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Concealed Weapons. Blond, blue-eyed Father Mario Borelli, 35, son of a Neapolitan sheet-metal worker, began his ministry in 1945 preaching to factory workers. Four years later, assigned to the city's youth, he got permission to use Naples' 500-year-old, bomb-blasted Church of Mater Dei as a meeting place. He set up an organization of young workers, but the youth that interested him most were the scugnizzi...
...scugnizzi, however, were about as interested in talking to a priest as to a policeman. Young Father Borelli decided that he would have to go underground. He took off his cassock, donned a dirty cap, jacket and trousers, and slipped into the jungle of Naples at night. "I was afraid," he admits...
...Salvation Army bread line he joined a knot of scugnizzi for a handout, then drifted off with them. Suddenly a big teen-ager turned on him and snapped: "Who are you?" "What do you want?" countered Father Borelli. The leader ordered: "Take your hands out of your pockets!" "Why?" asked the priest. The scugnizzo lunged forward with a razor, and Father Borelli removed his hands. Thus he learned a scugnizzo rule: concealed hands mean concealed weapons...
...pistol bullet and eight shotgun slugs. The anti-Dunn Jersey mob, grateful for their furs, took the wounded man in, got him patched up by a doctor, and sent him to Cliffside Park, N.J. to recuperate. According to Smith's testimony, Cliffside's Chief of Police Frank Borelli assured him of protection as "long as we didn't do anything." Borelli, he swore, tipped him that the FBI was moving in, and he ducked away to Marlboro, N.Y. (Cried the chief last week: "I don't even know the bum.") But Smith had hard luck...