The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-01-06
A Newspaper Editor Killed sy-Ex-
Governor Yarmouth.

a NEW ORLEANS, December 26.-lr
q fight between Dan. G. Byerly, man
ager of the Bulletin. and ex-Gover-
nor Yarmouth to-day on Canal street
Byerly knocked Yarmouth down
t with stick and jumped on him,
3 when Yarmouth drawing his knife
. stabbed Byerly several tines IN the
, abdomen. Yarmouth was arrested,
and Byerly died at twenty minutes
. past ten O'Clock tonight.
The difficulty between Byerly and
Yarmouth grew out Of a controversy
between Yarmouth and the Buttetih.
which led to the publication on Fri
dsy BY Yarmouth o. q card address
ed to the manager Of the Bulletin,
rejecting upon that matter and Mr..
Jewell, one of its editors.
Yarmouth to-day mrde h follow
ing statement about the difficulty to
the agent Of the Associated Press;
Yesterday, after my card appeared
in the Picayune, ! was called upon
by friend Of Jewell who demanded OF
mo an abject apology for the card,
which | declined to make, w~hereupon
be asked me is | would accept a
challenge to fight a duel, remarking
at the same time that it "a general
" understood | would NOT fight. /
replied that | would not fight if |
could well avoid it; that it would be
time enough to answer the question
about duelliug when was challeng-
ed. Later in the day the affair was
confded t u respective friends.
They met at 8 o clock last evening
and agreed thai Jewell and myself
should fight in Alabama on Monday
morning, the weapons to be duelling
pistols and distance ten PAGES.
These terms having been accept
ed, / did not of course %apprehen6 an
attack, especially from any u con
nected with the Bulletin. My I'M
d~erstanding Of such matters is, that
antagonists pending a meeting should
be courteous, and | was just on the
eve of tipping my hat to Mr.. Byerly
in front of whom i've ladies were
walking, the street being crowded,
when be struck me with a heavy
stick on the head, inaicting the wound
you see land the Governor taking off
his hat exhibited a cut about two
inches long over the left temple, ex-
tending from the forehead).
"He struck me three times with
the stick. / clinched with him, in
the meantime taking the knife out OF
my pocket, with my arms around his
shoulders; | get my hands together
and opened the knife; just then | felt
Byerly falling on me. Soon after we
fell q policeman took the knife out of
my hands aud some of the crowd
pulled Byerly of. | understood
Byerly has been cut and / am sc-
cused Of doing the cutting"
Yarmouth was arrested immediate
" after the fight and conveyed to the
Third Precinct Station. He has
since been transferred to the parish
prison to await the results of
Byerly's wounds. Byerly received
six wounds in the abdomen, one Of
which his physicians consider very
dangerous, but not necessarily mortal.
Shortly after being wounded Byerly
was removed to the Orleans Intirna-
~, on Daupbine street.
THE OTHER STORY.
New ORLEANS, December 26.-
The Bulletin tomorrow will publish
q statement Of an eyewitness to the
ByOrly-W Yarmouth affair. The state
ment differs somewhat from that of
Yarmouth as to the cutting. This
witness says the knife was open when
dra wn, and that two or three stabs
were.made before they fell. Byerly's
wounds were in the left side, just
over the hip, n of them being over
four inches deep, and indicates the
length Of the knife-blade. Byerly died
at 1920 O'Clock tonight.
NEW ORLEANS, December 2S.-
The Byerly inquest will be held to-
morrow. Doctors Schumacher and
Stone held a post mortem, which
was as follows: There were six
wounds, only one of which was su-
perdcial, being a slight flesh wound
over the abdomen. Any one of the
other FIVE would have caused death,
two of which were in the back of
the left side, penetrating the spleen.
These were the immediate cause OF
death. The other three wounds PEN
etrated the side between the fifth and
sixth and seventh and eighth ribs,
and would have caused death in a
couple of weeks from pneumonia,
though these were not of an immedi-
ately dangerous character.
New ORLEANS, December 30.-
Coroner DeBlanc to-day made afida-
Wit against Ex-Governor Yarmouth,
charging him with murder. The
case was lien tried before Judge
Staes. Several witnesses were ex-
amined, and their testimony did not
vary materially from the account of
the affair given by Ex-Governor War
mouth himself and telegraphed on
Saturday. After hearing all the evil
dence Judge Stses decided the charge
of murder not proven against War