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Show BURN BABY TO DEATH DURING CATANIA FEUD Members of Wealthy Italian Family Finally Are Convicted. Rome. A strange feud among the members of a wealthy family In Catania Ca-tania In which the infant son of one contending member was mysteriously burned In his cradle, appears to have been settled with the arrett of Prof. Dante Slalorana, a former deputy, and bis wife, Signora Amalo Maiorana. They are accused of employing certain cer-tain persons to set fire to their small nephew's bed clothing. Start of the Feud. The feud began shortly after Professor Pro-fessor Maiorana und his brother, Prcf. Giuseppe Maiorana, married the two daughters of Rosario Amato, a wealthy confectioner. Amato died. Immediately-there developed a quarrel between the two sisters and their hus bands on one band and their younger brother. Ninl Amato, over the division of the estate. The bitter feeling grew as the months passed. Then came the "accident" to the young son of Ninl Amato. There was a police investigation and a trial, the upshot of which was that Rosario Sci-ottl, Sci-ottl, Maria Gagliardi, the latler's daughter, Carmela, nnd her son. Giuseppe Giu-seppe Gagliardi, were found guilty of I Set Fire to the Bed Clothing. the crime and sentenced to various prison terms. On being sentenced Sciottl fell inin a furious rage and shouted that the real culprit was Prof. Dnnte Maior-una Maior-una The accusation was too startling 1 Nobody believed it. and Professor Mai orann sued Selottl for slander Prof. Giuseppe' Maiorana Joined his brother in the suit, considering thai his name. too. nnd been dishonored. The defendants were ucuuitied of tin slander charge. But still suspicion failed to turn against Dante and bis wife. Finds Real Culprits. Meantime Salvatore Maiorana, a student, son of Prof. Dante Maiorana. happened to meet his uncle and ene nv. Ninl Amato, in a tavern one day and threatened him with a revolver. For this the student wns given a sentence of three months. With this third hashing over In court of the feud. Prosecutor General Colo-nettl Colo-nettl finally had his suspicious turned to Dante Maiorana nnd his wife. 'ob-nettl 'ob-nettl started a new Investigation on the theory this time that the latter pair were the real culprits aud that they had employed Sciottl and the Gnclinrdls tn set fire to the Amnio child's bed rlothing. They were speedily speed-ily convicted. |