 Despite that encomium, he was arrested, along with three other participants in a November 1883 bout, on charges of conducting a prizefight, which was illegal there at the time.A trial later that winter saw Dutchy and colleagues go free, and he continued to be active in the boxing venues of late 19th century San Francisco, including the sporting houses of Harry Maynard, Jack Hallinan and Clarence Whistler.He also taught boxing and, in 1885, introduced into San Francisco boxing circles his pupil from Stockton, the African-American boxer Charley Turner, who at the time claimed to be the "middleweight champion colored pugilist of the Coast."