Will County IL Archives News.....Murdered with a Bat May 29, 1890
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The Daily Inter-Ocean [Chicago] May 29, 1890
During a Joliet Ball Game Row a Player Kills Dennis Commisky

Joliet, Ill., May 28.--Special Telegram--The base-ball craze in Joliet 
produced a riot to-night which ended in the murder of Dennis Commisky, a 
brother of the superintendent of the chemical works. The murdered man and his 
brother James were returning from the league ball game when they saw an 
amateur club playing near the Rock Island track. The Commisky brothers were 
partially intoxicated, and James wanted to show the young fellows how to play 
ball. He took the bat away from the batter, and a general fight ensued. Dennis 
interfered, and was hit on the head with a bat, a crushing blow, which 
produced instant death. The evidence of the onlookers is conflicting, and it 
is not yet definitely ascertained who struck the fatal blow, but it is pretty 
generally believed that Jimmy Golden, one of the players, did it. He made his 
escape.

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