Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/courtscriminalst00trairich Transcriber’s note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). COURTS, CRIMINALS, AND THE CAMORRA * * * * * * BOOKS BY ARTHUR TRAIN =Courts, Criminals, and the Camorra= _net_ =$1.50= =The Confessions of Artemas Quibble.= Illustrated _net_ =$1.30= =The Butler’s Story.= Illustrated =$1.25= =True Stories of Crime.= Illustrated =$1.50= =McAllister and His Double.= Illustrated =$1.50= =The Prisoner at the Bar.= New and Enlarged Edition =$1.50= =Mortmain.= Illustrated =$1.50= * * * * * * COURTS, CRIMINALS AND THE CAMORRA by ARTHUR TRAIN Formerly Assistant District Attorney, New York County New York Charles Scribner’S Sons 1912 Copyright, 1912, by Charles Scribner’S Sons Published September, 1912 [Illustration] To CHARLES ALBERT PERKINS OF THE NEW YORK BAR CONTENTS I.—COURTS PAGE I. THE PLEASANT FICTION OF THE PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE 3 II. PREPARING A CRIMINAL CASE FOR TRIAL 27 III. SENSATIONALISM AND JURY TRIALS 53 II.—CRIMINALS IV. WHY DO MEN KILL? 67 V. DETECTIVES AND OTHERS 86 VI. DETECTIVES WHO DETECT 112 III.—THE CAMORRA VII. THE CAMORRA IN ITALY 143 VIII. AN AMERICAN LAWYER AT VITERBO 184 IX. THE MALA VITA IN AMERICA 214 COURTS CHAPTER I THE PLEASANT FICTION OF THE PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE THERE was a great to-do some years ago in the city of New York over an ill-omened young person, Duffy by name, who, falling into the bad graces of the police, was most incontinently dragged to head-quarters and “mugged” without so much as “By your leave, sir,” on the part of the authorities. Having been photographed and measured (in most humiliating fashion) he was turned loose with a gratuitous warning to behave himself in the future and see to it that he did nothing which might gain him even more invidious treatment.