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...quarrel was over a purse−and the world's bantamweight boxing championship. The desperado was Abie Goldstein, "Harlem assassin," titleholder, whose boxing on this occasion was now brilliantly clever, now dismally stupid. The little old man was Charley Ledoux, of France, aged 32, bantamweight champion of Europe, who had come to America a third time ("and last," said he) with titular intentions...
...Seiyuhonto Party and the Seiyukai Party were formerly united under the latter name. The death of Takashi Kara, who fell by the hand of an assassin in 1921, deprived the Seiyukai (Constitutional Society) of its leader, and the Party eventually split owing to internal discord, one part taking the name of Seiyuhonto, meaning "original Constitutional Party...
...diplomatic correspondent for The Daily Telegraph, London journal: "It may be that the 'difficulties which have arisen over the North Persian oil concessions, originally promised to the Sinclair syndicate, will eventually prove to Japan's advantage." The Peruvian Consul at Kobe was attacked by a would-be assassin, who mistook him for an American. The assailant was afterward liberated, the Consul having tendered no complaint...
...assassin "disguised as an equestrian...
...Assailant. After the shot, the people broke through the police cordons amid cries of "Lynch the shooter!" The would-be assassin stood petrified with fright; the angry crowd seized him and he was severely mauled before the police could rescue him. It was later discovered that he was Diasuke Namba, aged 27, son of a minor politician. Formerly a student of Waseda University, he had been forced by circumstances to work as a laborer and had become interested in Communism. He said he had no accomplices and that he had fired the shot in the hope of starting a social...