Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-04-02
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Chicago, ILL.,, March 2S, 1894

LDllok 1RIBUNE.-N nen l wrote you
a few days ago | mentioned that / would
send you full particulars of how am
and have been doing since leaving Free
land. | send you in this letter clippings
from the Burlington, Iowa, papers,
which you can show to any persons who |
doubt my account of how things We're |
with me here. / also intended to send |
you the accounts of my two battles with |
"Gypsy'' Gleason, both of which l won,
but have not the papers at hand just
now. But if anybody wants to know
about these fights they can write to Mr..
Green, sporting editor of the Burlington
Gazette, who will furnish all information
about them. He will give full particu
lars of the contests, which came off at
the Boston Club Rooms in Burlington.
My reason for sending this letter is to
let some of the people of Luzerne coun-
ty know that | have found out all about
the schemes that were laid there to trap
me. 1t took a long time to discover why
Harry b. Mccoy, the alleged champion
welter-weight of the west, should stay in
Hazleton for two weeks without making
himself known. He was there in Au-
gust, 1892, the month | defeated Lewis
Landmesser in Freeand, and in the fol-
lowing November 1 received some very
entcing offers from him to come west.
He guaranteed me that lots of money
could be made in Iowa in the prize fight
ing business, and wanted me to go with
him. After the works closed down at
Humboldt in June ! started out and got
to Burlington. In talking to the people
there | found that Mccoy had been out
at West Hazleton for several days when
he was east and that aroused my sus-
picions. The people there knew all
about me defeating Landmesser, but
| they did not know his name. They
were anxious to get fight on with Nc
Coy and myself. l concluded there was
something crooked" with the man, and
soon found out | was right. | refused
to 90 into the "fake" business with him,
although he offered me every induce
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Some of the people in there will un-
derstand me when | say that the next
time they try to get even with me for
crossing" Landmesser they should be
careful who they pick out to defeat me.
Mccoy can never do it, and he will not
even enter ring with me on the "dead
square" The people in Burlington
tried to force him to fight, but he
wouldn't do it unless / arranged
fake"
Then Mccoy and Billy Layton, the
champion weter-weght of the south,
| fought "lizzle" there. | exposed the
whole affair in the Burlington Ha1ch-Eye,
as you can see by the clipping enclosed,
and challenged both men. | made
Darlington so hot for them that they
found it to their interest to get out of the
city, and neither Of them dared to accept
my offers did get match partly ar
ranged with Layton, to come off between
the 18th and Goth Of last August, but he
disappeared on the 18th of that month
and hasn't been heard of since. Any
body that wants the full history of that
affair can write to John Todd, who held
the purse, or to Senator Dodge, my
hacker, and these men will bear me out
My coming out here was a scheme
worked by people near Freeland to tral
me and do me up, but the men they
picked on would not dare to face tn,
, music when the time came. | have tn,
, whole history of it and they can't foo
f me with their false friendship. Bill,
. Jones' eyes are sharper than som
= people in there think. l have Travelled
T. this country too much to be caught NAP
e ping by these people, and they can
J., ''rope" me in when they feel like it.
/ will say this much that there wa
e never man left Freeland who held hi
# own in any profession better than hay
G done, and the same l will do as long as
4 claim Freeland my home, and am no
$ going TO forget old Freeland.
it Oh, Freeland, forever my home,
a love you wherever l roam;
My heart, like a fawn that has strayed,
" Yearns for the place / call home.
| expect to be here for only fey
more days, and will then go to NeN
# York or Philadelphia, unless fighting
+ allowed to go here again. may call u
4 to see the old place when get east, an,
n with kind regards to all my friends il
:. Freeland l remain, Yours respectfully
BILLY JONES, atlas lin Iowa.
- BILLY NADER, the Australian.
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