Word: carbonari
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...body tissues which seemed to indicate that he was already dead. By then a new theory had arisen, wild as anything in the entire case: Judge Prince was murdered by a gang of professional criminals that had revived the name and the manner of the early igth Century Carbonari. The theory wras voiced officially last week by white-chinned old Henri Chéron, now Minister of Justice. Said...
...bloodstained knife and a powder puff were found near the Prince body. Brushing aside the powder puff, police concentrated on the knife. In the 1820's, when pomaded romantics sniffed laudanum, read Lamartine and drank from skull-shaped mugs, a secret society known as / Carbonari (the Charcoal Burners) nourished in France and Italy. There was nothing criminal about the original members who were exiled Neapolitan Liberals, forced, like true charcoal burners, to hide in the forests. Soon they took to murdering their political opponents, and later their members were neither Neapolitan nor Liberal. Their mark was a bloody dagger...
Only the Italians knew. The Carbonari, meeting in the back rooms of cigar stores, the pungent lofts of fruit-mongers, passed the whisper with glittering eye and jerking thumb; the Black