Show AFTER FTER A TER BLACK PEARL Pug P ug Nearly Nealy Lynched LyO hed He Lived in Salt Lake ake at atOn One OneTime Time Ti m Enid Okla Okla Feb Eeb eb 24 Black Pearl Pearl the th m negro neg who came near n ar being lynched here h ere r last night t for or having killed klied James Jones J ones a Kansas negro nE ro In a salOon sat o quarrel q today In a confession alleged tSi that hat t he is the pugilist who ho fought Pita Fitz Fitzsimmons FIt simmons Si In 1891 and md who ho fled fed in 1896 IJ after a having killed a man lian an In Jn California in a street fight The prisoner in abject fear of his lim life li fe stated in jail jal today that tat after com corn committing m the California crime he went to t o Cuba in 1896 but b t returned to this country countr c in 1900 He was wa supposed to t tot have h ave died on the Pacific coast Two t weeks week w ago ao Black Pearl eari who ho has been in i isi n the territory for some time fought six si x rounds with wih a local man All AU talk of o r lynching has subsided San Francisco Feb 24 The Black Pearl P earl was wa well wen known In sporting cir circles cr cires cles d es In San Francisco in 1895 and ad 1896 He H e was a welterweight h He lie never fought ought f with wih Fitasimmons The police have ha h ave no record of o his hs killing klUng a a man manere here bere h ere ereA A colored fighter traveling under the name ame n of the Black Pearl P arrived in Salt Sal S alt Lake in n the te spring ar of 1895 He came ame c here from Cheyenne Wyo where he h e was employed as a a walter waiter waler in one of the t he leading hotels Soon after his ar arrival arrival rival ival r he was matched to fight young oung Spitz SpIt S of ot Denver The contest was wa pulled off of O ff In the old athletic club rooms on Second S South street where the D F Walker block now no stands and the te Black B lack Pearl knocked Spitz Spit out in six rounds r He left lef here ler shortly afterward for f or the coast co t and Is s probably the same man m an who Is spoken of ot in the San Fran Francisco Francisco Franisco cisco isco c dispatch Another woul b colored fighter who called cale c himself the Black Pearl had hada ha a contest here ne in the fall fal of 1901 at Clark C lark Langes Athletic club on State street treet s This individual however was Vas a a fakir f pure and simple impIe and was ws no re relation lation atlon laton l to the original Black Pearl The statement from San Francisco Frncisco that tt the te Black Pearl never nver fought Robert Rb Rob Bob I ert e rt Fitzsimmons is isa a mistake There was a a fighter r by this name nama who had a i national n reputation at the time and i iwho who met Fitzsimmons in 1901 He was I defeated de d ted by the in fur four I rounds runds r I |