Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-03-20
CRIMIKAL -ISTELLIGENCE.
Prize Fight.

The Second district police, yesterday
[ morning, saw a crowd of darkies COINS
| out To 6 vacant field, beyond the Charles
ton Railroad, Gna suepecting something
wrong, followed them. &EtcLipg them
from a distance, they saw the crowd
form q ring, and two OF the party, aftel
/ much loud talk, enter il, stripped TO the
1 buff, and threw themselves into position
/ q Ia Heenan and Ssyers. When thing
! were ready forthe I" mill to commences,
the police descended on the crowd and
made a general scatterstion. The two
| principals, smelling danger ffOm afarI
made good their escape, but seven OF
the aiders and abeltOTs were captured.
Later in the day, the police, who
had meanwhile learned their
names, captured one OF the principals.
When Commissioner Richards held
court yesterday evening the b~eliicOse IN
dividusl was brought up for exsminG-
lion. After hearing the witnesses and
impG~irg S fine Of five dollars on each Of
the party hrs caught, he vas asked what
be had 10 say for himself. bis answer
Wss that be aO6 his opponent, a dsrky
named Marshall, hsd quSrFeled about a
lady, and Marshall had sworn that they
must fight II out then and there, or he
would shoot him. Rather than be shot
he concluded to " fight it out, " "icsuse,"
said he, "yOu know that here, In this
town, z good many folks hiss been shot,
and they don't make nothing of it."
While prepsring TO do battle he was
gobbled rs related by as. The Court i'm
posed a fine OF tea dollars.
Extensive Robbery.
The rooms OF Mr.. Grindrod, in the
Waldrsn Block, were entered ON Thurs
day night and robbed Of two gold
watches, 8 diamond pin, g pistol, gold
pen and considerable other jsweiry.
Yesterday morning special ConstRbles
Robinson and Hayden went TO the house
Of VIM. Russell, q mulattO, who lives
on SO. Martin street, in the rear of the
Waldran RlOsk, and arrested his wife ON
suspicion, she having been employed
by Mr. GrindToG. She Immediately
"~equseled," and acknowledged to hav-
ing left the house open for the burglars,
of whom hsr husband, VIM. Russell,
YVES one. Sac also gave the names OF
two Others, neighbOrs. They took Rus
sell in, and carried him before Squire
Green, who committed him to jail 10 de-
fault Of $1,000 bail. The Constebles
went back yesterday afternoon and
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the other two, but did not find them.
They, however, found q negro man vino
has long been wanted, named Charlie
Williams, who sometime since escaped
from custody, while under arrest for
stealing the street lamps. He was snug.
ly eDscOneed in bed. and played it fine,
but j. was I" no gO.n He was arrested and
taken to Jail.
Terrible ATeay.
About six o'clock on Thursday evening
a quarrel sprsng up between g man
named Charles Lewis and a woman
named Maria Stone, in Browns restau-
rant on DeSoto street. High words
were followed by blows, and the man,
drawing q razor, gashed the woman
across the bowels, making q terrible aud
dangerous wound. He was arrested by
officer Kuhnholz, and locked 10. Yes.
terday morning he was carried before
Burke and committed to Jail to
the effects Of the wound, in de-
fault Of $1,000 bail.
miscellaneous.
There were seven arrests in the First
and same number in the Second District
the twenty-four hours ending at
six O'Clock yesterday afternoon.
The attention of the police is respect
fully drawn to the fact that there is in the
Tenth Ward lot OF idle negroes, who,
under pretencs of going ''gunning" for
birds, daily kill the chickens Of citizens
IN that ward.
We saw yesterday a patent thief
taker or trsp-gun, which the agent will
have for sale in a few days. II is well
TO stop the depredstions OF
and ~bnrgisrs, and as such it will
be welcomed in a community infested
With these providers.