SHUT UP IN CAGE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17346, 10 May 1924, Page 2

SHUT UP IN CAGE.

ANARCHISTS’ TRIAL. HEAVY WORK FOR JURY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Ccpyri*ht Australian and N.Z. Gable Association. (Received Mav 10. 10.35 a.m.) ' LONDON. May 9. The Rome ror respondent of the “Daily Telegraph” states that one of the biggest taials in the history ot Italy has opened at Florence, where 138 anarchists and Communists are charged with responsibility lor the massacre at Empoli on February 28 1921. As is the custom in Italy, all the accused appear in the Court shut up in an iron cage. A special cage had to be constructed to accommodate the accused. The prisoners are all numbered. They occupy five tiers of seats and the jury have been supplied with a plan of the cage like a theatre plan. Each juror is supplied with a volume of 27(1 pages containing accused’s photographs 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 expectedto last several weeks, possibly months, as 600 witnesses are to he examined. There are 50 defending counsel. The jury at the end of the trial will hare to answer three thousand questions.