The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-16


say something to me-" and her ears
were strained to catch the words.
Andy shivered and groaned, his
| frame shook, and then without having
come. back to consciousness after
Lavigne had landed, he breathed his
last and the record of a tragedy was
written.
The battle of Death.
When the men faced each other for
the eighteenth round, it was apparent
that the end of the fight was near.
Bowen had received so many hard
right handlers over the heart that he
was weakened and groggy when he left
his corner. He was game, however,
and walked mechanically toward his
strong young adversary.
Lavigne opened with left jab on the
neck, and that blow was not a. particu-
larly hard one, but it brought a look
OF anguish to the face of the thor
oughly- beaten little man. Els mouth
was partially open, while his eyes
wore a wild, frightened look. His
cheeks were bruised and swollen, and
his lips were puffed out. The cut over
the left eye was the only. color in his
pallid face. His breathing was coming
III short gasps, and after breathing for
moment he would catch his breath.
With wonderful ganleness, he would
not finch from the shower of blows
rained upon him, and although his
strength was going, he tried bravely
to fight back every time the visitor
was close enough. LaNigne knew that
he could dodge the blows thus attempt
ed, or let them land harmlesSly on him.
He was landing on the local man at
will. Bowen was staggered TO the ropes
~ a helpless condition and, trying to
clinch, Lavigne planted his left over
the heart, and crossing sayagely with
his right landed a terrible on the angle
of the jaw. Bowen fell back like a
felled tree and his head struck the floor
heavily. Lavigne walked ito his corner,
while Duffy counted the 10 seconds.
The beaten man was picked up limp
and to all appearances lifeless by his
handlers and carried to his dressing
room. Concerning Bowen's injuries, the
Times-Democrat says
Knock-Out Blow.
'eThe blow which sent Bowen down
was not one of extraordinary force, but
it was delivered at very short range.
He was so weak as to be able TO make
no resistance and falling directly over
backwards. the back of his head struck
the unpadied floor of the stage upon
which they had been fighting with such
tremendous force that 1T sounded as If
the floor had been heavily hit with the
POLL of an axe. When Hall and f1tz-
simmons fought in the same arena, the
floor was thicl1ly covered with padding,
over which a sheet Of canvass had been
tightly stretched. Last night, for some
unexplained reason, this padding had
been removed and the canvass had been
stretched over the bare boards of the
stage. Had the stage been in this con-
dition when FftzsinamonS knocked Hal
ont. there appears to- be little doubt
that Hall would have been fatally i'm
iured and with such "a circumstance
fresh in their memory, 1T appears all
most unaccountable that the managers
of the club should have taken such
serious risks as that to Zoe incurred by
permitting men to fight on an UNPAID
ded floor. The doctors who were in at
tendance upon Bowen last night said
that st was not the blow that had done
the mischief, but the striking of his
head upon the floor which had proCuc-
ed conclusion of the brain.
AS soon as Bowen had died a hand
kerchief was tied gently about his face
and a message was sent TO the police
station over the nearest telephone, no
tifying that office of the death OF the
pugilist. The police station in turn
quickly sent word to the coroner.
A reporter was at the Bowen resi-
dence shortly after Andy breathed his
last. The news of his death spread
with lightning rapidity and in less
time than it has taken to write this
account intelligence had been commu-
nicated to all corners of the world.
Crowds began to idly congregate about
the Bowen home and the newspaper
men and friends of the dead pugilist
and relatives were permitted to view
the remains. The dead man showed
signs of the rough treatment he had re-
ceivei. Those Who saw the fight said
it was not so much the blow which
Lavigne had struck upon the jaw, but
the conclusion produced by the fall
upon the flooring of the ring.
Lavigne Pleads Not Guilty.
Bowen's body lay on it's back when