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Word: giuseppa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1927-1927
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Interest centred on Giuseppa (Josephine) Andaloro, mother of three sons and four daughters, together ringleaders of the Andaloro-Ferrarello gang. She, a toothless, white-haired hag, was called the Queen of the Mafia gangs. Her word was law. Dressed in a man's clothes, she was wont to ride around the country marking out victims for the Mafia. She it was who ordered murders, robberies, extortions, ambushings, torture, kidnappings. None dared disobey her commands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mafia Trial | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

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