An Extraordinary Duel.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 320, 28 November 1888, Page 3

An Extraordinary Duel.

Eccentricity in duelling is looked for in America but the lecorcl was quite beatsn a sliorfc time ago at. Kansas. Kb appears ; thai Daniel Caitwright the proprietor of the Grand Hotel, quarrelled bady with one of hi«s quests, a horse dealer named Donahoe, under cirenmstances which rendered it necessary to satisfy their mutual honour by a duel — the origin of the quarrel being, it is almost needless to say, seeing where it occmred, the card table. Another horse-healer who happened Lo be present, and who seems in his way to have been an original, suggested, that the difference .should bo adjusted by an-en-counter after the method adopted by angry bulls, "that the two belligerants should knock their head? together. The suggestion was accepted with enthusiasm, and an immediate adjournment was made for the purpose. After the two men had been placed at a distance of thirty feet from each other, the signal was given, and a teriific i ush was made and the two headh brought Mito collision. So violent was the shock that it attracted the attention of a policeman, with otheis hunicd up and took the t*o combatant-, into cut-tody. Roth hefds bled profusely, and'thc skull of one of the men was slightly fractuicd. We can hardly be wrong in thinking this, a novelty in the way of duelling.