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The record-union., 1894-12-08
Special to the REcoRD-UNroN.
Where Found

CHICAGO, Dec. THE chopped and
hacked body of man was discovered to-
day in a shipping case, in an alley be-
tween Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth
streets. The body apparently had been
cut up to fit the case and shipped from a
distant point.
The shipping case bears a French
stamp, indicating the body was shipped
from France. The body is that of man
about 40 years old, of refined appearance.
His head is partially bald, the face clean
shaven, except for blonde mustache. In
the case, carefully wrapped in paper, was
found lock of dark fine hair, evidently
that of woman.
The box was marked Sc. Z. Peterson"
numbered 2 l62, and the stamp made in
France" The traces of other marks were
found, but they had been carefully dis
figured, making them unreadable. The
doctors said the man could not have been
dead more than two days. and it was
thought a French shipping case was used
to divert suspicion.
With the body were found clippings of
a carpet, which were identified as having
come from the Pullman palace-car shops,
the clippings apparently having been
used as packing for the body.
In the case was also found torn bit of
paper bearing the address ''R. Y. Titus,
237 West Fitty-seventh street." A pOr-
ton of the letter was also found, but its
contents the police refused to make pub
lie. The police advance the theory that
the man was murdered in the vicinity of
Chicago and then boxed for shipment,
but that the principals, fearing discovery,
abandoned the plan and threw the case
into che alley while on tho way to the
railway station.
BODY IDENTIFIED.
Late this afternoon the body was ideu-
titled as that of a. d. Barnes, custodian
of the Hiawatha building, at 25S Thirty
seventh street. The identification was
made by an employe. Barnes was pro-
prietor of several news, book and fruit
stands and had been recently divorced
from his wife, with whom he had had
much trouble,
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INDIAN TROUBLES IN UTAH.

Prospect of a First-CIass Rumpus If
the Governor Arms Settlers.
DENVER, Dec. There is a feeling at
military headquarters in this city that if
the Governor of Utah intends to arm set
tiers and cowboys in Southeastern Utah
to drive out the Ute Indians who are
pasturing ponies and cattle in San Juan
County, there will be tirst-class rum
pus. The military authorities here hold
that the Indians have a right in that
country, and it is likely, should trouble
arise, that troops will be sent down from
Fort Logan to protect the Indians.
The officers are looking for orders
quite soon, If the report telegraphed last
night from st. Lake is true. In effect it
was stated that Colonel E. w. Tatlock of
the Territorial militia has started for San
Juan County, Utah, with 100 carbines
and 1000 rounds of ammunition, which
will be placed in the hands of citizens
who are threatened by the invasion of
the Indians from Colorado.
Colonel Ward, Adjutant- General of the
Department of the Colorado, said to-day
that the Indians have instructions from
Washington to occupy the country now
being used by them, and settlers and
cowbows have no right there whatever
The Government will, it is thought, sup
port the Indians in the position they have
assumed.
SETTLERS ARMING.
GRAND JUNCTION (Col.), Dec. Dis
patches received to-day announce that
eleven boxes of arms and ammunition
have been received at Thompsons, Utah,
sixty miles west of here, shipped by
Governor West Of Utah. The settlers are
arming, and propose to move against the
Indians in San Jose County and drive
them back over the Colorado line.
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DE LEssEPs DEAD.
Inc Great Civil Engineer Joins tn
Silent MaiOrity

The Great Civil Engineer Joins the
Silent Majority.
PARIS, Dec. 7.-Ferdinand de Lessons
died to-day at LIE Chanie, near Vantan,
in the Department of L'Indrie. During
the night he received the last sacrament.
Ferdinand de Lesseps was born at
Versailles, November 10. 1905. When 20
years old he was appointed attache to the
French Consulate at Lisbon. He was
afterward engaged in the commercial de-
partment of the Minister of Foreign
Affairs. In 1928 he was attached to the
Cousul-General at Tunis, and in 1881 was
made Consul TO Alexandria. In his
3oth year he was made Consul at Rotter-
Qafn, and IN 1889 negotiated in behalf Of
French commerce with the Spanish Gov
ernment. The same year he was traus-
1erred to the Consulate at barcelona
His commission to negotiate for the con-
struction Of the Suez Canal was given in
1854, but not until 1906 was the Com
pagnie lntornationaIe formed for this
purpose. The years between then and
1864 were spent in collecting money tor
his great project, and it was opened in
1869, the year Witnessing the completion
OF perhaps the greatest piece OF engi-
neerlng OF modern times. During the
expedition of 1882 NJ. de Lesseps vio-
Iently opposed the policy OF Great Brit
ain IN Egypt. lie was awarded the Paris
Soclete de Geographic prize OF 10000
francs in 1870; received the Cross OF the
Legion OF Honor in 1869: the Italian cross
of the Order of st. Maurice the same year;
the broad ribbon of the Prussian Order
OF the Lion and the Sun, III 1888. His
later years have been clouded by the
scandals connected with the Panama
Canal, with which canal project ne was
associated. He was probably an uncon-
scious instrument in the hands of schem-
ing and designing men to further their
interest, but necessarily has had to share
in the odium attached to the financial
operations OF these men,
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EMBEzzLEMENr CHARGES.

