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Show STANLEY KETCHEL MURDERED. World's Chdmploh Middleweight Pugilist Pu-gilist Shot Down on Missouri Ranch. Springfield. Stanley Kotcliol, whoso real name was Stanllaus Klecal, middleweight mid-dleweight champion pugilist of tho world, died hero Saturday night at 7:05 o'clock, as a result of being shot early in tho day by Walter A. Hurtz, a ranch hand. Tho shooting took plnco on tho ranch of R. P. Dicker-son, Dicker-son, a friend of Kotchol's, near Conway, Con-way, forty miles east of here. Ketch-ol Ketch-ol had upbraided Hurtz for beating a horse. While seated at tho breakfast table, tho pugilist was shot in tho back by tho ranch hand, who has escaped es-caped in the hills, but was captured later and is now in jail. Ketchel, who was but 23 years of ago, was born in Grand Rapids, Mich., and fought his last fight with Jack Johnson, just a year ago. |