The evening times., 1896-03-16
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THE WHITE BUILDING
Mountain Coal Company, suppcsing tie
veins to have been worked out.
LANKY B0B'S WICKED LEFT
Fitzsimmons Fells a Broadway
Gable Car Conductor.
Latter Threatened to Finish the Cha NJ
pion With a Brake Handle.
Sued for $1,000.

New York, March 1S.-Arthur Kirkpar
rick, a conductor on n Broadway cable car,
has brought suit against Pugilist Robert
Fitzsimmons for $4,000 damages. The
street car man says he was knocked down
and out by the fighter without any provoca-
ton.
Fitzsimmons and his relatives had been
at supper after his exhibition on Thursday
night. and were on their way down town on
Broadway, below Thirtieth street, be-
tween 2 and 1 O'Clock, when they hailed
Kirkpatrick's car. The car was bound only
for Houston street, and, according to rule,
the conductor was obliged to say to any
person boarding it, Houston street car"
kirkpatrick says that that is what he said
to Mrs. Fitzsimmons and her companions
but that they thought that he had bid
them hurry ON to the car, and Informed him
that they were making all requisite haste.
He told them, he says, that he had not or
dered them to hustle, but had notified then
that it was Houston street car.
FItzsimmons had seen the conductor ring
the bell which the gripman disregarded in
the first place, and he, too, understood Kirk
patrick's words to the women to be orders
to he lively. That did not please him, but
more serious thing for everybody was that
Fitzsimmons, reaching the steps Just al
Kirkpatrick made his explanation to thu
women, understood the conductors last
words as an eiaculatory phrase character.
izing them in opprobrious terms.
He reprimanded the conductor without
loss OF time, and folio wed up the reprimand
with Il left-band blow, which caught Kirk
patrick on the right maXillary and knocked
him out. Fitzsimmons insists that the con-
ductor did use insulting words to the wo-
men. while Kirkpatrick AYERS that the pu-
gilist misunderstood the sounds. Both
agree that the conductor was momentariy
done for.
He says that he was knocked lengthwise
intc the car, and that when he got up
somebody handed him his hat, and that he
went forward then and told the gripman TO
halt the first policeman he saw. The officer
was found at Twenty-second street and
Kirkpatrick told him he wanted the four
persons 10 get out of the car.
He did not ask to have them arrested,
but as the pugilist made at him again,
being restrained by his wife from graphing
with him. kirkpatrick seized the brake
handle, land would have hit him with il
had lie struck me Il gain" he says. FitZ had
that idea, too, he says.
The railroad hands from the switching
yard then came up and the policeman
said: whats the matter, Bob?' The Of
ficer then cautioned Robert to quiet down.
and suggested that the car resume its
Journey, and the incident Of the night wai
ended.
Kirkpatrick says that he was unable to
go to work on Friday because of the effects
of the blow. He was haZy yesterday as 10
whether it was at Twenty-ninth or Twen-
ty-seventh street that the four passengers
got on the car and as 10 whether he got
their fares. Fitz says that he paid them.
He SAYS that when he struck the conductor
Kirkpatrick would have fallen over the
platform railing il he had not caught hiIn-
He says he took him into the car and put
him on q seat, and when ne came to paid
him.
Yesterday Kirkpatrick consulted Lawyer
Pbi,ip F. Olwell, who. it is said, brongns
snit for him against FitZsimmonS for S2,ooo.
Fitzsimmons said lie had not been served
with papers in any suit