Word: petrosino
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Dates: during 1984-1984
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...decades of this century. Legendary Sicilian Mafia Chief Don Vito Cascio Ferro is said to have traveled to the U.S. in 1900 to help found the Black Hand, a Mafia-affiliated organization. Back home, Don Vito liked to boast of how he murdered New York City Police Detective Giuseppe Petrosino, an Italian American who had traveled to Palermo in 1909 to investigate the links between the Black Hand and the Sicilian Mafia. On the day the policeman arrived, Don Vito broke away from lunch at the house of a Sicilian deputy of the Italian parliament, shot Petrosino outside Palermo...