The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 10, 1896, Page 1

/ SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER RICE FIVE CENTS. THE SWINOLE IS REVEALED Billy Smith Tells How Bob Fitzsimmons Was Robbed. REFEREE 10D DECIDE THE FOUL ON THE FIRST. ‘Shar’key, Lyneh, Gibbs and Groom Constituted the National Club and Selected Earp. HIRAM COOK COULD NOT BE USED AND WAS REJECTED. “The Call's” Stand on the Fight Fully Supported and Justified by the Testimony Given in Judge Sanderson’ s Court Yesterday by Sharkey’s Trainer. The sensation of the hour is the testi- of Billy Smith in Judge Sanderson’s yesterday wherein he laid bare the to rob Fitzsimmons and the v an agreement with Long Green rence’s bodyguard, who was to re- ve $2500 for deciding the fight in favor ey on a fc Allen, who assisted Smith in Sharkey, will testify to the same s mornin m Abbott will also app-ar and olorate Smith’s testimony. stand that Tue CaLL took on the of a week ago is being borne out in !, and each day ihe corroboras ew stronger until yesterday, when the whole diszraceful business was ex- rosed to the people who had been so 7’ mefully duped. It needs but the repro- duciion of THE CALL’s story of last Thurs- " dav morning to describe the affair as the testimony of the lastseven days has finally made it. 1t would be supe-fluous to say that the courtroom was crowded. When a big aunditorium like that of the Mechanics' Pavilion can be packed with people who pay from $5.to $10 each to ness a prize-fight, is it any wonder that a small courtroom should be crowded when Bob Fitzsimmens was on exhibition without any admission fee? Judge Sanderson was as grim and as dignified as usual, but he relaxed suffi. ciently to allow every available inch cf standing room to be crowded with adense mass of spectators. When the court opened at 10 o'clock er the principals nor their attorneys were present. The tawny mustache and light-blue eyes of Wyatt Earp were con- Wi fiasco spicuously not to the fore, and there was | a groan of disappointment when Judge Sanderson, after asking whether except those on the calendar, announced that he wounld proceed with another case. | It was after 11 o'clock before General W.'H. L. Barnes, grizzled, plump, rosy _and debonnair, pushed his way through the crowd and stooc up against the inner | rail which fences the clerk of the court away irom the populace. Shortly after- ‘ward ex-Lieutenant- Colonel Kowalsky and Lawyer Friedenrich made their ap- pearance behind the general and waited for a pause in the proceedings. Fitzsitamons and Julian came in late, and their entry was the signal for much whispering and confusion. The court- room both inside and ouiside the build- ing being crowded, the tall prize-fighter had to wedge his way through the mass of men to the table at which the attorneys were standing. Julian followed easily in ‘the'wake left by the big fellow, for Fitz- simmons’ shoulders are broad and square. | “There he 1s,”° said spectator after spectator. Who? Where?"” “Pitzsimmons. That tall, red-headed fellow with the ba'd forehead.”’ Fitz was resplendently arrayed. His Prince Albert coat displayed the sheen of silk on the lapels. His colored shirt was of the new moire antique water-mark pattern, and on that breast so often thumpea by the calioused fists of puzilistic antagonists there flashed a stone of great price. He carried his silk batin his left hand, purchased from Groom in the early, | happy days of confilence, before the long green shadow fell across his pathway. When the pause in the proceedings came, the lawyers informed the Judge that they were ready in the Fitz.immons- Skarkey case, and by consent the matter W put off until 2 p. M. Wiliiam G. €mith, otherwise known as “Billy Smith of Australia,” was called to the witness-stand in the afternocon by ¥itzsimmons’ counsel, who began by ask- ing certain questions, the answers to which tended to establish tue good reputation of the witness as an industrious workingman. Billy Smith’s lestimony was unique. Te revealed in an unvarnished, straight- ward way most ot the details of the efarious conspiracy by which not only Fitzsimmons but thousands of persons in- terested in the manly art were swindled of their bets. The courtroom hung in breathless sus- pefise upon every wora uttered by the wit- iess, anc as he deliberately unfolded the details of the plot originated by Sharkey there | were any other matters to be disposed of | and Lynch there were heard loud mur- | murs from the indignant spectators when | they found that their suspicions were all | too true. Smith said that he was 28 years of age, a blacksmith by occupation, and that he had resided in this City for a little more | than seven years. During that time he had worked at his trade in several foun- dries and iron works in this City. | Smith went on to telkhow he had acted as Sharkey's trainer at the Seal Rock House on the ocean beach, with George | Alten as his assistant, and during the five days before the fight Danny Needham | eamie 1n and helped. 