Word: mafia
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...appaling condition which demanded vigorous and unusual measures; and that lynch law under somewhat parallel conditions had proved beneficial in California. The leaders for the negative disputed all these points. They held that California afforded no parallel for the New Orleans affair; that such a society as the Mafia could be-suppressed by legal means; and that every man accused of murder is entitled to a fair trial...
...Italians deserved swift justice.- [a] Crime; assassination of Hennessy: N. Y. World, Mar. 15.- [b] Organization of the Mafia: N. Y. Times, March...