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Show CORONER'S VERDICT MAY CAUSE ARRESTS PEXVER, Dec. 19. No arrests were made today, pending the verdict of the coroner's inquest, it was said, into the cause of death of Young Joe Rivers (Joseph (Jo-seph Romero) of Albuquerque. N. M.. who died last night, two hours after a boxing contest with Jack Brltton of San Francisco. Fran-cisco. Rivers was decisively beaten in the sixtli round of a proposed eight-round bout, and retired from the ring. He died in the dressing room. Rivers, who was 20 ; years of age and a bantamweight, recent-1 iv entered the boxing game as a professional. profes-sional. 9 Coroner W. P. Horsan stated late to-dav to-dav that the autopsy showed death to have resulted from a cerebral hemorrhage "due to a blow." |