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Show THE MORNING EXAMINER i OGDEN 209 IV-- NO. VOL CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 28, 1907. PRICE FIVE CENTS ' LEADER OF THE ITALIAN CAMORRA TO BE TRIED FOR DOUBLE MURDER if all ITALY WAITS FOB TIIE APPEARANCE IX THE DOCK AT NAPLES OF ENEICO ALFAXO, HEAD .WHILE DIRECTING ITS OPERATIONS I1E POSED AS A WEALTHY DILETTANTE one of the auhurbs of Naples. A few hour later hia wife waa hacked to death in the home where abe waa awaiting her huahand'a return. Apparent motive for exercising auch barbaric vengeance upon them there wa none. Cuocolo enjoyed aomething more than n local reputation aa a singer. He haa a superb baas voice. He waa In constant demand nt private entertainments given by the people of means. Many of tlioae who enjoyed his ly alnging were surprised that a man wo were divulged concerning hi connectaenaa-Uunand the Camorra highly gifted should confine himself ion with the double murder tor which ho waa to appearances in private Instead of and 1m the United State IWGw5T Britain by Cuftia Brown. Ail Rights Strictly Reserved.) AH IUly U look-j,,-! NtplMi July I forward with lutanso Interest to trial of Enrioo tbe approaching Camorra, the moat of tie leader 018 Mwerfnl criminal organisation wau deported from AKano ewntry. but Stw York, whither he had fled, were of a meretua proceeding! there formal character and few detail which little waa then known, with the Crimea. It was left to eighteen carabineers to probe things to lha bottom. Of their exploit doubtless America haa heard something. Taking their lives In their bands, these fellows turned thieves and qualified themselves by demonstrating their efficiency aa criminals for admission to the society. After joining It they wormed their way Into the confidence of those In the inner circle. And all the while they were collecting evl deuce. When everything waa In readiness to set the kw in motion Alfano suddenly disappeared from Naples. It Is supposed that he got a tip from the police, for by methods not entirely unknown in America be enjoyed police protection. It waa In the disguise of a coal heaver that he took ship for America. Up to tbe time of hla flight there had been no suspicion in the public mind that he was a criminal. He waa well known la ciety, had the entree to all the beat boeaes and waa, in fact, in tbe first flight of the Neapolitan dandies. He drove magnificent horses, wore English-made clothes and cut a dash wherever be went. How he obtained the means for such a display nobody knew and nobody cared much, for, like Cuocolo, he spent money lavishly. He seemed to have no other aim in Ufa than to get nil tho enjoyment possible out of It. Possessed of leisure and ample means he waa about the last man In Kaplea that would have been picked oqt aa a leader of the . Camorra except perhaps Signor Al-tu- al Cuo-oolo- h unm m ooroin m ama. I il UhIin igevts iw Sum ts tktranmpab Ptwtami I awe e. SmM OiMirrs Trlkual kM Onlw! u His Wk. IMracUr BuanM Ik. UteqAM Os mt Ska i lha 1 But, as everybody has now learned from tbe detective work of the carbineers, both man wars hand in glove with It Alfsno was at the top, but Cuocolo waa not far below him. He was an ambitious man and aspired to ' leadership himself. The rivalry between tbem naturally begat 111 feeling on both aides.' They watched each other like two jealous tom cats intent on feline conquest in the same back ft yard. IM Marlow Wk. OWrlaM Wlfa to bulk. Iml ! . w at Cblrt af . essaying a more ambitious end lucrative role on the operatic stage or concert ball platforms But that was his wu arrested at the instance of the business, and nobody bothered much Italian government Hie counsel did about it He was numbered among their best to prevent It but he wee tbe fashionable of Naples, and bla popflaally handed over to the Italian ularity waa increased by tho fact that and reached Turin a few daya he spent money freely and waa apparIfBL ently always well supplied with It Almost n year has elapsed elnce Nobody connected that fact with the Kaplea waa throws Into an uproar by frequency with which burglaries took th murder of Signor Giovanni Cuo- place at Hie house where he had colo and hia wife. Murders are comsung. Arrests were sometimes made, ma enough In Italy. It takes