The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-07-25

line OF business, and il not at all in keep
jng with the class of men who follow the
ring. He IL member of the Independ-
emit Order of Odd Fellows aud has many
friends amongst business men in Wiscon-
sin. Ills conduct IN this city before and
after the glove contest and death al Nc
CorInick has been such ~ to cause many
remarks of favor. iie takes the matter
az his arrest perfectly cool. gives the Off
GERS no trouble, talks readily and pleas
antly with all who come to him and Is
confident that he will not be convicted
for the terrible crime he is charged with.
er Sure OF Acaulttal.
+ A DIAMOND DRILL reporter overheard
the following conversation i'm the Jail one
day this week, between George Daily,
Daniels trainer who was arrested, after
waros released, as being an accessory to
the allegetl murder OF Jim Mccormick,
and Frank Brouette, who IL held for the
saIne crime:
Bronlette: "Say, Daily. il | get clear
of this scrape, and am quite sure will.
/ intend Co come back here and stay
right ia Crystal Falls" m
Daley: you can get out of the MESS
easy enough"
Broulette; '"Well, how can j get out
OF it
Daley: lyon just 60 into the court
room and swear that youare a blooming
IDIOT and not responsible for anything
YOU Go after sizing you up they will ask
Tor no further proof and you VIII be dis
charged See" Ell
Broulette's open lpasting Of his inten-
ton 60 make crystal Falls his future
home in ease he Is acquitted. will no
doubt tend to lessen his chances oilibertv.
We have no use for people OF the Brou-
lctte make.
Rank Sensationalism.
For sensationnlism the Chicago Daily
News is several laps ahend OF the world.
Witness the appended from it's columns
OF hast Tuesday:
TO read az ones own death i'm the news
columns OF daily paper X not SO rlire
at present ~ formerly, bat 10 learn that
one hns been murdered and that the
murdeprs ARE actually under arrest for
the crime and in the hands OF the sheriff
il rather an unusual case. Yet this is
the situation in which Jimmy McCor-
mick, the prize-ighter, finds himself
Mccormick was in Chicago yesterday.
cts all right" be said. referring to
the dispatch, "about everything except
the murder part. was knocked out Ia
the seventh round and after that had
But was not murdered, 10y Il ten to one
shot"
The dispatch said that after being
knocked ont Mccormick and his antag-
onlst, Daniels. quarreled over.thc divis-
ion OF the receipts and in the melee
which followed Mccormick received in
juries from which he died Saturday
night. Three men are under arrest
charged with the murder and ~ custody
OF Sheriff Foley OF Iron county, Michigan.
Mccormick came 20 town Sunday aud
has not mark ON his face.
The News OF the day following con
tanned this dispatch dated this city:
Your story ofMct'ormick. the pugilist,
being in Chicago alive and well * u hnrd
one for the Upper Peninsula people o.
believe. Mccormick may be in CHICAGO
and alive as stated. hit il certainly Is
not the Mccormick whu engaged ina
glove contest with VIM. Daniels in this
city on the night Of July rs, last ; he Is
dead and buried and this morning the
men charged with the murder VIM.
Daniels aud Frank Broulette, are having
preliminary examination before IN
Iron county Justice of the peace and will
loo held over for trial at the September
term of Iron county Circuit court. Your
correspondent waS with Mccormick at
lO.1J last Friday night. when &c died,
wits present at the autopsy when the
doctors eat holes IN him 70 determine II
possible the cnuse of his death and saw
the box containing all that remained 81
the prize tighter started for POtter's
Field All this would have been left un-
done had McCornick been alive and well
in Chicago as stated 10y the Daily News.
a Terrible Account OF IL.
The last issue 81 the Florence Mining
News contained a fearful aud wonderfully
constructed account OF the Mccormick
Daniels glove contest which occurred IN
this city on the night of July 10. There
was NO prize tight, simply u glove contest,
with eight ounce gloves, Tor the gate
receipts Had "a prize light been going
the officials would have promptly put a
stop 20 IL. Mccormick was worstcd and
went Go bel. Daniels wanted a settle
ment and went To McCortnick's room.
As vet nothing has been shown Wherein
Mccormick received another terrible
beating and WAS carried to his bOHrling
house, where he died IN great agony.
None 81 Crystal Falls sport" skipped
the country until the affair blows over:
they are all here. The affair Is bad
enough ~ 10 now stnndS. without adding
untruths tO make n worse showing TO
the outside world. II Mcl'ormick was
murdered, il IL AN accident Which il liable
To befall any community. but IL " not
every community that will take such
prompt action Co apprphend the parties
supposed guilty ~ the crime. Florence
witnesses more dirgracciul street tights
In n month than ~ To the credit 81 Cryr-
tai Falls during It's entire history, mud
no effort h made 20 arrest anyone Tor
the acts az lawleseness. Following the
Mining News terrible roasting 81 CRYSTAL
Falls for allowing "prize fight TO go
ON within n stones throw of Iron
WIS given nm account OF three street
fights. 81 which the following Is one; "a
terrible fight occurred upon the North