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Boxer, Mother of 2 Die in Suicide Pact

His Wife Breaks Into Boro Apartment, Finds bodies in Gas-Filled Kitchen

His last fight apparently lost, Jerry Fiorello, Red Hook middleweight, today had thrown in the towel in a suicide pact with the mother of two small children. Their bodies were found in his apartment at 290 Sackets St. by his wife, Ida, who had returned to him recently with their two children after a separation of almost a year.

His sweetheart was identified by police as Mrs. Mimi Horowitz, 23, whose husband is a night club singer using the professional name of Tery Parker. She left two small children.

The bodies fully clothed were found on the kitchen floor of the Fiorellos’ four-room apartmentwith the jets on the gas range open. Their pictures had been propped on the stove in front of them.
The tragedy ended a 10-year professinoal ring career that was never a great success but always a colorful and game one. Before that Fiorello had been the toast of the race tracks in Italy and France as a jockey and had even had a brief fling as an opera singer. His fighting career started on the downgrade three years ago when he was trounced by Rocky Graziano. He continued to fight but not too successfully. Last year he fractured his right hand in a bout with Joe Reddick, New Jersey middleweight at the Broadway Arena and less than three weeks ago was beaten by Georgie Small, Brownsville fighter at the Coney Island Velodrome.

According to police of the Union St. station Mrs. Fiorello took her children, Josephoin, 11 and Vincent, 9 to visit relatives in Queens yesterday afternooon. On their return at 8:30pm she found the apartment door locked and there was a heavy odor of gas in the hall.

She summoned her brothers, Peter and Rudolph Ricca, and they forced the door of the apartment. A police emergency squad worked over Fiorello and Mrs. Horowitz for two hours before they were pronounced dead by an ambulance doctor from Methodist Hospital.

From papers in one of the Mrs. Horowitz’s pockets police identified her as the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Blaleck of 73-28 57th Drive, Middle Village, Her father said she had been seperated from her husband for more than a year.

Police said Fiorello had been arrested last July in Middle Village on a charge of beating a womean identified at the time as his wife, Mimi. The Fiorellos were separated at the time.

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Feb. 8th, 2010 ~ A buddy from the New York Library told me about this story over the summer last year and I never forgot it. When I saw him last week I asked him to give me the boxer’s name who he mentioned so I could do some digging around to see what I could come up with. He put me in contact with a very reliable source who steered me and the boxpres team in the right direction to get the story which was headlines back in 1947. After I read the story I began to think about the incident and wondered what it would take to bring yourself to do something like this.

Jerry was 62-84-14 (record: boxrec) fought Graziano twice and almost won a decision over him the first them they met August 14th, 1944 but wound up on the losing end of a split verdict. He was stopped only 4 times in 164 bouts and fought many tough club fighters that the greats also fought such as Freddie Flores, Vic Dellicurti and Artie Levine to name a few.