somet- but none of the stolen property was ' hing unusual In that line to cause ever recovered. ' muaatlon. But there were clrcum-ctane' For a long time the affair was about these crimes that rained shrouded in mystery. Whispers were them far above the level of the ordi-ll- I beard that the murders were the work at affair. Cuocolo waa of tho Camorra, but the police literally butchered while passing brought forward no evidence definitethrough n street of ly connecting that organisation, of ' HI 1 1 1 M 1 1 1 1 1 II H I -M- - dK-H-t-- f-f ( F THE MOST FAMOl S SECBET CKIMINAL AND WAS IN Cuocolo' singing, of course. ws a mere blind. Hia voice gained him admission to the big houses, aud there he utilized his opportunities to spot tbe laxity best worth stealing. This Information he conveyed to confederates In tbe Camorra. By obtaining Impression of locks and keys, tampering with burglar alarms and in various other ways lie did all In hla power to make the task of the actual thieves an easy one. He claimed hla is- ward a Ikin share of the swag thui obtained. He complalm-- that in the division of the profits lie did not always get his fair share, but his claim for extra compensation wu rejected. It la said that la revenge he betrayed some of hla associates to the police, and that In consequence they were arrested. This la denied by Cuocolo' friends, who assert that o manufactured evidence by which that charge could be brought home to him. The code of the Camorra sanction private vengeance for wrongs, but appeal to the minions of tbe lew ts forbidden in the settlement of quarrels between members. A Cimorrs man may knife a fellow criminal to get square with him without Incurring any greater risk than bring knifed in return by the friends of bla enemy, but to peach" on any of the band la the unpardonable aln, for which the penalty is death. When Alfsno denounced Cuocolo as a traitor who had dealings with the police he adopted the moat efficacious method of getting rid of tbe rival who threatened hla supremqpy. At a secret meeting of the supreme tribunal of the dread society Cuocolo was tried, judged snd condemned without being afforded an opportunity to defend himself. He did not evea know of the accusation again him. But tho evidence against him ass regarded conclusive. dawned . The last day of Cuocolo's gray and heavy. It waa in summer Hid and the heat was everpt-werlube have a presentiment! That 111 never be known, bnt It would term so, aa lie hung about hla bouse all day, complained to bis friend of an unaccountable fekr of going out of doors, but at last waa almost driven by hla u "wanted here. As he had aallod from a Rvnch port he was shipped back to Franca. On hla arrival at Havrw he es life-thr- u d fHl Marxian t H HI Club Socialists: ; All your orders have been carried out. air. Tou may go now. 'That's good. Send me in Mr. Snecewrlter. I want to give him few pointers about that article be la going to write, demanding a 'square deal for the great packing Interests. UNCLE 8AM AND BROTHER JONA- THAN. oney represent labor; but whose It Is but represent the la- "nr h those who possess It. It usAl-- v 1, represents the labor of other. COUNT LBO TOLSTOL In modem society . DECREASE OF WAGE CAPITALISM." UNDER made famous by the Ka-Federation having engag- lm u deliver a series of lectures ui.. the scientific basis of Go- made the statement In I.."harTw 11 thllt Intellectual Socialist comPUd to repudiate the enundatea by Karl Marx, v,V T,at under the capitalist svs-uicould not rise, that tbe waie da,, would be crushed out whlle the fortunes of ihs h 7". Jncreaaed. their numbers d not know tba ,n-hii7.Ii thoughtful Socialist who kollerea Marx stato-sn- j mra 7.. ."n,e- - ,or ren many thinker Sofiiu.er on oonomlcs who are not finite Its truth. While are. v lis'teu?Te.ri,en In point of dollars, sriuJl5,of neoessary for have increased ln price, o tvJ,, . ,?rx statement holds good. .the middle class la rapidly hr SSSIIT' brtn ,w! towed up by u v S5 "!n the Inductile, deplored by all thoughtful r;r.a?,rf1aot Soclall. Socialists that It la a necessary step 01,1 Hon of the world. The corn.