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About The advocate. (Portland, Or.) 19??-19?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1930)
> Portia ltd Advoca te True Storie« Achievement Storie« a m ..--. ........................... . . .. „ _ .T ..................................... Clean Fiction Human Interest { Features »»tciuiei in the lllo&tratecj *ea lu rr fleet IS THE GLAMOUR OF SUDDEN FAME AN D W EALTH WORTH THE PRICE? I .■VV, r H a r le m Still Silent on th e M ysterious M u r d e r o f the P ictureaque Battling Siki, W h o C o u ld Not Resist the Lure o f G a y L ife. By V Edward H. Lawson, Jr. if' It It years a|f<> 11 man -J w h s m urderetl—- shot . down in efty lilood on one of the narrow streets of Harlem . Today kis murderer at ill roams unmolested and unknown, with only the pun ishment of his <>wn con- science to pay for the life of the man he killed. Four years atro. O fficer Jo h n 'J. Meehan, in mitkiiiK his nufhtly round of the cali- Hiet 'district, stnm tded-over the hody of that man. a Krticdome siKht. sprawled across the sidewalk in a pool iy( blood. T.wo trunshot wounds in,his bark indicated Row he had come to irrivf. An old pistol n ib found in the gutter. That was all. —^1 1 ► «Officer Meehan rrcotoil/rd Ihr fet id* utmost instantly He was u b|K. husky chap. him k us u man buhl possibly he, kinky hulr. Hat none ami a clnibhy. Inughlng face No one roulit mlsluke him It was none oilier than Hull ling Slkl. once holder of several hosing rliam - plonshlpN and victor ovei the are*' French me. Oeorges Canientler. They removed him In the hos pital but lie wn.s deud »m l nothing ■imlci be done An Investigation uns sin lied. W ho had fired the .hots? Nobody knew. W ho had lleurd them? No one Who hud ieen the crime com m itted? No one Wlm had stumbled ovei the body before the policeman? Not u soul. Flvldcnllv Harlem was not awaken 'd by sliols nt four In the morning Tlie defectives chose another .lulling |Milnl Where had Hlkl been that night? Somehow It leak - •d out dial lie had hcen seen In a certain cafeteria. They questioned the proprietor Was hr drunk? Yep, he was pretty well slewed 1 lid he argue with anyone, or dull a fuss In the cafeteria. Yes. he Itgd engaged In a drunken At r l ilil 1» II picture o f B attling slk l ilxiuls F all). tlir Senegalese prlre- hgliter. with t h r liu lc li b i m i i . u i hr 1« rr|»irtril In havr m arried in I ranee, anil child. slk l » u a im m arrlrd In (lir muniri|ial bu ilding «1 Nrw York l i l y . In M lllan W erner, M , nf 110 W est t lr d street. (h r aam r ail tires given by th r lighter. Slkl «a v r his aar a* 2.1 an d decla red on Ilia llrrnar (h a t It B a a Ilia llral m arriage. At right to p — K id N orfolk, A m rrlran rolorrd Halit heavyw eigh t i li.im - liioii. earned llir deelslon ovrr Battling Slkl. (h r Senegalese warrior, a ftr r llltr r n fasl rounds o f lighting at .Madison Square tla r d r n . T h r |thoi ihow a tlir ( b o haltlrra poard before O r light. Il.ittltn? Slkl on Ihr Irft. th r r rfrr r r, an d K id N orfolk, a l right. A bove arr sh ow n Mr. anil Mra. lo u ts Fall, IMr. Fall bring n on e other than H a u lin g Slkl. Ihr singular S rn rg alrsr p rU r-llg h trr. I hough Sikl'a w ife was said lo hr w h ile, w hen th r m arriage bream r publlr, alie was an nrlnronn. Slkl la said to have a d m itted th r p a lrrn ltv o f the baby, thr s o n o f Ihr w om an th ru In Paris, but d rn ird I he w om an was hla w lfr. He In lrn d rd lo marry hrr, It la said, but she rim o il w ith son irbody else. brawl with anollier mun Both had been misled from (lie cafeteria. W ho were the other men In the brav.’l? Harlem shut up like n clam No amount of questioiiinq could break the silence No one knew , They questioned the widow She knew nothing. She offered a single clue, however Siki had often quar relled with a neighbor over a liquor bill of $100 which Slkl refused lo pay. Perhaps—. But that neighbor proved an Ironelad alibi Fulling on all sides, the detectives looked up the fighter's past his tory In order to unearth some enemy that might perpetrate such n crime Siki. they found, was a boxer, of Senegalese birth His fighting career had begun in Paris and. a f ter a long series of successive vic- (C ? a lin sr < M r ? Iw ?)