The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-13
Young Peter Jackson, Once
Price Ring FavOrite, in Pen.
Shawnee County Makes Notable
Contribution to Lansing.
HAMDCUFFS WERE TOO SMALL
Muscular Development Gave
Sheriff Kiene q Problem.
Jackson Fought From San
Francisco to. Baltimore.

Bereft Of everything but the good ma
ture which once made him a popular
prize ring bet, Young Peter" Jackson
who was one of the rounds in the lad
der on hitch Jack johnson climbed to
fame, has been delivered to the Kansas
state penitentiary to serve an lnoe-
terminate sentence for burglary col1-
rnitted in North Topeka three weeAs
ago. jackson pleaded guilty to the Inert
Of AZ cents and a cheap revolver Wnlcn
he found in a North side store bu1IdlnS
which he had entered In quest OF some
thing with which to buy food. He nao
Just struck town.
For half q dozen years Young Peter
Jackson's name was frequently IN the
news from prize fighting centers OF
every corner Of the country. But there
was nothing in his appearance 70 con
meet him with the familiar prize ring
fieure Of a decade ago when he gave IN
his right name of James Oliver jack
son to the taller when he was locked
nm. He Rood-naturedly admitted his
guilt. and to Sheriff l. L. Kiene he
rave a circumstan -ia1 account OF him
self before he was taken to the pen1-
tentiary.
Too Big for HAndcuf1s.
When the sheriff took him to the
peflitentiary at Lansing, half dozen
pairs of handouts were tried and re-
iected before one was found of SUI
ficient girth to encircle Jackson's
wrists. His muscular development
shows the training which once made
him a hopeful prospect for ring hon.
ors, and gave him a chance at men
like johnson. Sam Langford and phil
adelphfa Jack O'Brfen. Jackson gave
his age It 81. He stands feet 9
inches, and weighs about IT'S.
While he nevt won enough battles
to put his name on the permanent
record Of the fighting ring, Young Pc
ter Jackson was in the news frequent
ly from 1900 to 1905.
He had borrowed the name OF the
original Peter jackson, another color
ed man OF early fightin4 fame. He
fought from San Francisco to yBaltt-
more; knocking out Sailor Burns one
OF the favorities Of the late nineties
on the Pacific coast and going twelve
rounds to a decision in favor Of Jack
johnson in Baltimore in 1905. In the
interim he knocked out Philadelphia
Jack O'Brien III 1900, went six rounds
in a no decision match with him In
1902, and then lost two fights to him
in 1905. In that year he went onto
the rosin with Sam Langford for three
fights. losing two decisions after IT,
round fights and pursuing another to
a draw. In 1907 Langford got hts
goat after 20 rounds. -
Afater that date Young Peter dis
appeared from the big rings, but he
lived on the easy money of the little
ones for number of years longer I'M
til, as he explained to the sheriff. booze
got him." For the last year or two
he admitted he has been a ''bum. -
good-natured but no account. He gave
no account of his operations imme-
diately before reaching Topeka, but his
arrest was made on suspicion of his
completely in a robbery at Emmett. He
denied that but informed the officers Of
his North Topeka theft before they had
other notice Of it.