The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-09-05
TRAPPED BY HYMEN.
Fugitive Prizefighter Arrested
on His Wedding Day.
WHILE GETTING HIS LICENSE.
Jack Lawrence, Of Black Diamond, Cap
tured in the County Auditors
Once at Olympia.

Jack Lawrence, one of the sports who
took an active part in arranging the prize
| fight between Robert Hodge and Lawrence
Harris. which came off near Black Dla-
mond on July l, is at last in the tolls oil
the law. charged with aiding and abetting
prizefight and resisting an officer.
The peculiar circumstances under which
the arrest was made also tend to make
Lawrence regret his arrest the more keenly.
The warrant had been out for consider
able time, but Lawrence had succeeded in
evading it until yesterday. 1t seems that
news came to Sheriff Woolery few days
ago that Lawrence was about to be mar
ried to the young lady of his choice, Miss
Maggie Harris. Lawrence had to have a
license to do so, and the sheriff was also
informed that an application for that per-
mission would be made to the auditor of
fhurston county at Olympia. So the
auditor was at once notified to keep look
out for Lawrence and let Sheriff Prince, of
Thurston county, know it in case the APP
plication should be made.
The instructions were followed faithfully
and when Lawrence gave his name to the
auditor at Olympia yesterday Sheriff
Prince was on hand before o license could
be issued and placed the prospective BRIDE
groom under arrest.
A deputy sheriff left for Olympia at
O'Clock this morning and will return with
Lawrence on the boat this evening. Law
renee Harris, the principal who was de-
feated, is now the only one of the law
breakers at large. The charge of resisting
an officer is preferred against Lawrence
from the fact that he was one of the
leaders in taking Hodge and Harris away
from the deputy sheriff WHO arrested them
when the first round of the fight was
over. As soon as the deputy stepped into
the ring and made the arrest there was a
great confusion and many threats were
made against him, on which account no
great resistance was made when the pris-
oners were taken out of his hands and as
sisted in their escape.
Sheriff Woolery thinks that the charge
of winking at prizehghting made against
him by the Telegraph yesterday morning
comes with bad grace from the organ of
the reform administration. He said yes
terday that he had no intention whatever
TO allow pr.zefghting TO be carried on in
King county. even TO the smallest ex-
tent, and that he knew nothing
of the alleged mill at West Sc
attic Saturday night until his attention
was called to the item above referred to.
He was mucn surprised, he said, TO learn
that Patsy Carroll was one OF the fighters,
for he had gained the impression from
handbills-s and transparencies carried
around town that Patsy was to participate
in little 60 at Turner hall on the same
night. under the protection of the Seattle
police force instructed by Mayor Ronald.
The sheriff thinks that it was only when
crowd could not be had at the hall that the
fighters adjourned TO West Seattle.
The sheriff says that he does not wish
TO interfere with the city authorities IN
suppressing lawlessness in the city, and
that all the fights taking place at present
seem to be in the city limits.
Is it not possible that Considine, who is
used TO protection in ali of his lines of
business. is afraid of competition, and
desires to keep plug" prizehghters from
fighting outside of Seattle in order that
sports will be compelled to patronize his
own dive when they wish to see a quiet
knockout? BY the way, that was a pretty
little fight which took place in the base
ment of Considine's theater yesterday
morning al about o'clock, next door to
the protected crap game.