The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-01
GENTLEMAN JOHN L.
lie is Received in Grand Style on
His Return.
FROM THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI.
ne Says Muldoon Has Bad Case of Swelled
Head-A Fierce Fight Between Two
Females at Coney Isladd.

Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch
NEW " ORR, June 30.-A large crowd of
friends greeted John L. Sullivan Yesterday
AFTERNOON when he arrived on the Wash
ington special The champion was ban
quoted when he reached the city. In speak
ing OF his recent experience with the law
In the south, John said: 'The authorities
In Paine county are all right, and am very
glad that affair is through with for it has
been sort of milestone for me ever since
the light. But L wouldn't have gone to
prison Just yet, would have taken an APP
peal nad / been sentenced and kept on ap-
pealing until l could appeal no more"
what was the cause of the row be-
tween yourself and Muldoon?" was asked.
''There was no row at all so far as was
concerned, -; Sullivan replied, ''for didn't
see anyone but Mike Donovan while l was
there. The sum and substance of the whole
matter is that Muldoon is the most remark
able case of swelled head ever known in
this or any other country, and he is into
the bargain contemplate cur and coward
saw letter which he wrote to one of
the prosecuting officers, offering to turn
states evidence against Donovan and my
self, and testify we were implicated in
getting up and carrying on the prize fight,
P-SfiAOo buCl NOulQ lcb ~ lTSS. uS
man who wonld do a thing of that kind is a
cur and coward. / did not say in New Or
leans that l would punch the fellow if he
ever came my way, but it would go against
me to strike such coward. Iwould like to
have the public know something of this
man. In the first place he has said he did
not receive a penny for training me. He
was paid 5000. He has been quoted fire.
quently as saying | was physical wreck
when he took hold of me- That is not so,
but have never before contradicted his
yarns because | knew he was looking fos
advertising, was getting it, and had no de-
sire to enter into a controversy. Mike
Cleary and Jack Barnett did more to get
me In condition three times over than Null
doom did, but have never told the facts be-
cause didn't care to bother with the fell
low. He and kilrain went to Mississippi,
and while don't know that Kilrain would
testify against me, Tor ! think him man of
some principle, yet it looked TO me as
though he might have been induced to do
something of the kind to help that cowardly
friend of his out. After he threatened to
punch Muldoon, he said something about
using pistol on me. What better evidence
do you want of his cowardice? But l say
right here, he'd better not try that game
on me.n
When asked about his plans for the flu
ture and possible meeting with Jackson
much about Jackson, but l don't think
will meet him just at present, because mat
tors on the coast are not as they should be
in the way of lighting, and l don't know
whether would fight at,the California club
if everything was right. 1 haven't made
up my mind to fight anybody just yet ant
when | fight again / will select place
where there won't be any chance of a rep
etition of the circus I've just got through
with ] am out for the money and expert
ence has taught me that there is no none,
in getting tangled up with the law. F'ol
all my trouble in training and fighting Xii
rain have my pains; it cost me every dol
lar got out of the fight and more beside
to get out of the scrape. The next fight
have will be for big money and it won
come off unless | have positive guarantee
that no trouble will follow.
What do you think of the Puritan
clubs offer of $4,000 purse for jackson
and yourself!"
why, the offer is all right" said John
sand I'd as soon fight there as anywher
else, but it would be absolutely impossible
TO pull fight of that magnitude off in thi
state. Why, the governor would issue
proclamation and call out the militia, sur
as guns"