CAMORRA TRIAL ENDS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1488, 10 July 1912, Page 5

CAMORRA TRIAL ENDS.

PRISONERS FOUND GUILTY* SENTENCED AT LAST, By Teleßraph—Press Association—Copjrrieht Rome, July 8. Tho jury in the Camorrist trial retired to consider i(|. verdict, and on returning announced that nine of tho prisoners lrad been unanimously found guilty of murder, and tho rest guilty of criminal complicity. Tho accused wore recalled to the iron cnge to hear tho verdict. Demarine, on hearing that ho had been found guilty of murder, drew a piece of glass from his pocket and cut his throat. He collapsed in a pool of blood. There was a horrified panic in the Court, and order was restored with difficulty. THIRTY YEARS' SOLITARY CONFINEMENT. (Rec. July 9, 11.38 p.m.) Rome, July' 9.. At the Cainorra trial Sortino, Moora, Ceroto, Digeivnaro, Mariano, and Salavi were found guilty of being the actual murderers, and Alfano and Demarinia of plotting and commanding tho crime. Each of these accused was sentenced to thirty years' solitary imprisonment. The remainder of tho prisoners, on the charge of belonging to a criminal association and plotting, were sentenced to from four to twenty years' imprisonment. Tho Camorra priest, Father Vitozzi, was Bent to gaol for seven years.

The crime which led to the arrest of the Camorrists took plnco at Naples nearly six years ago, when tho body of Gennaro Ouocolo, bearing the marks of thirtynino stab-wounds, was discovered on tho seashoro near Torro del Greco, and when the body of his wife, slabbed in fourteen places, was found at tho Cuocolos' house, 111 tho Via Nardoncs.