MAFIA VENDETTA
43 ALLEGED MURDERS.
TRIAL OF 200 ITALIANS BEGUN.
WHOLE FAMILIES WIPED OUT
(United Press Association —Copyright.)
(Received This Day, 12.35 p.m.) ROME, July 20: An amazing Mafia tjrial, which is expected to last six months, lias opened in Sicily. _ . . .... There are 200 prisoners charged with 43 murders and 24 attempted murders, beside blackmail, burglary and other crimes. Preparation of the evidence for the prosecution has taken three years. The crimes are all part of a Mafia vendetta, which began in 1909 after a quarrel between the chief of the Mafia and some of his confederates. Whole families have been wiped out as a result of the vendetta. One man delayed his doom by remaining indoors for five years. Eventually two men, disguised as masons, srairied entry to the house anu killed him. _ . Numbers of possible, jurors, fearing six months’ absence from business, fled. Some have- been recaptured, heavily fined and forced to serve.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 237, 21 July 1930, Page 5
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