New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-27
trail Labor Union can be advanced only by. public
discussions; hence they feel compelled TO Withdraw
their delepafes-
IN7ERRUP7ING A DOG FIGHT.
OFFICERS MAKE A DESCENT UPON Apt.


THE LITTLE DOG THAT WHIPPED BIG oNE-sEf-
ERAL ARRESTS MADE.
Superintendent Hankinson, of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, recently
information that there was TO be dog ngnt pc
tween the hours of and ~ on Saturday nlaht In
stable in the rear of HarTington's slaugbter-house
at Forty-third-st. and Frstaye. In company WIN wiz
Officers Lambert, Carpenter and SnaIt, oi LUG
there about 9:16 o'clock. Peering through sno
cracks in the she'd the officers saw from twenty-five
to thirty men gathered about pit wDlcn nau Deeh
improvised by boarding up the ends oil TWO DITCH r
partitions to the height of about three feet. Two
dogs one q brindle and white, the DINER Puro
white, rather larger than the brndle, were IN .me
hands of their respective trainers, VINO Win ulH-
Guilty restrained them from flying at each other.
Attempting to enter. the officers found the door
effected an entrance through a rear window ana,
conceang themselves in a large vat used Tor PICK
ling hides, they quietly awaited developments;
Tho matencs OF the say uaoe se in
the pit and a moment later, upon pelng released
they flew savagely at each others Threats From
ter and when they were separated some fifteen min,
utes later he was bleeding from a badly lacerated
throat Mr. Hankinson dispatched Oficer Lambert
to Captain Mount, of the Fiftyhrst Street Precinct
Station. for assistance. and four policemen were sent
by him to aid the societys men IN
nDurS tho DOES Sso sst R t %of
again and. before, the smaller dog had everything
his own way, so that by tho time the police arrived
the battle was virtually decided.
The sudden Eruption of the police created the
widest excitement, and the alarmed spectators
sought tight in every direction. Officer Lambert
seized one of the fugltives named Patrick Deignan,
a truck-drver living at No. IL Sherltf-st., who at
once knocked him down, and was about TO choke him
when Lambert drew billy sndstriking his man on
the head, reduced him TO submission by laying his
scalp open. Six other men were also secured and
locked up in the East Fftyrst Street Station. They
gave their names as Owen Coyle. stage-driyer. OF
No. 312 East Forty-ifth-st Michael KIRBY,
butcher FOrty-nnth-st and First-ave.; Patrick
Cassidy. Dight-wa Gilman. of No. 734 First-ave.;
Joseph Dolan, of No. 977 Second-ave.; Matthew
Lyons, laborer. of No. 100 Hester-st., and Philip
Finnegan, of No. 3l8 East Thirty
fourth-st., O foreman for Michael Kane, con-
tractor of No. 126 East Sevenheth-st. They were
arraigned before Justice Power in the Yorkyille
Police Court yesterday, and were held IN 500 BAN
each for trial.
Mr.. Kane who appeared in court to give bail for
his foreman became surety for all the accused
men, saying that although he did not like their at
tending dog fights he believed them to be hard
working men, and he hated 10 see them locked up.
The accused mon pleaded not guilty
and gave variety of excuses to &C
count for their presence at the tight:
he dogs were handed over to the Society. III
the larger animal had been as willing TO renew hos
tilities the victor there would have been an
other fight IN court, as the brindle made frantlc
efforts TO get at his late opponent, who was equally
anxious TO get away.