It is, however, rather with a view to show how the Papal system of justice works, when political bias comes into play, that I propose to narrate this story as a sequel to the others.

The words between inverted commas are, as before, verbal translations from the sentence.

From that sentence I have endeavoured to extract first the modicum of facts which seem to have been admitted without dispute.
During the death-struggle of the Roman Republic, when the Neapolitan troops had entered the Papal territory on their fruitless crusade, the country round Velletri was occupied by Garibaldi's soldiery.

Near Velletri there is a little town called Giulianello, of which a certain Don Dominico Santurri was the head priest.

Justly or unjustly, this priest, and two inhabitants of the town, named De Angelis and Latini, were accused of plotting against the Republic; arrested by order of one of Garibaldi's officers; imprisoned for a couple of days, and, after a military examination (though of what nature is a matter of dispute) found guilty of treason against the state.