a stockton Clerk Accused of Appro-
priating Money to His own Use.
STOCKTON, Dec. 7.-R. c. Watkins. a
young man who has been employed for
two months past as a clerk in the Man
sion house, is accused by the proprietor,
Mrs. Ritzlof, of being au embezzler of
no mean ability. His defalcations during
the period of two months are said 90
amount to nearly 81, 600. Mrs. Ritzloff
charges that when given money to nav
the bills Of the house Watkins would an
propriate the coin and enter the bills on
the books as paid. and that he also col
lected small sums, of which he made no
account. The money was dissipated in
gambling. oung Watkins family re-
made to prevent prosecution.
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LAST NIGHTS STORM.
The Severest of the season Over Gen.
tral California.

Lie SSNefeSC Oh the season over Gen.
tral California.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. THE storm
which broke over Central California to-
night was the most severe of the season.
Last night the Weather Bureau an
nounced that the weather to-day would
be OF the clearing kind, but it proved to
be the opposite and seemed to storm
even harder than yesterday. At 2. NJ.
the wind was blowing fifty miles an
hour from the southeast. Thunder and
lightning added wildness to the storm,
and for time it looked as if real East
ern thunderstorm had broken out.
When Weather Observer Hammond
discovered this morning that a new
storm was about to visit this part of the
State he issued bulletins TO that effect
for the benefit OF shipping, and tonight
some of the vessels that would have left
the harbor are moored safely at their
wharveS.
So far no great damage has been re-
ported as result of the storm. 1t is said
that at one time .l5 OF an inch OF rain fell
within five minutes. Further storming
is predicted Tor tomorrow.
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KILLING OF MISS GING.
The Police Admit That They Have NJ
Yet Captured the Murdorers.

The Police Admit That They Have Not
Yet Captured the Murdcrers.
MINNEAPoLIs. Dec. although the
Hayward brothers are in cells charged
with murder IN the first degree, it is
frankly admitted by the authorities that
they have not laid hands on the man who
fired the shot that killed Miss Cling. In
fact, whilo they have made great
progress, they are really a long way
from solving the mystery as to tho
identity OF the actual murderers.
1t Is believed that warrant is out for
the apprehension of the man, but the au~
thoriJies will neither affirm nor deny that
they know who he is. From an inside
source. however, it is learned that they
confidently expect his arrest very
shortly.
The alibis of the Hayward brothers are
perfect so far as the time OF the actual
murder is concerned. An important ad-
mission made by one of the Haywards to
the authorities, which has just leaked out,
is that Miss cling was his mistress. He
admitted the liaison, and in the next
breath denied emphatically that he de-
sired her death. 1t is known, too, that
Hayward was very much smitten by a
young lady. whom he took 10 the theater
on the night of the tragedy. be was, in
fact, engaged to marry her, and the day
was SET The authorities believe that this
fact may furnish the additional motive
deemed necessary TO explain the crime.
1t has seemed scarcely possible that so
horrible crime should be instigated by
Hayward for the $4,000 insurance money
which would be obtained, and which he
would have to share with others who were
in the conspiracy. Two thousand dollars
would be no incentive to u man OF Hay
wards stamp, who often had more than
that in his pocket and was known TO
stake a thousand on the turn of q card.
His approaching marriage and the neces-
sity of ending the laison with Miss Cling,
may have furnished a further motive.
The Hayward brothers were formally
arraigned in the Municipal Court this
morning, and the examination was con-
tinued until Thursday.
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spREcKELs NOT THE PURCHASER,

Denial of Il Report Concerning the sale
of the Chino Ranch.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 7.-Itis positively
denied to-day that Claus Spreckels has
purchased from Richard Gird the Chino
Ranch of 10000 acres. in San Bernar-
dino County. with the beet-sugar factory,
the Chino townsite, Chino Valley Rail-
road, and other appurtenances.
Robert Oxnard, a brother OF the Ok
nards who own the beet-sugar factory at
Chino. and who is associated in the busi-
ness with Claus Spreckels. was inter-
viewed at Spreckers office to-day. He
said: NO such negotiation has been
made. and none is in progress or in pros
pect.''
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SIX MEN INJURED.
Probable Fatal Explosion of Dynamite
aJ Boston.

