Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-07

Two members of the P. R., named Wood
and King, made q second attempt at New
York last week to play out a prize-fght.
After various interruptions from the police,
they finally made a ring on Willetts' Point,
supposing that as it was United States land,
the police would not interfere. Just as the
parties were about to go in, thirty policemen
appeared on the ground. Some remarks not
complimentary to the police were made in
the crowd, but no one was anticipating
hostile measures, when without making any
attempt to arrest the parties peaceably, In
spector Foulk, who led the police, and his
party drew their revolvers and clubs and
began an indiscriminate assault on
the crowd, clubbing of all whom they
could reach. The New York Times
says, in at least four instances men
were beaten against whom no charge was
subsequently made; in two cases men most
severely beaten were not even arrested.
Woods was arrested in his carriage and re-
ceived a much severer beating than he would
ever receive in the ring, for attempting to
escape. One person, while sitting in a hotel,
had finger broken and received a severe
confusion on the head before arrest although
making no resistance. Another was beaten
over the head and in the forehead when he
was arrested. King was arrested in the
hotel When found he begged not to be
clubbed, and his petition being listened to
he was the only unwounded man taken
The TTmess reporter had two revolvers pre-
sented at his head for inquiring the name o
man who was arrested.
The Herald says ''The police came on the
ground bowling with rage; the moment In
spector Foulk got within hearing distance he
shouted oaths and opprobious epithets," and
ordered his followers: "Men go in and give
'em hell"
Innocent or guilty, were all the same u
their cowardly assaults. People living in tn,
neighborhood, on their way across the fields
fell with bleeding skulls under the merciles
crusade of these gallant knights of the baton
Without giving the people an opportunity Il
disperse, they would follow up the fleeing
crowd, and with their clubs fell any onl
within their reach, and then, perhaps, two o
three others would fall upon the unfortunat
PROSTATE, and in the most cruel and maliciou
manner beat him until he was covered wit
gore and unable to move"
Woods had got into a carriage with som
friends, and were driving off, when the polio
seized the carriage, and, as he jumped out,
was knocked down by blow from club o
the neck, and then beaten until he could nc
speak. His skull was horribly cut, his for,
arm broken, and the bones in his hand fra
tured in several places. A villager who WI
at the hotel when the company arrived, an
who stayed to see the fun, when he saw Il
nature of the fun, put spurs to his hors
when policeman shot at him.
The Tribune says that though less than
dozen persons were arrested, more than tif
were clubbed and although there were
large number of professed pugilists on Il
ground, not one Of them was arrested, exec
the two principals Of the anticipated fgl
The crowd made no resistance, merely stri
ing to get away. A cOuntryman drivi
along the road was struck in his wagon by
policeman and his head laid open to I
skull. rI
The Times reports these pleasing circu
stances, and remarks editorially
''The Metropolitan Police once more c.
cred themselves with glory, on Saturd
morning, by second time frustrating
"milr' that has been long pending betwt
two noted rufiians of the pugilistic persuasi
and which was TO have come of on the q
terville Course, Long Island, on that d.
They administered, we are glad to say, a I
cradle number of broken heads TO the an
teurs present-they arrested both the prin
pals and they gave one Of them a sew
clubbing and broke up the ring, and po
poned the fight sine die--tor all Of which
ploits they are entitled 10 the heartiest than
not only Of the Metropolitan District, bat
the entire country. age ~
''The thing was skillfully and eficien
done, and we hope will impress all part
with the immense superiority which a I
disciplined and plucky ruen, acting in colNce
always possess over y loose herd OF bAa'
guards and bulliesp
It has generally been thought that
great objection to prize-6ghting was its b
tality, and the brutal spirit it sKcites amo
the people; but the worst scenes of the pr
ring are tender mercy and soft human
compared with this brutality which
Times extols as covering the police W
glory. More brutality and cruelty was p
petrated in that AFFAIR than can be charl
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