THE CAMORRA TRIALS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10763, 10 May 1911, Page 4

THE CAMORRA TRIALS.

THE INFORMER CURSED.

[By Electric TellgSaph—Copyright.]

(Per Press Association.)

Rome, May 9. • %,.Th% accused Priest s Sftqzzi ;exclalmed, i i&erriipmg'Abbatemaggio; that lie was a liar, thief, a forger, and an assassin. "Curse yon in the name of /the Trinity. May malediction jest on-your descendants to the seventh generation, he said, and then sank in his seat exhausted. ". '-[Abbatemaggio (the Camornst, now Ion; trial; in Italy, charged with; being accessory to the murder of Signor Cuocolo and his wife), • has received many letters, postcards, and telegrams of congratulation," encouragement, or threats. A telegram from Venice signed "Miss Arabella Mac Lean,' sa3's: "Immediately ybii are' free : l desire to serve you, being your devoted admirer. Some of the messages are evidently practical jokes. Thus an impresario, who professes to be an American theatrical agent, of Milan, has offered to exhibit Abbatemaggio in America. Abbatemaggio, .on, .hearing of <the offer, explained/: "It would be funny it, after being shut up in a cage like a bird, I were to go to America and become a lion."] Received. May 10, at 1.15 p.m Rome, May 9. Expert medical evidence was read at the Viterbo trial-showing that Cuocolo's wife died of 13 triangular wounds of a dagger such as Abbatemaggio testified Sortino used.. Cuocolo had 47 such wounds. His murderer would not. necessarily be blood-stained. .