ITALIAN MURDER

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10182, 7 March 1911, Page 5

ITALIAN MURDER

CABLE NEWS I I

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

:— THE BLACK GAiWRA. LEADER AND THE GANG ARRESTED. ONLY ONE ESCAPED. TRIAL WILL LAST A YEAR. (Received this morning, 12.30 o'clock.) LONDON, March 6. Renter's correspondent at Yiterbo, Italy, tells an amazing story of the Cuocolo murder based on the evidence of four hundred witnesses. Cuocolo married a beauty of bad character. The pair had the reputation of being the organisers of thefts on behalf of Camorra, also occasionally acting as police spies. Cuocolo aroused the emnity of Curaco Alfani, who as a lad of twenty reorganised the Neapolitan Camorra until he controlled the horse market, bands of smugglers, public sales, and the dock employees. Alfani nursed his revenge for several years, and finally engaged six desperadoes to murder Cuocolo, also, to mutilate his wife with an "S" cut in her abdomen, indicative of Camorra's supreme contempt. The failure of the polico to secure a conviction of the murderers aroused citizens' protests. The Government thereupon appointed Raniorino, a brave, energetic piedmontece. Colonel, to trace all the Camorra ramifications. Ramorino gradually traced Alfani's movements on the night of the murder and discovered his associates. Alfani fled to New York, where Petrosino, who was afterwards murdered, discovered him. Extradition being impossible, Petrosino placed Alfani aboard a steamer and he was arresed at Havre'and taken to Italy. Ramorino secured the whole gang except one, who fled to Buenos Ayres. It is expected that the trial will last for a year. , (A message received on January 9th sates that thirty-eight Camorrists, charged with the murder of a man named Cuocolo and his wife on June sth, 1908, were conveyed from Naplc,: to Viterbo in an armoured train. Thero were armed patrols along tliv line to prevent a rescue.