The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-11-19
bgland, Ireland and America on
the So-Called Field Of
Honor.
nele and Dueling ana When and
Why They Went Out Of
Fashion.
me uiatorloAl Meetings on the Groen
Sod N How some Of Them
Terminated.

ks fought in England, when Lieut.. Munro
lied his brother-in-law, Col. Fawcett.
hen the prince consort interfersd, nndNin
,ril, 1914, were issued amended articles
war, which declared sit to be suitable to
Q character Of honorable men to apollo
70 and offer redress for wrong or insult
mmitted, and equally 70 for the party
kgrieved to accept frankly and cordially
PLANTATION and apologies for this same"
The duke Of Wellington opposed interfer-
co with the practice. He had himself
len ont in 1929 with the earl of Winchslsea
Wimbledon common. Fox, Sheridan,
inning and Castlereagh had each sx-
Hanged shots with In opponent. Blu Ire
nd was tho nursing mother Of the prno-
d. Galway had its club to which no per-
n was admitted who had not shot his
Jan. A duel generally followed an election,
occurred while it was pending. Dick
artin, Of Galway, being n in conversa-
b n with the prince regent, was addressed
the prince with: $50 you are going to
We a contested election in your county,"
Ess, your royal highness, M usual"
Md who willwinY" ."The survivor, please
bur royal highnsss," returned tho admira-
% Dick.
The father of Toler, Lord Norbury, on his
bath-bed, and almost with dying lips, took
pair Of pistols from under his pillow and
urmured as he presented them to his son:
Now, Jack, be always ready to keep up the
edit Of tho family and the honor of an
ish gentleman" And the chief justice,
ord Norbury. fought Fighting Fitzgerald
ID two others. Near Castlebar was q law
!. into which two gentlemen had been put
fight = duel. each armed with a brace of
stols and . small sword. Both we're taken
it for dead, yet both recovered-ons Dick
artin, the princes intsrlocutor in the
pove interview, to become better known as
umanity Martin, the other, George Robert
[tzgerald, ~aforennmed, to be hanged at
hstlebar for murder.
The lord chancellor OF Ireland. Glare,
ought the master Of the rolls, Curran.
ldge Egan fought another master of the
lis, Barrett. The chancellor of the ex-
Aequer, CORY, fought Henry Grattan, who
al q privy chancellor. A baron of the OK
lequer fought his brother-in-law and two
hers. A sentimental and moral old gen
hicn he was present. based ON an absurdly
ivial event, and in which neither party
lerished the least animosity. The first
lot was mortal, and the old boy used to
bclRro that he could still see the graduaA
N, the glazed look Of death, come over
10 youngsters eyes, and hear the sob with
hioh he yielded up his life.
Csc between Co%mmodores Decatur and
arron, Senators Randolph and Clay,
ice President Burr and ex-Seoretarv Ham
ton, Chief Justice Terry and Senator
frederick, and Austin and Elliott, of Bos-
IN. The Importance of the last is that it
ade u lot of talk that contributed in q
~sterial way to discredit duelinR in Massa-
h~usetts. Elliott's father, who got n the
Pw leading to the duel, was brother-in-law
: Col. Tom Perkins. The row had grown
bit OF the street-killing of Editor Austin,
Pmoorat, by Thomas .. S%elfridge. federal.
II the duel ths econds We're Horny Sargent
I'D Charles 7. Summer. while DIR. John 9.
Yarren' was the surgeon in attendance.
Whoever knows anything at all of eastern
Flch an event at that time was calculated
! make Suffolk county rock upon its gran
Q base.
Decatur at the time Of his death was the
kvorite Of the navy. He had used express
ons disrespectful toward Commodore Bar
Pn. Both Disappeared Of dueling, and had
ecatur been civil the affair would probab-
AoVe oeoA ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. but A!h coi-
dependence was sarcastic and heightened
10 affront. At the Badensburg meeting
pth foil at the first fire, Barron danger
haly and Decatur MORALLY wounded. The
hneral c%oncourse was something enormous,
|nbraeing all Washington and the sur
Punding %countrT. Burr, as ia we'll known,
DIVIDED Hamilton to the field, which he
ished TO avoid. The Irish lad, Broderick,
fom New York. who reached the
'nitod EtQfaS nanata fran Ha1ifnr-
ia, was killed by the Supreme Court
hdge Terry, who shot him in pursuance of
b u%udoubted resolve of the chivalry ring
tho democracy to get rid of Broderick.
Randolph OF Koanoke's language in refer
ICE to Clay, the blacklsg, Of the allusicn,
Jas this: Il was defeated, horse, foot and
be coalition Of Blifl and Black George
y the combination, unheard of till then,
/ the Puritan with tho blacklegs." The
no men had been born within n days ride
/ each other, the ono on tho high banks OF
he Appomatox, Virginia, the other amid
10 slashes of Hanover county. At the
Randolph fired in tho air. Clay
approached and said, with emo
Untouched. After what has occurred I
ould not have harmed you for a Thousand
A rather neat American duel was that
hich came off OF Six-Mile island between
amuel lhuraton, aged Is, and William
inc, aged IS years. They were attended
, gentlemen of the same age. The weap-
tles; the distance thirty yards. At the
rst fire Thurstor's ball passed through
hat. Through the good offices Of
10 boatd Of honor the challenge was then
and the differences amicably
Some duels that never came of are good
their way. Two Georgia gentlemen had
dispute over a worthless piece of land and
to meet, each to wear a piece Of
hite paper over his heart to serve as a
llPs eye, the survivor to have the privilege
cutting OF the others head and setting
on u pole on the disputed land. Before
10 formal meeting came of, as arranged
n, q casual rencounter settled II, and the
WAS brought home and buried on
g mothers plantation outside of the dis
tied boundary.
Some American duels with knives are re-
,rted, the parties being dashed together
! their left wrists. Ono Illinois man, who
as challenged by q, Mississippian, caused
70 child OF the sunny south to bnck down
7 naming these terms. In another Soc
onal difference u Yankee fixed on axes in
locked room as the weapons and condi-
ons, and the meeting did not come of. A
tile quartermaster's olsrk, who barely e.
ped being a dwarf, backed down nm army
ticer by naming the army musket with
red bnvonet for weapons, and the officer
sent Il at to Coventry and afterward to
. front. where he did better. One Amer
an dpet~ 4 fought %Indianwiss, by start
q th \ /, men with rifles from opposite
" cod to hunt each other. One
CIV epponent's fire by the trick OF
ew.tt a.s cap from behind tho trunk of a
II y ok 80 simple that the other could