Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-07-12

water was dragged the Baltimore sporting men
90 not profess to know but few Of them do
know that two weeks before the night Mitchell
purchased drug at Baltimore-street phar-
macy. The name Of the drug could not be
learned, but it is said that 1t was one which
would have the effect Of deadening pain. 1t Is
asserted by some that this drug was canabis
indica, or the active principle Of Indian hemp
This article acts directly upon the heart and
benumbs the nervous sensibintles.
PHYSICIANS OPINION.
A well-known Baltimore physician said yes
day. 1.-THE blow that. Sullivan delivered over
Kilrain's heart in the third round caused
shock which .paralyzed the inherent nervous
sensibility, dependent upon shock to the
sympathetic cardiac ganglia. The immediate
effect was a slowing OF the hearts action with
excruciating pains similar to the stabbing pain
of angina pectoris Now, Mitchell might have
administered canabis indics to benumb the
pain. II he had not done this Jake would prob
ably have tainted in less than five inmates.
However, he should have followed this dose
with q draught Of whisky to exhilarate the
action Of the heart, as the drug causes the
hearts action to be sluggish.
MORPHINE WAS PREFERABLE.
"Mitchell might have given morphine instead
Of canabis indica, and, If he desired quick re-
vival and could have measured the dose accu-
rately prussic acid would have answered the
purpose. OF course slight overdose Of any
of these things would have weakened or stupe-
ned Jake to such an extent that he could never
have won the fight even if Sullivan had given
way and tottered about the ring"
New Orleans reporter stated: 81 do not
think that Kiirain will ever fully recover from
those blows over the heart, and do not think
ne Will ever go into the ring again in anything
Like his old FORM"
STEVE BRopIE's VERSION.
Jake Kilrain's friends in New York city are
incensed at the reported desertion Of Jake by
his friend Mitchell and are generally inclined
to think that the reports are true. They say
that when Mitchell was last in this city, upon
being aske dsboutKilrain's condition he declared
that 1t was perfect and that he was giving him
the very best attention. But, at the same
time, Charlie was spending considerable time
here, trying to beat the races when he should
have been training Kilrain for the fight.
Jake has now the sympathies of some of Sui
hvan's best friends, who never could tolerate
Mitchell, and have all along expressed surprise
that Jake should have taken him as a friend
knowing the Englishman's unpopularity in
America. The New Workers who have returned
from the fight confirm the stories already told
of Mitchells peculiar conduct toward his friend
Steve Brodie says that he never saw a second
show such neglect Of his principal when atten-
ton was most needed, while another member
Of the New York delegation declares that he
himself was the only man who made any effort
battle. That Kilrain was not properly attended
to before the fight and that he was shamef,llly
neglected afterward, most of his friends firmly
believe, although it 10 doubted il he could have
beaten Sullivan had everything been different,
Steve Brodie said yesterday: ''Kilrain is a
game man; one of the pluckiest I've ever SEEN
He is also the quickest man with his head that
ever saw. He ducked the big fellows blows
so pretty and neat that sullivan himself ad-
mired him.
SIN the fifth round the fighting was pretty
near even. While they were fighting this
round some one shouted: IN bet $500 that
Kilrain wins!
sullivan stopped short Pointing his big
hand at the man, he reared out: Hey, John
ston. there bet for your Then he went on
fighting.
after the eighth round Kilrain was licked.
He knew it and did his hackers, but Mitchell
kept him at it.
"When the rounds were finished Sullivan
would stand up in his corner. while his three
attendants would fan him with big towels wrung
out in ice-water.
"Kirain would sit in his corner with bowed
head while they famed him with single PALM
leaf fan. 1t was awful hot, too.
Mitchell sent Denny Butler out to find the
police and have them stop the fight. can
prove that by fifty witnesses and l heard him
tell Butler. was sitting with the reporters in
the inner ring. Bud Renaud had fixed the
sheriff, though, and he refused to interfere.
Some one ought to break Mitchell's neck"