Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-07-23
TIE MAN or BUckRAM.
Jim Fisk, Ir., as FslstaG-A New Dr.
parture from Shakespeare.
Tao Witnesses TO Ilm's Fears ard
Cowardies Room for tae Lels)perI
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There E5 nOLnllg new under uli
sun. Falstaf, for instance, reappean
in each generation to fight his battla
Ger. But hapless indeed, the natiCI
into the midst Of which this metem D
syehOsis brings him IN the shape of 8
man vino by his craft and swagger
and BY help Of other and sbler cut
purses, gains control of actual millions
Of money, and thousands of real men
As "the boss Of the ring" is still swsg
gering at Long Branch, and recOun Z
ing his ValOrUus deeds Of war, aid
alagnifying the one fence he ciinlsi
TO five fences, = ''a high fence, y s'aIld
several more fences, y making at least
ten, il is fitting that the true history
of his fight shoGld be given. A retsil
merchant who does business on
Eighth avenue, within q few doors OF
Twenty-fith street, thus depOses:
I went into PaEker's and saw Fisk
lying on his back on q bed il the see
0nd story, with his arms stretched
cut, looking ike e great fat lurtle; to
my thinking, he showed the white
feather all through; he seemed quite
taken up with the idea OF his own
safety, and was all the time imagiil-
ing there was grest crowd after hiEa; /;
he said TO me, Il suppose the sooner L
get away from here the quicker
the crowd viii get away 1
told him there was no crowd befCre
the house; / told hIm also would
get a carriage to take him away; be
looked to the back yard and asked if
he could not get cut that way; Pr
ker said. You VIII have 70 get over
the fence;' Fisk said, / can do thas;'
50 he hObbled out; they put short
step ladder on Parker's side Of the
fence. and ne WObbled up on top; you
should have seen him sitting astride
that fence while they passed the steps
over; he looked tins way and that
way. then he got into the yard on the
other side; the house there Is Occup ed
BY q Hessisn family, who disguigeG
him, and kept hIn there a good while;
after about fifteen minutes, he came
olIt on the back stOOp TO look around,
and that Wss the last 1 saw OF him; 1
kuoev il was there he was disguised,
because the little boys Of that family
SAID 10 iay little boys, You ought TO
see how father fixed up Colonel Fisk;
he blacked his mustache and pat an
old overcOat on him, and made him
took ike an old man. my impress
si0n at the time was that he had no
confidence IN himself, as a mil
itarv leader: / think now that he
was scared nearly 20 deata."
This. then, was ali the real fOunta-
zion for Fisk's newspaper stories about
his figbt with the mob, and his inter
ninaGIe clanberings over the fer ces
nd back yards. Did ever Falstah, in
his druBkenest braggings, ,pervert flIcts
more at Wholesale than Prince Erie
has In this last recital ia q morning
paper?
The reporter now visited 'the Hes
sian family" around IN Twenty fifth
street. Looking into the basement
window, he saw man sitting there,
and addressed him, at q venture,
with q request for information as to
the course taken by Fisk when he left
there. This man, evidently a person
of much kindness of disposition, vas
very reticent at first, and ignored the
whole matter: but he Was fElly i'm
pressed with the idea that he lad
Olayed an important part in a very
important scene. He soon "thayFed /
out. and invited his visitor 70 cun1e
ia and be seated. Then in quaint,
curious sentences, he gradually 'lOld
his tale. II seeas he Is not Hesgan
at 3ll by nationality, cut that "Eles-
sian" is MS name. he IS, ln iactS
Irish. Ills statement IS as follows:
81 was out in the street when the
firing began. I was not frlghtene1 at
all. I only just made up my nind
that I would save some POoE creatures
lives. And 1 did; L saved several. 1
But you want TO know about C0loaei
Fisk. L know more than 1 can tell /
aOw. but il VIII sll come out. 1'h { /
man would nave been all in inch bits
If Is had not bee2 for me. would do 1
the same for any poor creature; bat L !
saved his life. anyhow. Ihelped hIm
down from the fence and took him IN
at the price of my life. IL the rioters
had known at the time tBSt ], an
Irishm9n, did this, they would have
torn me to pieces. Well, I got him IN
and BACKED his mustache, and got
him a pair Of nag p8ntalOOns. You
ought TO have seen him getting into |
them. Pm a small man, you know, /
and il wss a tight squeeze. l wanted /
70 RID them some, but he would not /
let me. / had no coat big enough for !
him. so I gave him an old OvercOat |
and the worst hat in the house. He |
was the worst scared man you ever /
sawi Hes no business TO be a Colonel. !
He kept getting scared about the mob l
corning for him and for me. 1 WIS., not |
frigh tened a bit. ] went out in thesTeet !
and wa iked about, and told him, Look /
at me; I amt frightened and you
needn't be- One time he Weni on /
TOD Of the house, but l made him
come down. He must have stayed
here three hours, and there were 9TH
ar soldiers here. It's all nonsense
about his going to pW'enty-seyenth
street and the rest OF those streets
across lots and over fences, He
walked away from here to Ninth ave-
8Ue, where he took a carriage that
vas waiting for him."
This amiable informant, who GER
,in y deserves heavy salvages from
1e n vera House party, rather dep,e-
sfo5 +, Ne mention Of his name; but
r. tesfir,. .0ony concerning the coward
= ~ sncb a prominent leader Of the
liifris will fully exOnerate him N
~ ewes If I'll Hibernia, from the
1,ilf ircuTre6 ~ harbOring the fugi-
We We In taxing laave Of Frisky Fisk
M his vaTious te, ~giversations, q it
ing conclusion seeL y 70 De lounu 10
be familiar line, sl1ni lOi the
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