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A Prize Fighter Killed

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Day
26
Month
September
Year
1842
Copyright
Public Domain
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- A prize fight tookplace in the vicinity of New York on the 13th, beiwcen Christopher Lilly and Thomas McCoy. a young man 21 years of a?e who residcd at ihc Dover and Water streets. New York, in which the Jatter wns beiten to death and died in the ring. The details of this brutal affair are too disgusting for our columns. A coroner'a inquest was held, and a verdict rendercd "that tha said Thomas McCoy carne to bis death by blows and injuries reccived in a fighr wiih Christopher Lilly, in Westchester county, on the 13th inst.. in which John McCIusky, Vm. Ford, James Sullivnn, James Sanford. Henry Shanfroid, Richard Fagan, John Austin and Joseph Murphy. were engaged as principáis." None of the murderers hnd been arrested, and we doubt not, they will all be euilbred to escapo tho halter. - Dei. Ado. (ET Whij is abolition lik e Ihc Hc-goat of Danid's visión? Do you givo it up? Ans. Becausc it "pushes Westward. and Northward. and

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Subjects
Signal of Liberty
Old News