Boston, Dec. This afternoon, while
excavatine near Elm Hill avenue and
Severy street, six men were badly in
jured by an explosion of dynamite. A
train of dynamite cartridges had been
fixed for blasting rocks. Some exploded.
but one or two failed. and the workmen
were digging out the cartridges when one
exploded. The following were probably
fatally injured: James Clancy. James
Gately, p. Leonard, John McShane, John
Cronan. The last two may recover.
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FORGED BONDS.
Fraudulen Securities Placed in Eng
land and Ireland.


LONDON, Dec. IA telegram from Bel
fast says $4,000 in American school
bonds have been placed in Ireland and
9150,000 in London during the past ten
years. a large amount of these securi-
ties are believed to have been forged. The
work of placing these alleged forged Sc
curities is said to have been done by
member of an American banking-hou
One of the partners is reported TO have
absconded.
The school bonds referred to were not
listed in London, but it was stated that
they were regarded in the United States
as being tirsr-ciass securities, and rank
ing in many cases next to United States
Government bonds. The American firm
which placed the bonds i'll Ireland and
England has hitherto been considered of
high reputation. In many cases the
bonds have been held for many years,
and the interest has been paid regularly,
the coupons being domiciled in the office
Of the firm in America. The first issue
of the bonds was made seven years ago.
One of the brokers' interested in these Sc
curities claims to be innocent of fraud,
and has gone to America TO inquire into
the matter,
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Special to the REcoED-UHroN.


CITY OF MEXICO, Dec. THE latest re-
ports from the Guatemalan frontier state
that Mexican Colonel, member of the
staff OF General Lullane, has been assas-
sInated by the Guatemalans, and from
unofficial sources it is learned that COM
pany OF 40 MeXicans had a skirmish
with 400 Guatemalan guerillas, in which
two Mexican soldiers were killed. This
particular body of mounted Guatemalans
Is reported to be still lowering about the
vicinity Of the Mexican troops, but it is
believed that after making the attack
they retired to the GuatemaIan side of the
international line.
Should the official information confirm
these reports, it is highly pro bable that
the Mexican Government will at once
demand reparation in a satisfactory man
ner for the outrage.
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Torrens Land Transfer Act:

SAN Francisco, Dec. There will be
All important meeting in this city to-
morrow-that of the commission ap-
pointed by the last Legislature to exam
inc the methods Of land transfer and reg
stration as existing under the Torrens
Land Transfer Act OF Australia, and OF
preparing a system for this State. The
members are Frank Miller, President of
the ID. .. Mills National Bank OF Sacra-
mento chairman, Senator Elliott Nc
Allister, Edison h. Adams of Oakland,
Assemblyman Robert f. Bulla of Los
Angeles, and Senator Bart Burke of Santa
Cruz. The Commissioners are expected
to prepare report to the Legislature.
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KILLED By wHITECAPs.
A Citizen of Springfield, KY, shot III
the Presence OF His Family.

Citizen OF Springfield, KY, Shot In
the Presence OF His Family.
SPRINGFIELD tky.l, Dec. 1.-Two
masked men forced an entrance into the
house of Thomas Edington between II
and l o'clock this morning, ana, in the
presence of his wife and five children.
shot him dead. Edglngton jumped out
of bed when he discovered the men in
the room, and was grabbed by one of
them, while the other put bullet in his
brain.
Edgington had been anonymously
warned by Whltecaps about abusing his
family. 1t is thought that the Whitecaps
intended to give him a severe thrashing.
but, meeting with resistance, they killed
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MELVIN HATCH A FREE MAN.
Acquitted of Completely in the
YoIO Train Tragedy.
THE DECISION ARRIVED AT ON THE
THIRD BALLOT

The Deputy Registrar Of San Francisco
Court, Charged With Feloniously
forts Made to Put Out OF the Way
the Leading Witness in the Roscoe
Train Robbery Case at Los Angeles.
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ROSCOE TRAIN ROBBERY.

