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["Stabbed to Death by an Italian", The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), Thursday 28 December 1911, page 9]
STABBED TO DEATH BY AN ITALIAN.
AN HOTEL TRAGEDY.
Perth. December 27.
Thomas Darlington was killed during a quarrel with an Italian named Sileno, at Whim Creek on Saturday night. Sileno was getting the worse of a fight with Darlington, at the Federal Hotel, when, with a knife handed to him by Capelli, another Italian, Sileno stabbed Darlington first in the thigh and then in the neck. Darlington's jugular vein was severed, and he died in a few minutes. Both Italians are under arrest, and extra constables have been sent from Roebourne to Whim Creek to prevent the miners from carrying out an alleged threat to lynch the prisoners.
The affray started as the result of someone calling the Italians scabs.