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VINCENZO DAGASTINO Vincenzo Dagastino was one of the first, if not the very first Mafia leader in Australia. He arrived in Brisbane sometime in the mid 1920's from Milan and quickly set about bringing a new breed of violence to his new homeland. Australia already had a number of Italian immigrants, and a number of Italian communities. Dagastino began to get his crew together and operated out of Ingham. His crew consisted of a number of Calabrian thugs such as Dominico Belle, Vincenzo Speranzo, Niccolo Mammone, Guisepe Parisi, Guisepe Buette and Franceco Femio. Dagastino targeted a number of farmers for extortion, using the usual Black Hand method of delivering a letter with a black hand on it. If the farmers ignored the letter they would be paid visit by the black-hander`s and threatened if they continued to ignore the letters. Needless to say many paid up. The ones that didn't were beaten first and eventually murdered if they still declined to pay. Dagastino also used other means to make sure the farmers paid. He would tell his men to kill cattle, burn crop and even poison their water supplies. During the late 1920's and early 1930's eleven people were murdered or maimed in Queensland. The first murder was Nicky Patane. Patane did indeed pay for nearly a full year but was facing bankruptcy after giving into demands that were constantly on the increase. Nobody could pin the murder on Dagastino, as many of the Italians respected the code of silence imported from south Italy and Sicily. Dagastino was enjoying a successful campaign of Black Hand victims but his underboss Dominic Belle was getting tired of Dagastino keeping most of the extortion loot. So Belle decided enough was enough and left and started up his gang in Sydney. And it wasn't too long before Belle made his mark in Sydney. As he soon accumulated a luxurious life style of his own. But Belle would soon be murdered following a heated argument with another Italian on February 11th 1930 at the Newtown Railway station. Belle was stabbed in the heart and was left for dead. Back in Brisbane it was Dagastino's turn to witness some adversity when one of his black hand members Guisepe Parisi, was fished out of a creek near a farm in Queensland, his body had been seriously hacked. The murder of Parisi looked like it was retaliation from Belles people in Sydney, following the murder of Dominic Belle himself. On February 11th 1934, on the orders of Dagastino, Mammone, Speranzo and Buette sliced of the ears of Giovanni Iaconna, a farmer who had fallen behind on his payments. In hospital Iaconna refused to name his attackers. Instead he tracked down Mammone and pumped him full of bullets. When he was arrested for the murder of Mammone, Iaccona named Speranzo and Buette as his attackers. Iaccona was sentenced to life in prison while his attackers would serve seven years. Towards the end of 1936 feuding had erupted once again to seize control of the extortion racket. On December 12 Francesco Femio, who was now Dagstino's number two man, was murdered in his sleep when someone pumped three bullets into him before he could move. In a similar attack it was now the turn of Dagastino. In a similar attack on January 13 1938, a bomb planted beneath his bedroom whilst he was sleeping blew up Dagastino. His funeral was a real low key affair, the real hatred and contempt for Dagastino within the community was so much that no one not even any of his men turned up, indeed the only person that did turn up was the paid undertakers assistant. HOME WEBMASTER DISCLAIMER

VINCENZO DAGASTINO

Vincenzo Dagastino was one of the first, if not the very first Mafia leader in Australia. He arrived in Brisbane sometime in the mid 1920's from Milan and quickly set about bringing a new breed of violence to his new homeland. Australia already had a number of Italian immigrants, and a number of Italian communities. Dagastino began to get his crew together and operated out of Ingham. His crew consisted of a number of Calabrian thugs such as Dominico Belle, Vincenzo Speranzo, Niccolo Mammone, Guisepe Parisi, Guisepe Buette and Franceco Femio.

Dagastino targeted a number of farmers for extortion, using the usual Black Hand method of delivering a letter with a black hand on it. If the farmers ignored the letter they would be paid visit by the black-hander`s and threatened if they continued to ignore the letters. Needless to say many paid up. The ones that didn't were beaten first and eventually murdered if they still declined to pay.

Dagastino also used other means to make sure the farmers paid. He would tell his men to kill cattle, burn crop and even poison their water supplies. During the late 1920's and early 1930's eleven people were murdered or maimed in Queensland. The first murder was Nicky Patane. Patane did indeed pay for nearly a full year but was facing bankruptcy after giving into demands that were constantly on the increase. Nobody could pin the murder on Dagastino, as many of the Italians respected the code of silence imported from south Italy and Sicily. Dagastino was enjoying a successful campaign of Black Hand victims but his underboss Dominic Belle was getting tired of Dagastino keeping most of the extortion loot.

So Belle decided enough was enough and left and started up his gang in Sydney. And it wasn't too long before Belle made his mark in Sydney. As he soon accumulated a luxurious life style of his own. But Belle would soon be murdered following a heated argument with another Italian on February 11th 1930 at the Newtown Railway station. Belle was stabbed in the heart and was left for dead.

Back in Brisbane it was Dagastino's turn to witness some adversity when one of his black hand members Guisepe Parisi, was fished out of a creek near a farm in Queensland, his body had been seriously hacked. The murder of Parisi looked like it was retaliation from Belles people in Sydney, following the murder of Dominic Belle himself. On February 11th 1934, on the orders of Dagastino, Mammone, Speranzo and Buette sliced of the ears of Giovanni Iaconna, a farmer who had fallen behind on his payments. In hospital Iaconna refused to name his attackers. Instead he tracked down Mammone and pumped him full of bullets. When he was arrested for the murder of Mammone, Iaccona named Speranzo and Buette as his attackers. Iaccona was sentenced to life in prison while his attackers would serve seven years.

Towards the end of 1936 feuding had erupted once again to seize control of the extortion racket. On December 12 Francesco Femio, who was now Dagstino's number two man, was murdered in his sleep when someone pumped three bullets into him before he could move. In a similar attack it was now the turn of Dagastino. In a similar attack on January 13 1938, a bomb planted beneath his bedroom whilst he was sleeping blew up Dagastino. His funeral was a real low key affair, the real hatred and contempt for Dagastino within the community was so much that no one not even any of his men turned up, indeed the only person that did turn up was the paid undertakers assistant.

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