The Alaska citizen., 1912-04-22
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 mauy years s1r u aa- Immediately after his ba.u. n..u Dempsey al New Orleans ,ha l took him to New York anu became his manager He IS the same suspicious creature he always va and tor an hour IT more his Waole oout.rsa.iou was ahou, The manner .a alloL he had been skinned o.. %. All he money he earned since coming across the Pacific on the steamer Alameda with Captain Morse.
 I've been ele original Patsy" a5 said. If there is ans au, connected with rh, sponiuL 13ws in America that hasut had crack at He either directly ndtrcerly-welL lead ne 10 him X chap ot that sort will prove a curiosity to one Robert Fltzsimmons
 You know Jimmy Carroll kept handing me things rom rHe day beat Billy McCar,hy aud from that time 10 now ! hay, earned ov.r million q liars and all I've saved from the wreck is ,he little farm ,n New Jersey"
 I reminded FTJz rhar perhaps fate was dealing cruelty with him on account of his frs matrimonial troubles When he and the little woman he brought from Australia with baby in her arms parted well, things have never rHgHed them selves as they should True. she has been taken care of. 1ut Bob. what of him2 He married Rose Julian. oue of the graudes- women tha, ever lived, and she died after few years. Inn he married Julia CHtf.rd and the union has been anything ba; a happy one. They are parted now and Bob is as unhappy Us he can he. What Of that baby boy nat came from Australia? His name Haz Charlie. if l remember correctly We hear tftz talking of Young Bob. who by the way is son pf Rose Julian. But We never hear him refer [. the first born. .ae Hula chap from Nangaroo!and Maybe he hand of geuibution has sametHua To do with the affairs of Fig in tne mater of this boy We refer ro.
 Al heart Fi;z was one of rbe kindest of men. His Vas d trust ing nature II some ways. He was suspicious f everybody. but once you gained his confidence he would give yon Inc Very clothes off his back, II wasnr hard ro skin him and when | tell you tha, lie was the biggest sucker in the world against any kind of d skin game You believe me ina, ii is rue.
 | remember on- ime coming from the old Gravesend race track in C.. m- pany with Martin Julian and others We found Fitz playing agfnst rhe shell game Th.re he t4s a, earn estly busy d. if he Mas engaged in the battle oi his life He had already lost d thousand dollars and holding his hand oyer one of the shells he was saying: The little ball is under there, don touch that shell until l write out check for $2,5oo and bet you" Julian tried to get him away but Fitz would have n~ne of il and gave the ,pieIer his check only 10 learn that the little psa was somewhere else"
 Another time he went into a resi- aurant on Fourteenth street in New York and man stepped up 10 him and said Kindly deposit $1o with me. Fitz looked al him and asked; What for?" Then the man explained as follows: You see, We make everybody deposit here SC in case they break any dishes We charge them for il. If they don't We hand them back their money" Fitz gave up the ten dollars and when he fin. ished his mcdowell. man. ten dol lars and all had vanished,
 Fitz said Not only was I robbed in money matters but look at the fights was robbed of. Remember when fought Sharkey in Frisco and knocked him ccId? Well. von know what Danny Needham,. Danny Lynch and Wyatt Erb did to me that time, Only skinned me ont Of ten thousand dollars. They told me they would give it back but never have seen cent of it to this day. Then do you recall the time met Joe Choynski ill Boston and after knocking him cut about six times they called the fight draw because We had agreed it should be so with both men on their feet? They gave Choynski minute to recover in time and they counted the seconds by the hour glass.
 T remember how old John L., who was seated at the ringside, came 10 me after the battle and told me what a shame it was to rob me that way. Don't forget how they trimmed me Tn the fight with Jim Hall at New Orleans. I didn't have the