The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-11-01
The Well-Directed Blows Of Gov. Clark
Knock the PugiIists Out, so to Speak.
THE HEAVY HAND OF THE LAW APPEARS
Fitzsimmons Says ISe rs Ready to
Fight CorDett or Any one Else, and
That Both He and 1His Ten Thou.
sand Dollars Are Rcady-Corbett
and His Friends Talk.


appearances Bob Fitzsinmons is not
likely to be at liberty to participate in
a. prize fight for several days to come.
To-day's legal proceedings were brief
ana inCOncluSiVo, but they Indicate
that, while Judge Martin will not strain
the law against the Australian, neither
will he hurry the proceedings along in
order to obiEe the pugilistic contin-
gent. II this view of the case is correct
titZSimmons may be detained here for a
week while the lawyers for the Hot
Springs Athletic Club and the Attorney
General argue the legal points.
But even if it were assured that
FitzsimmonS would be discharged
from custody tomorrow there is al
ways the absolute certainty that the
redoubtablc Governor Clarke would be
on his trai! 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 enjoying the sat
isfaction of holding Il Drize-tiShtcr cap
tive within Il stones throw of the
State Capital, and Is reluctant to re-
linquish the pleasing sensation He is
not likely to do SO either, SO long as he
has means at hand 10 prevent lanky
Boh's exit from the Arkansas capital,
and he declared that he has fresh am
munitiOn for any possible phase of the
situation that may develop.
1t was half-past O'Clock this morn
ing when 'itasimmons and Julian ar
rived in the city over the Cotton Belt
railroad in the custody Of Sheriff Dill
lard. of 'fcXarkana, who made the
arrest ut the direction of the sheriff OF
this PuiaskD county. With the party
We're j. y. Crcnshaw and w. T.. Casey,
who. however. Were not under arrest.
The party We're driven to the Capitol
Hotel where they registered i'll Il nope
ful spirit as zen route" They We're
assigned to rooms on the third floor,
and with a local deputy sheriff acting
as door-kccpcr settled down to await
their appearance in court at o'clock.
Julian spoke bitterly of the reports
that had been tclcgraphcG over the
country that Fitzsimmons had thrown
himself in the way of Sheriff Dillard
when he might have surrendered TO
Sheriff lIoupt, of Garland county, and
been taken safely to Hot Springs
That statement" he declared lis
n lie. pure and simple. We knew moth
Inc OF either of the Sheriffs. The Hot
Springs people sent us no word OF any
thing of the kind from the time | left
there. ten days ago, UP 10 the present
moment. We knew nothing about any
arrangements that had been made to
get us safely 10 liot Springs, If any
such arrangements We're made. We
were left completely in the dark To feel
our way out If we could Neither
Fitzsimmons nor myself is Il mind
reader and we could not be expected to
by looking nj them. But aside from
that fact, the truth is that the Hot
Springs Sheriff himself surrendered MS
to the TcXarkana Sheriff when the lat
ter made a demand on him. We had no
choice iii the matter. The Hot Springs
man made n mild kick on giving us
UP, but it did not so.
THAT special train story Is another
sample OF the way the Corbett crowd
tried to do us up. They said we re-
fused to go on special train that would
have taken us through to Hot Springs
without molcstaton. Now. in the first
place. never saw that special train.
and IL had seen ii ] would not have
got on the same car with Joe Ventiig
who, as everybody knows. has been try
ing to do us up ever since the match
was made. believe he would have
jobbed us somehow. The amount of il
is we have been getting the worst of
II light along. We were guaranteed
protection from legal intercfcrcncc,
and as YOU see. we were arrested as
soon as we stepped over the State line
You may say for Ftzsimmons that i'm
spite Of all the discouraGcments and
bad faith VIC have had to encountcr, he
is ready, as soon as we get out OF this
lners. 10 fight Corbctt or anybody else.
as originally proposed. His $4,000 is
ready ana so is he"
FitZSimmons endorsed what his man
aser said and added that he was sick
ana tired of being lied about and mis-
represented. and that he had about
Hnit talking for publication until he
had fought Corbett.
AT O'Clock the pugilist and his man
aser appeared before Judge j. w Mar
I'm, IN the Circuit Court. Mayor Wat
crs. of the Hot Springs Athletic club
had telcgraphed Julian that the At
torncy of the club could not reach
Little Rock until tomorrow and con-
feauently when the assistant attorney
general MIR. Hcmmingway, requested
continuance until tomorrow after
noon because Of the absence of Attor-
ney General Trustworthy, there was no
opposition. The pugilis,ic marty rn
turned to the hotel in custody of a
Deputy Sheriff
Under The law FitZsimmons and
Juiinn may be held In bonds not ey
ceedinG $1,000 each to keen the ncace
should the Court decide that tbcv
contemplated a breach thereof.
Governor Clark was mildly and
riacidiy happy this afternoon II have
declared all along" he said in answer
10 a question, that there would be no
prize lighting in Arkansas on October
Slst. AS You see, there has been mono.
You VIII also sec 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