THE MAFIA
BROUGHT TO JUDGMENT AT LAST Rome, 'January 11. The Mafia, the notorious Sicilian secret society, lias at last been brough to judgment. The jury gave its verdict after three months trial, on 154 members, of whom all but seven were found guiltv. The Prosecutor d manded tha't seven of the ac S’ ls ’;d should be sentenced to penal servitude for life, eight others to thirty years, and the remainder to between five and twentv-five vears. Efforts to suppress tVe Mafia have been recorded as far back as 1874, from which time it has terrorised Sicilv and. elsewhere by murder, robbery, and smuggling. (Rec. January 12, 8.10 p.m.)
Rome, January 12. The sentences imposed on members of the Mafia found guilty were :—Seven received hard labour for life; eight, imprisonment for thirty years;.five, terms from twenty to twenty-five years, fo«Jthree. ten to twenty years, and the remainder four to ten years.-A.P.A. and “Sun.”
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 89, 13 January 1928, Page 9
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155THE MAFIA Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 89, 13 January 1928, Page 9
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