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SUPPRESSION OF THE M ALI A THREE MONTHS TRIAL ENDS.
OVER 110 MEMBER'S GUILTY OIAI ORDER. HOME, Jan. 11. The Mafia, the notorious Sicilian secret society, has at last been brought to judgment. The jury’s verdict, after three months’ trial ol Lot members, found all but. seven guilty. The prosecutor demanded that sev on of the accused should be sentenced to penal servitude for life-, eight others to JO years’ imprisonment, and the remainder between five and 25 years. Efforts to suppress the Alalia have been recorded as lar hack as 1874, from which time it has terrorised Sicily and elsewhere by murder, robbery and smuggling.—X.Z. and A.P.A. and Sun. (Received Jan. 12, 7.50 p.m.j ROME. Jan. 11. Of the Alalia prisoners, seven received hard labor for life, eight imprisonment for thirty years, liveterms- from twenty to twenty-five years ; forty-three to twenty years ; and the remainder, four to ten years —A. and N Z.C.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10483, 13 January 1928, Page 6
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