But justice demanded more circumstantial information, and the Podesta decided to work upon the two men already in his clutches.

On June 4, Carli was submitted to the torture.

The rack elicited nothing new from him, but had the result of dislocating his arms.

He was then placed upon an instrument called the 'she-goat,' a sharp wooden trestle, to which the man was bound with weights attached to his feet, and where he sat for nearly four hours.

In the course of this painful exercise, he deposed that Massimiliano and Lucrezia had been in the habit of meeting in the house of Vincenzo del Zoppo and Pollonia his wife, where the _bravi_ also congregated and kept their arms.