The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-12-20
~ ANsyI1LE ND THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER
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From the New ork Times
THE FIGHTING MEN OLE NEW YORK.

1dE HURTING MEN Of NEW xOhk.
The class of men who have been brought for
trial of Baker for the murder of Poole are a
lsttdy in themselves. They are daily in attend
ance at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, either
as witnesses or parties indicted as accessories
Ito the crime. Not a little curiosity is mani
Tested by the crowds who are in patient wait
ing to see the people whose title to the general
Icognomen of 1.-The fancy" is quite undsputed.
As class, these men are ''shoulder-hitters," I"
that is to say, fellows who are trained to deal
dreadful blows straight from the shoulder
who can fell an OK if they like; and who are
Especially to be feared when they bring their
"maulerso into play upon the human face
divine. Getting man into chancery.a hay
ling splug muss," hitting ''oyer the mob" and
$50 on, are their principal expedients for pass
ing away time and making the most of a little.
In paysical development, they are splendid
set of felluws-all muscle and no flesh. Poole
himself was a fine example of muscular
strength. His arm was solid and firm as
though it had been formed of any other materi-
al than ordinary flesh; its thickness was that
of a common mans leg. Hyer who is in fact
IA retired '-artist," and now altogether peacea-
BILE man stands upward OF six feet without his
boots. an ihow Sullivan could have been cour-
lageous enough to stand up to pepper such a
mountain is little marvellous. Hyer, howev-
Ier cannot now be ranked as fighting man,
and is on the retired "lay."
THE PRISON. r BAKER.
The principal center of attraction among the
indicted parties is the prisoner, Lewis Baker.
| He is large man but not so muscular as he is
lheshy. His height is about five feet eleven
inches; his hair brown, curling closely to his
head; eyes blue complexion tiorid; lips very
thick and protruding; mouth not often COM
pressed; pleasant expression of face; rotun-
ldity of person, and general appearance which
docs not SAVIOR ola very bloodthirsty diposi-
ton He is Welshman by birth, but came
to this country when very young, and has since
lresided here-principally in the Eight Ward
lof this city. He was a member of the police
force for O number of years, but resigned II
consequence of difficulty in which he become
i involved, distinct from his troubles with Poole
/ While Baker was in the police he purchased q
revolver for the ayowed purpose of defending
himself and this was done after consultation
with Mr.. Charles Burdett, who at the time
was clerk to the Mayor, and who declined tt
apply to the Mayor, for permission to Baker tc
arm himself Baker told Burdett that "Poole
and his gang were after him, and that he in
TENDED to protect himself Before this, Poole
had ''gouged'' the eyes of Baker during the af
lfray which has known in the course of this
trial as the "Gem difficulty" and the prisoner
now charged with the murder was then in feal
Iof his own life-at least so he declared at the
ltime. and SO the witnesses in his behalf have
Testified during the past week. Bakers age is
lprobably thirty. He had been at sea as 8
Iwhaleman; deserted at the Sandwich Islands
was appointed policeman here through the in
lterest of Poole, with whom he was once OF
terms of intimate friendship; but becoming in
Ifatuated with the society of the fancy" h
ljoined with the MorTissey party, which wa!
bitterly opposed to Poole. He is now on tria
for his life, but appears to have very little con
Icern in the issue of the case.
Il JOHN MoRRIssET.
John Morrissey is a stalwart lrishman, si1
feet high, very broad in the shoulders, with
lhair intensely black and coarse, eyebrows hea
Ivy and lowering, and pair of keen eyes black
las let He is fashionably dressed in unexcep
ltionable broadcloath and has quiet manne
lin ordinary intercourse He associates with
1.-THE ant Poole party, Of which he is the &C
!; lknowledged head, andif there is any subdlvisl
lon of the parties, according to nationalities
he represents the Irish section, as In contradis
! ltinction to the native American, headed b.
Poole during his lifetime. Morrissey ha
been intimate with Irving, Baker, and tn
the rest of that party, and now awaits hi
trial for participation in the murder of Poole
:. His age is twenty-four, and he has family.
JOHNNY LYING
An immense specimen of humanity is John
nv Lying. Very powerfully built, six feet i
height. with blue eyes, and red beard an
/ mustache with an expression of face that
r not at all like that of a bully. Johnny Lin
Ills a man whom one wishes to look at secon
b. time. He is the person who kept the saloon u
lstairs at the northwest corner of Broadwa
- and CanaI-street, where it was supposed Bake
llay hid He is not concerned In this tria
Kept as witness.
PAUDEEN.
Paudeen signifies La HIBERSIcE, "Littl
Paddy.p 1t is the title by which Mr.. Patric
lMcLoughlin is generally known. 1t comics
RI to an initiated person (they say-we don't PR
Itend to know to hear this man addressed 9
Mr.. PARaENE-very few ever getting his nam
anywhere near right. Paudeen is the particl
liar friend of Baker, as Daniel Cunningham
Iof Morrissey. He (Paudeen) is small ma
e. with as much spirit as the biggest of them, ar
ne Just as ugly in fight, we make no doubt. 1
: lis hardly five feet high, with red moustach
land a goatee, and has been very quiet since Il
ssd Poole business in consequence of ofhaying bes
r. one of the first parties arrested and commits
-Ifor that act He too, awaits his trial.
Es M JOHN POST.
John R. Post is wagon maker by trade, b
la great friend of Poole by profession, and
pretty well identified as the man who we
ny into the backroom at Stanwix Hall, and beg
to "Haul" Morissey around. No shooting
: charged to his account
=, TOM HTER.
= Tom Hyer, at one time, ''did the bushes