Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-18
II ENDED IN MURDER.
A Prize Fight Which for Fiend-
Ish Brutality and Fierce
ness Is UnequalIed.
1t Was ITO a Finish"-One of
the Contestants Now
In the Morgue.

From Tuesdays Daily.
1t is more than likely that that form
human depravity and grossest brutalit
prize fighting, has received . lasting quiet
In Butte, for which all respectable and d
cent people will be truly grateful, althous
the which has brought about til
end are to be deplored, because ofthe hear
ache and misery caused to innocent pa
ties. The e~minently respectable gentl
men OF the city, who, to use their own el
CANT expression, 'are dead sore on Il
did reporters for daring to have Gale
all recent prize fights brutal and degra,
ing, win now probably curse and revils I'll
newspapers all the more for giving pull
licity to the TACT that the last OF these 9,
hibitions Of savage brutality and huma
degradation has resulted in murder; tina
q ma lies dead even now in the morgu
with no n to express sorrow or regre,
save the admirers OF the so called s'manly
art; that another lies at this house q spects
Gle sickening to behold and that his wife
q most estimable woman and mother, i
weeping and moaning as only Q heart
broken woman weighed down with sham
and grief can weep, to give vent to the emo
ions OF her delicate and sensitive natur.
that the man who should be the protector
Of the children she bore him is responsible
for the death Of a fellow being. and that i
he recover from his own injuries received
in that f1endish and outrageous struggle b,
will be held to answer to the gravest
charge known to the laws of the state
murder. Perhaps, too, these e~minently
respectable members of the unity
will now realize that their unnatural taste
and desire to witness q sight which makes
men OF refinement and enliehtenment sick
at heart, has made them liable as acces.
SORES to the murder. They will now prob.
ably curse the newspapers all the more
fiercely for reminding them OF it. But facts
are stubborn things which aver q prize
fighter cannot knock out, as some OF the
parties will most likely learn before long,
and leave the recollection of last Sundays
affair impressed upon their besodden
minds 80 indelibly that they will remem
~ y wa - AS1R OAAA W. oDuC
George ii. Ward Is dead and John
Gallagher is responsible for his death. 1t
was q prize fight, but being dead square,
those who Witnessed it will probably tale
refuge behind this as an excuse to exone.
rate themselves, to their own satisfaction,
from whatever culpability they may have
in the matter. The fight took place Sun.
day evening at Crystal springs, at which
place O similar contest occurred q few
weeks ago between Golden and Simpkins.
Like the two latter men Ward and Gala
CHER fought with kid gloves and sfought for
blood" Ward and Gallagher in addition
to fighting for a few paltry dollars had the
further impetus that q '~'grudge" could i'm.
part to urge them on to greater savagery
and greater brutality. The cause that led
up to the fight are about as follows: Gala
CHER is q miner and Ward was contractor
and builder. Gallagher decided to build a
house n awarded the contract to Ward.
Alter completion OF the house Ward pre-
sented q bill Of 500 for extras. Gallagher
objected to the bill claiming that it wa an
overcharge and offered to pay Ward $50.
Ward refused to accept the money and the
men became engaged in q quarrel. They
met at the Office of Nichols, Helehan & Co.
q number OF times, Gallagher having
negotiated q loan through the firm, and
who paid Ward what money he received
for building the house, and zach time re.
newed their quarrel and engaged in talk of
fighting and licking each other. It is al
legged that a number OF days ago Helehan
bet Ward $40 that he could not whip Gal.
lagher. and this, it is said, led up to the
fight. Prsliminaries were arranged between
the men, and Ward, at least, it is known,
o pretense OF going into training, as
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town store and also visited the place at
which Kessler trained for his las. fight |
used the latter's apparatus. To sew
eral persons he told that he was training
Tor q fight and proposed to make q bloody |
one. Perfect secrecy was maintained in
the matter, and Sunday afternoon the
principals and about fifteen or sixteen 9th.
ers drove to the springs. The party be-
came lost in the fog, and it was fully 8
O'Clock before they arrived at the place
selected, and after preliminaries had been |
arranged the men entered the ring. Lon.
don prize ring rules governed the fight, and
i was agreed that the fight should be to q
finish. As nobody was allowed to wit
ness the fight save the few favored
ones ION the inside" full details OF the
spectacle cannot be given, the men
who did see it refusing absolutely to say q
Tord to q reporter about what occurred.
One or two, however, proved leaky to the
'xtent OF giving enough information to
parties, who in turn told the re-
'orters, to warrant the statement that it
vas the most brutal affair which ever
in the state. That it was the
most serious OF the kind the sequel shows.
holden. a professional fighter, is said to
ave been the referee, but who the seconds
Tere has not been learned. The bull dog
enacity oil the principals can readily be
Inderstood, as they fought 105 rounds.
t is claimed that Ward knocked Gallagher
uinety.eight times while, others say
hat he knocked him down fairly only once.
G the thirty.ffth round Gallagher broke
is left arm and continued the feht
tier h q with one hand. In the ninety.
lghth round Gallagher managed to get in
terrific blow on Wards jaw and knocked
i'm W The blow made Ward aim ost un. .
.nscious, but he staggered to his feet and ]
enewed the fighting. Seven more rounds
ere fought in the last OF which Gallagher ,
nocked Ward down again and this !
Ime he staid down as he never repained {
Gallagher also fell to the !
DOR senseless, for in falling Ward slipped, !
1oor being covered with blood, and the
OF one OF his shoes struck Gallagher I
nder the Thin and laid him out. Gallagher '
AohAO iubou5iDlolOE more IMAM an 0Our. /.
nd when finally he did revive he was de. !
the winner. Ward continued to re. 6
ain unconscious, and as the crowd saw !
III was impossible to revive him, he I
as placed in q hack and brought to town )
taken to his room in the Napton v
ock, on Granite street. DR.. johnson was p
lmmoned, and although be did everything "
'ssible to restore the human wreck tor a
ason, he failed, and Ward continued toll
ow worse. Between z and 8 O'Clock last y
ght lie died and his body was removed n
Sherman's undertaking rooms. "
Gallagher lies in dangerous condition at o
3 home on East Park street, his arm IL
oxen, his face battered into a sickenins "
ID disgusting mass oil flesh and his body IL
uised and cut beyond description. His
fe is almost frantic with grief, as she op. M
sed the fight and with streaming eyes &C
eyed and pleaded with her husband not u
fight. to
Both men were about 30 years old and
only matched as to size, weight and
ength. weighing about 100 pounds each.
TIE MINER made repeated efforts to inc
t more OF the particulars OF the brutal VI
d savage affair by tryingt to pump parties di
o were supposed to have been present, W,
; found it impossible to do so. Bart Q,
'wers, driver OF the city nose carriage
among those credited with having seen as
fight. A reporter camped on his trail la
\ ovapsnn on1 GHan- no--o11l IL