1 On one of his walks with Sharkey about | three weeks before the fight, Sharkey re- quested him to look up some people from among whom a suitable referee could be chosen. On that afternoon Hiram Cook came out to the training quarters, and Smith believing that he would be a fair referee spoke to him aboutit. Cook ex- | pressed his willingness to serve. Bmitn | mentioned the matter to Sharkey and ex- | pressed the opinion that Cook would give ]“n good square decision.” Sharkey re- plied that he would think a little about the matter. The next time Dan Lynch, Sharkey’'s | manager, came out Sharkey spoke about | Cook and gave Lynch his address. Lynch | asked Smith whether he was sufficiently ntimate with Cook to ‘“‘talk business’” with him, and Smith’s answer was that he knew Cook pretty well, but not well enough for that. Lynch thereupon an- nounced his intention of seeing Cook at once. In aday or two afterward Lynch came back and reported that he had seen Cook | and that Cook would not do. Lynch had a | talk with Sharkey and aiter he went away | Sharkey told Smith that Cook was “no good” and that he didn’t want him to | referee the fight. He said that Lynch asked Cook how he would decide a fight between Cook’s brother and a Chinaman. Cook replied that if the Chinaman won, he would de- cide in favor of the Chinamar. This statement disgusted both Lynch and Sharkey, and Sharkey said to the witness in the complimentary vernacular of the pug, “We don’t want that — to be referee for us.” 1t seemed, according to the witness, that whenever anybody was mentioned by the pugilistic -circle of which he wasa mem- ber, the absentee was spoken of as a man with a bar sinister across his escutcheon. Sharkey told Smith on another occasion that he (Sharkey), Lynch, Gibbs and Groom composed the National Club, and that be (Sharkey) was to get 20 per cent of the proceeds of the fight after the $10,000 purse had been taken out. Sbarkey said also that Gibbs, Groom and Fitzsimmons had no money, and that he (Snarkey) was the only man who had | any capital, and that be had to deposit | $2500 for Futzsimmons and $2500 for him- | self to guarantee their appearance in the ring, and that that had tied up so much of his money that he was nearly “broke.” | About ten days before the fight the mat- terof the selection of a referee was brought up again, when Sharkey infcrmea Smith that a ‘racehorse man” named Wyatt | Earp would make a very good reteree, and that he would be “all rizht.”” Sharkey added that there would be good money in it for the referee—that it would be worth | $2500 to the referee. He said further that he and his friends iniended to object to every referee proposed by the other side, and if they didn’t agree upon a referee by | 12 o’clock noon of the day of the fight the ciub would cheose the referce that Sharkey and Lynch wanted. At about 10 o'clock in the forenoon of the day of the fight Sharkey told Smith | that they had the referee they wanted and that Fitzsimmons would lose on a foul in the first round—that it had been agreed that Earp was to give him the fight ona foul, The first blow that Fitz would de- liver on Sharkey’s bsdy wouid be the signal for Danny Needham to jump into the ring and claim a foul. When Sharkey and Fitzsimmons ap- peared in the ring on the evening of the fight Sharkey’s hands were bandaged in order to strengthen them and save them from accident. Fitzsimmons objected to the bandages and Sharkey refused to take { | | | | | THE ENEMIES THEY HAVE MADE. them off until Wyatt Earp walked over to Needham and whispered, “Take off the bandages; it will be all right, anyhow.”’ At the end of the second round Sharkey was considerably dazed from the effects of the punches on the head administered by Fitzsimmons, and he was very anxious (o know what round it was. When Sharkey was knocked flat in the eighth round Smith carried him to his corner and Lynch came up and whispered, *Now. Tom, keep your hands down and pretend to be in great pain.’”’ Sharkey re- plied that that was sall right, but he seemed to be dazed and didn’t know what he was doing and he forgot to put his hands down, but kept them on his head and over his ears, where he #aid he had pains. They picked up Sharkey podily and car- ried nim to the dressing- room, from which, by orders of Lynch, everybody was excluded. Lynch would not allow any doctors or reporters to see him, nor would he permit Smith to take off Bharkey’s trunks. For the period of an hour Shar- key lay there complaining of pains in his ear and head, and at the end of that time Le was taken to the Windsor Hotel in a nhack. In his room Smith stripped Shar- key, and saw no injury or discoloration whatever, nor did Sharkey complain of any injury eisewhere than on his head. After a while a man calling himself Dr. B. B. Lee visited Sharkey and for abouta quarter of an hour Smith and Allen were excluded from the room, and they heard Sharkey shrieking and howling with pain, as though the doctor was hurting bim. When they were again admitted to Shar- key’s room several leeches were feasting on his swollen ear and Smith saw that the doctor had bandaged Sharkey’s body. Sharkey called the witness to his bedside and asked him as to what kind of a fight | he had put up, and on being assured by Smith that he did pretty well, Sharkey replied: “That fellow can beat Corbett in two rounds. He hits like a kick from a mule.” A day or so before the fight the witness was boxing with Sharkey and struck Sharkey a severe blow on the ear, causing it to begin to swell. Fitz finished the job, and at the end of the fight Sharkey had what is known 1n the pugilistic vernacular as a caulifiower ear. Assoon as the peo- ple left the room Sharkey jumped briskly out of bed, lighted a cigar at the gas jet and walk d up and down the room smok- ing it, He did not walk at all lame and showed no symptoms of having been in- jured in the least. After Dr. Lee lett there was a small bot- {le of iodide of potassium on the wash- stand. There were no stains on Sharkey’s head or ears to show tkat the drug had been used as a liniment. No other physician except Dr. Lee was allowed to attend him, but the witness could not say who it was that called him, Gomng back to the fight the witness said that he and the other man who carried Sharkey from the ring into the dressing- room had a hard job of it, Sharkey being a heavy man, and they had to double him up in all kinds of Ways in order to carry him, but he never cemplained of any pain by reason of the rough manner in which he was being handled. Sharkey told the witness one day that Lynch got one-third of the receipts for managing the fight. Referee Earp came up to Sharkey’s roora between 12 and 3 in Earp stood and looked at Smith and said: ‘‘Hello, Sbharkey, how do you feel?” Smith said: “I'm mnot Sharkey. He’sin bed.” Then Earp went into the bedroom and had a talk with Sharkey for about fifteen minutes. The witness did not see any towel thrown into the air after Sharkey’s knock- down and he did not claim a fonl. General Barnes began bis cross-exam- ination by inquiring as to where Smith had worked at his trade in this State, and Smith replied that he had worked at the Risdon ana the Fulton iron works and in Eastwood’s foundry. He had fought about a dozen prize-fights in this City and had acted as a trainer for several pugilists. The witness explained that he was a citizen of this country and had no present intention of leaving the State. e aid not make any arrangements with Sharkey as to what his compensation shouli be. Trainers always leave that to the fighter, and it is usaally $100 on every $1000 of the purse. His boara and lodging during the time of his services were paid by Sharkey. Last Saturday Lynch paid him $100 on account of his services and said that if be would call around on Monday he would be paid the rest. The witness called, but was unable to see Lynch. He considered tnat Sharkey owed Bim §1000. the morning. Ou the evenine of the:fight Smith neta friend named George Harding, who in- formed him that he bad.bet some money on Fitzsimmons. Harding wanted to know Smith’s opinion of the matter, and the witness told him that he thought it was a ‘rob”; that he, Smith, was on Sharkey’s side and that he thought of coming out and telling the truth about the matter. On Jast Monday evening Smith went with Harding to the rooms of Colonel Kowalsky in the Baldwin Hotel ‘and made a statement of all the facts to him. Smith had trained Sharkey twice before, once in Vallejo and once in San Mateo. “Did you go to the fight with the under- standing that it was to be settled that way ?'’ asked Mr. Barnes. The witness said that be didn’t meddle with it. He kept his fingers out of it as much as he could. “Didn’t you tell Sharkey that that was a good scheme?”’ “No, sir.”” “You didn’t say it wasa rascally scheme to get thousands of peovle to pay $5 and $10 to see a fight of that kind ?” The implied reproof was lost on the wit- ness. He repeated his reply that it was no affair of his and that he did not meddle with it. In reply to further questions Smith said that Sharkey told him uwice on the after- noon of the fight that he, Sharkey, was going out in the first round on a foul. Sharkey did not tell him who it was that had made the contract with Referee Earp. He did not mention the name of Gibbs or Groom in connection with that matter. When the witness went to pick up Sharkey he found Sharkey lying flat on his back with his arms stretched out. He did not have his hands on his body at all. He was not knocked out, but very nearly so—not unconscious as knocked out men are, but conscious and very much dazed. When they were carrying Sharkey out of the ring the witness had Sharkey around the waist and bad all that he could do to lift him. Sharkey did not try to walk, but the witness believed that he could walk if he wanted to. The only place where Sharkey was hurt was about the head. Sharkey ‘told the witness that Fitzsimmons could not hurt him abgut the oody at all; that Fitz had only two good blows, and those were his right and left band swings. “They seemed to answer the purpose pretty well,”” commented Mr. Barnes. George Allen was called to the stand and was asked by the court whether he had any intention of leaving the State. He re- plied that it had been his intention'to leave for Australia on to-day’s steamer, but tha: he had changed his mind. The court ordered Allen to be in court at 10 o’clock this morning. R AL U SHARKEY WAS UNINJURED. Willlam Abbott’ Will Tell All Heard and Saw After the Fight. The swindlers in the Sharkey-Fitzsim- mons fight are on the run. Evidence proving their conspiracy is piling in fast, and there is every likelihood that the tes- timony will be so strong in the morning when the case comes up again in court that “Long Green” Lawrence and the clique with him that beat the public will throw up their hands and accept judg- ment. Smith’s evidence will be backed up in the morning by Allen, the other trainer of Sharkey, and on top of that will come the testimony of William Abbott. The latter is thoroughly disinterested in the matter, excepting that he wants to see square sport. ‘He was at the ringside on the night of the battle, and he puta tew dollars on the Sharkey end simply because the odds were alluring. g ps ¢ ‘When Sharkey laid down and made pretense of being injured Abbott was one of the first to assist Lynch and Needham t0 carry Sharkey through the erowd. * They eventnally reached a side room in the Pavilion, and there everybody else was excluded. Abbott, however, got in with the clique and continued one of the crowd even until all went to the room in the Windsor Hotel. At the latter place Abbott's pres- ence was noticed and Danny Lynch asked him to step out. “During all the time I was with those people,” Abbott stated last night, “‘Shar- key was the same as I have ever seen him. He did not appear to be in pain and he complained of no foul. He was badly bruised and cut up about the face, and that alone seemed to worry him. He never spoke of any wound or bruise below the belt. Anyhow, he acted like a man who was fully capable of walking about, jump- ing or doing anything else a heaithy man coulddo. 1 propose to do what I can to straighten out this dilemma in behalf of square sport. [don’t know Fitzsimmons or the other faction excepting as public charac- ters, and have no interest besides what I have said in this matter.”” AT 2l N A HURRICANE TO ORDER. He How the Examiner Got One Up for Pasadena When the P:ople : Wouldn’t Subscribe. ,LOS ANGELES, Carn, Dec. 9.—Since Mr. Hearst’s peculiar style of journalism is under review by the newspapers of Cali- fornia, it may mnot be amiss to describe how that gentleman ‘gets even,” not only with individuais and corporations, but with whole communities which may have, in an unwitting hour, incurred his displeasure. The town of Pasadena, as is well known, 1s one of the most delightful spots in all this splendid Southland. Its peculiar situation as the crown of the val- ley, which its name signifies, has given it a picturesqueness seldom found anywhere on carth. Its people are cultured, refined and re- spectable, and they do not like the Ex- aminer, nor for years has it been much of a naperin the southern city. Inshort, the Examiner was not wanted by Pasadenans, and the fact was reported to the “dble management.” That man- Fitgsimmons and Julian, With Their Attorney, Colonel Kowalsky, and General Barnes of Sharkeys Coun:e Listening to the Detai’s of the Consriracy as Narrated by Billy Smith. | willful. agement said, “We shall even up score with puritanical Pasadena.” And itdid. Shortly after the frosted canvassers quit Pasadena an article appeared in the local cotumns of the *“Monarch,” which for spleen, calumny and baseness, is probably without a parallel in the history of respectable journalism in America. Without a shadow of