The evening world., 1889-06-13
TO THE RESCUE ! HELD FOR TRIAL.
Recorder Smyth So DiSpOSeS Of Burly
Liverpool Jack"
Brought to Task Through The
Worlds" Efforts.
John Moran Kidnapped and Sold TO
Slavery in Yucatan.

"~Liverpool" Jack Fitzpatrick awoke this
morning in a cell at Police Headquarters,
where he had been put through the efforts of
The WORLD.
lie has managed to wriCgle out of a score
Of scrapes in which he has been charged with
robbing ignorant emicrants under the guise
OF express and freight charges for tr tns;er-
ring their baggage from Castle Garden to his
Greenwich street /" hotel known as Little
Castle Garden and for alleged board of the
cmigrants after he got them Their, but he is
now liable TO be punished for q hideous
otIense against the laws OF civilization.
The big. burly fellow is charged with
- shanghai ng " John j. Moran. n young
tinsinlth; that Is to say, with abducting him
and sending him into white slavery in Yuca-
tan.
A letter from the victim 10 his brother,
James Moran. Of 80 Oak street. written on
June l and struggled into the mail at Merida,
Yucatan, tells II most pitiful tale.
John had worked for ono man in this city
for nine years, mt lost mis- Job:
On May 9, while he was looking for work,
he met o man who said he could got him a
job, took him into a Greenwich street saloon
and treated HIM.
lie was in q talf dazed condition after that
when he met Fitzpatrick and made a contra It
with him to, 90 to Mexico to work for S35 a
month and board.
Then he was treated again and lost con-
seriousness.
When he regained his senses he was with
seventy-two other men III the ship City of
Washington, 800 miles at sea aud bound for
Yucatan.
Saws the poor fellow in his letter
We were eight days on the water and pretty
well played out when We Cot here. Then to go
To work in the hot sun eleven hours n day for so
cents in American money broke my heart. l
am actually starving: My contract was for $50
a month and board, and Maggie this WIFE
pOulI lTnw tho mOnay in New York
But we found out that were white slaves. l
may never he able to get away from here, for l
in aud year out. | am only three days from the
hosuital, bnt 90 back again tomorrow. The
men have gone crazy from the effects Of the
heat, and l am one, of the. seven. Ii l am to die
soon, let me die at home."
Kennedy, Toole. Snow ond Blake, as has
been related, escaped and returned to New
York, iamished, ragged. and broken in
health. Their story has been told in The
EVENING WORLD aud John Moran's letter
corroborates II.
A WoRl D reporter visited the District At
t%orney's office yesterday and laid the case
before Col. Fellows's assistant, John ID.
Lindsay. Mrs. Moran is so afraid of g Liver
pool " Jack that she could not be induced to
swear out n warrant for his arrest. and Mr..
Lindsay did it himself before Recorder
Smyth.
Detectives Jacob Won Gerichten and
Thomas Herman, OF Chief ByrneS's staff, and
the Exporter Tor lHE WORLD, Vlslted CIreen
witch street and arrested the sturdy Jack
yesterday md he was locked mp at Police
Headquarters, to be taken directly before
Recorder Smyth to-day.
Fitzgerald was arraigned before Recorder
Smyth this morning by the Central Office
detectives h arrested him.
He was surly and defiant.
He had no counsel md the Recorder CON-
mi,ted him to the Tombs for examination
next Monday.
Fitzgerald said when leaving Court: ''This
is all u put up job"