UNDERWORLD DRAMA

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 177, 13 August 1937, Page 10

UNDERWORLD DRAMA

i—Prees Assn-

War Among French Drug Traffickers GANG LEADER'S DEATH

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PAE1S, Aug. 12. Tbe underworld diug vendetta reachcd a clinxax with the murder of Jeaa, Paul Stefani, leador of a Qorsican gang of trafiickers, who xvas shot down in a gtveet of Montmartre. The feud bogaa when Stcfanj sold a ' drug factory to a rival gang and thea informed the polies, His rivals denounced Btefani, who, on Cbristnxas Eve, 1934, was arregted after' a shooting affvay in "Tho Dcad Eat, " a Montmartre bar, xvbon Angelo Foata, another Oorsican, was wouaded and his ,sq», aged five, was kiHed. i gtefatii's bi'other xyas a 1'ew hourslator shot dead. Stefaxji w&s acquittOd !of the bar affray, Eoata rofttging tq' identii'y him a? his son?s murdeyer. ! Visitmg his xvife'g grave in a Paris jcemetcry,~ gtcfani was axnbushcd by. (Foata, who was hidden behind a tQ?nb- : stone, one bxxllet pxereing Stefani's hat and another wounding a friend, who, was accompanying him. Grave-diggers; ^aught Eoata and belabeurad him with crosseg, Stefani obgerved the underxvorld code and declared Poata did not attack him,. but the grave-diggei's' evideuce cofl-j victed Eoata, xvho was santencsd to; seven years' imprieonment with hard labour, sinse when Stefaai has been a, marl?»d mau. " ' i