Word: andaloro
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in Termini Imerese, Sicily, a strange legal case began ?the trial of the 153 members of the Andaloro-Ferrarello gang. It was strange because the prisoners were brought into court in iron-barred cages and arranged around the room like wild animals, guarded by a small army of colorfully uniformed Carabinieri with fixed bayonets...
Interest centred on Giuseppa (Josephine) Andaloro, mother of three sons and four daughters, together ringleaders of the Andaloro-Ferrarello gang. She, a toothless, white-haired hag, was called the Queen of the Mafia gangs. Her word was law. Dressed in a man's clothes, she was wont to ride around the country marking out victims for the Mafia. She it was who ordered murders, robberies, extortions, ambushings, torture, kidnappings. None dared disobey her commands...
...trial began with evidence from Salvatore Ferrarello, notorious chief. He denied that he was ever a member of the Andaloro-Ferrarello gang. "That is absurd," said he. "I have always been their enemy." He denied, as was to be expected, all the crimes with which he was accused. Extortion in particular he condemned as a "frivolous" act. "I would be ashamed to commit it!" said he. "Although I am the nephew of Gaetano Ferrarello, [another notorious bandit chief who killed himself in prison rather than face trial], I am proud to proclaim that I am an honest...
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