CRIMINALS FROM ABROAD.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 11 October 1924, Page 10

CRIMINALS FROM ABROAD.

INFLUX TO AUSTRALIA. The increasing influx of , foreign ‘ criminals, especially those of Italian : extraction, is giving some concern to the Australian police. Recent arrests have produced a crop of low-class Italian criminals, and they are believed to be behind the outbreak of crime which the Sydney police have been nghting lor months cast. With every batch of reputable Italians that has arrived in Australia for years have come two or three of these undesirables, until the congregation of them is making its influence felt, especially 1 m criminal pursuits. ! The case of Giomi Menotti is an example. He. arrived in Australia mor.-* than five years ago, and since that time the police say that the honest jobs that he has filled could be ■ written comfortably on the back of . a tram ticket. He committed a robbery, and, when chased by a constables, * fired several shots at his pursuer, narrowly missing the mark. He was arrested eventually and was sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude. ' Two other Italians arrested recently are sakl to have been responsible for much of the safe-blowing in the metropolitan area, and are known members of a gang of idle young ruffians who are blame for many cases of violent assault and robbe—