I can only think of Maxwell Bodenheim:
Bodenheim and Ruth were murdered by a 25-year-old sociopathic dishwasher, Harold "Charlie" Weinberg, whom they befriended on the streets of the Village. He offered to let them spend the night in his room a few blocks from the Bowery. He was sexually attracted to Ruth, and the two of them became active on the floor near the cot where the 62-year-old drunken Bodenheim was supposedly sleeping. Bodenheim got up, challenged Weinberg and they began fighting. Weinberg shot Bodenheim twice in the chest. Ruth was beaten and stabbed four times in the back. Weinberg, taking advantage of the climate of McCarthyite repression, confessed to the double homicide, affirming that "I ought to get a medal. I killed two Communists."[3] He was judged insane and sent to a mental institution. Some[who?] believed Weinberg was moderately retarded.
--- On Tue, 9/18/12, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: John Riley
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 9:29 AM
> Back in Japan with a load of
> books. I picked up a great selected of John
> Riley from Carcanet--and found to my horror that this talent
> was
> murdered by two thugs.
>
> One of my students was divested of her money at Victoria
> station by
> suri--as we call pick pockets--this was literally like
> shaking down a
> child.
>
> All of which leads up to the question of how many poets do
> you know of
> who were murdered? Not talking about war, but lost
> their lives due to
> criminal activity, intrigues, street crime, etc...
> Chaucer
> Surrey
> Marlowe
>
> moderns?
>
> Jess
>
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