foundation in fact this great ‘moral engine” related in detail, accompanied with illustrations, how a most disastrous hurricane had swept over the fair city leaving almost un- beard of devastation in its wake. The illustrations represented buildings, trees and bridges in a state of complete collapse or prosiration. The inhabitants were dumfounded at these inexcusable and inexplicable false- bhoods. Letters by the score were sent to the paper explaining the ‘“‘error,’”” under the impression that the management had been imposed upon by some irresponsible employe, but no explanation nor apology was ever made. Then it began to dawn upon the citizens that the whole out- rageous lie had been premeditated and The management had ‘‘got even”’ with Pasadena, that was all. L e WHAT IS LONG GREEN? The Term Explained by Cashler Burns of the United States ! Sub-Treasury. Cashier Thomas Burns of the United States Sub-Treasury knows something about “long green.” “G. goods’’ men have been the bane of his life. Wherever they ply their trade leaving a lot of dupes behind, the latter send to the Sub-T1reas- ury for relief, hoping to get back from the Government the money wheedled out of them by the sharps who are ‘‘out for the long green.”” Burns was seated for luncheon yester- day in the Mint cafe. His vis-a-vis were Ed Kdlb of the Olympic Ctub and Notary Public Stanley. The laiter two were anx- ious to know exactly what the expression ng green’” meant. “Long green,” said Burns, “is as weil known on this coast as is Colonel Ma- zuma.. In fact poor Eddie Farrell, now dead, has left both these terms behind him as monuments to his memory, and ' they tower high above the other bon mots he ever deliveied. *Long green means a paper longer than it is wide, and covered with cabalistic signs indicating. its financial value. In other words, long green is generally un- derstood as greenbacks.”” DEATH IN THE BLIZZARD. Eight Persons Perish During the Recent Storm in South Dakota—Thousands of Sheep Lost. CHAMBERLAIN, 8. Dig., Dec. 9.— Notwithstanding that more than a week has passed since the recent blizzard, re- ports are coming in from remote portions west of the Missouri River, 80 or 100 miles from railroad points or telegraph stations. It was believed that no loss of life resulted from the storm in South Dakota, but the belated reports from the remote sections referred to show that six and possibly eight persons perished in this State. An unknown man and boy were frozen to death on the Belifourche River. The bodies of two men known as “Scotty”” and Bob Carson, who were em- ployed by John D. Hale of Tilford as sheepherders, have been found since the storm. Two white men became bewildered within four miles of St. Mary’s Mission and are supposed to have been killed by the storm. Probably the greatest losers by the blizzards were the Lewis Bros., who owned a flock of 6000 sheep in the western part of Nowlin County. They not only lost 2000 sheep, but William Lewis himself perished in the blizzard aud Dr.. J. Kennedy, an employe, died the following day from exposure. s e TO CONVEKT ITHE HEATHEN. Distinguished Group of Methodist Mis- sionaries Sails for Africa. NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 9.—Bishop Joseph C. Hartzell, who was elected to the missionary bishopric of Atrica at the Gen- eral Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church held in Cleyeland, Ohio, last May, suiled for his new field of labor to-day on the steamship New York. He expects to arrive in Africa in time to_preside at the migsionary conference of Libe which meets in Monrovia February 17, and after an inspection of the churches and mis- sions in Liberia will Ar""“"d to the Congo country, where he will organize the Congo mission conference. A large number of the clergy of the Methodist church were on hand to wish the Bishop godspeed. Dr. William Fow- ler of the University of Michigan. who goes to Africa to establish s hospital under ihe auspices of the Methodist church in Monrovia, and the Rev. A. P. Camphor and wife (colored) of Orauge, N. J., who will aid in Methodist educational work in | Africa, were also passengerson the steam- ship. e e The New Champagne Vintage. A remarkable vintage, eliciting universal admiration, now heh:i‘ship 4 to this coun- try, is G. H, Mumm’s Extra Dry. Tryit. * DELAY THE ONLY HOPE Danger That the Funding Bill Will Pass at This Session. SCHEME TC HURRY IT THROUGH. Perkins and Bowers Fear That Huntington’s Lobby Will Triumph. CALIFORNIANS READY FOR THE CONTEST. Will Talk Against Time vent a Vote on ths Measure. to Pre. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 9.