The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-18
CITY INTELLIGENCE.g Z
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EXHIBITION OF THE MANLY ARr-TuE
POLICE OUTw1TTED-BRUTAL PRIzE.FIegT.-lt
is not often that Philadelphia journals have to
publish the particulars OF such disgusting ex.
h.bition as disgraced our city yesterday. We
had hoped. for the credit and good name of the
city that such things we're confined to other
places. Yet the public has been startled by the
actual occurrence In their very midst almost, of
one of the most shocki1gly brutal prIze-hphts
that has taken place for years. The parties
concerned, by some means or other, contrived
to blind the police as 10 the real place the fight
was intended to be fought IN. The first news of
1t was brought to the police station No. 16 about
9P. M. the evening of the 10th. A Sergeant
with squad OF nine men was immedietely sent
cut to the sTot designated, near Belm mt Cot.
tage, IN the rural dis rict. The police were
placed in ambush TO await the arrival of the
parties cone erned. They had orders to send one
man back to the station for reinforcements on
the arrival o; the roughs
just before DAYLIGHT they commenced to
arrive. such motley assemblagel There
were rouehs OF all descriptions, professional
lhleVes, pckpockets and bruisers, and fancy
men oi every stripe. They came in vehicles as
varied as themselves. There we're carriages
Duggles, carts, furniture cars etc. etc., carving
quite 500 out to the scene OF the expected fight
About a a. NJ. yesterday, they commenced
OPNi"'iVhSi anu ldiu OuI dDu plGCne0 the ring.
be olc the prI cipals, Barney Rock or Charley
woods could make themselves ready for their
brutal work, there was an alarm given, another
squad OF police from the Fifteenth District com.
ing ON them IRON the direction OF Columbia
bridge. The whole caboodlc of them took
instant fight wi d such success that but q sinple
prisoner was captured. He was sent to the
station, but subsequently committed to Moya-
menslng TO ans Aer.
The whole posse succeeded in binding the
authorities, and made their retreat in good
order to spot few miles south OF the city, be-
tween the Rope Ferry ADJ Fort Mifflln, where they
pitched their ring, and had everything their own
way unmoested, about 81 A. M. The principals
stripped ard went at it. Pat. Cook was stake
holder. This disgraceful affair was allowed to
go on, and the two brutes fought seventy
1our rounds in the space OF one hour and nineteen
minutes. Conspicuous among the Gro Wd might De
seen Billy McMullin. The Fourth Ward was
well represented.
Both of the combatants were shockingIy
bruised. One wa, totally blind before he gave
up and the heads ol both of them we're bruised
and swollen to twice their natural size They
elected their re reat IN good order, without
losing any prisoners, there being no police on
or near the grounds in suffic ent numbers to
make arrests In such crowd. Neither of the
principals was over Jwenty.one years OF age.
When we see such la4less PROCEEDINGS carried
on in our very midst, well may we ask, Where
are we drifting tor 1t seems hard to believe
that such an affair could go on unmolested, and
the feelings OF our citizens outraged in such
manner. We can only hope that our city may
never be so dlsgraced in the future by such
reckless and brutal disregard OF the laws
Every one concerned should he brought to pun
1shment III such manner as Will efiectually
stop all such proceedings.