A DUEL TO THE DEATH.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3220, 14 June 1879, Page 2

A DUEL TO THE DEATH.

. A, desperate jßncdupter With pistols took place on'thVilffi' MwbK la- ttil-^TreSs. urer's office, Atlanta, Georgia, between a Mr EdwM"dox^afia'Cblonel Robert -Alston, whichended iaCplone^ Alston being billed, and Mr Cox seVerely Tf not.tatally wounded. .Colonel; Alston wag one of" the most prominent men"|fiii Georgia. He came of the fighting Ah atom of Carolina-—a family of duellists, every one of whom, it is stated, "died, with his boots on." Though a thoroughly brajtejtoaOi}h* always cherwfwd^hope that, unlike the rest of his family, he might manage to die with his boots off; and when^ •^■difficuJ^*rjMje between himself and Mr Cox on a matter of business, Colonel -Alston. that Cox was a dangerous man, retired to tho Treasurer's office, where the Gotrer* nor advisedifliimi tp^|to^f%iß|g|«t the same time to send for Cox and endeavor to arrange the difficulty, Cox, howeTi*jOft^iKpai)ttO!B|wdi^^p v r^r|br he was shortly afterwards seen coming down a side corridor with a pistol in his hand.. 4Ustft?M.Jks q9gßJ&!tg&&£* procured a pistol, and on Cox approach* ing expressed his desire "to hare no fuss." Cox rep Itedl^^xjnsMinj|djiis intention to kill Alston, who remarked, "Well, we will hare it now." The Treasurer and Capt*ig^tßi»jif^t||i«pi. tentiary keeper rushed forward to interfere, but it was too late. Both the men fired their pistols lationpe, ; «nd the room was filled with smoke. There were several successive flashes, and interference was jimpqisible* t Alston's;first ball struck Cox in the mouth, and apparently blinded him, as he wasted sereral shots.g^AblQQ^sJ^ijßfgefltlr cool. His second shot tore through Uox's uplifted hand, and his third was buried in Cox's throat|^y;3|hM\tu&e Cox staggered up to Alston and shot him through the head. Cox then threw up his hands and exclaimed, " We are both killed." The difficulty bfa thus arranged, eyery attention .was paid to the disputants? 1 Gblibner« I^fslon 4U41 the same evening, and Cox, by latest accounts, was in a most critical condition. The affair,, it £s sj aled, r f has caused some excitement in Atlanta/ d .h 0 if if