The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-01
FITZ NOT ON HAND TO FIGHT.
HIS CAPTOBs CARRY HTaI TO LIT
TIE ROCK 4 PRISONER.

COrbett shows Up on the Battle
Ground and Claims the Forfeit
Money and the ChamDionsiiip-The
Legal Proceedings ut Little Rock
Adjourned Until To-day to Await
the Arrival Of the Attorney General
From Hot Springs.
Little Rock Ark. oct 31.-From all ap-
pearances Boo Fitzsimmons is not likely
to be at liberty to participate in price
fight for several days to come. To-days
legal proceedings were brief and
inconclusive. but they indicate that
while Judge Martin viii not
strain the law against the lengthy
Australian, neither viii he hurry the
proceedings along in order to obllge the
pugilistic contingent. If this view of the
case is correct. Fitzsimmons may be de-
tanned here for a week. while the at
torney general and the lawyers for tho
Hot Springs Athletic Club argue the le-
gal points.
But even IL It We're assured that Fitz-
simmons would be discharged from cus-
tody tomorrow there is always the alb
solute certainty that the redoubtable Gov.
Clarke would be on his trail again with
some species of legal weapon within five
minutes. The governor Is enlisted for
the war, and evidently means to serve
out his term of enlistment. He is enjoy
ing the satisfaction of holding q price
fighter captive within stones throw OF
the state capitol and is reluctant to re-
lnquish the pleasing sensation. He Is
not nkely 10 DO SO, either, SO long as he
mas means at hand to prevent Lanky
Bob's exit from the Arkansas capitoi
ana he declares that he has fresh ammuni-
ton for any possible phase OF the slt-
uHtlUn that NAV QeVHInu-
IL was $3.50 o'clock this morning when
| Fttzslmmons and Julian arrived In tho
city over the Cotton Belt road In the
custody OF sheriff billiard of Texarkana
who made the arrest at the request Of
| the sheriff OF this QulaskD county With
| the party We're j. N. Crenshaw and w. 10.
| Casey, who, however, We're not under
arrest. The party was driven to the Capt.
tol hotel where they registered In a hope
ful spirit as zen route" They were as
signed TO rooms on the third doOr and
with a local deputy sheriff acting as door
keeper, settled down to await their ap-
pearance in court at 2 o'clock. Julian
spoke bitterly Of the reports that had been
| telegraphed over the country TO the effect
| that Fitzsimmons had thrown himself in
the way of Sheriff Diflard when he might
have surrendered 10 Sheriff Houpt Of Car
land county and been taken safely to Hot
| Springs.
THAT statement" he declared. "is a
lie, pure and simple. We knew nothing Of
the sherifs. The Hot Springs people sent
us no word of anything of the kind from
the time ] left there ten days ago up TO
/ AlAt litrhiA AhbHltuA. we hAiGW NOInink
made 10 get us safely to Hot Springs if
any such arrangements were made. We
| were left completely in the dark to feel
/ our way out IL we could Neither Fitz-
/ simmons nor myself is a mind reader
/ and we could not be expected to pick out
| friends from enemies simply by looking
at them. But, aside from that fact, the
| truth Is that the Hot Springs sheriff him
sheriff when the latter made a demand on
MIN. We had no choice IN the matter.
The Hot Springs man made mild kick
on giving us up, but IL did not 90.
THAT special train story is another
sample of the way the Corbett crowd
tried to do us up. They said we refused
taken us through to Hot Springs without
molestation. Now, in the first place,
never saw that special train, and If l had
seen 1t, / would not have got on the same
car with Joe Nendig, who, as everybody
| knows, has been trying to do us up ever
since the match was made, / believe,
would have jobbed US somehow. The
amount of it is we have been getting the
worst OF IL right along We were guar
anteed protection from legal interfer-
| ence and as you see, we were arrested as
soon as we stepped over the state line.
| You may say for FitZsimmons that, in
| spite of all the discouragements and bad
faith we have had to encounter, he is
! ready, as soon as we get out of this mess
| 70 night Corbett or anybody else as ori-
| ginally proposed. His $4,000 is ready and
so Is he"
Fitzsimmons indorsed what his mama
| ger said and added that he was sick and
| tired Of being lied about and misrepre-
| sented, and that he had about quit talking
| Tor publication until after he had fought
| Corbett.
At 2 o'clock, the pugilist and his manager
appeared before Judge ]. w. Martin, in
the circuit court. Mayor Waters OF the
| Hot Springs Athletic Club had teleeraphed
| Julian that the attorneys of the club could
! not reach Little Rock until tomorrow and
] consequently when the assistant attorney
general Mr. Hemingway, requested a
continuance until tomorrow afternoon be-
| cause OF the absence of Attorney General
| kinsWorthy, there was no opposition The
/ pugilistic party returned to the hotel in
the custody Of deputy sheriff.
Under the law titzsimmons and Julian
may be held in bonds not exceeding 5000
each to keep the peace, should the court
decide that they contemplated a breach
thereof
Gov. Clarke was mildly and pIacidly
happy this afternoon.
Il have declared all along" he said,
IN answer to question, "that there
would be no prize lighting in Aarkansas
| on oct 81. As you see, there has been
nora You will also see that there will
be no prize fighting in Arkansas on any
| other date so long as am governor OF
! the state. The resources at my disposal
are fully equal to any emergency, and
| prize fighters and their patrons win save
! time and money by keeping out of the
/ state"
Hot Springs, Ark, Oct 81-Thls morn
| ing at 1l:30 O'Clock Corbett entered a
/ closed carriage and was driven to Whit
/ tington Park where he stepped for a
4 moment upon the temporary stage, and
/ announced TO the birds in the trees thar
/ he had fulfilled his share of the articles
of the agreement to the letter and
/ claimed the forfeit from the Florida
\ Athletic Club. He then re-entered his
/ carriage and went back to town still the
/ heavyweight champion of the world.
This is the latest programme: Maher-
/ day. Corbett- -Fitzsinmons, Wednesday.
| COrbett is in Hot Springs, and Fitzsim-
mons at Little Rock