The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1879-06-03
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This time ireland was the scene and
the cause . 6ckle gossoon, Who. after
seducibg one woman under promise Of
marriage, abandoned her and hegan
to pay bis court to another. who. to
make matters ~"Fre, Was .vV"ger.
pretter AID had more money.
The combataDts were Dubi'e
woman and one from Leinster, and Ia
judge from the published account al
the affair. the AmazoI.s must have
fought like veriiable devils.
Each had q double. bsrrelled pistol.
Advancing steadily on one another
they grappled and wrestled together.
strOve to sehd the LAlls into each
Others bodies. biting and cursing like
6.nds. Finally the Duhlin :irl found
an opportunity and shut her antago
mist dead.
She was arrested and tried at The
Leicester Assizes for murder. Her
sex, and the fact that her victim had
been the author of the challenge.
inclined the naturally gallant Irish
jury in her favor. and she Vas &C
Quilted. The public regarded her .
heroine. and carried her from the
Court in triumph, festooned with
wreaths and flowers.
There is no doubt that for courage
and actual contempt for death, the
Spanish woman far Outrivals any
other of their European sisters. Duela
among them are consequently common.
and with their actual fearlessness they
combine q cunning which would do
credit to the original serpent. who
tempted their first mother themselves.
Apropos of this occurs the following
characteristic story:
The nanolas, or young girls of the
middle class, in Madrid, had quarrel
about a rich Andalusian whom. OF
whose money-chest. both wanted to
marry. After they had exhausted
their vocabulary Of hard words they
determined to ef3ectually decide the
the affair with naulgas. the desperate
dagger knives Of the lower orders in
Spain. The programme was
TO FIGHT TILL ONE OR BOTH FEEL.
So one pleasant May morning they
set out with two female friends in q
mule-carriage to the scene of the
proposed battle. At the Alcala gate,
however, the turnout Was halted BY
the sentries, and the entire party
arrested. Information had been given
by some friend Of both that they
intended to fight. Far from being
embarrassed by this intimation from
the magistrate before whom they were
taken, one of the man0las coolly
preferred Q change of false arrest
against their captors.
"These fellows, she said laughingly,
Sin defiance of law and justice, took
Us prisoners in the public road"
1--WE heard that these ladies were
going to fight a duel to the death"
explained the brigadier. $50 Ne
arrested them and brought them before
your honor for punishment"
at is not question Of punishment
at ALL observed the girl.
"But you were going to 6ght!'
Certainly
"And dueling is q punishable
o6ense."
"In men, yes. But the law save
nothing about dueling in women.
Look for yourself
The magistrate did look, and found
that such was the case. The edict
against dueling, indeed, mentioned only
men, throughout, and after promise
not to carry out their CORY designs on
one another. the manolas we're re-
eased.
FRIGHTFUL DUEL
vas fought some years ago by two
girls employed in the Royal tobacco
factory in Seville, that factory in front
of which the first act OF the popular
opera, Carmen. is supposed to eventu.
ate. The chief actresses in this
Spanish tragedy of real life were
young girls of twenty. perfect in
types of that luscious Iberian beauty.
which the printers and the poets love,
Is all sensible men should.
The day selected for the fight was q
lovely one in midsummer. In company
with their friends the enemies break.
tasted at separate tables in . wine
shop couple of leagues out Of the
city. Then they sent their witnesses
out, barred the doors and windows,
and fell upon one another knife in
hand.
At the end of ten minutes the doors
were forced. Both girls were groan-
ing on the floor. One Vas bleeding to
death from ten wounds. the other
expiring with her throat cut. But
still gripped their ensanguined knives
with clutches which even their last
agonies could not loosen.
For q wonder the authorities took
action on this case. They sent ths
seconds to prison for six months, and
enacted an edict against the carrying
of knives. which every one, Of course.
disobeyed.
A female duel in France. in October,
1877, attracted general attention. A
seamstress and q corset-maker loved .
young workman named Julien. The
rivals met one afternoon in a wine shop.
The corset-maker, a Mile Thill. pulled
Q butcher knife from her pocket and
challe lged the other, Mile Lancry, to
settle accounts then and there.
The latter. with pluck one would
never expect to find in q subject for
THE Song Of the Shirt, got . knife
from the kitchen. Two minutes later
she had her entire face hacked into
shreds while Mile Thill had received
FIVE wounds.
The pair, in addition to their
hospital time, received . sentence of