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* IThe Belle Vernon police headed by'Chief of Police WV L. BJerer were i o~called at midnight Saturday night to j rsettle a free-ior-allfigh AO: TAOINjh| settle a free-for-all fight that started j ®* j at the home of Pete Petroni, an Ital- j j'jian of Fifth and Main streets, be-!*,ij tween Petroni and three colored men/ C1i the police stopping the drunken brawl e I just before it proved fata!, InJ The fight started when Petroni hit j ^ 11 John Johnson, one of the colored menjf [who lives in the same house, over the j11 s ] head with a wine bottle. Arthur! f • Faulkner and William McCoy joined j ^ i | in the affray and the Italian was get^ j ■*’ e.ting the worst of it when the police!5 a | interfered. He was cut on the back j ^ fjwith a knife, a finger of his right}* | hand was almost severed, and he was j * ; bit on the nose. The four men were1 ‘I taken to the Belle Vernon police j ^ '-[station, wThere they left forfeits of5,! $50 for a hearing this evening ?t 7;{o'clock.
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Charleroi Mail
Charleroi, Pennsylvania, US
Mon, Jul 07, 1924
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