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Show liCLELLlN ATTRLIOF CDRioTS Former New TorK Mayor Is Spectator at Today's Kearini IS RECOGNIZED CT I2CF ACCUSID Informei Albauena Gives Details of the Creat jCrimlnal Organization. ' yTnBO, Italy, Hay t. Oeanato Abbattsnugglo, oa whoao revelations the auto has bam it case against tha Oamorra, was called to the witness stand today to Terbally oonflna tha wrlttaa ooafeasloa made for the carabineers cara-bineers after ho had been trtckad Into damaging admissions by the police spy. Marshal OapUsutt. Tha informer repeated hia story coolly and at times eloquently, while ha was assailed with tke .eurset of tha other prisoners ia the great steel cage. Every statement that ha made waa denied In eherns aad when ho concluded Enrico Alfaao, the alleged head of the -Cam-orra, rose and shouted: "Ahbattemaggio deserves thirty years ia prison. " Exists la Prisons. . ' " The Informer earn tne oamorra existed ex-isted la a well organised form, both outside out-side and isalde tha prisoaa of Italy. The Brat ousstion pot to a man -sentenced to imprisonment whea be enters the prison waa, he aaid, whether he was a Camorriat and, if so, whether he wss a full flsdged Camorriat or a pieeiotti, the latter being one who haa not taken thw Baal degree ia tha criminal eoriety. bach Camorfist haa nader him, forty eifht piceiottia or recruits who are on probation and who may become Cemor-riats Cemor-riats proper only when they hsva prjved their ability to commit crime without detectioa. The witness ssid ths ranking of tbe prisoners ia ths society was in order that ths Csmorrmts and the piceiottia picei-ottia miirht be grouped eeoertely snd eommunit-atioa between ths older members mem-bers and the aspiring candidates be svoided. A bh-ntemafrtrlo's -testimony ws con stantly loi -minted by ugly epithets from tbe pn-onera. Georee B. Me. Mian, former wisvor ef New York, occupied a seat in the apace set apart for the lawyers. ' ' ' 1 Mr. 'MeCleflan .ia particularly interested inter-ested ia tbe case, as it wss during his tenure of office that Lieuteasnt i'etro iao arrested Alfano-in Brooklyn 'and was subsequently sisia whea he visited Itsly.. Trapping St Abbattetnsggio. Abhettemafraio'a story of the murder of Oennaro Cuorrolo snd his wife is already al-ready known. He claimed to 'have es oaped ths aselsiinaent by-feigning lllneas. Long after the murders ha fell In with Capissutl, to wnom n conrinexi nis am-aitkm am-aitkm to hm married, and trie far that poverty stood In his war. Ttie pottos spy thereupon told him that he would furnth the tie eases ry funds t the other won id tell him enoorh of the Cuocoolo murders to permit him to bcocne a membar of the Camotra throuah the use of his nowledire. Aohatteinsirilo was tempted and felt, and when It wss too Late to retract, learned that his friend waa an officer of i the law. After some persuaal'a he decieV ed to become a witness for Uis stats. Of the prieonem the priest, (iro Vltossf, alone tnainr mned his romposuxe during AbhettemaireTio e rtvtaL The Informer named Corrsula llortlno eo one of the actual aaaaaains of-Cuocoolo I and Borttna waa aummoned from the oaee to confront- his accuser, fitandina be 1 fore the bar the carabineers between them, the two rnn giarad at eaoh other for a moment, when Abhattemastfio continued. con-tinued. He surprised all by his graphic description of the murder and roif Into minute details gave the day and hour of each event from Its Inception to the com at I aa ton of the crime, lie declared that everythlnr that Borttno had said In his rumination waa false. 0"-aaionailr when interrupted he bowed wit n mock Safarence to aoruno ana seaaexxea: Iaformsrf aUtortv "But yon know setter than I do, as you were there." Abbattemagglo then took a penholder and used It as a weapon to Illustrate the kntfa thrust that ended the life of Cuooeoto when gortlno Interrupted. "It Is Impossible to murder any man when holding a knife as you are holding that penholder. - In thia scene the Informer fourid himself him-self uncomfortably near the anarry prisoner, pris-oner, and pro tea ting to the court, wss permitted to change places with Sortlno. At the ooncluatoa of the session whea the prisoners, handcuffed and chained, were taken from the court room snd Elected In prison vans, some ef them who ad been In America, appeared to reongr-ntse reongr-ntse Mr. MoClelian. and ewe. addressing blm In Rngllah. said: "We are InMoewt." |