The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-07


euffed Sullivan all at once, rolled him over and
over and jerked him about. like straw man,
and all the time sullivan was really
Dellowing like an overgrown child He shouted
"Helpp' Take him Off, II do not know him."
ana such like, and his assailant never opened
MS mouth He did not say a word He did not
even swear, only kept working his hands and feet
IKE lightning. / never saw a man so utterly
knocked out and whipped in SO short time. It
was all done inside OF halfH minute. Every
BODY with whom have talked say they are
giad that Sullivan was pummeled, and are sorry
ne did not get sounder whallopping."
merchant said:
NO matter who was attacked, I say IL was an
outrage, and the man who did it should be
punished to the full extent OF the
law. l heard Sullivan shout and l must
say i thought ii was a woman who was
squailing, not man. 1t was a thin, whining
voice, and told my friends it was woman
who was being attacked. Sullivan did not act
like himself. He was badly frightened no
doubt, as any man similarly attacked would be.
Four or five hack drivers who witnessed
the fight corroborate these statements
They say they saw the man standing
in front of Chilberg's restaurant,
while Sullivan was eating, and
just as soon as he came out he
followed him and knocked him down
slick and clean. AS soon as it was learned
that it was Sullivan, no attempt was made
by the citizens on Pacific avenue to cap
ture the assailant. One man shouted:
You've got it at last, but you should have had
| 1t d. sight harder.
| He was a railroad man. This statement
| gave rise to the report that it was a North
ern Pacific railroad conductor, discharged
| through Sullivan's spoilers, who had as
| saulted him. Sullivan said:
| l don't believe il. No Northern Pacific men
nave been discharged lately any case that
have had anything to do with.
1t is said, though Sullivan denies it, that
train was recently stopped on the Port
land division by Sullivan men, when the
tickets were checked up, and which re-
| shifted in the conductor being discharged,
| and that this man or one of his friends
laid for Sullivan. 'If he had a gun
why did he not shoot?" Sullivan was
asked. Because" he said, ''he probably
did not intend to shoot unless it was an
absolute necessity" Still, if the assailant
wanted to shoot or kill Sullivan he would
not have attacked him in a well-lighted
street in a crowd of pedestrians as
he did. He had only to follow Sullivan
around a, corner and kill him on dark
street, with alleys on either side for es-
cape. Accordingly, it is thought. he SIM
ply wanted to thump Sullivan, and did SO
| in street where everybody could see how
it was done. When some one shouted
'here comes a cop," the assailant moved
off,
The police are looking for man named
| Ross who was guard under Sullivan at
the King county coal mines. He has been
in the city of late and Sullivan thinks he
may have been his assailant. Sulli-
van says that Ross was reckless
fellow who had to be removed from the
mines on account of his gambling habits.
He was picked up during a time when
men were needed in large num-
bers. Shortly after being let out by
| Sullivan he was arrested at Sedro for
assaulting man with a deadly weapon,
but escaped. He was arrested through
/ Policeman Cave, of Seattle, who, at
the time, had a brother in Sulli-
vans guards. Sullivan says he be-
friended Ross, who probably thought he or
some of his men let the police know where
he was. Ross is a'smaller man than Sulli-
van. The outgoing trains were watched
| by the police tonight, but no one looking
like. Suilivan's assailant left. After the
assault several parties got around the
assailant and crowded him toward the bill
lard hall, where he escaped. Sullivan,
| therefore, thinks he may have had confed-
crates. Sullivan also understands that
| there is an unpleasant feeling shown by
men toward him, especially by laborers,
| growing out of the troubles at the mines
and the recent abduction of Mr.. Bailey
and r. B. Albertson, of Seattle. Since the
murder of Enoch Crosby no event has
caused such a hubbub. Few seem sorry
for Sullivan. Many denounce the assault
1 as brutal