A CONVERTED PRIZEFIGHTER.
(Fromthe Pall Mall Budget.') One clay lately " Beiuligo," formerly a well-known prizefighter and " Champion of England," delivered a religious address to a crowded audience at the London Cabmen's Mission Hall at King's cross. Mr John Dupee, the superintendent of the mission, a former companion of Bendigo at Nottingham, conducted the services. The reporters state that Bendigo, who is now sixty-three years of age, " stands as straight as a dart," and his address is described as "simple, though coarse." He said he was the youngest of twenty-one children, and his father dying when he was thirteen, he was placed in the workhouse. He began fighting when he was sixteen years of age, and gave it up when he was forty. Two years ago, after spending his time alternately in the police-cells, the pri/.c ring, and the public-house, he was converted as if by a miracle. Ever since he had been the happiest man alive, and he should be happier still if he could only learn to read the Bible for himself. Among the hymns sung was a new version of the Doxology, the second line of which was rendered —"Praise Him for Brother Bendigo."
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Globe, Volume III, Issue 216, 17 February 1875, Page 3
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196A CONVERTED PRIZEFIGHTER. Globe, Volume III, Issue 216, 17 February 1875, Page 3
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