ITALIANS IN FIGHT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 211, 7 September 1927, Page 9

ITALIANS IN FIGHT.

ONE DEAD AFTER DUEL.

■inocn to foLicik

NEW ARRIVAL ARRESTED.

(Plum Oar Ova Correspondent!

SYDNEY. September 2. Some Mm of what Australia nay expack from her policy of unrestricted migration of Southern European* i> gained by the drcumstances surroundiag a fatal duel which occurred at Yalloara, Victoria, on Monday, the victim and attacker both bring Italian*. Y. 31oura is eitoated about 80 miles from Melbourne, and many meo are at work there on the Vktorian Electricity Commission's scheme. Of the men there. so many are Italian*, that they hare • separata camp of their own. And when one Italian «u fatally injured there on Sunday official* were unsbU to find out even hit name until tbej afternoon of the next day, to reticent were the other Italians in tbe camp. j Information regarding the murder | waa sent through to Rnstrll Street Police Headqnarters, Melbourne carlj on Monday morning, and a d'V-nnc and an Italian interpreter »«■« diepatched immediately. OiScialt verr vn able to tell the detective wbo bad hwn killed, bat with the aid of tie inter preter, and despite the continnwi retk*n« of the men in tbe camp, it ™ subsequently e««r:ained that the d<-ad man was Dal Pra, agwd 44. His eon, after considerable tmorrofation, eventually told tbe police that hie father visited another bat in the camp to demand an early settlement of a ram •aid to be owing on the r*f«a?e, and expense* for migration from Italy of one countrymen. Dal Pra was not welcomed at tbe other bet, and a long anrnment ensued. At its conclusion Dal Pra to stated to have drawn a revolver from his pocket, eventually throwing it to tbe Hoar. Another Italian picked it op, gripped pra by the throat, and struck him ■everal times on the top of tbe head with tbe revolver. He collapsed, and was dragged outside, where his ton found him. He waa carried to his own hot, bat died from his wound*. Police arrested another Italian — a meat arrival from Italy. The dead Baa had been in Australia many year*, and had aesisted maay 1 hj. 7 eWtrymen to migrate. &w« yea» eawy criminals with interaaUonal record* kav* been arrested n* Aastraßa, taqairies showing that tbev •wTJsSLt^i^J^ 11 * 1 M< * °* tkem CMBe f Tom C?C iSSS* **•*• »PP«*ring to mm - 1 — ■*•» ««• token about the ll'.'H I ".'".«* V* toformation oo tbesr "? VSattaLi t ! > * P ° rt ° f * mb " k *