Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-05-05
DUEL MA CEMETERY.
Mexican Desperadoes who Kill From
Pure ViciOusness.


"Meet me tonight on the Cemetery
Road was the purport of a message re-
eeived one day recently by Don Miguel
Faster at Mordeau, from Melissa Yala-
deZ. Faster knew, SAYS a MatamOraS
letter to the New York Sun, what the in
Vitatlon meant. He and Naladez had
quarreled many times over love affair.
and once before had come to violence.
Valdez had been in town for several
days, and had frequently boosted that he
intended TO make hash Of Faster. The
latter. the accepted sutton, communicated
with his lady love, who urged him to &C
cept the challenge and offered TO accom-
panv him on his errand. This he first
refused to assent to. but finding that she
construed his attitude as one Of coward
ice, he reluctantly agreed to call for her.
After dark, the man and woman, both
armed, set out on the highway. Near the
cemetery gate they encountered NoladeZ,
whose rage at seeing his rival in posses
sion Of the objectofhis affections knew no
bounds. There was a long parley as TO
the method of fighting to be adopted,
which the woman surmised was the re-
suit of fear. She finally became impa-
tent. and tainted the men with biting
words, expressing her opinion of NaladeZ
particularly in fOrcible language. As her
condemnation seemed to rest with greater
took up the strain, and, pretending that
he had been called out by craven, took
the woman's arm and urged her to leave
with him. She turned as if to do so, when
Valdez darted forward in a frenzy Of
rage, and buried his knife in her back.
She fell forward on her face without so
much as a groan, the blade still in her
body, and expired instantly.
The assassin stood watching her for
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covering from the stupefaction into which
he had been thrown, then took to his
heels, Faster following. 1t was lively
race through the cemetery and out again.
Faster shouted defiance at his fleeting
adversary, and time and again dared him
to faced him. Once NaladeZ disappeared.
and Faster in his rage called on him
vehemently to come out, offering him
weapons or anything that he could ask If
he would but give him an opportunity to
wreak his vengeance. The only answer
was a laugh, which set Faster raYiug
furiOusly up and down the cemetery and
calling on all the angels and devils to
witness that he was a man not afraid of
anything human. Stumbling along heed
lessly over graves and headstones, he
finally fell into new-made grave. The
next minute Valadez was on him. The
murderer, under cover Of the darkness,
had been following Faster for some
time, in the hope that he would
be able to steal upon him unawares
and finish him as he had the
woman. His opportunity came sooner
than he expected. With a feTOciOus yell
which woke the echoes for miles around,
Naladez sprang into the excavation, and
before the surprised Faster could regain
| his senses his adversary had him by the
| throat, and was dealing him murderous
blows with a bludgeon which he had
picked up after losing his knife. Believ-
| ing that he had finished Faster, Valdez
left him in the grave and fed to the noun
tains. Since then nothing has been heard
from him. The next day funeral party
| discovered Faster lying in the grave I'M
| conscious, but still breathing. He was
| conveyed to town, and after his wounds
had been dressed he had a lucid spell, in
the course of which he told his story. 1t
is not believed that he car recover, as
there are two fractures Of the skull and
several Of his ribs are broken.