The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-10-19
BEST PEOPLE WANT A FIGHT
,ENERAL TAYLOR SAYS THAT THE
 HABEAS AMOUNTS TO NOTHING.

re Says That the Brutality of the Meeting
 Between Corbett and Fitzsimmons Is
 Greatly Overrated-C Corbett Has Been
 Placed Under Arrest-Adjournment Was
 Immediately Taken After the Arraign-
 ment.
 & Hot Springs, Oct. 1S.-Champion Cor Sett arrived this morning from his
 raining quarters at Spring Lake and
 Fas met at the depot by Sheriff Houpt, # Ianager Brady, Joe Vendig and other friends and the officials of the Florida < Athletic club. There was a great crowd x f people at the depot to witness the @ rrival of the party. Corbett, Brady #snd the sheriff entered a carriage and &erove to the office of Justice W. A.
 sSirke. The sheriff presented his pris- N9ner to the court.
 & MT. Martin, attorney for Corbett, then presented petition addressed to Hon. Leland Heatherman, judge of the chan hery court of Garland county, in which s Sorbett declared that he was unlaw- Fully restrained of his liberty; stated ' hat he had not violated any of the < avs of the state and did not intend Flo violate the peace or dignity of said Estate, and prayed that Judge Leather man award him writ of habeas cor Nous so that the cause of his detention might be inquired into. The petition 8of Corbett was granted and the pris-
 oner was arragned before Chancery alJudge Leatherman at about noon on ,sa writ issued to Sheriff Houpt. Direct ssiy after the arraignment adjournment Twas taken until 1:S0. At that hour 1.-the court reconvened. Attorney Mar s tin read the official documents in the lease and announced that he was ready flor trial The first evidence introduced
 Twas the enactment of the legislature .a1S91-93 and from the house records it Twas plainly made to appear by Corbett's ssattorney that the enactments of 1891 awere illegal because passed by @ viva svoce vote instead of roll call, as the s8constitution provides shall be done in Fall cases.
 The first witness to take the stand awas Joseph Vendig, by whose testi- mony it was proved that the defendant 8ahad agreed to engage in a glove con- 1atest here on October 31 with Fitzsim- amons for a purse of $41,000, under the kauspices of the Florida Atheltic club. s1Before the testimony of Vendig was sacompleted, Attorney Martin requested 1.-the chancellor to allow Corbett to de- a3part for Little Rock, where he had an ! aengagement. The chancellor granted aathe request, but required the sheriff to send deputy with Corbett to see that < he returned tomorrow. The court then adjourned until tomorrow afternoon. < The warrant upon which Corbett was arrested says it appears that there are Z good and sufficient grounds for believ- s ing that Corbett is about to engage in
 a glove contest prize fight with Fitzsim- mons, and the said glove contest and X prize fight are of a character endanger- sl ing life Prosecuting Attorney Teague \ to-day said that the governor had no * right to send troops into any county ] without first having been called upon to S do so by some civil authorities and 5 that they were not called upon until until the civil authorities found they were not able to suppress the riot or mob where 1t might be.
 sTn case the present proceedings go through, what will then be the atti- tude of the governor?" was asked.
 '.He will be tied up as tight as Dicks rat-band," replied the attorney. "Then if Judge Duff1e should call upon the governor to send the militia to stop
 the proceedings would the governor be
 compelled to do so?"
 'Yes, I think he would. He would be
 bound to respect the call of the circuit
 judge in that case. But should he do
 go the militia would be under the or
 ders of the local peace officers. The
 sheriff would have supreme control
 over them after they had entered the
 county
 ''If the sheriff has control of troops
 after they have come into the county,
 what would be the result?"
 seWe1l, he could make whatever dispo-
 sition he saw proper. The sheriff could
 plant them down at the race track and
 keep them until their services were
 necessary to suppress any mob or riot"
 MT. Teague also said: If the chan
 cery court decides that there is no law
 in the state prohibiting a prize fight or
 glove contest, and the writ of habeas
 corpus is issued I cannot see how the
 authorities can further interfere with
 the program The governor would be
 powerles to suppress something that is
 clearly no violation of law"
 Hot Springs, Oct. 1S.-The time for
 the meeting between Corbett and Fitz-
 simmons has been postponed, but the
 date is not announced. Vendig to-day
 sent a telegram to F'itzsimmons stating
 that if he was not in Hot Springs by
 Monday the fight would be declared
 off. Martin Julian will arrange to-mor-
 row and Fitzsimmons is expected to fol-
 low.
 Little Rock, Oct. Ex-Governor Clark
 was asked tonight about the fight and
 speaking of the habeas corpus he said;
 sHThat amounts to nothing. I have said
 that Corbett and Fitzsimmons should
 not fight at Hot Springs and I shall
 see that the fight does not take place"