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Show Are Now on Trial Where Prince Henry Was Murdered Vitcrbo. Italy, Fob. 17. (Friday) The historic town called-"The City of Handsome Fountains and Beautiful Women" has not been a center of such-) Interest ns now, since the thirteenth century when the conclave, which resulted re-sulted In the election of Theodore Vls-conti Vls-conti as Gregory X, met in the episcopal epis-copal palace here and continued in' session for two years and nine months during which time it was tho scene of unending violence and bloodshed, among the murdered being the English Eng-lish Prince Henry. At tho present time it Is a criminal trial, instead of a conclave, which attracts at-tracts the Interest of the whole world. The leaders of the dreaded Neapolitan Neapoli-tan Camorra aro about to be judged and the case may rival In duration the conclave of 1271, with the difference that while then the people removed the roof of the episcopal palace to force the cardinals to come to a decision, de-cision, there Is now no way, according accord-ing to Italian legislation, to shorten procedure of the courts. It Is expected that t.ie trial will occupy oc-cupy a year. Unless there is a postponement, post-ponement, It will open March 11. Already Al-ready those interested arc making arrangements ar-rangements for accommodations in the town and the authorities aro busy perfecting elaborate police and military mili-tary precautions against interference on "the part of thousands of friends of the forty-one prisoners, many of them desperate men. The testimony of 150 witnesses has been proposed by the state. No one knows to what revelations revela-tions this testimony may lead, or what ramifications in official life the exposure of the Camorra may lay bare. The case reveals a story more engaging en-gaging than romance. It is tho result re-sult of four years of police work It shows that Gonnaro Cuoccolo, upon whose murder the case was built, was not only a notorious criminal, but a rival in the Camorra of its alleged head, Enrico Alfano, also known as Errlcono. His body, bearing many stab wounds, was found at Torre Del Grecio, a suburb of Naples, on June 7, 190G. He appeared to .have died inia- duel, bu5ther6' were no aslies on the dancing pumps of the handsome hand-some and well-dressed victim, though the Vesuvlan ashes were knee deep about the place. I The hody, horribly mutilated, of "The Beautiful Sorrentino," was found in a pretty apartment a few steps from the royal palace Then was begun a police Inquiry that uncovered the greatest criminal conspiracy of modern times and which led unquestionably to the assassination assassina-tion of the New York detective Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Jos. Jetroslno. |