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Copyright 2007 by William A. Mays, Proprietor
January 17, 1885
| SULLIVAN REFUTES A SLANDER. |
The alleged report that John L. Sullivan, the champion pugilist, had made a cowardly attack on a waiter-girl at Yeaton's oyster saloon in Boston, on Dec. 29, published in the numerous papers, has been proved to be false. Sullivan arrived in this city Dec. 31, with Dan Murphy and Col. Tom Delay of Boston, and put up at the Coleman House, where his manager, Patrick F. Sheedy, is stopping.
Sullivan was surprised to read the numerous dispatches from Boston which stated that he had assaulted and beat a waiter-girl. He lost no time in sending Patrick F. Sheedy, Dan Murphy and Col. Tom Delay to the POLICE GAZETTE office with the following denial for Richard K. Fox to publish:
COLEMAN HOUSE,
NEW YORK, Dec. 31, 1884 }
To Richard K. Fox:
DEAR SIR–I was surprised on arriving in New York to read in the morning papers that I had been made the hero of a series of brutal outrages in my native city. The reports state that I beat a waiter-girl in an oyster saloon, and that I had deserted my wife and child and had left Boston early yesterday. There is no truth in the reports. I never insulted or inflicted bodily injury to a woman in my life and never will. In regard to leaving my wife and child, I stamp the report as a base and malicious fabrication and only circulated by enemies of mine to injure my reputation with the public. The report originated from the fact that while out sleighing, one of the runners became caught in the groove of the car track and I was thrown out and the horses dragged me for one hundred yards. I held on to the horses and received no damage, which proves I was not intoxicated. I joined Councilman Tom Denny, Dan Murphy and Col. Tom Delay in Yeaton's saloon, and in a friendly way tapped the waiter-girl with the wet driving-gloves. We sat down, had oysters and Bass ale, and left the place on the best of terms. I should have left for New York yesterday, but decided to remain over to witness the Criterian Club boxing matches. I left for New York on the 10:20 train, after bidding my wife and child, whom I love and respect, good-by. Truth is always greater than fiction. Yours truly,
JOHN L. SULLIVAN.
Sullivan was surprised to read the numerous dispatches from Boston which stated that he had assaulted and beat a waiter-girl. He lost no time in sending Patrick F. Sheedy, Dan Murphy and Col. Tom Delay to the POLICE GAZETTE office with the following denial for Richard K. Fox to publish:
COLEMAN HOUSE,
NEW YORK, Dec. 31, 1884 }
To Richard K. Fox:
DEAR SIR–I was surprised on arriving in New York to read in the morning papers that I had been made the hero of a series of brutal outrages in my native city. The reports state that I beat a waiter-girl in an oyster saloon, and that I had deserted my wife and child and had left Boston early yesterday. There is no truth in the reports. I never insulted or inflicted bodily injury to a woman in my life and never will. In regard to leaving my wife and child, I stamp the report as a base and malicious fabrication and only circulated by enemies of mine to injure my reputation with the public. The report originated from the fact that while out sleighing, one of the runners became caught in the groove of the car track and I was thrown out and the horses dragged me for one hundred yards. I held on to the horses and received no damage, which proves I was not intoxicated. I joined Councilman Tom Denny, Dan Murphy and Col. Tom Delay in Yeaton's saloon, and in a friendly way tapped the waiter-girl with the wet driving-gloves. We sat down, had oysters and Bass ale, and left the place on the best of terms. I should have left for New York yesterday, but decided to remain over to witness the Criterian Club boxing matches. I left for New York on the 10:20 train, after bidding my wife and child, whom I love and respect, good-by. Truth is always greater than fiction. Yours truly,
JOHN L. SULLIVAN.
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