Show famed Prizefighter Slain In NM Y Crime Wave WaveS Wave'S S NEW YORK Nov 21 ID-A ID P A prize fighter and a 11 y 16 year old old ar-old girl were slain alain Wednesday the latest deaths in the city's mountIng mountIng mount- mount Ing big wave of or violence violence- and crime Al Bumm Davis 30 onetime bad boy of at boxing and former contender for the worlds world's lightweight lightweight light light- weight and rand welterweight boxing crowns was shot to death outside a Brooklyn tavern after he struck one of four men who had held up the place The girl Identified by her father fath er cr as ns Susan of Brooklyn w who o worked In a dress shop In daytime daytime daytime day day- time and went to business school at night was found dead beside an old shack at nt the foot a of Huron st. st in Brooklyn She had been beaten heaten to death Beside her body was her school b bag g. g containing notebooks I IA S A physician at Kings County 1 hospital said Davis DiVis whose whoso real name was David was warn shot in the throat and chest to told tod d this story of his de death th The four robbers had held up five other taverns 10 minutes apart taking only the money from froin the cash register In four places places- and the cash register itself in an an- other Then they entered the tavern ern em owned by Arthur a friend of or Davis at a. a m. m Only the bartender Davis awl and four other other other oth oth- er customers were in inthe the tho place The robbers lined all persons inthe In Inthe inthe the place against the wall and took from the cash register lter There was an exchange of or words which began when Davis demanded of the bandits Why dont don't you stop This place has Just been sold Why dont don't you leave the fellow alone Davis struck one of the robbers in the jaw apparently breaking it IL All four bandits opened fire on him as others in the room jumped under un tin der tables The robbers ran out and Jumped into their car Davis followed them and started for his own car As M the robbers drove e off they fired tired again at Da Davis ls And then the tho prizefighter collapsed dead Police Po lice expressed belief Davis intended intend intend- ed to pursue the bandits in his hla own car I These crimes came to light as aa the police departments department's shot crack-shot gun I teams teama patrolled New York streets streeta in the wide city-wide crime wave wa which I has cost 6 1 lives in 72 days The boxer who scored one of the tho rings ring's outstanding upsets in 1944 with a round one-round knockout of ot then lightweight champion Bob Montgomery Montgomery Montgomery Mont Mont- gomery in a bout m met t many of at the rings ring's top fighters during his career Known as a rough and tumble See Sec Page 10 Column Ift 7 I ft Bum my Davi Killed by Thugs C Continued from Page One campaigner he was subject to the heaviest penalty ever Imposed on ona ona ona a fighter by the New York state athletic commission In 1940 the state body revoked his licen license and fined him 2500 of at his share of at the gate after his fight with then welterweIght welterweight welterweight wel wel- titleholder FrItzie Davis had been disqualified inthe in inthe inthe the second round of the fight tight for repeated fouling of ot the welterweight welterweight welterweight welter welter- weight champion The athletic reinstated reinstated reinstated rein rein- stated Davis In September 1943 Meanwhile the police depart depart- OL ments ment's s crack i in al 5 eD members of the force forces t iI patr- patr patrolled d S ning Wing gun teams t streets in instep York c City's wide city in the against step n mounting violent are J crime were tre t W- W The sharpshooters y It off ott other duties and fUt cruisers and radio cars Comm night by order of bt Arthur W. W whO cho he was surveys surveying sunt t e tire fire department to c d to men now V ass asai many 1 nor work or special could be put on the |