The San Francisco call., 1898-02-01
NED LANICAN CALLED 4
 BRIBE.TAKER Scoring Of Captain Delany's Committee by Y oung Mitchell. Says Haskins Demanded Money for a Boxing
 Permit. The Inner History of the Late Walcott Lavigne
 Fiasco. A PERMIT THAT WAS LOST.
A PERMIT THAT WAS LOST.
The Maher-Jackson Contest Knocked Out as a Matter of Re-
 taliation.

According to Young Mitchell,' the
 well-known manager of boxing con- tests, whose right name, by the way, is John Herget, the Supervisors Con-
 mittee on Health and Police consists of band of higbwaymen. whose man. ager is Ned Lanigan, heretofore ac- cused of being political washer of soiled linen and handler of poodle for various corrupt politicians.
 Mitchell's statement is startling in the extreme.
 It comes on the heels of the sensa-
 tiona1 charges of Officer Wadham of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, anei seems strangely cor roborative Of the charge that Supervi- sor Delany's committee is as rotten a body as the city has ever tolerated in politics.
 'They wanted me to shake down for $500 on the Walcott-Lavigne fight" said Herget, land Ned Lanigan was the broker who came to me and said I would have to do right by the boys meaning the Supervisors. We agreed on $500. but I never paid it because they did not send collector whose credentials I was sure of. I had the money ready, but nobody came to me to do business and I was determined not to chase them. I felt this after ward when I wanted other permits"
 According to Mitchells story there was a great deal of hard feeling on the part of Messrs. Delany, Haskins, Riv- CTS and Devany because the $500 did not materialize, so when Mitchell applied for a permit for the Griffo-Lavigne fight he decided to do business with the crooked Supervisors in person. His story of this is startling, and, if true. shows a monstrous state of political corruption. He says:
 T called on Haskins, who had been rubber-necking around my place. and asked him what the Griffo fight would cost me. He said, after some haggling, that it would cost s25O, and I agreed. I offered check, but he demanded the money. I went out to the board with the money, which I showed to some of my friends. Haskins tried hard to get it, but I always said: No permit, no money; show me the permit first but he did not show it. He said every thing would be all right on the follow ing Monday. I told him I would not trust the board out of my sight. While this talk was going on the other mem bers were walking ahead of us. The result was I was knocked out of the fight. I never got the permit. I was told to fix the matter with Lanigan, but I could not see it their way. wanted to have my permit first"
 The last chapter of the disgraceful story came to light yesterday. Mitchell had a permit hanging fire for the Jackson -Maher fight, but he has failed to get any satisfaction.
 They lost my permit in the shuffe," he said, "and there is probably no chance that it will ever be obtained. The reason is the fact that they have not been able to shake me down and they are sore on me and my fights
 .All the fights are going to the En- -pire and the National clubs and Brother Groom has been shaken down good and hard to get what he has ob- tained. This Committee on Health and Police is not in business for its health. but for what it will pay. Lanigan makes no bones about being broker for Haskins, Delany, Devany and Rivers. It is about the rawest play for money that ever saw. If the committee had sent the right man all would have been we'll.
 When I agreed to pay Haskins $250 suggested that would bring check for that amount to the board at the date agreed upon. He said. Don't you bring any check near here, but come here with the money. We don't want to deaf with any checks or with any, thing but spot cash.
 Mitchell is not making his entire fight at once, for he says he still has more cards up his sleeve to be used if necessary. He has no faith in the in- tegrity of the committee or the honesty of the methods now in vogue with the body that has In charge matters of health and police.