St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-19
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| NerSally conceded. He had not ridden,
! however. in the past year, having met
with quite serious accident by being
thrown from horse. He was also bit
ten by vicious animal in the leg, and
that prevented him from INDUCING his
| love for eQuestrianiSm recently. He was
not married, but his mother Is living,
| and he has sister and other relatives
! at home, who will be shocked at the
news of his death"
The squire was the son of very rich
| iron founder. Some time ago lie came
into international nOtoriety through
kicking Mrs. Langtry in the face, the
English beauty being at that time under
Ills care IN financial way.
Mitchell Notified.
New YORK, March 1S.-Charey Mitch
! ell and Jim Hall arrived from Buffalo
this morning. They went TO the Gedney
house al once, where they found tele-
gram TO Mitchell announcing the death
of Squire Abingdon. Mitchell began
sending kilograms at once about Abing-
don'S death, and directed that the body
be embalmed ana brought to New York
at once. Mitchell spoke feelingly about
his friend. "When l left New Orleans"
he said. 1.-THE squire was in bed. The
doctors advised me to leave him, as he
would get better more quickly. so L
came TO New York. Before l left, how
ever, l told them that if they would get
the squire into shape and i'll New \ DIRK
in time to catch the boat for England
"Wednesday | would give them 1000. l
am greatly affected by my friends
death. He has been a sufferer from
bowel troubles for some time, and his
constitution was run down."
Then Mitchell was asked what effect
the sources death would have on his
match with COrbett.
ut won't have the slightest effect.
The squire gave me the $4,000 to bet
with the understanding that | was to
have it if l won. l will say now that.
barring accidents. will battle with
COrbett when the gong sounds"
The Squire's Record.
Squire Abingdon's real uame was
| George A. Baird, ana he was one of the
best-knOwn all-Tound sporting men of
England. He was a gentleman jockey
| OF Great Britain. having ridden against
| the best men of England, Ireland and
Scotland. 1t was only within few
years past that pugillSm began to divide
! his attention with racing. But since he
took enthusiastically to lighters. Abing-
! don has backed nearly all the fighters of
/ prominence Ill NItdI DlilQliis ilC
| squire was exceedingly atfable and
made many friends. lie was a rich iron
master, with an income of $50 900
| year.
lie ran away with Dolly Lester, eX
ballet dancer, and wife of the Marquis
OF AileSbury, a few years ago, and paid
| the marquis 100000 TO settle the mat
ter He was at one time on friendly
terms with the notorious Bessie Bel
wood, and was named as correspondent
| in divorce suit brought by Mr.. Ian
caster, whose wife was a stage beauty,
| known as agnes Hewitt Once, too,
the papers cautiously referred to part
nerShip between the squire and Mrs.
Langtry. Because of reports of some
unsavOry dealing at the Smith-Slavin
fight in Belgium, Abingdon was reject
ed by the Pelican club, and promptly
started a club Of his own in King street,
St. James.
AbingdOn's training establishment for
race horses at MoultOn PaddockS, New
| market, was the finest thing Of its kind
in England. His luck in racing was not
always good. but he had a Liverpool
cup winner four times in Father Con-
feSSor, took the same cup three times
with Lady Rosenberg. and won the
! great Derby once in 1885 with Royal
Hampton.
The Father OF The Squire
was the well-knoWn Bard OF Gatscherry,
who became 50 well known at the time
of the failure of the Western Bank of
Scotland, when he wrote his check TO
pay the demands of the depoSitorS for
100000
The squirrels present visit TO America
was for the special purpose of prOmot-
iurr fhn GifOhall- (rOrhaff anntncf md hn
proposed to see a good dael of the
| country, Incidentally.
1t is believed by many that the death
of the squire may have some effect upon
| the Mitchell COrbett match. the eX-
ecutors may insist upon the withdraw
| of the $1,000 stake money which the
/ squire put up. In that case, the match
| will likely fall through, as 1t is thought
there is no man in England who will
back Mitchell for that amount.
An evening paper says: Baird was
| proud of the fact that he had struck
Mrs. Lille Langtry while he was under
the influence of drink and blackened
her eye. he often boosted of the cow
| ardly piece of ruffianism. 1t is said
that he gave Mrs. LangtTy a check for
e6O, 900 to abandon her American tour
| The squire had few friends. His aSSO-
ciates were men benefited at his hands
without a single exception. His i'm
mense wealth will probably go to his
! brother, Douglass Baird. Baird's in
come was from 100000 to 950G,000 a
year."
INDIANAPOLIS, March 1S.-James J.
! COrbett said this afternoon in regard to
the death of Abingdon:
81 am very sorry to hear of his death,
for he was a great friend of sporting
people; was thoroughly a gentleman,
and did much to help pugilists. l don't
think that his death will in any way
affect the arrangements made between
Mitchell and myself. In the first place,
Mitchell doesn't want to get out of fight
ing, but is anxious to meet me, as he
has everything to gain and nothing to
lose. His $4,000 is already up and COW
cred by mine. But even should the
friends of Squire Abingdon want to
take down his money you may state for
me that am willing to fight Mitchell
without any side bet, merely for the
championship of the world"
The Corpse Started HOmeWard.
Secretary Bailey and Valet Monk are
| not accompanying the remains of
Squire" Abingdon to New York. Pos
| sibly the EngliShmen are suspicious,
but at any event the remains are on one
train and the escort on another. Under
taker johnson prepared the body
for shipment and it was placed aboard
the O'Clock train on the Queen d
| Crescent and went north via that
line. Bailey and Monk left at 7:3O
over the Piedmont Air Line. They ex-
pect to get to New York ahead of the
body, and Will sail with it Wednesday.
They settled up ali of the squiIe's ac-
counts before leaving, and took with
them a certificate of DR.. Fitch as to the
cause of Abingdon'S death. Only the
| nurses WERE nreSent when the snnire