St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, January 25, 1909

Before the fight he had stripped to the buff…

It did not look advisable to try to put Casazza’s clothes on him so the policeman wrapped him in an American flag found in the feather-filled room…

He explained to the physicians that he had fought a tremendous battle with a pink dill pickle and had been covered with oyster shells when the grape fruit exploded.