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* BATTLING SIKI KILLED. POLICE THEORY OF .MURDER. (BY CABLE-I'EESS association— coptkight.l (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) NEW YORK, December 15. Battling Siki was shot dead by an unknown assassin. His body was found in a street, near tho theatrical district towards dawn by tho same policeman to whom ho said four hours earlier "Goodnight, I'm going homo now." The doctor pronounced Siki. dead from haemorrhage caused by a wound from a bullet entering tho hack and passing through tho breast. Since Siki defeated Carpentier ho was cintinually in £Ec Press duo to escapades. In July last ho was stabbed, after which deportation proceedings were instituted against him. Tho police believe Siki's fondness for women caused his murder by a rival. Siki bad several managers, none of whom could manage him, and his white wife was no more successful.
One police official expressed the opinion that tho shooting was duo to an unpremeditated street brawl, saying, "Ninth avenue, N where the murder occurred, "is the gateway to the so-called Hell's Kitchen, and no place for a man to push another off the sidewalk, which was one of Siki's favourite tricks."
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18567, 17 December 1925, Page 9
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