Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1859 — Bad for the Bruisers. [ARTICLE]

Bad for the Bruisers.

The New York correspondent of tire Philadelphia Press says: j “The fighting men are in a quandary. Yesterday Deputy Sheriff Tyler, of Buffalo one of the most successive detectives in the United States, and an officer who enjoys in a high degree the respect of the bench and I bar of Western New York, came down from Buffalo with warrants for Heenan, the Benicia n boy, John Morrissey, and other pugilists and sporting men who were engaged in the recent prize-fight at Point Abino, Canada est. A year or two ago the Legislature passed a law with special, reference to persons who might leave tliis State for the pur1 pose of participating as principals or sec- ■ onds, or in any way as of a prizefight, making such participation a penal ofI ense. At the fight between Mojrissey and Heenan,and at the subsequent Contest between Price, of Boston, and Australian Kelley, the authorities were unable to effect the arrest of any of the parties, not fancying a skirmage with a crowd of bullies and bruisers. There are men-who were so malicious as to say that the police m-ide no extraordinary efforts to do their duty on those occasions, hut of that there is no evidence. All the principals of the last two fights, who are now in this city, have been culled upon bv : Officer Tyler, and notified at what hour they must report themselves to him at the railroad depot and accompany him to Buffalo, where bills of indictment have been found against them in the Supreme Court. Ilf they decline to accompany the officer peacefully and “politely’,” he will be aided in enforcing his process by the police of this city. These men will be tried in Buffalo, and, if found guilty, will be summarily disposed of in conformity with the statute. The people of that city are justly indignant that it should every year be made a place of rendezvous | forthe prize-fighters of the country, when there are plain laws standingon statutebooks, making such offenses a misdemeanor.”