Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-06-04

! lions or love anu utNOtIoh Tic Haru-
hearted Madame de Saint montreplied:
"You are challenged. Tomorrow l
will run nv sword through you"
And it was as she SAID 1t should be; the
Young man was killed by the hand of her
whom he loved more than life. But hard
w had he breathed his last when his fair
antagonist was seized with the keenest
rem0rse. She threw herself upon his
dead BODY and wept bitterly. From that
day she was entirely changed; she be-
came very devoted to the church, heard
mass twice daily, wrote three religious
tragedies and gave large share of her
income to different religious orders. Her
indignation at the young cavalier was
only an inexplicable caprice; she had, in
fact, unconsciously loved him, as the Sc.
quel fully proved.
A similar but less tragic case is related
by Tallemand:
Madame Chateau-Gay de Murat had a
lover in the person Of a certain Monsieur
de Codieres. One day she thought her
self justified in believing that he was un.
faithful. All his protestations were of
no avail She challenged him to single
combat, and, whether he would or no, he
was compelled to accept:
De Codieres appeared on the ground
l V,
bumor. for he looked upon the affair as
simply Jest on the part of his lady-love.
He soon, however, became convinced of
his error and that she was in furious
earnest, for very soon a well-directed
thrust came near sending him to the land
whence no traveller returns" From the
! determined manner in which she attacked
him he saw that he must be on his guard.
He determined, therefore, to tire his
! charming antagonist out, in which en-
deavor he was so successful that she let
her sword fall from sheer exhaustion.
De Codieres now placed his weapon
against her breast and asked, "Well?'
a look full of love was her only reply,
whereupon De Codieres dropped his
sword and clasped her in his arms.
In consequence of a simple dispute that
took place during the course of a per
Torrance, the celebrated French actress,
Baupre, challenged one of her colleagues,
Mdlle. Catharine d'Urlis, to single com
bat, and furthermore insisted on fighting
Immediately. In her rage she went to
the property-room and brought two
swords to the green-room. Mdlie. d'Uriis
accepted the challenge, and was severely
wounded in the neck.
ColomDey mentions number of duels
fought by the dark-eyed daughters of the
Iberian Peninsula. Here the leading
role is played by the nG0Gja, the short,
dagger-like knife which the Spaniard
carries in his belt. In rage and indiffer-
ence to death no women of the world
surpass the Spanish. Their hatred is
like a stream of molten lava-it destroys
everything that comes in its way. And
with their passionate natures they COM
bine great native cleverness. A single
example will suffice to illustrate these
characteristic traits:
Two nlan0las-girls of the middle
classes-of Madrid contended for the pos
session of a rich Andalusian. They de-
termined to let a hand-to-hand combat
settle the dispute. One bright May morn
ing, therefore, armed with daggers and
navajas, and accompanied by their sec
Onds, they drove out at the Alcala gate.
The understanding was that only one of
: them should return alive. But just as
they reached the spot chosen for the
bloody work they were approached by
three policemen, who arrested both prin-
ciples and seconds.
The manolas laughed disdainfully, and
followed gOOd-humOredly to the nearest
police station.
"Senor," said one Of the would-be duel
lists to the officer on duty, these gentle
men, contrary to all law and right, have
willfully interfered with our personal
liberty''
"That we shall see," replied the en-
pIead0, with becoming official gravity.
"Otficer, what charge have you to make
against these Se1lOrdS ?"
"SenOr," replied the policeman, | had
good reasons for believing that the prison
ers were about to fight duel to the death
p,t hot JJrrht
before YOUR Honor, that they may be
punished according to law"
- If you please, Senor," one of the
prisoners replied, I'VE have done nothing
nor were we about to do anything for
which we can be legally punished"
Thereupou the girl pointed out to the
ast0nlShed official that the law for the
suppression Of dueling applied to men
only, they being specially mentioned IN 1t,
and they only. The legal erudition OF
the young girl took the empleado COM
pletely by surprise, and perpleXed him
greatly. After a careful examination of
the codeX he came to the conclusion that
the law did not reach the case under con-
sideration, and he was reluctantly COM
PEELED to release the prisoners, but not till
he had obtained from them a promise
that they would desiSt from their murder
1t is related that two girls in the royal
tobacco factory recently had killed each
other In hand-tO-hand contest The
mode adopted by the combatants was as
/ romantic IS it was barbarous. The an
tagOnistS, who were both about twenty
years old and remarkably handsome, re-
paired, one Sunday morning, accompa-
MED by certain of their comrades, to
village some four or five miles distant,
where they breakfasted sumptuously at
different tables. The ropast ended, they
closed the windOw-curtains, stripped
| themselves to the waist, and requested
their friends to leave the room. Then, at
given signal, they attacked each other
with their navajas and cut, and slashed,
ana thrust until both fell to the floor,
MORALLY wOundedI When few minutes
elapsed, their friends re-entered the room.
EStetanla, one of the combatants, had re
ceived ten wounds, from which she bled
to death in about half an hour. Casilda,
her antagonist died somewhat sooner,
from CHASTITY wound in the neck.
In this instance the authorities were
| less scrupuiOuS than in the case OF the
two manolas. The participants IN the
horrld tragedy were arraigned ana pun
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