MAFIA TRAGEDY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 26 October 1907, Page 4

MAFIA TRAGEDY.

FRATRICIDAL VENGEANCE IN SIOIIA. The Sicilian newspapers recount a monstrous deed of vengeance executed by the Hilda in the province of Caltanisctta. Early in the present year the corpse of Michael Volo, a noted cattle robber, was by chance found murdered ami (lung into a disused sulphur mine. His widow had already gone to live with her brother-in-law, Luigi Volo, an old gaolbird, whose three brothers openly accused him of having compassed Michael's death, with the woman's aid. The police had to drop tin; ease through the insnlliciency of evidence. The three brothers of Luigi Volo thereupon had recourse lo the secret tribunal of the Mafia, to whom they denounced Luigi as guilty of fratricide and espionage on behalf of the police. The Mafia decreed Lui'gi's death, and told ort an associate named Davola to decoy the condemned man to a lonely cottage heside the river Salso.

There the three brothers awaited Fnigi. whom they bound hand and foot and blindfolded, and led him out upon (lie terrace to die After riddling his body with -hots, ilie brothers pierced it all oyer with their daggers, and then bore it away to a. sequestered nook in the forest, where a delegation of Mafia scoundrels joined them nt eventide to assist in the solemn eeremonv of eremating the corpse. The police are on the trades of the outlaws.