The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-08
BILLY REMNANTS DEATH.
what the OntcerS, Spectator. and Fighter
Say About IL.


what the Omcer~, Spectator. and Fighters
Say About IL.
CHICAGO, July 7.-As result OF the
glove contest mt Battery ID, Billy Bren-
nan lies dead at the morgue and five OF
the men who aided and abetted the fatal
fight are locked up. The officers arrested
Frank Girrard, Brennan's antagonist;
Patsy Carol, master of ceremonies; Pat
rick Gallagher, the referee; John Nc
Inery, one of Brennan's seconds, and
Harry Gilmore, Girrard's second and
trainer. Sailor Brown. who, with Mcln-
cry seconded Brennan, has not yet been
placed under arrest, although the police
have been looking for him ever since the
fatal contest.
Parson Davies was manager OF the ex-
hibition. was not arrested, although he
was given TO understand by the police that
he might he wanted and they would ex-
pect him to be within call.
After Brennan fell in the ring he was
never conscious. He was carried to the
Office in the building where he died at
5:45 a. IN. Drs. Sherwood and Fenger
made every effort to rouse the dying man
but failed to do more than prolong his
life for few moments.
They had no hopes for the poor boy
showed that there was conclusion of the
brain. Shortly after noon the county
physician made an autopsy. The post
| mortem showed that death resulted from
hcmorrhage of the brain superinduccd
by concussion. All who were in
any way connected with the unfor-
tunate affair feel very badly over
the way in which the fight terminated.
Captain Lewis, who had charge OF the
police arrangements at the battery, said; {;
, "So far as am able TO Judge II was purely
accidental. Brennan had received good
! deal of punishment, but did not regard
| il as serious or would have stopped the
fight. In the early rounds both men
fought hard without iniiicting any great
damage. and during the last two rounds
Brennan appeared TO be weak, but il
seemed 10 be more the result OF exhaus.
ton then punishment AT the beginning
OF the fifth round there was no blood seen
10 speak of and about all the effects OF
punishment that Brennan showed were
on his right shoulder. IN my opinion
Brennan was not as badly punished as
Smith was in his recent contest with Jack
| son."
"what effect will this have on boxin!.
exhibitions here?"
II have no authority to say, but would
guess that we will have no more slugging
matches"
Girrard was seen at the Harrison street
station and said he was shocked at the re-
suit. AT the beginning OF the fifth
round" he continued, II thought | had
| much the best of the fight and | tried Ia
knock Brennan out, and Brennan dodged
and clinched To keep from getting hit. He
| was not badly punished but he acted queer
seemed groggy. When we clinched he
grabbed me around the waist and fell
over backward, pulling me with him.
When we started TO fall / could not help
| m | ram Itza
| il we were both on the floor"
Harry Gilmore, Girrard's second, said
~ am more than sorry this thing hap
| pened, but IL was am accident. Just he
fore the fatal fall the two boxers were
| talking to each other and IL looked TO me
as IL Brennan would stay the round out
He was not hurt much, although he acted
queer"
John McIncry, one Of Brennan's Sec
onds, was asked If his principal showed
| went up for the fifth round. mo-" he
replied, she seemed TO me To be all right
except that he was n little dizzy and pretty
| well blowed. He was not hurt much and
he felt i'm good humor, and was anxious
to go on. / have heard since the fiRh,
that he had been drinking during the
early evening, and that accounts for his
queer conduct in the ring after the second
round"
Brennan's face, as he lay i'm the morgue
showed but little evidence OF severe pun
ishment. There were a few slight marks
on his cheeks and forehead. The punish.
| ment he received was all on the right
shoulder and neck. All the space be-
| tween the right ear and the point of the
shoulder was swollen and inliamed from
the pounding he received at Girrard's
hands.
When Grrard would aim vicious-blow
at his antagonists head the latter would
dodge and catch the blow on the point OF
the right shoulder and neck. Asiae from
this there were no places on Brennan's
face or body that showed the result oi
severe punishment.
Brennan is the second man who la,
been killed i'm glove fight i'm Chicago
A colored boxer was killed by fall i'm th,
ring at the West Side Turner hall abou
three years ago. He had hardly got his
hands up when his opponent hit him
knocking him down. When he fell tn,
back of his head struck the floor with ter
rible force and he never regained con
| sciousness.