The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-11-25


| much more than Lilly his remarks were made IN
bravado style, but not with much biternes IS; l
heard him express determination TO whip his
man | recollect his saying once he was not hall
licked this was about the S0th round he came up
with readiness within two or three OF the last
| rounds heard Mccoy say " nurse me, nurse me,
towards the last OF the fight he To time alter
wards | did not then hear him say, +" will lick
him yet ;" the principals walked forward themselves
| to The centre OF The ring, when the round com
menced.
The Court here took recess until o'clock,
O'CLOCK, p. VI.
| Question By GRAHAM DO you remember that dur
ing the fight that they occasionally palted each oiner
| on The head A. remember Mccoy pattlng Lll-
ly on the head several times during the fight this
was when they were down together, and appeared
TO be IN extraordinary good feeling for two persons
IN combat
Odd Mccoy and Lilly fight on the same prin-
ciple7 A.-They fought differently Mccoy foughl
IN the old school stye; Lilly IN the new In the hrsi
| blows generally struck at the body and
breast the new is at the face.
(Which of tkese systems, supposIng the parties
to be equally able, would show the greatest injury
A.-That Of Lilly.
Q-May not the other infiict injuries quite as
| severe although not so APPARENT Ayes The
chances appeared TO be in McCoy's favor, from the
Sth or 10Th round 10 the Both Mccoy exhibited I'M
| common powers OF endurance during the whole
| fight; Mccoy threw Lilly by main strength Sc
veral times; heard Mccoy say, very near the end
of the fight, that che lelt like book - remem-
Der that some one poured pitcher of cold water
over Mccoy at the end of the llSth round, while he
was seated on his seconds knee the fight lasted
hours and Al minutes and the fighting time lOO
| minutes the rounds were fought some in minute
| BY ATT RNEY GENERAL.-Dd you hear Lilly say
during the fight, that after he had whipped Mccoy
| he could whip James Sanford! Al did, this was
| towards the latter part of the fight.
BY PRICE When was the new system intro
drced that you speak Of! A.-Several years since.
Q.-Was IT before Sullivan came here? Ayes;
| SEINE time before that.
| JOHN BAsHFoRp called and sworn.-I keep a
public house at Yonkers; the night of the day pre-
vlous to the fight, several persons came to my house
and among them Sullivan and Lilly; they left my
house IN the morning; Lilly left with Sullivan they
ordered dinner to be ready on the lr return this
| the day of the fight; they returned to my house
about three four O'Clock in the afternoon of the
| same day; Sullivan and four others came, and a
man they said was Lilly, whom should not have
| he was much disfigured; have doubt that the
| prisoner McCleester was one of them; / noticed
Sullivan and Lilly only particularly; they remained
al my house half an hour on their return; do not
know whether they left together or not; the wag-
gon that left last understood contained Sullivan
and Lilly; saw Lilly in it, but Sullivan; did
not hear Sullivan say anything relative to the fight
neither before afterwards.
THOMAS ORCHARD sworn.-I reside In the vii
| lage of Hastings, about mile from the bat
tie ground; | knew Sullivan by sight, but did
not see HIM at my house before the fght he
came there afterwards with Lilly about a quar-
! ter of an hour after the battle had tern mated;
when saw Lilly at my house he was lying on the
bed, and some persons were washing him; sullivan
was in the room, but did not see him take any ac-
tive part there was no room spoken for in my house;
some one gave a boarder Of mine, named William
Lynch, 81 and So BILL which he gave me; do
| not keep public house; | made mistake; man
gave Lynch 50 bill, and one Of the men gave my
wife so bill over the fence, which she gave me;
do not know where Lllly's ordinary clothes were
left; do not keep public house, but keep board
ers; am an Engllshman saw the battle but could
| not swear that McCleester was there; heard some
one say that McCusky was there; they put their
horses in the stable OF Peter Vandair.
No crosse examination.
GEORGE LANSING called and sworn.-I was at the
fight on the 18th of September last between
Mccoy and Lilly | saw nearly the whole but left
van on the ground along about the first of the fight
did not him at all, but afterwards him put
ting water on Lilly, and assisting him this was II
the end of pretty much every round ; did not hear
him say any thing to Lilly curing the progress of
the battle heard Ford tell Lilly how TO proceed
| have no recollection OF any expressions made by
Sullivan reside In New York. in Barclay slreat
| went to the fight in the Saratoga; do not know
how Sullivan or McCleester went up Kensett went
up in the same boat that did there were about
$50 in the boat that / went up in; Thomas
his seconds Sanford and Shanfroid | think
that McCoy's brothern-aw officiated more
as bottle holder than any else Kense,t
was selling ham and bread on board the boat that
Sandwiches he told me he sold $l3 worth be-
heve he asked shilling piece | 90 not know that
he had any residence at that time; have known
him % years believe he used to TO teach boxing
very frequently Ibelieve he kept school in Bait,
believe that Mccoy and Kensett have set-to to-
gether; saw them once at H"bcken whether it
was for instruction or exercise DO not know; |
was present 1T half dozen set-tos between them.
1t is now o'clock, and We close.