The Camorra of Southern Italy
Italy is in a conflict which she hopes will be the death of the dread secret society, the Camorra. It started as a patriotic society three hundred years ago. Now it holds within its select membership, it is said, all the criminal classes of Southern Italy. We are told that it numbers 92,000 in Naples alone, and nearly fifty thousand in the provinces. Its members are bound by death-penalty oaths, and it passes death sentences as it will. It is averred that members of Parliament, judges, and police are in league with it. The object of its members seems to be to live in luxury without labor. It levies tribute on every industry of Naples. It collects fifty millions yearly. The government is trying to crush its power by trying its leaders for murder. Will it succeed?