-!n struggle must of neces- itr rMrrowed 6own to two classes, he v-- wE? -- "ita cl"M c,r tra'h,'!Jhe .hoae who I'odty r,toir - nd the capitalist nMon of Marx ia think ud reason e great combines-grom,,re ,nto 8 unlt- to VT wealthy men ia ds- - creasing and tbe undlsputable fact' of the ever lessening number of those who own their homes and who are becoming tenants instead of owners, show that land and lud values art being absorbed by the capitalists. He also a peaks learnedly of tbe New Socialists. It Is news to the revolutionist. Socialism, old or new, means the abolition of the wage and profit systems, and equal opportunities for all to have ud bold for all time, thou' things tbst make for a full life. That under this regime there will be there always hu been, men and women of more ability thm others, la not denied bnt as each one win have all be needs for a full life tbere win he no quarrel on the score of superior Each wlU give of hla best for society. u '' BROTHER JONATHAN I hare a plan that win fetch success In no time. UNCTX.SAM-r-Lea- a than no . time would be still tietter. . B. J. Tbe socialists wut tbe whole bog; they want the land and they want tbe tools of production. U. 8. And right they are.. B. J. I, also, am a socialist: there is nothing they can wut that I dont want But they are going with tbetr beads against the wall. I propose a more practical plan. U. 8. begins to smile. B. J. I propose to make a fluk movement on the enemy. My plan ia to take tbe land first; to concentrate our reform forces on that; one thing is easier to get tbu 100. This move an tbe shrewder if we get the lud j end the natural opportunities, every-abllitthing else Is. bound to fell into our hands. I believe la strategy. What say you? k U. 8. I sky that your flank movement amount to putting your bead into the dragon's mouth. B. J. Isnt It easier getting one ' thing thu 100? U. 8. Depend upon what In the case of the land ud the tools of pro diction It isn't. - B. J. smiles an incredulous, cock-aw- e smile. . U. 8. Ill take yon at your own words Ton say if we hare the land Is hound to fall into everything else our bands. B. J. Yes, siree! V. 8. It follows that If you attack tbe landlord interests, you simultaneously attack all private proprietary Interests Catch on?, B. J. acquires a dlstut look. U. 8. If by attacking the landlord interests you attack the capitalist In- terest B. J. U. 8. But listen-.-- . . . . dodging! I shant let you wriggle both wsysi Tou said: When NO OF MODERN TIMES THE FIRST FLIGHT OF NEAPOLITAN DANDIES. wife in the evening to n meeting of which he had been called, and at which he supposed his . presence to be absolutely He started twice and twice returned, to have tbe door at luat abut In hla face and be told to go about hia He never returned. In a lonely lane in Torre del Greco, a suburb of Naples, sandy at all times and then a foot deep with Vi auviau ashes after the eruption, two out t1him ln ,th mn n and intense quietness of the atill summer night, and without a word struck him with their knives on the chest and back. Although be fell w ithout a murmur five others of the fifteen who had been charged with tbe execution of the death sentence plunged their knives into him to make sura that he waa dead. Not a shout,' not a moan, not even a word, and a human creature ceased to live. The most remarkable feature of tbia ferocious crime was lha absolute silence with which It was done. The fifteen, well pleased with their work, went gayly back to Naples ln n tram-ea- r and there separated. Two of the nnmber went on to the higher part of tbs city and knocked in n peculiar way, known only to the initiated at a certain door. 'Wlio is there? waa asked. Friend" waa the reply, we have come with a message from your husband, CuoooJo." The door was Immediately opened and a woman appeared, bolding a lamp blgb over her head and invited them to enter. Well., what is It? abe asked. Oh. nothing, said tbe visitors, Cuocolo baa suddenly gone on a long journey and you are to join him. Then, with a grin, one of the miscreant put hia arm around her laying, Here, give me a kiss before you go, and held tbe now terrified woman while hia companion struck her from behind. When th body bad ceased to twitch they looked at each other, and after a few words of congratulation on their neat methods, sacked th house, which contained many valuables. Cuooolos share of stolen booty wbicb he bad not been able to dispose of. They left, and the two