar|tmen|t became a centre of vice and crime from which radiated an atmosphere of criminality in which the Gamorris.ts were imfrmne to arrest in consequence of her degradation. Morra denied all the accusations against him arid roundly, aibused Gahmaro Aibbatemaggio, .the informer. - • The latter maintained a derisive but otherwise impassive, attitude as he Beard the denunciation iby his former partner in infamy. ' :