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First Murder in a Baseball Game?
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Tags | Antedated FirstsAntedated Firsts |
| Location | CanadaCanada |
| City/State/Country: | Quebec, [[]] |
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| Text | "P. H. Moor, a stage-driver, was killed in Lower Canada on the 29th ult. by Fisher Ames by a blow given with a bat in a passion, during a game of ball play. He was taken up." (Newark Daily Advertiser (NJ), pg. 2, September 8, 1838.) |
| Sources | Newark Daily Advertiser (NJ), pg. 2, September 8, 1838. |
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| Comment | A more detailed newspaper account says that Fisher Ames' 12-year-old son, who was playing "ball" with some other boys, threw a ball at Moor, who then attacked the boy. The father rushed over and split Moor's skull with a "club." Fisher Ames (1800-85) beat the murder rap. The son was probably Charles Ira Ames. [ba] Bill Humber furnished the following account, from a local doctor: "Hazleton Moore.... was drunk and joined in the game of ball in front of the store. Something Ames said or did provoked him and instead of throwing the ball to him he threw it at him, when Ames rushed towards him and struck him with the club in the head. He ... died the next day. The inquest... resulted in the acquittal of Ames on my evidence, that the blow need not have been fatal had M's skull not been extraordinarily thin." Another account, from 1890: "It was in 1837 that Hazleton Moore was killed. I was there at the time. Ames was a very passionate man, and his first blow might be excused on that ground, but he struck him twice, the second blow when he was lying insensible on the ground. The Americans.... bribed Moore's wife to say away, and her absence at the trial helped to get Ames off. She acted badly." Edit with form to add a comment |
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| Submitted by | Joanne Hulbert |
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1838.12 First Murder in a Baseball Game?"
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