bodies miles apart -- lay stiff and atill ln the darkaeae until found th next morning. Thn tribunal which pronounced sentence of- death- - against--Cwoc- oi his wife to the bum fats simply because she was hla wife, ud knew of hla association with the If ahe were allowed to llva, it was argued by tbs merciless judges, ahe would put tbs police on the track of the society. After the successful accomplishment of the double murder the fifteen next day In the little tavern at Torre del Greco, at that lima much frequented by the Camorra, ud there indulged In a feast to celebrate their bloody work. It has since become famous, and ie doing a better legitimate business thu ever before. Tbe Camorra will exert its mem and influence to the utmost to save Alfano from tbe gallows. Despite the evidence against him, it la doubtful if he can be convicted of tbe murder. Tbe accusation against him la that after denouncing Cuocolo to the Camorra be Instigated the sentence that waa passed upon him and hla wife ud arranged for carrying it Into effect This, if proved, would make him equally guilty with those who committed thh crimes. But to prove it will prove a formidable task. He took no part In the actual murders. He waa not even present at !he meeting at which j the death of Cuocolo ud his wife wu tbe Camorra to nect-asary- bus-ines- s. decreed, for the head of the society never appears personally at the "court of justice. Aa udy of bla, Genarro da Marinis, officiated aa the chief of the tribunal. It la doubtful if evea to save their own Uvea those In the Innermost circle of the Camorra would give evidence against their 1 sailer, for loyalty is the strongest article in the criminal code. Besides, If they secure Immunity from the law themselves by turning informers they would incur the vengeance of the Camorra, and their live would not be worth a moment's purchase. The career of Da Marinis is almost as Interesting as that of bis chief, sad throws as illuminating light oa the 's More thu POO arrests bar u beam made In Naples a result of the iw vestigaUoas originally begun to discover the murderers of Cuocolo ud hla wife. Among those who have beea arrested Is Baron Ctleato, a member of one of tbe beat known nriatocratlo families in Naples. Dua Otra VUtoxi, a priest, who la said to have been the chaplain of the Camorra, is also lodged la Jail. Part of tbe evidence against him is a snapshot photograph whiah the police found showing him driving In a peny trap with Alfsno. The ramifications of the Camorra extend through all grades of society. Coder the Bourbons it was a aperies of political organisation, but ia Ua modem form U la simply a goerst - good-lookin- g a. we got the land ud tbe natural op- Question sounded so much like 8. L. portunities, everything else ia bound P. principle, that the B. L. P. man to fall Into onr buds. If that means expected .to aee a copy of The People anything. It means tbst by attacking sticking out of that Southerner pocthe ket Of course, there wu Dune such. He went on to say: "The place of THE STATUS OF ALL the workingman la the field or the MEN. . factory. He hu no time to inform himself on matters of nktional policy. The following conversation was If he gets a smattering of that It overheard by an 8. 1. P. man while puffs him up. Then. lot of schemtraveling through the west The con- ing politicians get around him. That clusion drawn will be. of Interest to aettlee him. A good workingman ia working mu: destroyed to make a had cltlsen. There Two of the drummers were South- ia where the Anarchists and Socialist erners; the third wa a Michigan recruit their force from." man. All three traveled for some It was that way In Newport New kind of hardware firm or flrma. It a abort while ago. So kmg aa th men leaked out that the Michigander waa were kept working all wa well. In a college man( one of tbe Southern-er- a came a man who talked politics. From had tried Anapolla" but could that time all went wrung. Tbe Negroes not stand IL Tbe antecedent of and the Whites were changed alike, the other did not leak out. wu tbe experience furnished by the The South is not meant for White other Southerner. The Michigander nodded assent ud labor," observed the "We are here In the black belt of the added: The Negro Question la not un8outh. Thia la the moat