The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-31
Taken Into Charge After He Had
Crossed the Line Into
Arkansas.
REMOVED TO LITTLE ROCK
Scheme of the Hot Springs Contingent
to Protect the PugiliSt Falls
Flat.

TEXARKANA, ARK, Oct. 30.-Robert
Fitzsimmons will not be able, granting
that he has always been willing, to make
good his boast of being in Hot Springs on
October 81 to fight Corbett if civil or mill
tary authorities did not interfere. The
Australian pugiIist, accompanied by Man
ager Julian and others, had no sooner
crossed the line which divides Texas and
Arkansas than officers of Arkansas, who
had been on the train, served a warrant of
arrest on him.
There was an exciting clash on the
train between Sheriff Houpt of Garland
County and Sheriff billiard of Miller
County, in which this city is situated.
After Fitzsimmons had been made pris-
oner for the purpose of effecting his re-
moval in a legal manner to the capital
his captors left the Iron Mountain train at
Fuller, twenty miles from this city, and
doubled up on their tracks so as to take
another train tomorrow morning from
Texarkana for Little Rock via Pine Bluffs.
The carrying out of this plan effectually
stops Fitzsimmons from appearing in Hot
Springs TO claim the forfeit money, as he
has so often talked about lately from his
training quarters at Corpus Christi.
When the Iron Mountain train carrying
Fitzsimmons and Julian, their wives and
other members of the Corpus Christi con-
tingent, arrived at Marshall, Tex, several
men entered the car where the pugilistic
party was ensconsed. They were officers
from Arkansas, but clothed in no author
ity to make arrests until Texarkana was
reached. Sheriff Houpt of Garland County
was there with friendly warrants" for the
arrest Of Fitzsimmons and Julian OH the
same line as the warrants for the Corbett
party, the plan OF the Hot Springs people
being to have their Sheriff escort Fitzsim-
mons through Arkansas to the present
Mecca of sports, SO as to give him an op-
portunity to keep his pugilistic engage
ments by gong through the Corbett JUS
tice Court performance.
But Sheriff billiards. county is on the
Texas line and he was on the train to en-
force his better right to take the fighter
and hold him for the benefit of the Gov
ernor. He was aided by Deputy Sheriff
Jesse Howard of Pulaski County, in which
the capital is located, and several other
deputies from Miller County, to be used in
case OF a forcible resistance to the au-
thority of the law. Deputy Howard was
sent by the pugnacious executive of Ar
kansas as his trusted lieutenant to guard
against any hitch in the scheme to thwart
the fight designs of Hot Springs citizens.
Part of this city is in Texas and part of
1t in Arkansas and when the Iron Noun
tain train arrived on the Texas side at 3
o'clock this afternoon it stopped for the
usual railroad purposes. Then it was
started into Arkansas. When the line was
crossed the contending Sheriffs of Garland
and Miller counties confronted Fitzsim-
mons and proceeded to read their war
rants.
Sheriff Houpt was the first to begin and
claimed the prisoner, but Miller County's
Sheriff sharply advised him to keep his
hands off, as he had no authority under
the circumstances. The Little Rock war;
rants were sworn to by the Attorney-Gen-
eral as the legal representative of the
State. Upon this fact, as well as that of
Sheriff Houpt being outside his county,
Sheriff billiard and Deputy Howard in
sisted on their better right to Fitzsim-
mons. Sheriff Houpt submitted and pro-
ceeded to Hot Springs.
Fearing some attempt to take his pris-
oner away and desiring to keep him as far
as possible from Hot Springs, Sheriff Dill
lard and party left the train at Fulton,
twenty miles south of here, and arrived
here with Fitzsimmons at z o'clock to-
night, Julian accompanying them. The
Sheriff and his prisoner will take the
morning train on the Cotton Belt line at
7:30 for Little Rock, via Pine Bluff. The
rest OF the Fitzsimmons party proceeded
to Hot Springs to tell of the misfortune
which befell their chief