St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-22

Fell clear across the ring and the mob
broke through the ropes. Each princi-
pal made conciliatory speech, ex-
pressed confidence in his ability and
pleaded to be let alone. The fight was
resumed, and continued for nine more
rounds.
Among the Masterson heelers were
such characters as Jew jake" whose
occupation was that of ''stall" for a
gang of thieves; "Big Ed" Hennesey,
"gold brick" swindler; Billy McFar-
land, dip or pickpocket: "Three-Fin-
gered jack" three-card monte and con-
fdence man; and several others of like
ilk. This crowd started the fighting,
broke into the ring and created all the
subsequent disturbance. A number Of
business men, reporters and patrons of
sport had gone out to see the mill, and
all wished they we're well out of it.
John P. Glow, then young man, and
anything but the rough he subsequently
turned out, was at the ring side. He
made some remark which caused the
crowd to set upon him. Near Glow was
Col. Forbes, Ed Rothery, the well
known patron of sporting, now of
Omaha; Douglas Burnes and Herbert
M. Rothery, the friend of John L. Sulli-
van, who was with the champion in
the famous flight northward after
the Sullivan-Kilrain fight at Rich
burg, Miss, last year. These
men were lovers of sport of all legiti-
mate kinds, and absolutely without
fear. At imminent risk they saved
Glow from the gang that had declared
they would kill him, and he escaped to
the train. Glow is we'll known in this
section, whittier he came after being
driven out of Denver for highway rob-
berry. Recently he was permitted to
return there by the authorities, and last
week was shot by an inOffenslve citizen
whom he had knocked down and kicked.
In the twenty-secOnd round. Fell'S sec
onds refused to let him get out of his cor
ner. Prof. Miller, Hanley's second, sent
Hanley to the scratch. Williams had
left the ring to join the assault On Glow.
awarded the fight to Hanley. Fell was
taken out of the ring by his seconds. A
free fight followed, the principals and
respectable element leaving for
the train, to which they were
soon followed by the mob. The
crowd reached the train just as
it started upon the return trip. With
revolvers the thieves took possession,
striking inoffensive persons and shoot
ing out the windows of the cars. At
revolver's point the referee was made
to change his decision, and Stakeholder
Jackman compelled to give up the
money. Glow abused Mcfarland for
the assault at the ringside and was soon
In fight, into which he dragged Doug
las Burns. Some one unknown shot
Ed Rothery in the arm. Herbert Roth
cry seized the revolver, wrenched 1t
from the grasp of the tough. and dealt
maj" Williams a blow across the
neck, ON the Adams apple, "felling him
senseless just in time to prevent the
which he had placed at Col. Forbes
head. Ed and Herbert Rothery, Col.
Forbes and Burns beat the desperadoes
back into the adjoining car and held
possession, protecting those in the car
In which the shooting started by stand
ing at the door and preventing the
toughs from returning, screening them
selves as much as possible from the
bullets fired in by the defeated desper-
ADDE'S. In the aisle of the car was the
limp form Of "Three-Fingered jack"
who had been shot in the back Of the
head. A DR.. Kelly, of Iowa, was in the
coach, who dressed the wounds of those
injured. "Three- Fingered Jack'' sub
sequently recovered and left the section,
as did the others of his stripe. On reach
ing the suburbs of Omaha, where the
train Stacked up, every one jumped off
and scattered in every direction. The
only passenger on board when the train
pulled into the railway station was
''Silver," an Omaha bootblack, who
was hidden beneath seat. Scarcely
whole window remained in the coaches,
and bullet holes were everywhere.
The affair created great excitement
In the vicinity, and put quietus on
prize fighting. The courage of the men
who had routed the thieves, thugs and