New-York tribune., 1874-12-28
A LOUISIANA TRAGEDY.

FATAL AFFRAY BETWEEN EXGOV. WAR
MOTH AND A NEWSPAPER PROPRIETOR.
wARMoTI ASSAULTED ON TIE STREET BY MIR.
BYERlY, TIE MANAGER OF TIE NEw-ORLEANS
BCLIETIN-A DESPERATE STRUGGLE IN WHICH
BYEILY Is MORTALLY sTABBED-WARMOTli
ARREsTED--A NEWSPAPER CONTROVERSY THE
ORIGIN OF THE TROUBLE-wARMOTHs VERSION
OF THE AFFAIR.
New ORLEANS, Dec. 27-A renc0ntre took place
yesterday morning on Canal-st, between ex-Gov.
Warmoh and Mr.. Byerly, manager Of The Bulletin.
ByeIly knocked Warmoth down with stick and
jumped on him. when Warmoth, drawing his knife,
stabbed Byerly several times in the abdomen. The
wounds are dangerous. Warmoth was arrested.
The trouble between Bycrly and Warmoth grew
ont Of the controversy between WarmOth and The
Euiletin, Which led to the publication on Friday by
Warmoth of u card addressed to the manager of
The BalHn, rejecting upon that paper and Mr..
Jewell, one of its editors. Warmoth yesterday
lnadc tho following statement about the trouble to
tho agent Of the Associated Press
Yesterday. after my card appeared in The Picayune
was called upon by friend Of Mr. Jewell. who de-
manded OK me an alj"ct apology for the card. which
declined TO make whereupon lie asked me II would
accept challenge to fight duel, rerDarking at the
samo time, that 1t generally understood would not
fight replied that would not fight If could as well
time enough TO the question about dueng when
was challenged. Liter Ia tho day, the anIr was con-
hded TO our respective friends. they met Mt o'clock
last evening and agreed that Jewell ard myself shond
ikcht in Alabama Monday morning, tho wcap'rs to
be cling pistols and distance ten PAGES These terms
having been accepted did not, Of course, apprchend
attack, especially not from any one con-
ncctcd with Tie BuiieHn. MY understand
ing OF such pattcis is, that antagonists.
pending meeting, should be courteous and WIS just
on the eve OF tipping my hat to Hr ByerlY, in front OF
whom two ladies were waking, the street being crowd
oh, when he struck me with heavy stick on the head.
infcting a wound yOu (rhe Governor, taking Of
his hat exhibited cut about two inches long over the
left tcmpe, extending back from the forehead) He
struck three tim IS with the stick when clinched
with Lim, in the meantime taking k:fe out OF my
POCKET. With my arms around his shoulders gormy
hands together and opened the knife just then felt
Bycry falling on Soon after We fell policeman
took the knc out OF my hands, and Of the crowd
pulled Bycrly OF. understand Byerly has been cut,
and am accused OF doing the cutting.
Wamoth was arrested immediately after the
fight and conveyed to tho Third Precinct station.
lie has since been transferred to the Parish Prison
to awai; the result of ByeIly's wounds. Mr.. Bycrly
received six wounds in the abdomen, one OF which
his ply scIans consider very dangerous but not
necessarily mortal. Shortly after beng wounded
Mr. Bycrly was removed to tho Orleans lnlirmary,
on Dauphin-st.
TIE Bulleiin to-day contains the statement of an
eyewitness Of the Bycrly-Wallnoth Affair. The
statement differs somewhat from that OF Warmoth.
as TO tho cutting, this witness states that the knife
wa4 orcn when drawn, AID that two or three stabs
were made before they fell. Byerly's wounds were
in the lett side just the hip, one of them being
over four inches Deep and indicates the length OF
tho knife blade.
Byerly died at p:i0 p. m.