prosperous derstood ia the North. section of the South. And we keep the Nigger down where he belongs WAGES. Tbe Michigander put in: The South la not understood in the North. We (Adapted from Kautsky.) hear up there a whole lot of aentimu-ta- l Wages ran never rise so high ns to gush about the Negro. I see bow it ia down here. Our northern papers make it impossible for the capitalist eem to toa-lafter the Negro vote. to carry on hla business and live; unI guess Tillmaq la right atout that." der such circumstances, It would be The North will find out what is more profitable for the capitalist to what, soon enough waa the give up hla business Consequently, "Tou are having tbe wages of the workingman can opinion. more and more trouble with your never rise high enough to equal the ." value of bla product They must alworkingmen Those Dagos," put in the other ways he below that, no aa to leave a Southerner, are no better than Nig- surplus; It la only the prospect of a gers the Italians, the Dutch, the Jeer, surplus that moves the capitalist .to the Hungarians, all of them must be purchase labor power. It ia therefore kept down together. They are good evident that In tbe capitalist social system the wages of the workmen can workingmen, but had citixena. 1 have been Booth and I have been never rise high enough to put an end to the exploitation of labor. North, further ob nerved the Thia surplus, which the capitalist with hia assumption of military airs, and my observation 1 that the class appropriates, ts larger than ia North will have to follow the pace art usually imagined. It cover not only by the South. What people call the the "profits of the manufacturer, hut Negro Question la not a Negro ques- many other items that are usually tion at all IT IS THE LABOR credited to the cost of production and It cover, for instance, QUESTION." At thia point the S. U P. exchange. man who happeced to be present link- rent. Interest on loans, salaries, mered in the direction of the speaker's chants profits, taxes, etc. All these pockets, it waa an Involuntary mo- have to be covered with the surplus, tion. The utterance: What la call- or the excess of tbe value of the proded the Negro Question ie not a Ke-fuct over the wages of the workingquestion at all, it la the Labor man. It is evident that this surplus n ORGANIZATION tour underground life of Naplos. As a barefoot boy be started In Naples and obtained a precarious livelihood by petty pilfering. When atill ia his teens he a wu admitted to the Camorra probationer. Ills reeourcsfulnoM and daring soon won him full membership, aud thereafter hia rise was rapM. He a got into the inner circle, posed sportiman aud drave faat horsea. Beal dea hia share of the loot he derived from robberies large end small, ha derived a considerable income from under low gambling dens which he police protection. It wu Gaetano Donadle, a comparatively humble but ambitious member of the criminal brotherhood, who arranged the details of the double murder, though It is alleged that he got his orders direct from Alfua As a successful assaaslrf he possessed a claim upon tbe Camorra which entitled him to speedy promotion, but through tbe Investigations of the carabineers he was nabltsd before he had ' received tbe reward, which, c-cording to the ethics of the Camorra, he had eo richly merited. ciety for the benefit of the criminals. It Is divided into corps, each one of which Is composed of twenty-fou- r "CamorrlsU members of Plcclottl tba society and forty-eigh- t or recruits Each of tbe former bu two of the latter at bia disposition. The Ploclottl" tn turn are served by Glovana O no rati or honorary member. These latter, having paid for th privilege, enjoy the protection of the society. Each corps has its chief and cashier, both of whom are elected by tbe votes of tbs members of tba corps. Tbe chief plana and directs the criminal operations of th corps. Th cashier took after the booty. Bach member la supposed to torn over to tba raahlsr dally whatever loot or money h bu obtained dishonestly. If he' really earns anything be Is entitled to keep It, but honest toil is held to be degrading among the Chmorra sad few demean themselves by Indulging la It The cbtef preside over the division of tbe spoil, which la carried out according to an elaborately graded