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THE OGLE DUEL.

A Fatal Meeting in Missouri
Eighty-Three Years Ago.
Cape Girardeau (Mo.) Era.
In our haste to fulfill our promise to
Miss Emma Wathen in forwarding the
letters intrusted to us, from which we
copied in recent issue, we overlooked
the most important feature of the
entire contents, the Ogle duel, of 1907.
Capt. Ogle was a close business
friend of Capt. Ellis, the great grand
father of Miss Wathen, who so kindly
favored us with the letters from which
we have extracted the information Of so
old date. The duel was fought OH all
island just below this city on Sunday,
Feb. 8, 1907, and the full particulars are
given below by Elizabeth Ellis, in let
ter to her parents. written in Cape Cir
ardeau March 20, 1907.
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo-. March 10
1877. My Dear Parents: This is the
third letter which | have written to
you, and Catherine and Lewis have
written one each. We are all in favor
ably good health at present. don't
think l am any fleshier than L was
when [ left you, nor don't expect l
shall be. expect before you get this
you will have learned that we have
lost our friend, Capt. William Ogle.
a friend indeed. He was like
friend to me. For fear that Mr.. Davis
has not received the letter that Mr.. Ell
lis wrote him respecting the d cath of
your friend, will inform you shat he
caused his own death by fighting duel;
l will also inform you what Induced
him to fight. He and the clerk OF our
court, and one or two more gem
81. fol oil, Aiv
Sample, a Presbyterian preacher, who
river. 1t was reported that he had
taken away another mans wife, and
the clerk of the court, whose name is
Joseph McFerrOn, came from Pittsburg
about two years ago, and Capt.
Ogle asked him if he was acquainted
with Mr.. Sample. He said that he
was, and that the reportswas true re-
specting his taking away another MANS
wife. and began to abuse MIN very
much, and said that this was not the
first white mans wife that Sample had
been intimate with. Capt. Ogle then
said that he was an old intimate friend
of Mrs. Ogle, and he believed she
had "a high opinion of him,
as she always spoke very much in
his favor, and he said that he had
DGCIl DIT lliS HOuoC oCbClo anu
ways behaved there like gentleman.
Then Mr.. McFerron limited as much as
it ne thought Sample had been intimate
with Mrs. Ogle, as it was common
thing with him, and from that it grew
worse. On Sunday, Sth ult., he sent
challenge to Capt. Ogle. He accepted
it, and in the morning they and
their seconds crossed the river for the
purpose of fighting. The first shot Cap
tain Ogle wounded McFerron, shooting
him through the thick part of the thigh;
the second shot nothing was done.
Then McFerrOn offered to beg pardon.
and the seconds left them alone. But it
was not long before Captain Ogle called
for the pistols to be loaded again. The
seconds tried to get them to quit, but he
said that one OF the other must fall be-
fore they left the ground. The pistols
were loaded, and before the word was
given McFelron shot, and the ball
struck Capt. Ogle in the edge of the
hair above the right temple. Those
who saw the wound supposed that the
ball did hot enter the head, but
rather glanced. 1t took off piece of
skull bone about two inches long and
half an inch wide. He lost some of his
brains. He lived until Friday morning,
and appeared to be perfectly in his
senses during his illness and talked
great deal about his soul, but seemed
quite resigned to death. | remain your
loving daughter, ELIZABETH ELLIS.