 Also present at the February 24 incident was John Morrissey, well known to Hyer, a rival with whom he had previously scheduled a bout.The life of William Poole and the Bowery Bows gang is depicted in highly fictionalized form, in Martin Scorsese's 2002 film "Gangs of New York".In January 1855, Hyer was arrested and apprehended in New York on charges of running a gambling house on Park Place, in New York.