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NECK BROKEN IN WRESTLING BOUTFatal Fueling of Supposed Friendly Contest Between fIwo Italians at Lakeside.BUFFALO AN1 CAIllO,. COUSINS, PRINCIPALSLatter After Seeing llis Companion Lay Still and Lifeless Fled-Every Indication i/o hits to an Accident.In what is supposed to have boon a friendly wrestling bout between Juni Knffalo, a god 10. ar.d John CairOj a liinto older. both Italians. mid said to bo cousins, in the rear of n barber shop at Lakeside, about 12 oehick last night, Rnfl’ao luul his nook broken, Cairo lied and flio body of the dr ml man lie a on a slab at the Pori or Furniture company morgue, ponding an inquest.The news of the :uTair came in by tele plume and u-s soon as possible Chief of Police lbMer, Sheri if Mutter and Coroner Hoyle. iimried in Lakeside. With file exception of the hotel man and a few Italians everybody had retired for the night. In the rear of John t\ Horn's barber shop, lying in the mud, was found the body of Kuflalo.Chief of Police PlLtor at once went to work securing iho facts of the ease. He ascertained from the Italians that. Rill-falo and Cairo were cousins, that Uiev worked in the Karina Malleable Iron company plant and were warm friends.They went, out of their honrdmy house, together to visit an oulhouflk* Often they Juid diseu^-iuns :ih to WJK ■was tin* stronger man and Kiul'ahi .slated that ho was afnu^of no man, not even 111o strongest man in the world.On the way from the. closet. 1n thehouse the cousins, so i he Italians claim,I became involved in a little friend I v 1us-•she Hufi'iilo wad thrown fo f lu* ground and lay still.Cairo is reputed (o have laughingly called upon RiiM'sUn lugei. up and try it again, Then he caught hold of his cousin to assist, him up. but ho failed to uioro iiud ii was I lieu dieovcred that lie w 11 h dead.Cairo was greatly agitated and alarmed and of her'I t alia n.s who came up woremuch exeiicd. In his alarm Cairn disappeared and the olliccrs. were unablr- to find him. All of LIni liulkuis and wit-•u-MJ-es 1o the all'air pruie.-A Unit Uig cousins were on ihe friendliest of terms and licit the death of KnlTalo was an a ct si dent.(Ymmer . Jlnvlo took charge of lluj liody and if was brought to the Porter undertaking us I nblidmienf. ])rs. Sorenson and Xotfc made :lu cxnminalion and gave as I heir opinion 1IkU. the neck at the man was broken, which caused dc:rih, .J - i. vRuli'alo is said to hnvo been a vorv♦'g\iif.ii Italian and much liked by his feilt; low connIrvnum. and Cairn wik also s good man, At 10 o'clock this monunjJ Coroner JTnyp ompn nelcd n jury a ad proceeded jo hold an inquest.7KU?ARES IT AX Af'CI HKNT.Chief of Plt;diee PtiMer, who made a very thorough vxo mi nation of the affair, when ff-eji by a -Totirnal represonMlivu ill is morning f-abl r } went fo Lakeside upon l*uirg nrd.iib'il of HnlTak/s death, Ifound th.it. RulJhlo and Jij lt;-oum Cairo hud left their hoarding hrnr-e and gone »S.o ;i closet. When rln y came •mt and were rmnr 13m stcpi lending up into the house,1 bey gruihbe.il ea«-h other in a friendly Knflhb* was thrown back and down. Cairo called fur him l«i get up. The prod rale man did nlt;/l. move. A sina!) bny ri ood by nnd witm-.-ed Jhc wlii.de affair. Cairo leaned over and attempted to lift 11 jj his cousin. Tim body was limp and Cairn ifxefcmned, “my Cod, lift is deailC Others were notified and Cairn became ex e; led and alarmed ju»[ i ran a.way. I bnvo hopes of finding him. | I am positive, it wa- an ae/ddejd. and one of those lt;E*ifortirn:Uo affairs that oftenThe inquest was adjourned from JO o'clock i his morning until 2 this afternoon, ai, the court honse.Dr. Wnlhico NoU was the fir^fc \vk-ue.«s called and testified in regard to the condition of the body. Hr: said that it was stiff and that only the tig ok was flexible. Jn hU opinion death resulted from the. first or hw^i/1 vertabra-o of ihtf jiork being broken or fractured.Sheri (I’ Robert. Mutter and Chtef of Police Pflfiter testified to having harm notified of the death of dm man by tho keeper of the hotrf] at Lakeside, Mr, Tlmnipsoii. 7.?ey wont (Vjwji and found tie body in a potato paCtfli. fh tTin rear of a barber shop* The ground was witt There were a numler of plankiT for aContinued on Page Two.
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Sat, Jul 11, 1903
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