BIG TRIAL IN ITALY.
I.ONDON, May 9. The Rome correspondent of the Daily Telegraph states that one of the biggest trials in the history of Italy has opened at Florence, where 138 Anarchists and Communists are charged with responsibility for the massacre at Enipole, on February 28, 1921. As is tho custom in Italy, all* accused persons appeared in the Court shut up in an iron cage. A special cage had to be constructed to accommodate (he accused in this case. The prisoners were all numbered, and occupied live tiers of seats, the jury being supplied with a plan of the cage like a theatre plan. Each juror was also supplied with a volume of 276 pages, containing photographs of the accused persons and details of the charges. Special dormitories have been built where the prisoners will sleep under a strong military guard throughout the trial, which is expected to last for several weeks, and possibly for months, as there are six hundred witnesses and fifty defending counsel The jury, at the end of the trial, will have to answer three thousand questions.
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Kaikoura Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 39, 13 May 1924, Page 3
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