The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-08-29
SULLIVAN DIDN'T FIGHT.
THE ,YIGILANCE OF TWO SHERIFFs
|s ST0PS THE SLUGGER'S FUN.

sheriff Heintze Establishes a Camp to
Fight Him or from the schutzen Park,
and the Long Island Authorities Choke
Him OFF at RidRewood.
The boys around Sheriff Heintze's Office
took every man that showed his nose in
the vicinity of the Court House yesterday
morning by the collar and ran him without
much ceremony into County Clerk Nc
Laughlin's Office. The unfortunate victim
was fastened into the rear room among the
dusty records of the century, and search ed
for weapons. sWes" Welsh, the Court
crier, was among them, He had nothing
that would answer for pistol or CLUB
around him.
$50 out and arm yourself with fishing
bait, the boys shouted in chorus, as they
turned him neck and heels into the hall
again.
They had no use for .Wes.' As a mat
ter of fact. they had no use for anybody
who had not shooter or. billy with him.
s'None but armed men need apply" was
the rule they were acting on. Every man
with either gun or club was showed roughly
into corner and kept there under guard.
Constable Dick Onslow had come there
unprepared for the emergencies, but he
was eager for the fray, and it wasn't many
minutes before he was back again. He
put a revolver down on one side of him;
then another on the other; then tished a
billy out OF his pocket, and then another.
And then throwing back his coat he flashed
i've shields upon the dazzled eyes of the
clerks. &st
'sWill pass muster now? he demanded.
For answer he was hurled over into the
corner where the guardsman stood He
had become, with the others, recruit in
Sheriff Heintze's army for the suppression
of the sports who had threatened tofock
to the Schuetzen Park to see Slugger Sui
Ivan and Slugger Hearld spar for points.
The Sheriff had, of course, seen the an
nouncement in the morning papers that
the place of the contest had been changed
from Schuetzen Park to the Ridgewood
ball grounds, back of Brooklyn, and he
thought it more than likely that his deter
mined refusal to permit the fight to go on
had frightened the sports away, and that
he would have nothing to do at the
Park. But then, he reasoned to kim
self, the Ridgewood Park announcement
might have been only bluff, or blind to
throw the yigilant Jerseymen off the track;
and it was not impossible that some secret
notice had been given to the sports that
the Schutzen Park was to be the scene of
the encounter Determined not to be
hoodwinked, if any game of that kind had
been put up, he took the key of the Park
which proprietor Louis Wendell had placed
in his possession, in his pocket, and drove
to the Park. Early yesterday morning
while his deputies gathered a Falstafian
army of recruits to go to his aid, if he
needed them. Between 10 and IL o'clock
Under Sheriff Wright started ont with the
posse Opposite the Court House the bui-
cancers took possession of a car and
started for the Park There they found
that Sheriff Heintze had locked all
the gates. and in the refreshing shade
of a spreading tree, awaited their coming
The Jersey City contingent that Chief OF
Police Murphy had promised did not CO.
They were to be telephoned for if needed.
But detachment of Hoboken police
twenty-fve-under command of Ser cant
Sam Edmondson, and fifteen Weehawken-
ers, under Mayor Kelly, were there. The
North Bergen Township Committee sent
down a guard, too, to assist.
The whole party lounged around the
Park all day, drinking beer, and telling
stories and awaiting developments They
stayed there till seven o'clock last evening,
when word reached them that Sullivan
had been knocked cut at sRidgewood, and
they knew that the perilswas over, and the
dignity of the State had been maintained.
During the day the Sheriff was
informed that the sports intended to
cross by the West Shore or old
Weehawken Ferry to the Gutten-
berg base ball grounds, and the ferries as
well as the ball grounds were watched and
guarded. At one o'clock tho men weat in
squads of fifty to the Castle where they
had dinner. At four o'clock the uniformed
men were returned to their several stations,
and the residue of deputies pressed trav-
cling band into the service and led them
to the Castle, when the whole party danced
and sang and played ball, and rollicked to
their hearts content.
Meanwhile the Queens County, Long
Island, authorities were working them
selves into an excitement over the an
nouncement that arrangements had been
mrde to have the fight come off at Ridge
wood Park. District Attorney Fleming of
Queens County made an early trip. from
chell and personally call his attention to
the matter, but failed to see him.
The District Attorney, in an interview
with a representative of the Associated
Press, said that it was evident that the
contest was to be of such nature that the
sheriff must prevent it. otherwise the
New Jersey and New York city authorities
would not have taken such determined
steps to prevent a meeting of the pugil-
lists in those places. He sent a communi-
cation to the sheriff.
Sheriff Mitchell stated to the reporter
that the only information he had as to the
proposed fight coming off in Queens
County was from the morning papers. He
said he would prevent any attempted VOL
alton of the law that came to his know
ledge. Later in the day under Sheriff
Goldner sent out in all directions tor
deputies to be in readiness to go to Ridge
wood.
At half-past two o'clock yesterday after
noon the odds of $40 to Sc was offered at
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