 From the authority's point of view, they were a failure; very few defendants were convicted, although later trials as well as information from "pentiti" confirmed most of those acquitted were Mafiosi members, and were guilty of many crimes including some of those they were acquitted of.Emanuele Notarbartolo was stabbed to death on a train in 1893.A number of suspected Mafiosi were rounded up and tried in 1900 of the murder, and though convicted they were acquitted on appeal due to a minor technicality.