MAFIA BATTLE
Three Chiefs Killed (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) PALERMO (Sicily), Sept. 11. The bullet-riddled bodies of three rival Mafia chieftains were found last night in open fields near Palermo, the Associated Press reported. The bodies were discovered as a special Parliamentary commission met in Rome to conclude the initial phase of ’ the Government’s twopronged campaign for wiping out the so-called "honorable (Mafia) Society" of murder, terror amd extortion. Investigators in Palermo believed there was no vendetta involved in the three slayings. The men were from opposing Mafia gangs It appeared that elements of two rival gangs had met by accident, while moving to another part of the countryside to escape a tightening police net, and a blazing gunfight left the three dead and possibly wounded others The most important of the dead was Francesco Paolo Streva, aged 50, the hereditary boss of the notorious Navarra gang that controls crime in the town of Corleone.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30234, 12 September 1963, Page 13
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