MAFIA SOCIETY.
RE£GN OF TERROR IN SICILY. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received July 27, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, July 26.
A message from Borne states that the Mafia Society in Sici-ly has set up a reign of terror against the landowners and wealthy merchants. At Alcamo a vigneron, was shot dead, and a fanner was clubbed to death. The ruffians then quarrelled over their booty, with the result that three were stabbed, their heads were cut off and their bodies buried with tho feet sticking out of the earth.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9910, 27 July 1910, Page 2
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89MAFIA SOCIETY. Star (Christchurch), Issue 9910, 27 July 1910, Page 2
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