The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-27

FARMER going to his haying. and from him learned
that
was yet four and q half miles distant The end or
these ,Our and q half miles brought as, not into
the prize ring bnt square INTO 6ms csms Of hum
surrounded, and we were all made prisoners for
the time being. Then, for the nrst time. the truth
Ing flashed like electricity Into our minds Hero
we were, prisoners OF State or OF war. II seemed
as II Jonah had swallowed the whale, instead q
OF sports" had hoped to have captured the hand
full but they were 10 the nanc ,S o. the
crowd could do was to submit as gracefully as was
possible under the circumstance inspector !onn
McIouSnIin and wogIom and Sergeant Smith, and
80 cleyery did the veteran Inspector manage HIS
R hands II before they Knew where they were going.
INTO THE ARMS or FOLK RODE THE THREE
Afew hundred yards rom the "Alhambra" there
is q bend in the road, and until we turned that
point we could see nothing but the houses and
the corner we saw crowd OF citizens and heard
loud talking, and supposed OF course That we were
to be favored spectators OF the bght for fun MOI
solitary blue coat or baton perceived we In sight
The veteran commander understood his business
better than that. While score or more OF his
clothes, and all wen armed. And hence those
whom we believed TO be the friends and admirers
and WHOM Sey had thrust back rom
view, lest they should give sigma! to the incom-
ing unconscious crowd. And, as the crowd had
they preferred to call themselves, and each had
come thither by different route, SO the whole lot
surd TO be thought Of At one time, however,
WE FEARED A RIOT
TIC fraternity, who had come In the party in which
we were comprised, pretended to be grossly
@ for ano He
that they wanted his money, and, as he insisted he
had come down to the beach TO spend q week or
h, 10 HAL 10 col fha nvStfn nj
course t' was that he was quite ush Of funds Bus
what Improvement stay at the beach, short or
one spectator and listener It could scarcely re-
fine him, and to make him more Destial than No
seemed to be at the moment would be 70
Situation the Inspector quickly retorted, II
tSen responded S "Neither am l." Then followed
the cabalstic queries rom both sides, WHO SAID
had the game in his own hand, and hence he could
threaten that II the sport" did not ''shut up his
CAB" he would smack him across the mouth with
want rough and tHmble I'll give you all you'll need
Of It," The other quoted and the search went ON.
THE ARRESTED PRINCIPAL AND hackers.
chap named John Murphy was found in pos
session OF large horse pistol, about eighteen
aisarmed and handed over to the tender care 81 Z
couple OF officers. he was the prime mover IN this
fight and Seddons' strongest bacKer. One Colvin.
reporter OF the CLIPPER was the p0ssessor OF
another pistol not 80 large or savage looking 20
Murphy's. but he had to give it up and take hts
marked, "They meant business" Besides these
two, George Seddons and his second, fellow
named 'Snatchem" or 'Scratchem" or some sucn
euphonious sobriquet, and George Leese were cap
tured and hurried of in coaches to Brooklyn care
fully guarded by Ofncers.
But how did the Brooklyn police learn about tho
midnight expedition and get to the ground al.
is query which greatly troubled the short-haired,
thck-necked gentry and they sought solution OF
the mystery in every possible way. Many Of them
acknowledged that they themselves did not know
the selected spot until an hour or SO before
they started, and they had made all possible haste
but the officers had been before them How did 1t
happens They would not themselves think Of .tgiv-
ing away" the fzzled fighters In this way. Hence
they and openly S9Seged tb as r s.a
The apparent mystery was no mystery As ,eazly
street line, Brooklyn, able to tell certain Of
their passenger friends the time and place Of the
and s e 20
teegraphed to every precinct in Brooklyn and sec
lions oil men from each precinct had been sent to
waiting to convey them to Rockaway. They
there almost as soon SeddOns and ''SnatcheM."
DISTRIBUTION OF THE POLICE.
While squads OF the police were sent to g1srd the
beach, with orders to arrest any Of the principals
oth Ssp SQUADS were set to watch the different LAND
entrances to the village, the main portion drew up
''Aln2mDr6,"
surrounded that there was no possible chance Of
escape. Seddons and his second who had come
down on the train on Friday night and were DON'T
with the evident intention q rushing through
window and jumping down IN the rear but Cap.
them, and Seddons seeing escape was hopeless,
crawed under ped, from which place ne Wa
dragged BY the Captain: He submitted With the s
could not have the Captain in twenty-iOur acre
lot for couple Of hours alone. The Captain now,
master Of the situation. ''Snatchem" was cap.
tured at the same time, and both were started f0s
in through the attic window tSe
capture would have been equally certain for. -
Captain Mclaughlin remarked, they could not pos.
sbly 60 anywhere except into the arms of q score
or more OF policemen. Seeing that the sport was
spoiled thus summary and no immediate chance
left OF renewing 1t the crowd OF rOughs deported
themselves very quietly, and having been released
from constructive custody, IOamed about the vii
lage at will and drank and smoked and fraternized
with their captOrs until the latter entered their
coaches to return home by the same weary, dusty,
mosquito-infeeted roads by which they had gone
thither.
THE sEDDoNs' GANG.
more brutal or dehumaniZen set OF men than
otherwise in being considered Seddons gang.n
the writer has never seen gathered together at
one sm ne, or n place they Looked Is they
etbook, and would rip up human body as quickly
as they would cut out an old pocket. They were
all pretty well dressed and all commercially sober.
1t was very plain, however, that they had drank
considerably ON the road.
But where was Arthur Chambers while all this
fun was transpiring and while the police were 20
anxious to shake hts hands, He was invisible.
No one could tell where he was. He might have
been In the village for aught they knew, though
the probability was that he had not arrived. The
officers had made q search for him In vain. He
could not be found, and 1t was suggested, as the
most probable explanation OF his absence, that
some one had given him "the tip" and he had
postponed his visit to Rockaway for the present.
The Fighter. in Limbo.
The three prisoners, Seddons Lees and Murphy.
were taken before q Brooklyn Justice; but, the
Court not having jurisdiction, they were remandsd
to Justice Snedeker, at jamaica They pleaded not
guilty. The Justice held them, however, and asked
them II they were ready to have the examination
60 on They said they were. It was then twelve
O'Clock and the Justice adjourned the case until