The Brookhaven leader., 1889-08-08
Sullivan Brought Back.

After all that has been SAID ana
written about il, Sullivan, the big
Boston bruiser, has been captured and
brought back to Mississippi to answer
for his fight with Kilrain. Deputy
Sheriff L. F. Chiles of Kinds county
was privately sent to New York by
Governor Lowry with requisitiOn pa
pers. quietly laid around the hotels a
few days under an assumed name I'M
til he discovered his game, then Sc
cured an extradition warrant from
Gov. Hill of New York, got the assist
ance of the New York detective force
in making the arrest, started home
with his prisoner in company with
Detective Adams of the New York
force and Sullivan's friend Matt
Clune, and reached Jackson with him
last Sunday afternoon.
Great credit is due to Gov. Lowry
for the persistent zeal and determine
ton he has exerted in this matter,
and to Deputy Sheriff Chiles for the
clever and efficient way in which he
managed the case and effect
ed the arrest And it is especially
creditable to Gov. Lowry that after
Sullivan was brought to Jackson that
he ordered him to be carried to Jail
like any other criminal, instead of al
lowing him to hold levee at the
chief hotel and receive an ovation
from the idle and curious mob who
seemed anxious to lionize the law
breaker.
On Monday, after some legal Skin
mishing before Judge Campbell of the
Supreme Court on an application OF
Sullivan for bail, the pugilist being
represented by CalhOOn & Green and
the State by Attorney General Miller
the court remanded Sullivan to the
custody of Deputy Sheriff Chiles
with instructions to proceed with hin
to Marion county on the evening
train.
Tuesday Sullivan appeared before
Justice Carter, at Purvis, waived &
trial, and was granted bail in the
sum of $1,000 to appear at the specia
term of the Circuit Court next Tues
day.
Sullivan has been very meek evel
since his arrest. He is reported as
saying that he made no attempt tC
run away from arrest, and that il
Gov. Lowry had sent for him he
would have gone without the officers
that the fight was forced upon him
and he was compelled to defend him
self and country, and that he didn't
know he was violating the laws OF
Mississippi.
In view of the fact that Gov. Low
ry issued his proclamation against the
fights taking place on Mississippi
soil for days before it occurred; that
Sullivan and his seconds slipped out
to the ground the day before; that the
sheriff of Marion county entered the
ring and commanded the peace, and
that Sullivan sneaked out of New Or
leans when he found the Mississippi
authorities were after HIM, and even
made good his flight after having
been arrested in Nashville on a tele-
gram from Gov. Lowry, such talk is
puerile and will not be entertained by
any sensible person for moment.
THE devil was sick and the devil a saint
would be.
But the devil got well and the devil of a
saint was he!"
No one should wish to see the big
slugger or any one else who partici-
pated in the prize fight punished in a
spirit of revenge or "ghoulish glee,"
but justice should not be cheated nor
the dignity of the State compromised
by any specious pleas or sentimental
nonsense. There are graver crimes
than prize fighting, but there never
has been a holder, more deliberate
and more defiant disregard of law and
all the powers of the State than was
exhibited by all the prominent parties
engaged in this affair, and under the
circumstances, giving them any thing
less than the limit of the law would
be inexcusable trifing.
Gov. Lowry has already spent hun
dreds, perhaps thousands of dollars
to bring the principals and their aid
ers and abettOrs to account, and has
been iibed and ridiculed by a portion
of the press North and South and ac-
cused of using the occasion to curry
popular favor. Now that he has the
opportunity of indicating the law
and the dignity of the State, he will
indeed become the butt of ridicule and
contempt if the proceedings should,
through any fault or neglect of his,
wind up with a disgusting farce, rath-
er than in a manner to set whole
some example to the entire country.
John r. Lynch, chairman of the Re-
nnblican State Executive Committee