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Show BATTLING SIKliT FOUNDMOHDEHED FRENCH FIGHTER WHO BEAT CAR PENTI ER IS FOUND DEAD IN NEW YORK I ' Buliet Holes In Back And Revolver In Gutter Furnish Only Clue To Police; Wife Identifies Pugilist New York. "Battling" Siki, the Senegalese pugilist, whose turbulent career in the prize ring and elsewhere gave him wide notoriety, was mysteriously myster-iously murdered in West Forty-first street, in the district known as Hell's Kitchen. The one time light-heavyweight champion was found lying face downward with two gunshot wounds in the back. A revolver with two exploded ex-ploded shells was found in the gutter not far away. The police could find no one who had witnessed the killing. The neighborhood had not been aroused. Fnirolman John J. Median, who had exchanged greetings with Siki shortly after midnight came upon the body four hours later. An ambulance ambu-lance physician found the Senegalese dead with one bullet in his lung and another in the kidney. Siki is believed by detectives to have had a brawl in one of the number num-ber of night clubs in the neighborhood neighbor-hood and that after the altercation he was followed into the street and struck down from behind. He was felled in the same spot where last summer he was attacked and almost killed with a knife in a street fight. The Senegalese lived near the scene of the killing. His wife identified the body at the police station. Last July the Senegalese was struck down with a knife in the same spot where his body was found. lie was unconscious from loss of blood and for a time his recovery was in doubt. His wound had become infected. An examination of Siki's body showed that he had been shot twice from the rear. One of the bullets had penterated the pugilist's left lung and another had lodged in his kidneys. kid-neys. Dr. Bassatoa said that Siki had died of internal hemorrhage. Siki's wife was notified and she went to the police station where she identified the body as that of her husband. Siki's widow told police that she last saw her husband about 7 o'clock at the street door of their apartment. apart-ment. She said Siki had told her he was going for a talk "with some of the boys for awhile." She went to a movie, returning about 11 o'clock. Siki was not in and she retired. re-tired. At 6 o'clockin the morning she was awakened with the news that her husband had been killed. Mrs. Siki said their household effects ef-fects were all packed preparatory to going to Washington, where her husband hus-band had a theatrical engagement. |
