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Show W M'COY IS EXONERATED American Boxer Cleared of Theft Charge by London Court. London, Aug. 22. "Kid"' McCoy (Norman Selby). the American boxer, vas discharged from custody bj the magistrate of the extradition court at Bow street today. Ho was arrested July 2G on a provisional extradition warrant charging him with larceny, alleged to have been committed nt Ostend. Tho proceedings were taken at the Instigation of the Bolglan legation. lega-tion. McCoy had appeared before the magistrate on several previous occasions occa-sions on the same chargo, and on August Au-gust 2 was released on ball while awaiting the arrivlal of the documents connected wltih the ca3e from Bel-glum, Bel-glum, McCoy's attorney, in addressing the court, said the depositions had arrived ar-rived from Belgium, and after carefully careful-ly studying them he considered there was absolutely no case, against McCoy. Mc-Coy. It was extraordinary that McCoy Mc-Coy had been arrested on the unsworn statement of an intoxicated woman, who, when she became sober, denied hor own statement, said tho attorney. The reason McCoy found himself In that position was that he happened to travel to Ostend and stay in tho hotel whore the theft was committed. The magistrate said he had read all the papers aud concluded that thero was not sufficient evidence to justify extradition, and he therefore dismissed dis-missed the case The magistrate said he found the robbery had beon committed by some one residing on a different floor of the hotel from the one occupied by McCoy, and said the charge against him was a ridiculous one. McCoy thanked tho magistrate, saying, say-ing, "I never was dishonest in my life." McCoy purposes bringing a damage suit against the Belgian authorities. |