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He was a retired prizefighter. But he couldn’t dodge bullets fired in the night
- At 10 p.m. on December 30, 1934, Patsy Magner was shot and killed in his home near Yankton, South Dakota, while reading with his wife, Maude, who narrowly escaped injury from the bullets fired into their home.
- Sheriff William Hickey reported that four casings from a.32 Colt pistol were found, but no footprints or tracks were discovered at the scene.
- The Yankton County Commission offered a reward of $500 for information about Magner's murder, but no leads emerged, resulting in the case going cold.
- Maude Magner recounted her husband's last moments but did not see the shooter through the frost-covered window.
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He was a retired prizefighter. But he couldn’t dodge bullets fired in the night
YANKTON, S.D. — Patsy Magner was done. He would never fight anyone ever again. But the aging prizefighter couldn’t help but clench a knotty fist and promise a comeback. “I’ll soon be back in the big dough again,” he told a friend. Yet at about 10 p.m. on Dec. 30, 1934, there he was, age 65, sitting quietly in his secluded home just outside Yankton with his wife Maude, reading a magazine. It made for a cozy scene, the couple snugged into their ho…
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