["A Fatal Quarrel", The Mercury (Hobart, Tas.), Thursday 28 December 1911, page 5]
A FATAL QUARREL.
MINER STABBED BY AN ITALIAN.
A THREAT OF LYNCHING.
Perth (W.A.), December 27.
A quarrel took place at Whim Creek, on the north-west coast, on Saturday night last, as the result of which Thomas Darlington was killed. Darlington and an Italian named Sileno were having a rough and tumble fight on the verandah of the Federal Hotel. The Italian was getting tho worst of the encounter, when a compatriot named Capelli handed him a knife. It is alleged that Sileno then stabbed Darlington, first in the thigh and then in the neck, cutting the jugular vein. Darlington died in a few minutes.
The two Italians were arrested. Darlington is said to have been the aggressor.
Owing to tho British section of tho miners at Whim Well talking of lynching the two Italians, extra police were telegraphed for to Roeburne at midnight.