Informant ElsIer Passes Through sew
eral Startling Experiences.
Los ANGELES. Dec. 7.-Charles Z. Els
Ter, the informant against the Roscoe
train robbers. has passed through several
startling experiences the past week. In
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Eight Years at Hard Labor.

Los ANGELES, Dec.7 For the second
time Michael Elongo and Riago Cell, the
two Italians once before convicted Of
counterfeiting, were sentenced in the
United States District Court this morn
ing. They pleaded guilty, and were given
eight years at Folsom AT hard labor.
When first sentenced there occurred
some technical error in the commitments,
and the case had to be gone all over again.
pretended in the act OF counierfeiting in
a two-story house in this city.
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Attorney Philbrook in Trouble.

SAN Francisco, Dec. Horace W.
Philbrook. the local attorney who Bit
terly attacked the reputation of Supreme
Justice Harrison in a brief recently filed
before the Supreme Court in the case of
Rankin VS.. Newman, has been cited to APP
pear before the Supreme Court and show
cause why he should not be disbarred for
unprofessional conduct.
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TERRIBLY BURNED.
\ Man Awakes to Find Himself Sur
rounded by Flames.

rounded by Flames.
ALBANY (Or.), Dec. 7.-Abram Jones,
who lives alone near Detroit. was terribly
burned last night. While asleep MS house
caught fire. The flames soon spread to
his bed. When awakened he was sur
rounded by fire. He rushed through the
flames ana escaped by breaking down a
burning door. Clad only in a nightshirt
he walked quarter OF a mile through six
inches of snow to the nearest neighbor,
whore help was given and a physician
summoned. The ends of his fingers were
burned of, his back and thighs blistered,
and his face frightfully distigured.
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A Periurer Sentenced,

VIsALIA, Dec. S.-W. /. Sayre of Tu-
lare was sentenced this morning to six
years Imprisonment by Judge Gray for
swearing falsely in the Howard murder
case.
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Three Horse Thieves Captured.

HENNEssEY %. t.. Dec. THE posse
of farmers who have been following a
band of horse and cattle thieves near
Gloss Mountains, in Cheyenne and Ara
pahoe Counties, seventy miles west of
Hennessey, captured three thieves and
drove the rest away, after wounding sew
eral.
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CHASTITY DISCOVERY.
Mutilated Body of a Man Found in
a Shipping Case at Chicago.
LOCK OF WOMAN'S HAIR IN THE
BOX WITH THE CORPSE

The Body identified as That of the
Custodian of the Hiawatha Building
The Murder Believed to Have
Been Committed Near Chicago and
That the Principals, Fearing Dis
covery, Threw the Case in the Alley
Where Found.
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RnfIroad EARNINGS.

NEW YORK, Dec. THE October earn
ings of the Atlantic system of the South
ern Pacific Railroad were Gross, 81, 49,
8l3; increase, Sl03,062; net, $565, ,S52; de-
crease, Sl0,0S7.
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Fonnd Dead in the Road.

MADEIRA, Dec. lame Doud, farm
hand. was found dead in the road near
town this morning. 1t is supposed that
while IN an intoxicated condition he fell
from the wagon when going home, and
the wheels passed over him, causing his
death.
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UPPER SANDUsKY (O.), Dec. AT
Carey, twelve miles north Of here,
Goshey of Holgate. o.. anu wounding
several helpers seriously.
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Must Exhibit Their Passports.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. = ambassador
Runyon has informed the Department OF
State, under date OF November 23d. that
all persons sojourning in Germany not
stopping at hotel are required to exhibit
some certificate of nationality (in the case
OF an American, a passporD as a condition
OF continuing their stay, and this is some
times done after very short soiourn.
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The Reer Trust.

CHICAGO, Dec. 7.-Action was taken
last evening to dissolve the Chicago and
Milwaukee Brewers Association, or beer
trust. A war of competition will prob
ably be inaugurated.
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Crime in ol1lanoma TERRITORY

GUTHRIE, Dec. Late last night four
men called at the home of King Berry,
near Cushing, in the Sac and Fox coun-
try, and riddled him with bullets when
he answered their knock at the door.
They then fired his house and escaped.
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THB FIRST SKIRMISH.
Battle Between Mexican Troops
and Guatemalan Guerrillas.
A COLONEL IN THE FORMERS ARMY
ASSASSINATED.

