The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-29
INTO. THE RAGING CREEK
ALL THE ATTACHES OF A PRIZE
FIGHT JUMPED To ESCAPE LAW.
An Omcers' Posse Had Lots of Fun,
but Failed to Secure the
Principals.

Captain Kruger, Captain of Detectives
Kinney, Sergeants Crane, Lowe and Wal
lace, Detective Morgan and Patrolmen
Crabtree and Lee were sporting last night.
They went to see a prize fight. The fight
was to have been between Jim Lewis and
Frank Robinson. The officers did not see
the fight nor cid those who paid at the
barbed wire fence, but two pairs of gloves,
two coils of rope. three gasoline torches,
one coal oil lamp. a bucket and one towel
are at police headquarters waiting to be
claimed by the owners.
Late last evening the police were given a
tip that a prize fight was to be pulled off
near the fair grounds. They drove out late
to the place named, but could find nothing
Of it. Finally a man came along, and, in
answer to inquiries, took the officers a
short distance and pointed down the road.
"See them Nights" he said; that's them. I
guess they's at it by now" The officers did
not wait for more. OF they went.
Near Hammond's Park, north of the fair
grounds, a new bridge is being erected. 1t
is to be a covered bridge and as yet only
one portion of 1t has been constructed. The
approach to the bridge from the present
roadway has not been filled in and the
one section stops right over the edge OF
the main part of the creek. The promoters
of the light had looked upon the bridge
as a likely place in which a fight could be
pulled off and entrance to the bridge was
secured by use of n gang plank laid from
the edge of the bridge to the roadway en-
ropes were In place and the lights had
been hung on the side. All was ready for
the opening round, when the disturbance
began. :,
of several oarbed-wire fences n when
they were about to crawl through the last
one they saw a man who had been stand
ing on the inside run from them. Hurry as
able. 70 catch the follow. but were
not far behind. They were close
enough TO hear him give the alarm
and see the crowd disappear from the bridge.
Where the men went TO they could not say
except from what was told afterward and
from the splashing sounds which reached
their ears In rapid succession. Principals.
seconds, tumekeepers. spectators and stake
holders had all jumped into the creek.
Search OF the bank was made and after
some time about fifteen men were found.
Not one of them knew anything about a
fight. One man had crawled into a pit
where the workmen had been mixing ce.
ment. Sergeant Lowe had stepped
over him several times in his
search along the bank and he fin
ally gave himself up. fearing bodily
lice were in a playful mood, and often dur
ing the search when hey heard a man run
ming would say, There he goes, Shoot
him, Don't let him get away" Such re-
marks were ALMOST Immediately followed
by a splash. sergeant Wallace took after
the man who had charge of the towel. In
order to save himself he threw the towel
in the sergeant's face and then plunged
off the bridge into the water. A noise of
cracking branches was heard. Five men
were found perched in a tall tree. One OF
them was on the topmost branch. None
of the men found seemed to know what had
become of Jim Levi and Frank Robinson,
except that they had taken a dive from the
bridge, nor was it known what became OF
the "a or S. which was collected at the
barbed wire fence.