END OF MURDEROUS MAFIA
AFTER 300 YEARS’ TERRORISM
MUSSOLINI’S METHOD SUCCEEDS
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<Aust>. and N.Z. Cattle). (Received Jan. 2d, 10 a.m) .Rome, Jan. 24
Since the sentences passed some weeks ago on the first batch of prisoners evidence has poured in against other members of the Mafia and more arrests are being made daily, with 2000 already awaiting trial. The drastic! act ion has caused the disappearnce, *of one tof 3510 most impudent, picturesque and deadligangs of cut-throats throughout the world.
The Mafia.- was responsible for four centuries of terrorism. Its crime in 1923 included "00 murders, 1200 robberies with violence, 200 cases of incendiarism, 300 of blackmail, 700 of cattle maiming, the late chiefly against landowners for refusing <0 pay contributions.
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Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1312, 25 January 1928, Page 5
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