Count Ferdinand De Lesseps, the Great
Civil Engineer, Passes Away at Le
Chanie, France-FrauduIent Ameri-
can School Securities In Large
Amount Reported to Have Been
Placed in England and ireland.
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FINANCIAL LEGISLATION.
House Banking Committee to Take
the Matter in Hand at Once.
A BILL EXPECTED TO BE REPORTED
BEFORE THE HOLIDAYS

While Secretary CarlfsIe's Plan is Fa-
vorably Commented upon by Prom
inent Members of Both Houses,
That Proposed by Comptroller Eek
els in His Annual Report Is Be-
lieved by Others to Have Superior
Merit-Plan Suggested by a Now
York Banker.
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General Booth at Kansas City.

KANSAS City, Dec. 7.-General Will
lam Booth and his retinue of Salvation
lists arrived in this city this morning.
They were met at the depot by an en-
thusiastic band of 800 or more local
Salvationists, who, headed by brass
band, escorted the party to their hotel.
The General was much improved in
health since leaving Chicago, and, al
though tired, said he felt very well. At
the Auditorium this afternoon and again
this evening ne addressed several thou
sand people, and was most cordially re-
ceived.
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Deputy Registrar ueld to Answer.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 7.-Louis Stein
berg, the Deputy Registrar of Elections,
who is charged with having feloniously
induced August Gutman to register
illegally in the Baldwin Hotel previous
to the recent elections, was held in the
sum of $4,000 by Judge Wallace this
afternoon to stand trial in the Superior
Court. Steinberg is the fourth man to be
held on criminal charges resulting from
the recent election
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a Woman and Child Burned to Death.

n woman and Child Burned to Death.
DALLAS CTexas), Dec. by the explo-
sion of a gasoline stove on which Mrs.
David POlaski was cooking dinner to-
day, her clothing and that OF her 1-year-
old child were set on fire, and both
burned to death. NJ. Wasson, in an effort
to save them, was dangerously burned.
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'Of the national bank capital so per
cent. would be 1884, ,000, 600, or a sum of
Sl62, 900 greater than the total of the
present national bank circulation, viz:
Sl72, 600, 600, while capital of $1,000. 900
would provide for $500, ,00O of this safety
fund circulation sum S32S 000, 600
greater than the present bank issue. So
within the limits OF 500, ,000, 900 would be
the expansion or contraction of this cur
rency, and this limit could easily be ex-
tended in future, if necessary, by reduc-
ing the percentage of legal tenders. cur
rency to be supported by the banks and
extending the limit for safety funds
currency beyond 80 per cent. OF capital.
The legal tender currency out of the
way by Mr.. Eckels' plan of substitution
OF bank notes, the practical result would
be that all the paper currency would be
redeemable only in gold or silver coin,
for there would exist only one form of
bank notes, gold certificates or silver cer-
titicateS ;,
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him for fear of being recognized. There
is no clew to the perpetrators.
Death the Result of a Pitched Bn

Death the Result of q Pitched Battle.
GUTHRIE %. IT,, Dec. 1.-Two killed
and one mangled for life and two badly
wounded is the result of pitched battle
fought between AIva and Eagle, and
started by number of drunken rowdies
James; Brown, Frank Brown, j. r.
Knight, Charles Kitchen, Sam Wescott
and man called "One-eyed Taylor"
while coming home drunk met Sam Gro
GERS, Deputy Marshal, and three
rangers en- route to Alva. Without pro-
vocation or a moments warning the
drunken men opened fire on the other
party. y general fusillade followed, last
ing several minutes. Kitchen and James
Brown were killed outright.
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Tragedy in Indiana.

JEFFERsoNvILLE Und.), Dec. AT
Hibernia. twenty-five miles from this
city, Miles Smith. merchant, % years
old, last night shot and killed William
Petit, aged "A, young man belonging
to prominent family. The murder was
the result of a quarrel which was caused
by young Petit calling at the store of
Smith with a crowd of companions for
the purpose of guying Smith, which they
had been in the habit of doing, much to
the displeasure of Smith. The MUIR
derer was brought here and placed in
jail.
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The ''Kid'' Threw Up the Sponge.

DENVER, Dec. Paddy Purtell, the
Saginaw Kid" and Billy Mahon of Cali
fornia, welter weights, met at the Central
Theater tonight for a finish fight The
stake was $500 aside. In the twenty first
round the KID threw up the sponge
In the third round he broke his right
hand, and two rounds later broke his
left. He continued the fight against these
odds, but finally gave up, when it was
useless to cOntinue