JUDAS MONEY!
•GARIBALDI ARRAIGNED STORY or A PLOT. WILD SCENES IN COURT. (Received 9 a.m.) PARIS, January 20. The trial of Garibaldi, Macig and sixteen Catalans opened dramatically. The proceedings commenced by each reading a statement. Garibaldi, ■wearing the scarlet rosette of the Legion of Honour in his buttonhole, denied that ho had betrayed the Catalans and accused Macia of inaccurately explaining the plot. Immediately repudiating the allegation, his counsel, Torres, denounced Garibaldi as both an Italian and Span-
ish agent. Garibaldi bellowed a denial, and M. ’Torres retorted by reading Garibaldi’s statements to the police. Counsel Ridded: “Perhaps a Garibaldi who is a member of the Legion of Honour does not sign documents confessing the receipt of Judas’ thirty pieces of silver. ”
Garibaldi admitted that he signed after thirty hours’ examination owing
to fatigue. M. Torres: “You, a soldier, admit that fatigue caused you to break down'! Be a man!”
The Court thereupon became a scene of tumult, the judge ordering a
.short suspension. After the proceedings were resumed, M. Benoit, the secret police commissioner, made a statement that he had a favourable report regarding the Catalans, but Garibaldi was an Italian agent provocateur, and had admitted that.ho had. received 600,000 lire from ( the Italian police. Garibaldi shouted: “Nevertheless, I am no traitor!" The hearing was adjourned.
The Paris correspondent of the “Daily News" says that a big force of police was employed to suppress partisan displays at the Garibaldi trial. Lawyers representing, the. .Catalans appealed to the judge to /'prevent the ignominy of their sitting beside the arch-traitor Garibaldi^
M. Thaon, representing Rizzbli, an Italian Socialist, accused of participa- j tion in the plotting, declared that Ga- j ribaldi betrayed four million anti- j Fascists living in France, who regard-! ed him as their god,. Maeia, in denouncing Garibaldi, emphasised the .Catalans’ , love for France. j The judge interpected; “Did you! think of the trouble you would have j caused whoa you prepared on French ; soil." j Macia retorted: “Eleven thousand) Catalans fell at Verdun. That is my j answer."—A. and N.Z. 1
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Northern Advocate, 22 January 1927, Page 5
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