—Sen- ator Perkins said to Tur CALL corres spondent to-night that in his opinion the Pacific roads refunding bill would pass at this session of Cougress. He is a mem- ber of the steering committee of the Sen- ate, and no one realizes better than he the desperate efforts that are being made to bring the bill up. On the other hand Judge Maguire is full of hope. “I think it ougnt to be easy to defeat the bill in the Senate,’ said he, ‘‘for the ap- propriation bills will occupy most all of the time of the short session. This meas- ure will require a vast deal of discussion,” continued Judge Maguire, with a signifi- cant twinkle in his eye, “‘and if its discus- sion is prolonged, of -course that is just so much time consumed.” “But no Senator would have the hardi- hood to block the passage of the regular appropriation bills, would he?”’ inquired THE CALL correspondent. *I don’t know what any Senator intends todo,” replied the Congressman; “but if I were a Senator Ishould insist that the reportof the Pacific Railroads Committee be read in its entirety for the information of the Senate. After its reading I think the bill would be defeated.’” ‘When it was suggested to Senator Per- Kins to-night that there would be very little time in which to accomplish sy legisla- tion at this session beyond the passage of the regular appropriation bills and that considerable time might be occupied in the discussion of the refunding bill to the det- riment of the appropriation bills, he inti- mated that it wonld not be wise policy to adopt filibustering tactics which would re- tard or endanger the passage of the regu- lar appropriation bills. Senator Perkins is very earnest in his desire to defeat the bill, but hesitates to use filibustering tac- tics, Senator White is engaged in the trial oflawsuitsat Los Angeles, and it was said to-day by one of his friends that he would probably not be here until after the holiday recess. It is the programme of the railroaders to try and bring the bill up in the Senate before Christmas. Chairman Powers of the House committee said that he had asked Speaker Reed and other members of the Rules Committee to bring in a special order to bring up the bill in the House on January 5, and that three days be allowed for debate. Congressman Bowers returned to Wash« ington to-day. His impression on the funding bill’s chances confirms THE CALL'S telegram of last night. He said: +I think the funding bill will pass both Houses of Congress. That’s the way it looks to me to-day. I have no doubt that the Committee on Rules, to which goes the resolution providing that the bill be taken up for consideration on January 5 and three days’ debate be given, will be reported favorably and adopted. ““Some fear was expressed that the bill would be taken up this week or next. I do not think it will. There are many who desire to speak on the bill. I may not get time, but I am on record, and have been heard by the committee on this bill and by the EHouse on the Reilly bill. My opinion remaiwns the sawne. My minority report on the bill is wholly impersonal. I look at‘it only from - the point of public policy. “I think the passage of the bill will make the fact potent that corporations are to have greater considerations and be ac- corded privileges denied the individual by the Government and courts. Theindivid- ual debtor is proceeded against by the United States and stripped of everything he has without mercy, while in the case of these powerful corporations the Governs ment hesitates to enforce the law and pro- poses a relief never extended to the small creditor. IU's a bad lesson to give the people of the United States. That the passaze of the bill will insure tbe cone tinuance of a arievous monopoly upon the people of the Pacific Coastis a matter that a great majority of the East know or seem to care little about. I shall vote against the bill and speak against it, if I am ac. corded an opportunity. “What a commentary it would be upon the intelligence, the patriotism and sense of justice of the Congress that should pass and the executive that should approve this so-called funding bill, which practi- cally makes a present from the United States treasury of $100,000,000, and re- fuses to consider or pass or approve a bill appropriating an equal sum for the con- struction of the Nicaragua canal, which will allow the people of the eastern and western parts of this country to trade with each other, and which wonid result in a saving to the people of the United States of more than its real cost each year. T would ltke to get my bill (which is on the calendar) or any bill through to settie upon just terms the matter of the ownership of patented lands within the public reservations, and I shall use every effort to secure the passage of the mineral land bill. “How did I come to be beaten when my