New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-04
Prize FIGHT BROKEN Up BY OFFICE RS
King and Woods DO Not Ffght.
VIOLENT CONDUCT OF THE POLICE.
INNOCENT BYsrANDERs SEVERELY cLUBBED.

mentous question Inch Is the better man. nave n't
with another disappointment. They missed appoint
mfnt at the Palisades last Monday, the police
ar1esting King. The Woods party claimed the money,
on the ground that their on the fpot and
ready TO fight, and the other not. Last Friday,
the men and their friends at the office of Wilkes
Spir Of the Times to decide the question. The claim
ofWoods resisted by the King party, they claiming
that their man was not responsible for his absence.
The stakeholder decided that neither entitled
to the money, but that they muss fight for it, and
ordered them to meet at the Centervile RaceCourse,
Long Island and be prepared to fight place in that
vicinity, ietween the hours of 5 and a, M, next
morning He announced his intention Of giving the
battle-Inoney in care the did not both appear, to
tie man who should present himself in the ring at the
time appointed. The men acceded to the proposition,
ard at once left the city and proceeded to Long
Island with a few chosen friends.
Although the match was not made till 5 p. m. so in
1usriou,y was the intelligence difuscd through the
city that before midnight all those interested in such
matters were apprised of the coming event, and at
o. IN. they began TO move toward the selected battle
ground by hundreds. At in tie morning, more than
two thousand people had assembled on the CentreyIe
Course the gate having been opened for the admission
of the crowd. After waiting an hour more for the
men to be reused from their hidingplacc aud dressed
the crowd moved on to field ashOr distance from the
race track where ring pitched. Before either
man appeared il was observed that large force of the
Brooklyn Police were the ground, under the charge
of Inspector John c. Foulke They were in plain
clothes and did not display their shields The Inspector
announced to those who seemed to have charge Of af
fairs that he was determined to prevent the fight and
stated that be had men enough to 10 it. Il was sub
seouenty a-certsined that he had between IS and 100
men on the ground aud distributed along the road
More for the purpose of finding out whether the
police were in earnest than with any expectation OF
having fight, purse made up for an exteinpo-
raneous battle, and two young lads named Thompson
and Donnelly prepared to fight for it, The police,
however, interfeIed, and the ropes cut The In
specor reiterated his determination TO stop any fight
that might be attempted. They determined to attempt
to continue the fight moved OF to another spot, and
chosen few were informed of the new locality. The
few. who got the word quietly withdrew from the
crowd and moved Oh about half mile, to secluded
spot in the woods, where the two would-be combat
ants, with their chosen friends, were found. The
ropes and stakes had been left the ground first sc
ected so there was no material Of which to construct
the ring.
about 80 feet square, that had been fenced of for some
purpose and it was agreed that the should fight
there. But now new delay occurred; it was dis
covered that in the hurry of removal Kings fighting
drawers and shoes bad been left behind. This difficulty
was soon got by both men agreeing to fight in
their ordinary trowsers and boots. BY the time this
conclusion had been attained the police had again dis
covered the ground, and were seen approaching in
lar N no of
had now augmented to about 800 new move was
resolved on and Willetts Point about nine miles dis
tan was the spot this time selected. After ride Of
nearly two hours abont 200 of the party reached the
new battle-ground, and ring at once pitched on
the grass about 40 rods distant from the Hotel. Both
men in the hotel and appeared ready and anxious
TO fight.
AT precisely o'clock Woods entered the ring, ac
companed by bic seconds who bore the usual sponPes
water-buckets &c. He at once began TO prepare Tor
the fight by putting on his boots, when again the cry
was heard that the police were coming. The crowd
regarded the intelligence false aud paid attention
to it at first but the officers 10 the number of about
thirty, were seen marching up the hill. They
not in uniform, but had their stars displayed and their
clubs in their hands. Inspector Folke marched at
the head. number of the spectators, anticipating
however, stood near the impression being that the
ground ON which the ring was made belonged to the
Urited States Government that the authority Of the
policemen did not extend over Federal property, and
that when the officers satisfied themselves OF these
facts they would cease to interfere andthe fight would
90 on.
drunken man now said something 10 the oioers
insulting and indecent, and for which he shonld
how lsar tad ks OF lpr
parties, by no means complimentary to the police,
were made, but 10 attack made them no stones
were thrown as has been stated in Of the Sunday
papers ana 10 demonstrations had been made, beyond
the bad language which few of the roughs used aud
for which they should have been quietly taken into
custody. Suddenly, while the Spectators who had
gradually clustered round TO hear what the officers
proposed to 90, were not expecting any hostile mea-
sures without making the attempt TO arrest any
parties quietly, without even ordering the crowd TO
dispense, without giving any warning whatever H.
specfor Foke suddenly cried out, +" Now, Cd d-n
them give them bel-then he instantly drew re-
volver aud each OF bis men followed bis example, and
they commenced an indscriminste attack with their
clubs all parties present. They spared they
could catch pursuing the flying crowd, clGbbng them
TO the EARTH and then beating them.
Three or four policemen would attack one man,
knock him down, and all club him about the head till
he was beaten elpess The assemblage made no re-
sistaDce merely striving to get away; the proof OF
this lies in the fact that no policeman Suffered the
slightest hurt with the one exception of Officer Tag
gait, who receive single blow in the head with the
butt of WHIP No other officer had \ scratch
A man with a water-bucke in his baud, who was
walking away as fast he could was followed oy an
officer who struck him from behind violent blow in