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Title: The life and battles of Yankee Sullivan
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: James, Ed. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Ambrose, James, 1813-1856. (from old catalog) Boxing
Publisher: New York, E. James
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ed tolie loDg in jail; the Committee, being refused the keys ofthe prison by brave Scannel, the doors were broken in andthe unprotected Casey taken out, together with CharleyCora, imprisoued for fatally stabbing Col. Stevenson, andfor whom, through the exertions of Belle Cora and $20,000,a new trial had been granted. Both were marched to theCommittee Rooms, guarded by mounted armed men, withcannon bringing up the rear, and swung fiom cioss-beamsin sight of the infuriated mob. This caused all those spot-ted to give Frisco a wide berth, on foot, horseback, bysteam, or any way they could, for the safer city of Sacra-mento, which had not caught the Vigi^^ce fever. HadSullivan stayed there he would have h^fen^afe enough, buthe insisted ujDon going to his fiiend;,.Ca^ys funeral inspite of the protestations of Ned McGowau, Tom Rileyand others having influence over him at ordinary times.He went to the funeral and was arrested that very after-nooHi J. C. Heenan and James Cusick had more sense,
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24 TAITKEE SULLIVAN. and gave San Francisco a wide berth, as did scores ofothers, equally as good friends of Casey. No one was better known than Sullivan in Frisco, andhe was arrested the day he arrived, and at the point of thebayonet marched to the rooms of the Committee. Astrong guard was kept night and day, some of the shrewderbut ess pruicipled members of the gang joining hands withthe Vigilanters, to save their own necks when they saw theCommittee meant business. The time Sullivan is allegedto have committed suicide by opening an artery in his leftarm with a table knife (not a very likely article to allowsuch a man to have in such a crisis) one of the Committeemen on guard was a well-knovm. New York gambler, namedJessel, vnth whom Jim had quarrelled and licked in a gatk-bling place on the corner of Chatham and Chambersstreets. This man swore vengeance when the time come.That time had come—the old grudge was renewed. Afierce quarrel ensued in trying to handcuff him, and Sulli-va

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