A SENSATIONAL CRIME. MURDER AT PALERMO.
By Telegraph.- -Prew Association.— Copyright. ROME, 24th August. Tho victim of the Palermo crime was a lithographer named Henri Francois. This man had helped one of his murderers, a mtin named Sacco, to forge bank notes, and the two men had a quarrel, which rnded in tho murder of Francois. According to some accounts, all tho men belong to the "Mafia" Society, and it was suspected that the victim wished to divulge secrets. A cab-driver and three men, all convicts, were urrested in Palermo, after depositing in a suburb and setting fire to two trunks containing the remains of an unknown murdered youth. One trunk was burnt. The other, which wns partly burnt, contained a head, arms, and a leg. Many crimes have been traced to the Mafia Society, which is un organisation composed of desperadoes.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 49, 26 August 1907, Page 7
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