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Show -- T VITERBO, Italy, .March 2 1. This was vtho day sot for tho 4- -f Interrogation of dennaro Abba- -f tomagglo, the Cbtnorrlst lnfor- -f -f- mor, tibout whose confession -t- tho state has built Tip tho evl- f donco on which It Is hoped to -f rid tho country of tho criminal -f organization that for years baa -f- exacted trlbnto from rich and poor, robbing and murdering with practical immunity. -f -r -f-- -f "f -f-f-f -H- The defense, 60 far as Abbatcmag-gio Abbatcmag-gio Ib concerned, will be that the man Is Insane, a theory strengthened by his despcrato boldness. Professor Ottoleughl, , an alienist from the University or Rome, has been retained to examine the informer and, as the professor was not m court during dur-ing the morning hours, Abbatemag-glo's Abbatemag-glo's questioning was deferred until tho afternoon, and President Uianchi opened tho procedlngs wtth the examination exami-nation of Gennaro Ibolli, following this with the questioning of Lulgi Arena. Dined With the Victims. IBolll Is said to bo the head of that branch of tho Camorra which" operates in tho Vcsuvlan vlllagon. He was one of the paity that dined with Enrico Alfauo on the nllit that Gonnaro Cu-occolo Cu-occolo andihlB wife vroro murdered. He was arrestetl Boon afterward, but released on falso representations of Priest Clrvotozzl. According to Ab-batomagglo, Ab-batomagglo, one of tho offenses of Cuoccolo was his deflanco of Ibolli. He Is charged with having been one of those who Instigated the murders. This, he denied today, and ho also denied de-nied that ho had dined with tho other leaders of the Camorin on the night In question. Ho said that ho knew Alfano and Gulncppo Do Ingfnes, another an-other of the chiefs, only In n business way. Lulgi Arona was then called. Arena Are-na in tho man who In charged with having called on his brotner Gamor-rlsts Gamor-rlsts to kill Cuoccolo In revenge for hla own betrayal. Abbatemagglo says that Cuoccolo wished a portion of the spoils of a robbery committed by Arena Are-na and r few companions Thin was refused, whereupou Cuoccolo denounced denounc-ed tho robbers to lbs jiollce, ond they wore Imprisoned. From his cell Arena sent a postal card to one of the leaders, aslcing for Cuoccolo's death as a traitor to tho Camorra. Declares the 8tory False. Replying to tho president, Arena said' "This story of Abbatemagglo Is false, t am not a Catnorrlst "While In prison I was a Camorrlst, It la true, for In prison all men aro Camorrlsts. I cballougo any on to produce tho postcard which I am said to have writ-tan writ-tan to DeMarlnes, Abbatemagglo mado up this story pf the postcard? and tho pretended witness who saw It Is also a myth. I am Innocent of this crime, and Abbatemagglo's statement state-ment that I asked for Cuoccolo's death and was responsible for his murder is fals o" Abbatemngglo is fast becoming tho most couspjeuous figure iu the trial. He has beon openly threatened with death so mfTny times that he appears to havo nothing to lose now, either'if ho holda to 'his confession or repudiates repudi-ates 1L Abbatemaggio was led into his revelations reve-lations by the police Bpy, Marcial Ca-pozzutl, Ca-pozzutl, of the Legion of Carbineers in Naples. The latter gave tho Informer In-former money with which to bo married mar-ried and to set hlmsoir up in business in roturn for Information for which tho Marcial spy said he wished to get in order to use It as a means of securing secur-ing membership In the Camorra. "When Abbatemagglo loarnod that ho had beon tricked he maGo the best of It by becoming a police spy. The defense de-fense asserted that the informer has never been right mentally , that as an Infant ho was subject to fits and that from his youth he has been a vicious person. They describe ntm as having been an Incorrigible child, who was In tho habit of striking his own mother, moth-er, an offense which, they point out, should make him an object of contempt con-tempt and suspicion on the part of every ev-ery decent man. |