Aurelio Herrera - Gilbertgia.com

Two-thousand bewildered fans “…hissed and hooted, but the
officer did his duty, and the two men left the ring after fighting
half of the first round.” 121
Herrera dealt with the warrant and later in the month was back
in Bakersfield with no comments about the skipped fight. When
the Californian asked why the Neary fight was stopped, Herrera
explained that Clifford swore out the warrant as pay-back: “Louis
Long won a decision from me in Butte, and we were rematched.
122
Clifford sent for me. He informed me he knew that I could best
Long but offered me $5,000 to lay down. I refused to sell out and
went in and won from Long.” 123
Events suggest that before Herrera spoke with the Bakersfield
Californian he had been in San Francisco. On July 7, 1905 a
vaudeville actress there named Lottie Talbot was attacked at the
Empire Theater and obtained a warrant from Police Judge Conlan
“…for the arrest of Bertha Herrera on a charge of battery. Miss
Talbot says that Mrs. Herrera who, she says, is the wife of Aurelio
Herrera the pugilist, attacked her in the theater on Friday night,
121 Ibid.
122 Long had knocked out Herrera in a 20-rounder at Anaconda. “In the Third,
Long landed a terrific right to the jaw, and Herrera went down. When they came
together again Long went at Herrera like a tiger, twice putting him to the mat, the
second time putting him completely out.” (San Francisco Chronicle, Feb 13, 1904)
123 Los Angeles Times, Jul 18, 1905, from Bakersfield Jul 17, 1905
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