Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Auditor Orville E. Hodge succeeded in looting the treasury of more than $1,000,000 (TIME, July 30 et ante). To do this they are in need of a fierce and able prosecutor. In small (5 ft. 41n.), stern-faced Judge Austin, who assisted in prosecuting some notable crime cases in his years as assistant state's attorney, they hope they have found their...
...press has been trying hard to woo back its lost readers by aping capitalist papers. L'Unita, once top-heavy with Marxist polemics, now goes easy on the politics, is substituting more news about the U.S., more sports and entertainment, is even going in for sensational tabloid-type crime stories. It takes eight wire services, including Hearst's International News Service, and plans to send a special correspondent to cover the Olympics in Melbourne this fall...
Instead, the next man to fall was Angelo Galatolo, a Mafia member whose brother was the first Mafia chieftain killed by Crime Inc. Twelve hours after Nino Cottone's death a police patrol near the village of Villa Pantelleria came upon a mule dragging an empty, bloodstained cart. Following a telltale trail of blood down the lonely road along which the mule had come, the police finally found the body of Angelo Galatolo, lying face down in the dust...
Among the first to turn up at the scene of Galatolo's murder was the dead man's weeping son. Suspiciously the police asked how he had learned about the crime so quickly. Said the boy contemptuously: "Why, the whole of Palermo knows Angelo Galatolo is dead, shot while driving a borrowed donkey cart. It's only the police who are surprised...
Tribal Patterns. Italian police were unhappily forced to concede that they have little effect on either Mafia or Crime Inc. Many Italians are inclined to blame police ineffectiveness on the fact that carabinieri forces in Sicily are staffed and directed by mainland Italians, who do not understand the Sicilian temperament and the intricate, tribal patterns of Sicilian behavior...