Career
He began boxing at the age of sixteen and fought as a featherweight in Australia before sailing to America at the age of thirty, apparently motivated by a warrant for his arrest. His arrival was delayed by being shipwrecked in Tahiti, where he kept himself busy competing with the local champions. Upon landing in San Francisco, he quickly made himself useful in local boxing circles as a capable referee and exponent of the Marquess of Queensberry Rules.
The Call noted, "lieutenant is said of him that he has displayed more fairness and ability in that line within a few days than has, perhaps, been shown here before in months." 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.
Dutchy later went to Alaska, probably to escape a criminal indictment for defrauding someone"s estate, and was a boxing instructor in Fairbanks. Foreign reasons that are unclear, he returned to San Francisco in 1900, surrendering himself to the police and claiming innocence.
He spent a year and a half in the County Jail, but was released in 1902 on the grounds of a defective indictment. He died on 21 November 1911.