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Show FEARED HE WOULD DIE GAMBLING Vltorbo, Itnly, Sopt. 2G. A further attempt to break the nlibt of Giovanni Giovan-ni Rapl, the alleged ticasnror of Iho C'aniol-rn. who conducted gambling houses In Naples and Paris, was ina.le today at tho trial of the Camorrlpt for tho murder of Ccnnaro Cunccoln nnd his wife Gonnaro Abbatemacglo. the inform-, r.r, hijB sworn that in May and June of 1902, Rapl was in Naples selling stolen goods.' Kapl insists that ho did not return from Paris to Naples until Jio following Noombcr. Today se- s- jt'-.!.w " 53BBS2 eral men. who had been in tho habit1 of frequenting gambling vetforts, tes-lilied tes-lilied tji'y "had'', mot Mlapi during the hot weather ,yfjl 902 'in- Naples, ' Another witness was a member of thc municipal guard named Grazioli. He testified that he was accustomed to accompany Mayor Daniolo of Car-dito Car-dito to Naples, where the latter gambled gam-bled with Rapl. One such occasion waB mid-summer of thc year set by Abbotemagglo. He recalled that the weather was excessively hot and Dnnlele, who was very stout, required him to carry along a change of linen. The mayor, he said, also was accompanied accom-panied by a priest as he foared that he would die gambling, which, in fact, he did, the witness said . |