ERNEST L. SCOTT. schedule, must bs a considerable one if a eon-rdr-n la to pay; the exploitation of tbe workingman must be great, even where the wages are high. It ia clear that the weges of the. workingman caw not rtaa high enough to be even approximately equal to th value of hla product The capitalist wages system means, under all circumstances, the thorough exploitation of the working class It la Impossible to abolish tbia exploitation without abolishing the aye-terItself. But wage rarely reach the highest point which they might even under these circumalkncea; more often they are found to be nearer to the lowest possible point This point la reached when the wage do not even supply the workman with hia barest neceasl ties; when the workingman net only starves, but starves rapidly, all work ia at aa end. Tbe wages awing bet ween these two extremea; they are found to be lower the lower the necessities of tho workman. the larger the supply of labor In the labor market, and the slighter the capacity of tho workingman for resistance. ln general, wlges must be high enough to keep the1 workingman in a condition to work, or. to apeak more accurately, they must be high enough to secure to the capitalist the measure r of be needs. In other words, wages must be high enough, not only to keep tbs workingman in a condition to workTbut also in a condition to produce children who may bo able to replaces him. , It follows that the Industrial development has a tendency that Is moat pleasant to to lower the nethe capitalist, cessaries of the work logman In order that his wages may be lower ia proportion. There was a time when akin and strength were requisites for a workingman. The period of. apprenticeship waa then long, tbe coat of bla training considerable. Now, however, the progreas made In the division of labor and the system of machinery Tender skill and strength in production more and more superfluous; they make U possible to substitute unskilled and cheap workmen for shilled ones; and consequently, to substitute weak women and even children In the place of men. Already ln the early stages of manufactory this tendency is percep tible; but not until machinery in . u u ru n labor-poore- to-wl- t, Into production does tho wholesale exploitation of tho bolpless among tho helpless, who are mado a prey of Shocking maltreatment and abase. Thus machinery develops new and wonderful quality in thn hands of the capitalist who Originally, the waa not a member of the family of bla employer, bad to earn wages high enough to defray not only hla own expenses hut those of hla family in order to enable him to propagate himself and to bequeath hla labor power to others. Without this process on ble part, tbs belra of tbe capitalists would find no proletarians ready mado for exploitation. When, however, the wife, and, from early Infancy, th children of the worka, ingman are able tn take care uf then the wages of the male workingman caa tm safely reduced to tho level of bla own personal needs without tho rlak of stopping the supply of fresh labor power. Accordingly, the labor of women and children does not only lower the necessities of the workingman but it also diminishes hla capacity for resistance in that It overstocks the labor market; owing to both these circumstances It the workingman. lowers the wages-oThe labor of woman in productive pursuits betokens the total destruction of the family life of the workingman, withont substituting Aw it a higher form of family relationship. The cap-- . Itallat system of production does not yet generally destroy the single household of the workingman, but robs it of all lta bright, and leaves only Its dark aides. The activity of woman today ln industrial pursuits does not nit an to her freedom from household duties; it means to her an Increase of her former burden by n new one. But wo cannot servo two masters. The household of the workingman suffers whenever his wife must help to earn tho puts dolly bread. What present aodetvhouseIn the place of the individual hold and family which It destroys, are s miserable substitutes: and dav nurseries, where tbe offals of tbe physical and mental sustenance of tbe rich are cast to tho lower classes. wage-worke- i i r, them-oelve- soup-house- WANT ADS BRING BIG RE3ULTO. WANT AB6 YIELD BIG RESULT. . |