WOMAN KILLED IN A DUEL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2721, 15 April 1924, Page 4

WOMAN KILLED IN A DUEL

OPPONENT SHOT BY SON

A pistol duel between Mrs It. W. Clark, 56, the defeated candidate for the post of Mayor of the town of Palmetto, Lousiania, U.S.A., and Mr. Loup Meyers, fifty, her opponent, resulted on February Bth in the death of both. The battle illustrates the primitive passions which rage in many of the more remote ports of Louisiana. The allegation is that Mr Meyers, who was a prominent merchant in the town, prevented the re-election of his woman rival by importing his brother from Port Arthur, Texas. This one vote defeated her. Recently, Mrs Clark and her daughter, Wilda, bearded Mr Meyers on the platform of the Palmetto railway station. After a fierce argument Mrs Clark drew a pistol from the folds of her dress and began firing. Bullets pierced Mr. Meyer’s lung and stomach. He grappled with her but the daughter struck him and the mother broke loose from his grasp.

Despite his wounds, Mr Meyer drew his own revolver and fired, instantly killing Mrs ('lurk. The girl, Wilda, wrenched the pistol from the hands of her dead mother and fired, but the aim of Meyers was better, and she fell wounded in the hip. A young son of Mrs Clark, who hud been hiding behind a goods truck, then emptied the contents of u shotgun into Mover s and killed him. The girl Wilda is not expected to live.