Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-10-29
ST LOUIS.
Two Tennessee Transgr, ssOrs NabbeJ,
and Awaiting the Abatement
of the Epidemic In
Memphis,
The Steamer Continental and Her Prize.
Fight Cargo Captured By
the Illinois Authorities.

ST LOUIS, October Gs.-Albert Pearce.
Of the firm OF Woodruff Il Co, New
York, and Warren j. Heeox, of Syra-
cuse, New YORK, We're arrested here
! yes.vrday on q requisition fr,ym the gov
eTnOF Of Tennessee, charged with fraud
dent breach OF trust, indictments hav-
Ing teen found against them I'm Men,
phs. After q lengthy consultation with
the sheriff, counsel, aud other parties
! interested, it was decided, at a LATE hour
last night by the sheriff who had the
gentlemen In charge, that, In view of
the prevalence Of yellow-fever in Mem
phIs, and the danger to life IN going
there at present, he would place them
under ten Thousand dollars bail, each of
them to report to him daily and person
ally until the epidemic is declared
Rbsteh Bonds were entered into, and
the parties released. The action of
Sheriff Taylor is considered unprece-
dented. The arrests grew out Of cotton |
suits brought Icy Waddy Thompson, Of |
Memphis, against Pesrce and Hecox,
who are memte's of the firm of Butler
& Co, Memphis, in 1884, and who are
charged with dispOsiDg of cotton con-
signed to them 10y the plaintiff at great
loss to him, and for which he claims
damages.
A special dispatch from East st. Louis
TO the Evening Dispatch says the steamer
Continental which left here about eleven
o'clock this morning with the prize-fght |
eXcursionists, was captured by the Illi-
nois authorities and is now tied up at
the levee there. Jack Looney and the
other managers are under arrest, but
Hogan and Allen are free, they not be-
- I
Continental left the wharf with insuf-
ticient head otsteam and while rounding
to In the stream she was struck by
high winds prevailing and blown to-
ward the shore, where she was boarded by
the East st. Louis police. The captain,
engineer and mate, and Jack Looney
and Arthur Chambers were arrested
and taken TO the office of the chief of
police where they Row are. AS soon as
released by the city authorities, tooney
and Chambers will be arrested by Sheriff
Cooper, Of Madison county, for partici-
patton in the McCoole- Allen fight, in
dictments having been found against
them in that county. Word Of the
OF affairs here has been
sent to Allen and Hogan, who
are down the river waiting the
arrival Of the steamer to pick them up.
LOOney declares that the fight shall
come of to-day if he can get out Of the
clutches of the police in time, but what
more likely, it viii come Off tO-mor-
row, with only small crowd as spec
tators. There are all sorts Of reports
TO the effect that the steam I
er WAS purpoSely allowed to drift TO the
Illinois shore. so that dOuble-eXcursion |
money might he made; but the truth
Of the rumOrs cannot be verified. The
crowd on the Continental are said to ,
have numbered nearly fifteen hundred
hat about four thousand dOllaf3was
aiken, and that the party was the rough
3st ever got together. A great crowd
It'll remains in East st. Louis, and 1t is :
a desperate row will occur be- !
or they disperse.
Jack LOoney, geueralissimo Of the
lrize- fight party, was released from ar
est between four and five O'clock this
,vening, under four thousand dollars
,ond-lwo thousand TO appear in st. I
lair county, in January next, for vio-
ating the law regarding prize fights, !
md two thousand to appear in Madison i
Ounty on MoUdsy next, to answer an c
Indictment for participating in the AL =
en-McCOole mill one mouth ago. The c
,enalty in LOoney's case is penitentiary
or not les, than one year, nor more a
han ten years. Captain Keefe of the
teamboat Continentalsand his mate X.
sill, were held for five hundred dollars il
'Onds to appear next Wednesday. Al e
Ell and Hogan both returned to the city
his evening, and it is said the stake t
lolder, James Eagan, has decided that v
he fight shall take place two weeks f
rom to-day. Arthur Chambers, who Il
scaped from an East ST. Louis police
fficer and eluded pursuit, is now In I.
his city. Sheriff Cooper, of Madison c
Ounty, has warrants for Arthur Cham
ers, JnO. II Scott, Mike McCOOle, Tom 2
Allen, Bill Blake, Patsey Shepherd and Il
'Om Kelly and il is stated measures will .
e Immediately taken to procure their
rrest and bring them to trial. The -
ancy were very much excited tonight
{ tO-day's faScO. Jack Looney insists
hat be has been sold; that the CONT T
entail was not blown on the Illinois X
hore, and that it was put-up job in the :
interest of Hogan. On the other hand,
aptain Heefe and Mr.. Mccoy, the :
Tincipal owner of the Continental, will
ublish cards tomorrow, stating that l,
le steamer was blown out of the con- PC
-ol of the pilot, and that the landing at
asst st. Louis was entirely unavOid- L
bic. Il
LATER.
Arthur Chambers escaped from the r
by jumping out Of the wID- :,
DW. and the officers are now I'm nIIrallit