Word: mafiosi
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Every now and then Fascist editors announce that Il Duce has suppressed the dread Sicilian Mafia "entirely," but every now and then a few hundred more Mafiosi are dragged into court...
...cage sat the Rev. Vincenzo Baiamonte. Archpriest of Burgio, and several former Mayors of local towns. Indeed last week's batch of alleged desperadoes were as different as possible from the 153 dirty, sullen men and savage, leering hags who sat in similar cages during the first mass Mafiosi trial at Termini Imerese (TIME, Oct. 24, 1927). Last week the well and in many cases elegantly dressed prisoners listened with composure while the Crown charged them with 43 murders, 26 attempted assassinations, blackmailings & robberies innumerable and, collectively, with "banding and conspiring together for criminal purposes...