The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-10
HIRAM COOK COULD NOT BE USED
AND WAS REJECTED.
@The Calls Stand on the Fight Fully Supported
and Justified by the Testimony Given in
Judge Sanderson's Court Yesterday
by Sharkeys Trainer.

The sensation of the hour is the testi-
mony of Billy Smith in Judge Sanderson's s
court yesterday wherein he laid bare the
conspiracy to rob FitzsimmonS and the
public by an agreement with Long Green
Lawrence's bodyguard, who was to re-
ceive $2500 for deciding the fight in favor
OF Sharkey on foul.
George Allen, who assisted Smith in
training Sharkey, will testify to the same
effect this morning.
William Abbott will also appear and
corroborate Smiths testimony.
The stand that THE CALL took on the
jasco of a week ago is being borne out in
every detail, and each day the corrobora-
ton grew stronger until yesterday, when
the whole disgraeeful business was ex-
posed to the people who had been so
shamefully duped. 1t needs but the repro
duCiion of THE CALLS story OF last Thurs
day morning to describe the affair as the
testimony OF the last seven days has finally
made ii.
1t would be supe -huous to say that the
courtroom was crowded.
When a big auditorium like that Of the
Mechanics Pavilion can be packed with
witness a prize-fght, is it any wonder that
a small courtroom should be crowded
when Bob Fitzsimmcns was on exhibition
without any admission fee?
Judge San5erson was as grim and as
dignifed as usual. but he relaxed suffi-
GENTLY to allow every available inch CT
standing room to be crowded with dense
mass of spectators.
When the court opened at 10 o'clock
neither the principals nor their attorneys
were present. The tawny mustache and
light blue eyes of Wyatt carp were con-
spicuously not to the fore, and there was
a groan of disappointment when Judge
Sanderson, after asking whether there
were any other matters 10 be disposed of
except those on the calendar, announced
that he would proceed with another case.
1t was after IL o'clock before General
W. II. L. Barnes, grizzled, plump, rosy
and debonnair, pushed his way through
the crowd and stood up against the inner
rail which fences the clerk of the court
away from the populace. Shortly after
ward ex-Leutenant- Colonel Kowalsky
and Lawyer Friedenrich made their ap-
pearance behind the general and waited
1Or q pause III the
Fitzsitnmons and Julian came in late,
and their entry was the signal for much
whispering and confusion. The court
room both inside and outside the build
ing being crowded, the tall prize fighter
had to wedge his way through the mass of
men to the table at which the attorneys
were standing. Julian followed easily in
the wake left by the big fellow, for Fitz-
simmons shoulders are broad and square.
There he IS, said spectator after
spectator.
"Who2 Where?"
."Fitzsimmons. That tall, red-headed
fellow with the bad forehead
Fitz was resplendently arrayed. His
Prince Albert coat displayed the sheen Of
silk on the lapels. His colored shirt was
of tie new MORE antique water-mark
battern, and on that breast so often
thumped by the calloused fists of pugilistic
antagonists there flashed a stone of great
price. He carried his silk hat in his left
hand, purchased from Groom in the early,
happy days of confidence, before the long
green shadow fell across his pathway.
When the pause in the proceedings
that they were ready in the FitZ 'immons-
Skarkey case, and by consent the matter
was put off until P. NJ.
William G. Smith, otherwise known as
"Buly Smith of Australia, was called to
the witness-stand in the afternoon by
Fitzsimmons' counsel, who began by ask
ing certain questions, the answers to which
tended TO esta blish TIE good reputation of
the witness as an industrious workinGman
Billy Smiths testimony was unique.
He revealed in an unvarnished straight
orward way most of the details Of the
Nefarious conspiracy by which not only
Fitzsimmons but thousands OF persons in
terested in the manly art were swindled
OF their bets.
The courtroom hung in breathless sus-
pense upon every word uttered by the wit
ness, and as he deliberately anfolded the
details of the plot originated hv SharKev