BALD

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 188, 29 October 1927, Page 10

BALD

1 Since Biblical days, the era of Sam- • son, hair no longer seems an indica- ; tion of prowess, for there have heen, within our recollection many fighters who were both bald and bold. Johnny Coulon was bald. He, also, was fly-weight champion of the world. The Sullivan twins, Mike and Jack, [ had only narrow fringes of hair above their ears. They, too, were world’s champions—Mike, welter- , weight; Jack, middleweight. ; The greatest fighter of ring-history, Robert Fitzsimmons, was almost enI tirelv hairless. | I trust these illustrations have ■ j proved my point. I could cite a furj ther one, but modesty forbids!

I children when he married Mrs. Riley, | a war widow with three children. Since { their marriage they had one son, now aged 5. Mr. H. Vardy, who was one of the two men who forced an entrance, said: It was just after 9 o’clock when I heard Mr. Clark, who lives next door to the Rileys, shouting to them to stop quarrelling. I ran across the road, and we tried to open the front door, but failed. We broke the glass pane and tried to loosen the bolt. By this time | the screams we had heard had stopped. Putting his shoulder to the door Mr. Clark burst it open. We found Mrs. Riley lying half on her side in the passage with an axe buried in her head. She had apparently been going down the stairs and had turned to defend herself. In the parlour Mr. Riley was lying with his throat cut.