St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-23
SIavin and MeAuliffe Are Ar
ested by the London
Police.
The Police Inspector Says It
Was to Have Been a Gen.
uine Fight.
Gloves Which He Was Sure
Would Inflict Severe Pun
ishment.
The Legal Phase Of the Affair
to Be Argued This
Morning.

LONDON. Sept. 22.-McAuliffe was ar
rested at his lodgings this morning.
Upon his arrival at the railway station
Slavin entered cab and was immedi-
ately placed under arrest. He was con-
veyed quietly to the Lamk5th police
station, where both prisoners were ar
raigned and bound over in $4,000 each
to appear before the court tomorrow.
In court the police inspector, justifying
the arrests, said the match was not to
be mere boxing contest, but genuine
prize fight. He produced copy of
the articles in accordance with
which the contestants were to
box any number of rounds with four
ounce gloves. These gloves, as eX-
hibited in the windows of sporting
paper, were smaller than ordinary
gloves and were thinned around the
knuckles. These gloves the inspector
thought were certain to infllct severe
punishment. The secretary of the Or
monde club depOsed that the gloves
were ordinary boxing gloves; that the
@a,test was to be strictly in accordance
with Queensberry rules; that no breach
OF the law was intended, and that the
police had been duly apprlsed of the
match. He said the police had been in
cited to make the arrests by jealous
enemies of the Ormonde club. The in
spector denied that the police had been
melted. He said that nobody outside
of the authorities knew that warrants
had been issued. The magistrate
directed the police to produce the
gloves before finally deciding as to the
illegality of the fight. He added that If
in the meantime the prisoners should
venture to proceed with the fight he
would deal with them severely The
suddennesS of the arrests prevented the
defense from obtaining counsel. To
The Legal Question
will be argued. A meeting of those in
terested in the Slavin-McAuliffe fight
was hold at the Ormonde club this
evening, when it was resolved that in
the event of the courts giving an ad-
verse decision the match should be de-
cided abroad. Richard K. Fox, of New
York, in an interview, denounced the
arrest of Slavin and McAuliffe as an
outrage. He said it was not pro-
posed to have prize fight, but
only limited round con-
test with ordinary gloves, and
there was no reason why the police
should interfere. Both men were in
splendid condition and anxious to have
fair contest. and the police had no
reason to anticipate breach of the
peace. The fight was nothing but what
often occurs openly in England and
America. Mr.. Temple, proprietor of
the Ormonde club, said he believed the
management of the Pelican club was at
the bottom of the matter. If the fight
had been arranged by a fashionable
West end club the police would not
have interfered. In his opinion the
Pelicans were jealous, and he had ex-
pected all along that they would try to
stop the fight. He did not believe there
was anything "snide' about the two
lighters, who were both anxious to
see which was the better man. He
attributes McAuliffe's arrest to
the fact that the Prince of Wales was
going to attend the fight, At meeting
at the Pelican club to-day, Lord Ions
dale and Richard K. Fox decided,
Auliffe fail, by the interference OF the
authorities. to bring off the fight for
9l,000 and the Police Gazette cham
pionship belt in the Ormonde club that,
rather than see the match fall through,
they will each put up the original
purse offered by the Ormonde club, $500
each, and bring the fight off on the con-
tinent with a limited number of specta-
tors on each side. This decision was
published here, and Richard K. Fox
and Lord Lonsdale were highly COM
mended. The fact was announced at
st. James hall tonight.
dailies applaud the arrest of Slayin and
McAuIitfe.