The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-06-26

BclTne sent tue cnaltnge 10 MI. Elalll, tue /
manufacture Of TumOrs has been carried /
on to a fearful extent. Many intelligent |
and wel-meaning gentlemen have thought |
lessly aided and abetted these disturbers OF /
the public peace by circulating their stO- |
rics. 1t is to be hoped hereafter v hen one |
person is saying TO another, ~ he. r so and !
so," that the listener will quietly ask, |
"Who told you SOP" This plan was tried |
to some extent yesterday, and worked like !
a charm. In most cases Ihear was the only |
name the gossipper could give. Now, be it |
known that Ihear is no more to be depend |
ed upon now, before the duel, than will be |
old man Inewit after the duel.
When there is real news it will be bullc- |
tined.
The public will not be kept in suspense !
a moment.
NEWS FROM NEW YORK.
Some party, name and fame unknown
but not a member OF the press-te!egraph- /
ed to New York Yesterday that Beirne had /
been wounded and Elam killed. Shortly |
parties in New York were tele- |
graphing asking parties here il the report /
was true. The same story was broadcast |
throughout this State and in Richmond. !
Hundreds OF people gathered about the |
Dispatch Office, and many OF them came in |
and asked il what they had heard could be ,
relied upon. II they had glanced at the |
place for the bulletin-board they might |
have saved themselves that trouble.
GENERAL MALONE.
Malone arrived here Saturday night, and |
left Sunday. He was up nearly all night |
Saturday night in council with the leading |
spirits Of his party here, and It would take |
a good deal to make the people believe that |
it was not talk over the duel. Mr.. Elan |
Is undoubtedly valuable man to his party. |
His place could not be easily supplied, and |
hence, independent OF his personal liking |
for Mr.. Elam and dislike for Mr.. Belrne,
Malone feels peculiar interest in the issue
OF the pending difficulty.
About O'Clock sunday morning, pre-
sumabiy after the Mahone conference, one
OF Mr.. Elam's seconds was out looking for
Captain w. Page McCarty, who was not to
be found at his usual address, and it was
suspected had moved through fear that he |
might be arrested.
KEPT IL VIEW.
II seems. however. not to have been the |
policy OF the police 10 arrest the seconds. !
Mr.. McCarty and Mr. Royal. OF one side,
anu MI. W NNfllN lAi-AillAs vi tAii UANfif |
together with Colonel 4. W. Jones, who |
i frequently consulted, were in public
often enough Yesterday and the day before.
The seconds. however, are under the i'm
that they are being shadOwed by |
police, and that should they attempt to
leave the city they viii be followed to the |
field Of battle.
LAW POINT.
1t has now been asccrtained that Mr..
when hc arrested Mr.. Beirne at
Junction on warrant issued in
Richmond had the right to bring him to
this city for examination. Al the time the
impression was that that could not he done.
Had II been done Mr.. Beirne would have
been put under bonds here. That OF itself
would not stop q fight. Mr.. Elan Is HIM
self at this time under a peace-bond OF
, 900. such bonds cannot be forfeited
except after conviction; and the eXpe-
riencc about here is that conviction for
dueling is almost impossible. There has
been only one modern ease Of conviction.
and that was i'm the McCarty-Mordecai
duel. where both parties were iearfully
wounded. and the Chief of Police caught
them on the feld-a case OF circumstantial
evidence chiefly.
WHERE ARE TIIEYI
Mr.. Elam, after the capture OF Mr..
Beirne and some members Of both parties
NJ Hanover Junction, was fortunate in hay-
ing near him Mr. W. Frank Pumpbrcy and
other friends perfectly familiar with that
section OF the country. Ii the Hanover
authorities really made any effort to
arrest him these friends yOided il. His
whereabouts are kept secret, absolutely Sc
rret. except to a few faithful, trusted
friends.
Mr.. Beirne when he manged TO elude
the officers at Hanover Junction, took the
train OF the Chesapeake
and Ohio railway and went to the White
SULPHUR Springs-his old neighborhOOd-
and there disappeared from view.
Where he is at tins moment it Is quite
impossible to say. With the extreme Gu
riositv now aname in the land. it would be
perilsome for him to trust himself on any
railroad train.
To do so would almost surely cause his
arrest.
The same applies to Mr. Elam. Hence
the difficulty the seconds have in bringing
them together.
THE CARTEL-SUSPRNSE.
II i understood that the cartel a ar
ranged last Thursday provided for navy
revolyers (siX barrels) as the weapons, and
that at Hanover Junction tiye-shooters and
of a smaller calbre than nayies were pro-
luced for use. Unless the cartel has been
the delay has afforded time to
get the other pistols.
party remarked yesterday: "They
ought not to be keeping us in this suS-
oense: il is too bad" II it is bad for the
public. what must il be for the wives and
families Of the principals What must II
be for the principals Themselves
THE ARRANGEMENTS FOR TIE DUEL.
Information that was considered indis-
nutable was acquired last night to the effect
hat hostile meeting would certainly take
place at some hour to-day-probably early
IN the morning. Certain movements OF par
les known 10 be in confidential connection
with one OF the principals make this state
ment almost a certainty. Mr.. Elan has
been in the immediate vicinity OF Rich
nond-say some sixteen miles-since last
saturday. and has been in constant COM
nunicotion with his friends and represent
,tiyes since. Ii was thought at one time
hat new men had been found TO represent
Inc principals. but this Is mistake. Ma
Ior pace McCarty is still Mr.. Beirne's Sc
,ond. and MIR. W. y. Ragland continues to
represent Mr.. Elan.
Dr. Lewis Wheat and DR.. Hugh NJ. Tay-
Ior left the city last evening as Mr.. Elams
,,h...totaa. Ilr T,vlOr acted in this ca