RICKARD’S FUNERAL
DEMPSEY’S TRIBUTE. SCENE IN MADISON SQUARE. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) VANCOUVER-, Jan. 9. Rickard’s estate nets only £IOO,OOO. He made millions, hut lost heavily on Wall Street last year. He was himself a sucker for every crank who came wishing help towards the manufacture of new inventions, especially household appliances. He owncyl dozens of worthless patents. Tremendous crowds attended the funeral. 'Flic bier was placed exactly in the centre of Madison Square, wlmre the ring was formerly pitched. The largest floral tribute, costing thousands, was a huge blanket of carnations, from .Mr and .Mrs Dempsey. An Episcopal clergyman pronounced the benediction over the remains of the man who scorned religious rites when alive, and once, said he hoped “rather for the referee’s eight nine, ten. out! when he died, with his hoots on.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 January 1929, Page 6
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137RICKARD’S FUNERAL Hokitika Guardian, 11 January 1929, Page 6
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