The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-09-04
Bob FitzSin1nlOnS Tells
OF Hon He Was Robbed
right With Sharkey Was Framed Up-CIaim
OF Foul and Ruby Rob Lost Just
$4,000 on the Deal.


ioui and gave the fight to Sharkey. I'm
NOT d quick mover as far as the brain
Is concerned. and perhaps / didn't think
II was as bad as it was. Anyhow, by
the tune | got it into my head that I'd
been trimmed, there was a gang in the
ring and all around il putting up the
biggest kind of a howl. The police
broke In. too. and then the fur began
10 fly in good She pc. carp pulled Il
gun and backed his say-so against
anything that the rest could put up
and the police chased the mob out of
the building
Robbed Outright
The rest of the story is history.
Everyone knows how / brought suit to
get that money back, but they also
know how ii was decided against me.
/ want to say right here that 1 was
robbed just as much as If that gang
had broken into my house. plugged me
with a IA and taken the dough out of
the safe. They call me an old man
whole lot, but those that do would have
figured me a pretty small kid If they
could have seen me that night | don't
know for sure il / cried or not, but
know 1 felt like it. It's pretty rough
d
fortune by one measley gang of crooks.
and that's a fact. OF course, I found
out all about it. but worst of all was
the charge that I'd deliberately sold
the fight.
I've been miSQuOted q whole lot, and
I've been roasted whole lot, and some
of the newspaper boys showed it to me
good and hard before 1 got a chance to
show Ac rrtla
are good boys, and they made IL right
when they found they had got 1t wrong;
but IL didn't cure the hurt There was
an organized gang that put up that lob.
L don't know what they cleaned UP. but
I've been told since that they cinched
close to half million, all told. They
put Wyatt carp there for that purpose
because they knew thered be a scream,
and they knew that the average man
would weaken when the roar came and
they also knew he wouldn't.
Job Framed Up.
The thing was fixed a week after the
match was made. and the Job came
from the East; l want to say that. OF
course, a good bunch of the West was
in on the play, but the Job came from
the East. When L get II handed to me
want 10 know how ii was done. and
went around asking questions when IL
was all over. L wanted to know about
this fellow, Wyatt carp, and when ]
heard his history, L didn't wonder he
was able to bluff that gang that night
Maybe some of you haven't heard
about the carp boys. so I'm going TO
tell yoG what l learned about them.
There were three of them originally,
and they were born in Illinois. They
went West, and took up with any good
steady Job. There was wyatt-ny friend
Virgil and Morgan Wyatt was town
marshal down IN New Mexico once
Albuquerque i think it was, and his
brothers were handy around A gang
OF cow punchers had been holding up
stages around there a whole lot. and
they did the job just once too often.
They showed up in Albuquerque. and
were having a whole lot of fun, when
Wyatt collected his two brothers and
chap named Doc" Holiday. and
went after them. The outlaws got the
worst of 1t. bat one of them got away,
and two weeks later he shot Virgil
carp at a railroad station, and Doc
Holiday got him later, and come near
getting lynched for it Morgan was. 4
think. shuffled eff some time later, but
Our good Wyatt is still living in Cali
fcrnia and taking life easy.
/ don't know what he got for his job.
but II was enough TO make him pull the
trick AS far as 1 could find out there
was never anything illegal about the
carp gang. but they were looked on as
handy men TO have around and worth
when the game was going
round. / don't mean thev were dishon-
est. but-few people turned their bacns
when they played poker with them.
Innocent.
AS far as Sharkey himself is concern
&c, I don't believe he was in on Il 10
any extent. Maybe, he knew there was
something coming of. but what he got
out Of II was cigarette money to the big
haul; and. besides. Tom isn't big enough
In the brain pan to dope out a hot one
like that. l got mine, and I know IL.
but you can make a little easy money
II anyone thinks they get me again
with crooked referee
No more Wyatt Earps in mine I'll
take a second-rate fighter before / ac-
cept any more bad men" or 'terrors
OF the plains" for the job of referee
Now / have that out of my system. I
feel better: but II any of the youngsters
who read this ever figure on going in
TO the fighting game, it's a good plan |
10 tuck away a gun In your tights whom
you pull II of In Frisco, II they have
a referee with a mustach and steelv