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The word Mafia is well known around the globe, mostly due to the many movies, with famous celebrities acting out stories from the members of the Italian organised crime gangs.
Cosa Nostra of Sicily, 'Ndrangheta of Calabria, Camorra of Campania and many more...
The Black Hand as they were originally known, spread to many countries including Australia in the early 1900's, to Australia predominantly the in 1920's and started their reign of terror, over the hard-working Italians who had fled their homelands for a better life.
These are a few of the stories from the Cane fields of Queensland, where some of the earliest cases in Australia of The Black Hand emerge, creating Chaos in their wake. Blackmail, Bombings, Prostitution, Drugs and Murder were just some of the criminal activities they were involved in.
Police were baffled, there was usually little evidence, no witnesses (none that spoke up), even the victims on their death beds would not divulge who was behind their murder...
For almost 2 decades they terrorised the neighbourhoods before mostly being stomped out by Police with the introduction of new laws, enabling them to deport these Black hand members once charged back to Italy.
Haunted & Historic Australia present
MAFIA STORIES AUSTRALIA P1 CHAOS IN THE CANEFIELDS
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Haunted & Historic Australia
With Special Thanks to the following for invaluable information:
Museum of History NSW
www.interpretinginghamhistory.blogspot.com
www.trove.nla.gov.au
www.gangstersinc.org
www.dailymail.co.uk
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