New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-16


dav. 4 farmland shot him after
quarrel
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floor Reaching into KetcheIs pocket. he
removed rh- pLE1list-s 5S-Calibre revolver
and struck him over the head with it, Then
he ran from the house.
Eerchel cant tell ma how 70 run my
business shouted FIu-tz 70 T.. z. Bailey.
fireman of the ranch. as he ran across the
yard and away from the house
H--rz is aid TO have told Mrs Goldie
Smith that ne would meet her here to-
nigh Officers this afternoon brought her
here and questioned her. hoping 10 get
race = Hurtz. She revealed nothing as 70
his probable Whereabouts
Investigation OF Hurts belongings has
led officers 10 believe his real name is Wal
Ter Dipley and that he is from Webb City.
10 He has 0eer AZ the Dickerson ranch
since last Wednesday and only few knew
ANYTHING about him.
The trouble between Kerchel and Hurtz
Is said 70 have started when the pugilisr
r-pa-atded the ranch hand for beating
horse yesterday. ketchel had Just come
down 70 the ranch. which adjoins ore he
recently purchased. 70 spend a few days
Mrs. Smith in q statement to-nIEhr as
Signed another cause for the shooting
While I was working n the house yes
ts-iaE.' she said, "ketchel insulted me I
became angry. He was greatly wrought uu
over The incident md pleaded with me not
= say anything 70 Hurrz about our con-
Nersa-on- He sand he would give me the
best team Of horses on the farm if would
keen quiet. I made him no promise.
When HUrtz came home I told him
shat kerchel had said TO me. He was very
eusrr. I think that is what caused him to
H. ke--hel
While The pUgllisr was seated with his
TACK toNsrd the door a. breakfast to-day
E-r-z appeared with rife in his hands
and said 70 ke-ehel. Throw up your
hands
herchel. not realizing The seriousness Of
ere situation, smiled and started to rise
and walk toward Hurtz Before he had
tined completely around HUrtz fred. The
baI euJereG Ketehel's body below the right
shoulder. coursed upward and entered the
lung ke1chel fell TO the floor. The nearest
Ihyslcian was al CONWAY. 4 was forty
i've minutes before he arrived Il was
hours before the special train arrived from
lere- b. that time Kerchel was in a dying
condition
Il was not long after the shooting until
ketchei lapsed into unconsciousness- Be
fore he lost control Of mis- faculties. though,
ne was sale 10 say that Hurtz had shot
him
or more than month Ketchel had been
tS-'g mere Weakened by the life lie
- &c since his defeat by Jack John
80 ne hghter Bade farewell TO his man
- --son Alsner. and the bright lights
= ->tN York and came here 70 recuperate.
81. 80 80 nm and pale whe. he arrived.
i1He 1aFs ~ the country and nights Of
."--1itsele sleep seemed % help him. ne
80 lar 70 come back" and resume his
49, a me top o. the middleweIght dlFl-
vas L-s greatest desire 10 take on
TlFs-. enough - oe able 10 meet Jack
Johnson and retrieve mis- former defeat at
tas hands or The powerful negro.
re de-o rr2lliSf parents are living IN
-.,.-ZdI- Haere he had bought property
~ --fi-. lH-nDrTDW would have Deen me
-sIH' anniversary Of his fight with Jack
tl-L-oil -lz lasl important ring engage
STANLEY Ketchel whose real name was
s'anlslals KiecaL was born tventy-three
years ago Al Grand Rapids. Mich His
rrst rght took place at Butte, Mont. on
May 2. 900. when ne knocked out kid"
Tracey in one round. A few months later
he defeated Nose La Fontise IN twenty
foHr rounds in the same city.
The following year ne engaged in four
teen ring battles. He lost 70 Maurice
-tlDuipSOn II TWO OF these batIeSs the nTEt
IN six and the second in ten rounds He
fought twenty-rOund draw with Rudolph
Hinse. In the others he scored knockouts
Since then and Up 70 the beginning Of the
present year he participated IL FORTY nights
IN 1905 JACK Sullivan fought him teents
rounds 70 a draw and TWO years later Joe
Thomas performed similarly. That year
however he knocked out Thomas IN thir
ty-two-rOund bout, and Ia . later nght oo
tanned the decision twenty ROUNDS
Billy Pspke. IN 1905 knocked him out a
Los Angeles IN twelve rounds. but TIRES
months later ketchei returned lie com
plinent IN San Francisco in eleven rounds
Last year he fought zen rounds without
decision al New York with 'Phllaoelphts
Jack O Rrien and six rounds a PlttsburE
vim Kid" Hubert
On July ., 1863 Ketchel won from Billy
Papke IN twenty rounds al COlns. Cal II
October Of last year he went against Jack
Johnson the white mans hope but
the negro knocked him out ia twelve
rounds With these exceptions Ketchel wa
victorious AT Philadelphia this year h,
fought six rounds with Sam Langford
No decisions on fights are allowed undel
The Law there. but NAM Witnesses de
r-lareG Ts2ngfr-g ff1r- easily