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...corner the Negro lay in the gutter with two bullet holes in his body. Patrolman Meehan glanced casually at the black, distorted face, and then stepped to the telephone to inform his captain that the person known to the police as Louis Phal, and to the public as Battling Siki, once light- heavyweight champion of the world, had been shot to death...
...octoroon from Memphis, Tenn., identified the body in the morgue. She, Mrs. Lillian Werner Phal, legally married to Siki in 1924, bound up her head in a wet towel and told reporters about her husband. She did not dwell upon his recent carousals-that he was arrested five months ago for attempting to kill a policeman with a knife; that the U. S. Government has for some time been trying anxiously to deport him, and the French Government as anxiously refusing to take him back. Instead, she spoke with affection of his domestic qualities...
...Manhattan Senegalese who went to gaze at their murdered idol remembered creditable things of Battling Siki. They remembered how during the War he was mustered into the French Army-an ebony-muscled bully-boy of 18, with a jungle smile and an arm like an ironwood tree. He was given a musket with a long knife on the end of it and told to do thus and so to all who wore a certain uniform. Siki grasped his instructions so capably that, although wounded with shrapnel and bay- onets, he won the Croix de Guerre, two palms, Medaille Militaire, seven...
...real name Louis Fall) onetime (1922-23) light-heavyweight champion of the world, was lumbering home along a dark street in Manhattan last week, when he spied two men fisticuffing under a street light. Thinking to teach them a lesson, he banged their heads together. A knife flickered; Peacemaker Siki fell to the ground with a great wound in his cheek. The physician who stitched him together some hours later expressed doubt that the amazed Senegalese would ever fight again...
...nonetheless Siki improved in health. It was found that after all his jugular vein had not been severed. His wife came to call on him and he demanded "clo's." She opined that he had best remain in the hospital for a while in pajamas. It appeared, after she had gone, that he did not acquiesce in her proposal. He fixed his eye on a press observer who was standing near by. Siki staggered weakly out of bed, seized the reporter's arm for support, marched out of the hospital, into the street. There he hailed a taxicab...