Buddy Saunders

Name: Buddy Saunders
Alias: Young Kid Norfolk
Birth Name: Bernel Saunders
Hometown: New York, New York, USA
Birthplace: Empire, Panama
Pro Boxer: Record

According to a July 23, 1936 news item with a New York dateline in the July 25, 1936 edition of the Pittsburgh Courier on Newspapers.com, "Bernal" Saunders, a former boxer who was better known as Buddy Saunders, was being held without bail on the charge of shooting and killing Raymond Lopez at the corner of 116th Street and Seventh Avenue in New York City.

According to the New York, Sing Sing Prison Admission Registers, 1865-1939 database on Ancestry.com, one Bernel Saunders, a former black "Boxer," was born on January 1, 1903 in Empire, Canal Zone, Panama to Jamaican-born parents. He was convicted of second degree murder on the charge of shooting and killing Raymond Lopez on July 13, 1936 in New York City. Saunders was sentenced to a term of 25 years to life on December 12, 1936 and entered Sing Sing Prison the next day. He was eligible for parole on May 5, 1936.

According to the United States Census Records on Ancestry.com, one Bernel Saunders, a 37-year-old native of Panama, was institutionalized in the Dannemora State Hospital during 1940. Dannemora State Hospital was an institution for the criminally insane that was located in Dannemora, New York.