Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-05-29
Autopsy Changes Cause of
Death in Bout with Pelkey
in Calgary.
MANSLAUGHTER Is CHARGED
Fatal Ending Will Put the Lid
Down Tight on Boxing
Contests in Western
Canada.

ther McCarty was killed yesterday after
noon In the fight with Arthur Po,kcy.
was burned 20 the ground tonight.
Calgary. Alberta. May 25.--A d;sio-
Gated neck caused the death yesterday
OF Luther McCar:y during his light
with Arthur Policy. according 10 in
formation given out tonight follow
Ing an autopsy conducted by DR..
Moshier at tho request of Coroner
Costello
Shortly tSfore midnight Tonight
and after the second examination had
been made the result OF the AUTOPSY
held last night also was made known.
Tho physicians stated the invegtiga
ton showed that McCarty died as tho
result Of the blow 70 the jaw which
DEDICATED his neck. causing rupture
of tho spinal cord and a hemorrhage
of the spine The medical evidence
will be produced al the formal in
quest tomorrow. It was thought
that blow under the heart killed
| McCarty.
Arthur Pelkey, from whose stiff blow
| Luther McCarty fell dead in the ring
at the Burns arena yesterday after
noon, will face charge of manslaugh-
ter in police court here tomorrow.
The Royal Northwest mounted police
completed the necessary papers in the
charge placed against him to-day.
Just before the death of McCarty was
announced, it developed to-day, Pelkey
had slipped into his street clothes at
the request of his trainers and was
taken to his hotel In an automobile. 1t
was not until after he had washed and
dressed that he learned of McCarty's
death. He had started from the hotel
" hen officers arrived and took him into
lcustody.
McCarty's body will be shipped to his
birthplace at Hastings, Neb.. to-mor-
row night
The fatal ending will have the effect
Of putting the lid down tight on boxing
contests in western Canada.
Tommy Burns succeeded for just one
lyear in running bouts at his arena
located outside the city limits
| Betting on yesterdays contest was
lively at two to one against Pelkey
holding out for 10 rounds. while Nc
Carly was a straight five-to-one favor
its for the decision. Pelkey showed
great deal of improvement over former
appearances.
1t was said unofficially to-day that
as soon as the responsibility for Nc
Cartys death has been placed, Pelkey
will go South to meet "GVnhoat
Smith.
DEATH SURPRISE TO SPORTS.
Luther McCarty was considered by the
sporting public as the most promising of
the white hopes. and his death is as
big a surprise TO the sports as the fatal
termination OF the bout,
Travelling about the world as a cow
boy, sailor, farmer. and messenger boy
made him a strong fellow. He was born
March Il. 1897? on his fathers ranch, out
side of Lincoln, Neb. Though 1t has
been the opinion that he had Indian
blood In his veins, such is not the case.
His father, DIR. A. P. McCarty, who
travels about the country as medicine
man under the name of Chief White
; Eagle says that he is of Scotch-1rish
, descent and that Iuther's mother was
, of Irish parentage. The latter died
when Luther was two years of age, and
when the dead boxer was u years old
a he left home to begin a rowing career
a During his roamings he married {
western girl. and she and a daughter
now reside in the West.
Arthur Pelky whose blow over th'
heart caused McCartys death is ont
, of the new crop of heavyweights which
y sprang up after the defeat of Jeffre!
u by Jack Johnson.
t He halls from Chicopee Falls, Mass.
end Is powerful six-footer who hight
c at about 200 pounds. While never
r clever boxer he has always been notet
Q as a ,territic slugger with Il knocAou
S blow, either right or left hand
u He has fought number of bout
r throughout the East, usually meeting
c third-rates with rather Indifferent re
!. suits His two bouts of Importance wer
t against Jess Willard at New York las
: July and Tommy Burns at Calgary sev
o eral weeks ago.
OTHER PRIZE RING DEATHS.
The death of McCarty ADDS anothe
:. fatality to Il long list of fighters killed II
= the prize ring battles
% Bob Ftzsimmons knocked out Coz
!, Reardon in an exhibition bout at syria
: cuse. y. y, some years ago and Reardol
=, never recovered consciousness.
=, owen Moran, the English lightweight
killed Thomas Mccarthy with blow in {
. bout at San Francisco In 1910 Othe
. deaths in San Francisco include those o
" Harry Tenney after clash with Frank
= Neil in 1908.
10 Jimmy Franey died from the result o
l. the blows of Jimmy O'Connell in 1890.
81 "Conger" Williams was victim .
'r kid" Kenniths punch 10 years later
" Max Landy collapsed and died after
Is bout with Joe O'Brien at Brockton, Mass
IT In 1910
ID Frank Cole, a Philadelphia negro boxer
is was killed in a bout with Stanley Rog
4 ers in Philadelphia the same year.
Another boxer of prominence who die
after a ring battle was Billy Vernon
known as the ''Haverstraw Brickmaker
a Vernon collapsed In a Philadelphia bou
oil in the early 90's and died the next day
ed Recent deaths include those of Joe
In Ketchell, who died after a bout wit
We Billy" Walters at Waukegan, H.. 1
he 1912, and a French pugilist named Pell
r. who collapsed in a Paris ring during
bout with an English boxer fighting ur
der the name OF Evernden.
IL Walter Croot, an English bantam
go weight, died as the result of blows dc
"a livered by Jimmy Barry. the America
III champion, in bout before the Nationf
%. sporting club of London, December
1887.