MAFIA TRIAL
A FINAL CLEARING UP SENTENCES OF THE COURT. I By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.] Received June 24, 11.30 p.m. ROME, June 24. After a trial extending over a year, 131 members of the Sicilian Mafia were found guilty of the crimes of murder, blackmail and robbery between 1910 and 1926. This represents the final cleaning up of the Mafia. When the verdicts were announced the. prisoners, in an iron cage, indulged in abuse in four languages. Fifteen were sentenced for life, nine to 30 years’ imprisonment, 14 to 25 years, 16 to 15, and 77 to ten or less years. ______
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 148, 25 June 1931, Page 8
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