Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-24
A BRACE OF

A pugilistic encounter between two
white yiragoes took place recently at
the house Of colored woman known as
'Nigger Ann" near Mormon slough,
Stockton, which required far more gen.
eralship on the part Of officer McMahan
to suppress, than was displayed by Sher-
if Lathrop and Judge Templeton in pre-
venting the "mill" between Harris and
Chandler, on Thursday last, in San Ma
teo county. The fight was one Of those
events which might Justly claim a con-
spicuous page in the history Of the P.
R., as well as furnishing an indubitable
proof Of the inability Of peace officers to
cope successfully with Infatuated fe-
males who have descended to the low
est depths of moral degradation. When
the officer reached the scene Of action
the confusion was 80 great and sounds
SO horfid that, in a state Of momentary
bewilderment, Barney imagined that he
had passed from earth through the por-
tails of pandemonium, and was standing
face to face with tho bos, %.furies; but
the sight of blood aroused his courage,
and as tho warm circulationin his veins
banished the chill Of terror from his
soul, he made a grab, scarcely knowing
whether no was clutching at a kennel Of
cats, a school Of sharks, a colony of n.y.
enas, or two Infatuated women. In an
instant he became thoroughly convinced
that the devil had full command Of the
premises; but dragons or devils, or what
eyer else they might be, McMahan was
determined to corral them as his game,
and while blood was flowing ~copiously
and being torn out in fistfulls, he tri-
~umphantly succeeded in making the
capture.
Contrary to the desires Of the
"seconds"-a one-armed gresser and n
colored woman-the two principals were
escorted to prison, when the ordeal
through which the officer had passed
was not half so severe as the new dilem-
ma he encountered WAS perplexing. The
fellow who had charge Of the fox, corn
and goose, and could only ferry one at
O time across the river, was moi nearly
in 90 troublesome q perdicament as Nc
| Mahan was with his female pugilists.
| The city prison, to which the police
officers have access at all times, con
sists of a long, narrow cell only. This
contained a male prisoner mar who
says he has seen and felt the hardships
| suffered in the rebel prisons in the
South. To put both the women in the
cell would only renew the fight, and to
put one in, McMahan thought, would be
an act Of great improperly. At length
he resolved, as the only e~1pedient Of
| which he could think, to put one ro-
man in one end of the cell, one in the
| other, and the msn in the middle,
strictly enjoining the latter to keep the
belligerents apart, and to keep the peace
between them until such time as the
prison keeper could be found and the
keys of other cells procured.
Thus were the three persons left for Il
short time, but quite long enough to
prove the representations Of the officer
in regard to a renewal Of the fight, true.
At it again they went more furiou'ly
than ever, the man between them on the
floor, ~endeavoring with arms and legs
to interrupt the battle, but with about
as much success as il would be for q
rabbit to impede the progress of a herd
of buffslos. The first encounter was
millsnnial in comparison with the last.
| Tho officer thought the world WAS fur
Their along in the progress Of events than
tho people were aware, as it was evident
that the told serpent, which is the Devil
and Satan, had served a thousand years
in chains, and the time for letting him
Woose q little season" at last had come.
Barney wished the "devil had them
| without thinking for a moment Of the
terrible misfortune that would accrue
to the Prince of Darkness by such acqui-
sition being made to the population Of
his dominions. The safety of the prison
walls demanded that they should be let
60, and one was lsent off half an hour
before the other, by order Of a magis-
trate, before whom both vera cited to
appear at ten o'clock this morning
Stockton Independent, April 18th.