Jerome Gambit: Monck Gambit, Game Score Corrected

Looking into the Monck (or Noa) Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Nc3 Nxe4 5.Bxf7+) - for some background, see the post "Jerome Gambit: Chaos in a Two Knights (Part 1)" - I ran across the following article in the June 8, 1895, issue of the Montreal Daily Herald

Chess Column

The Monck Gambit

Anything new in the way of openings or that cannot be found in the books is always interesting. The following variation of the Two Knights' defence, which went by the name of the Monck Gambit in Dublin some years since, will be found amusing. We copy from the Baltimore News.

Game No. 61.

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Nc3 Nxe4 5.Bxf7+ Kxf7 6.Nxe4 d5 7.N/fg5+ Kg6 8.Qf3 dxe4 9.Qf7+ Kxg5 10.d4+ Kh4 11.h3! Bb4+ 12.Kf1! g6 13.g3+ Kh5 14.g4+ Kh4 15.Qb3! Bc3 16.Qxc3 e3 17.Qxe3 Bxg4 18.hxg4+ Kxg4 19.Qe4#

 This unnamed, undated and unplaced game is identical to the game Pollock - Amateur, which I found in Pollock Memories: A Collection of Chess Games, Problems, &c., &c., Including His Matches with Eugene Delmar, Jackson Showalter, and G.H.D. Gossip (1899), by William Henry Krause Pollock, and posted on this blog 7 years ago - with the exception of the very last move. The book version ended with 19.Qh3#.

Or did it?

I returned to Pollock's book online and examined the game. It ended "19.Q mates", which does not help determine what the final move was.

However, in the Montreal Daily Herald chess column quoted above, the paragraph following the game started

Simultaneous Play

On Wednesday evening Dr. W. H. K. Pollock gave an exhibition of simultaneous play at the St. Denis Chess Club...

If Pollock was around, it is likely that the "Chess Column" writer at the Herald got the checkmating move right.

Which means that I got it wrong.

Hence the correction. The game ended with 19.Qe4#. I have made the change in The Database as well. 

By the way, the earliest Monck Gambit that I have in The Database predates both Monck's, Noa's and Pollock's efforts, as given in Louis Paulsen A Chess Biography with 719 Games (2019) by Hans Renette, quoting the November 1857 issue of The Chess Monthly November 1857

Paulsen, Louis - Fuller, W.J.A, blindfold exhibition, New York, 1857: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.Bc4 Nxe4 5.Bxf7+ Kxf7 6.Nxe4 Be7 7.Nfg5+ Bxg5 8.Qh5+ g6 9.Nxg5+ Kg7 10.Qh4 Nd4 11.Kd1 h6 12.Nf3 Nxf3 13.Qxd8 Rxd8 14.gxf3 b6 15.h4 Bb7 16.Rh3 Rf8 17.Ke2 Rf5 18.d3 Raf8 19.Be3 Bxf3+ 20.Kd2 c5 21.c3 d5 22.d4 exd4 23.cxd4 c4 24.Rc1 Be4 25.a3 Rf3 26.Rg3 b5 27.Rcg1 a5 28.Kc3 Rxf2 29.Bxf2 Rxf2 30.Rc1 Rh2 31.Re3 Rxh4 32.b4 a4 33.Kd2 Rf4 34.Rce1 h5 35.Rg3 h4 36.Rge3 Rf6 37.Rh3 g5 38.Rg1 Kh6 39.Ke2 Kh5 40.Rh2 g4 41.Rf2 Bf3+ 42.Ke3 Re6+ 43.Kf4 Re4+ 44.Kf5 Rxd4 45.Re1 Be4+ 46.Ke6 Rd3 47.Rf8 g3 48.Rg8 c3 49.Rf1 Rf3 50.Rxf3 Bxf3 51.Kf5 Be4+ 52.Kf4 c2 53.Rh8+ Kg6 54.Rc8 g2 and Black won