The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-03-21
made. them bitter enemies Since that
t;n,a baEb5e fbatn detailed on the emf.

made. them bitter enemies Since that
time he has been detailed on the emf
tgralt. business, to protect them against
runners. For this service he was well
! adapted. He is some 5 feet 10 inches
hfeh,, ofIarge and powerful frame, large
head, and ,bjgroupd red face, small blue
eyes, and large 8~pretrudinG lips. His
hair is slight brown, aud quite curly
His intimate companions sayhe was a
goodihearted and we'll behayed man up
to the time of making the acquaintapee
of Morrissey, wheni he became infatuated
With pugiiistic professors, and, to use
the language of our informant, - he went
to the DEUCE After. breaking with
Poole, he became intimate with Paugene.
It is said that Baker was infatuated
with MorrisseyEMmost idolizing him.,
aud making all his qnarrels PERSONAL
The result was, that the hostility which
Morrissey entertained toward Poole was
even more ferocious in his miserable
satellite; and on Il occasiop, while in
the house of Nelson; in Greenwich
street, Baker is said to have sworn that
he would take Peole's life. Aboutzfivc
months ago. he went to Platt's. saloon,
under Wallack's Theatre, and attacked
Tom Hyer, and then he is said to have
sworn to see Poole dead in less than a
year. Paugene and Baker have also
followed Poole, it is said, for the pur-
pose of doing him bodily harm; and a
year ago last -sunmerJboth of them at
tackled HIM in the Gem drinking
saloon but he beat them off and forced
them to fly. The career of Baker in
this cityterminated at the Stanwix Hall
onslaught upon Poole
John Morrissey was born in Ireland,
on the 9Th of February, 1851. and is
therefore "a years Of age. At the age
of Is months he came to this country,
with his friends, who settled in Troy,
New York. He is a very large=and pow
erTol man, over six feet high, of dark
complexion, eyes and hair. He has been
Engaged for the greater part of his life
in steamboating on the Hudson, and lat
terly he has been a runners his great
strength giving him an unidentified supc-
riority over most of his fellows. When
q boy be was a registering sort of 4 fell
low, often in mischief, but rather through
accident or hot blood, than from delib-
crate malice. On his visit to Calilor-
MIA, in 1881, he is said to have changed |
for the worse. While there he fought
a ring fight with Tompson, the Trainer
of Ryer, and it is alleged that his
were on the ground. in such force
that Tompson wiifuliy struck him a " foul
below tie belt, in order to lose
the fight, because he believed that, al
though he WIS able to beat his opponent.
his life would be forfeited if he claimed
the stakes. -
On alrgthers occasion he had a pistol
fight with Jim Hughes, in a bar-room in
San Francisco, that cane near resulting !
GA his rcturn-to New York he
started faro bank at The Gem, in Bread
aud won So, 200 on a betwith Plat
that lIyer would not fight him for that
Last summer he. was badly boat
en by Poole on Amos st. Dock, on q
bet Of $50. He also attempted en- sever
Il occasions to draw uyer into a fight
Lim, but did rot succeed. About
his time he established Il gambling and
lrinkine huuse in Leonard St, the Belle
If the Union," which soon became the
,~endezvous Of men of this kidney. His
outrage was an unsuccessful attempt
shoot Poole.