The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-01-07
FIGHTS FOR FUN OF IT.
Well-to-do Jersey Man Has Paid
$4,000 Fines in Fifteen Years.

$4,000 Fines in Fifteen Years.
Some of the rich men of Trenton. n.
J., pay larger taxes than Patrick Nal
10y, but few Of them contribute more
10 the public treasury. Malloy is a
taxpayer but his heaviest payments
toward the support of free government
III Mercer county and the city Of Tren-
ton are in the form OF fines. In the
/ last fifteen yeas he has parted with
about $4,000 because of his fondness for
conViViaiity and fighting, and he is still
keeping up the average Of something
more than $500 a year
MallOy comes of fighting stock. His
father. James Malloy, had a reputation
IN that line in his younger days, and
his brother, Edward. can use his fists
when occasion requires, but Patrick
proves is the pride of the family.
Patrick Malloy isn't afraid of any
man that walks. he is big and strong
and his fists are as hard as a dry-saIted
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He is six feet tall and as straight as
an Indian. He has high cheek bones
and heavy jaw, and when he is about
to settle a dispute with natures wea-
Pons his face looks hard and stern. At
other times there is a merry twinkle
in his light blue eyes. His curly hair
once sandy, is now nearly white and
forms q striking contrast with his rud-
dy complexion He is only "a years
old. His friends say that his prema-
turely white hair is due to his troubles
with the courts and the officers Of the
law
There is seldom a term of the court
of quarter sessions of Mercer county
at which Malloy is not indicted for as
sault. At the term held last May he
was fined SIS and costs, amounting in
all to about 500. At the present term
he has been convicted of assault and
battery on Edward Hogan. Sentence
IN this case has not yet been imposed,
but, whatever the fine, Malloy will pay
it Cheerfully, because, as complaining
witness in a similar case, he succeeded
in convicting John Neuman of assault.
For once, at least, Malloy was able TO
show that he was not the aggressor.
During the period between the May and
November terms Malloy was fined sew
eral times in police court for fighting.
The Malloys are well-to-do They
own a tract Of land along the canal
which contains a deposit of sand from
twenty-five to thirty feet deep, and
make money by selling the sand to
that Patrick has sand" of more than
one kind 60 spare. A good many Of his
fights grow out of horse trades. He
could give David Harum pointers in
that line.
Then there are a good many old fam
lily feuds that have to be adjusted when
Patrick goes on a spree. If Kentucky
methods were pursued here the Nal
10y family ande several others, would
have been wiped out long ago.
With all his fights. Patrick Malloy
never has served a day in Jail. He al
ways has the money ready to pay his
fine. He pays for the fun of fighting,
just as another man would pay for
ticket to the races or the theatre. 1t is
his sole diversion and he never tires
of it.
Four or five years ago he narrowly
escaped an application of Pennsylvania
justice that might have landed him be
hind the bars, says d New York World
special. With several friends he crossed
the Delaware river to Doylestown, the
county seat of Bucks county, Pennsyl-
vania, and, of course. there was fight.
The Pennsylvania officers got after
Malloy and he executed a midnight
crossing of the Delaware, which, unlike
Washington's was to escape instead OF
to attack the enemy.