Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-16
WOUNDS TELL TALE
OF DEATH STRUGGLE,
DETECTIVES CLAIM
Continued from Page y


wound William Ross, a patron, who
happened to enter the Mors estab-
Iishment and Mr.. and Mrs. Schapp,
whom he pursued into their shop
when they refused to be lured into
the Mors place. None of the three
was seriously wounded
NIors just Missed Tragedy
In telling Of this shooting affray,
Mccoy explained over and over
again that he had been drinking. and
that he was crazed with shock and
grief and out of his head.
Police for a time believed that Nc
Coy had found Mors and killed him
bat after a search of several hours
his attorney reported to central po-
lice station and announced his
client was really to be questioned.
1t was then revealed that Mors
was on his way to his shop about
the time Mccoy entered it and. but
for the fact that his automobile
broke down. would have reached his
place Of business in the midst of
the former pugiiist's shooting orgy.
BY the time the machine could be
repaired, however, newsboys were
shouting extras whose headlines
warned Mors that Mccoy was
amuck. He accordingly remained
away until Mccoy was safe in a
cell at the city Jail charged with
suspicion of murder, assault with a
deadly weapon and with intent to
kill and robbery
Another of McCoy's intended vic
TINS was believed discovered when
the desk sergeant at the Hollywood
police station reported that at 3
o'clock yesterday morning. few
hours after Mrs. Mors' death, Mccoy
appeared and asked to see Patrolman
Raymond F. Puissegur. When told
that he was not at the station. Nc
Coy said:
He will consider himself lucky
when he reads the morning papers. +"
Pulssegur is one of the officers
who answered a call at the Mors'
Hollywood home August when
Mrs. Mors, accompanied by Mccoy
appeared as unlimited guests at a
dinner party given by Mr. Mors and
caused disturbance. Mr. Mors re-
quested McCoy's arrest, which
Pulssegur refused, saying, eff he
came to my home under these cir
cumstances, [ would throw him out"
Once a Worlds Champ
Mccoy at one time claimed the
worlds middleweight boxing title. He
has battled some of the most ia
m JUS figures in ring history, includ-
ing James j. Corbett, Peter Maher.
Joe Choynsl1i, Tommy Ryan and
other stars of 20 years ago, and was
welterweight champion of the world
from 1896 to 1897.
McCoy's ring career began in 1891
when he won his first bout from
Peter Jenkins. He continued to
climb and in 1898 defeated such well
known ring stars at Gus Rubin and
Joe Goddard.
The young fighter won his victory
from Choynski in San Francisco in
1899. The following year he toppled
over both Maher and Choynski in
eastern bouts. He went to England
in 1901, where he defeated Dave
Barry and other British fighters. TIE
year previous he had gone five
rounds with Corbett in New York.
In 1897 Mccoy made a claim to the
middleweight championship but was
never officially recognized. Stanley
ketchell was later recognized as the
logical champion.
After winning middleweight vic
tories, Mccoy started upon a series
of travels, one of which led him to
South Africa. The trip. the former
boxer recounted, netted him $4,000.
The last ring work was during the
war when he was instructor of box
ing in the Seventy-first regiment,
New York.
The only man Mccoy ever refused
to fight was Bob Fitzsimmons.
McCOy's marital career began soon
after his ring career and lasted much
longer. His first wedding occurred
when he was 10 years old, according
to some of his accounts, and when
he was 81, according to others-the
former boxer being d little reticent
about his real age. Sporting man
uals say he was born in 1873.
The various accounts agree nat
it was in 1895 when he walked to
the altar with Lottie Piehler in Mid
dletOn, Conn. Mccoy had known her
two days. The marriage lasted a
year and a half, during which time
the kid became unofficial middle
weight champion Of the world by
defeating Ryan and Tommy West.
Two years after the wreck of his
first marriage, Mccoy met Julia
Woodruff, who became wife mum
bers two, three and four They were
married and divorced three times.
The former boxer described the third
divorce the charm