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Show oo i PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 4. Edwafd j "Splko" Boyor. nogro lightweight boxer, box-er, was held without ball to await tho action of coroner's Jury on a I charge of manslaughter growing out I of tho death of Alphonse Howlett. also i colored, fighting under the name of Sailor Miller. Howlett fell unconscious In the first round of his fight with Boyer Thursday night nnd died shortly short-ly afterward Tho seconds of both men. and George Rogers, a negro interne in-terne at a loe.1 hospital, who was said to have exumlnt-d Hewlett before he entered the ring, were held In $500 1 ball each ay'matcrlal witnesses. |