The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1895-08-17
DOCTORS FIGHT ADUEL
Bloody Encounter Between Il. R. Holmes
and A. A. AusPlund.
He LATTER MAY BE FATALLY HURT
Ia es Bullet wounds for Each--One
Physician Claimed the Other Had
Detained His Character.

PORTLAND, Or, Aug. ia remark
BILE duel with pistols, which has thus
ar resulted in no fatalities, to ok place
hortIy before noon yesterday in the
pekum building, between DIR. Horatio
J. Holmes, very prominent physician,
nd DIR. Andres A. Ausplund, a younger
lember of the professor. The shooting
Dok place in DIR. Holmes, reception
pom, on the fourth floor of the building,
here DIR. Ausplund had attempted, at
ae point of a pistol, SO Holmes states,
D coerce his brother physician into sign
ng retractiou of some damaging state
hents he alleges Holmes had made con-
erning himself and friends, among the
alter, presumably, Mrs. Or. Chambers,
esident physician at the Portland hos
ital. incidentally publicity has been
iven to a serious scandal at the Port
and hospital, in which Dr. Chambers
Eas the central figure; and it was the
ttitude of DIR. Holmes, who was until
ecently connected with the medical
taft of that institution, toward DIR
chambers, who is a personal friend of
Dr.. Ausplund, that nerved the latter to
is rash deed.
The shooting was highly sensational
all it's details. DIR. Holmes is a
rominent member o. Portland's med
cal profession, and his office Is in the
cry heart of the city. The exchange of
ietol shots drew tn. attention of an i'm
nense crowd, which blocked the busiest
orncr in the city for nearly an hour.
he motive for the crime and the pnbli-
alton of the trouble at the Portland
the duel, which would have been to
he death had not the participants dis
led each other by pistol shots that
Tere not necessarily fatal. AS it is, the
fe of DIR. Ausplund is despaired of.
'r. Holmes was severely shot, but will
robably recover.
HOW THE AFFRAY BEGAN.
The shooting occurred at about IL AS
clock. The scene was room % on the
burth floor of the Dekum bnilding,
Fhich is occupied in common by Drs.
[olmes and Amos as a reception room.
here were no spectators, even after the
uellsts had left the Office, and were
Ching in the hall, and it was not until
be com batants were unable longer to
ontinue their murderous work that
theirs appeared on the scene. Accounts
iffer as to the number of shots fred,
at 1t is certain that there were at least
TX, for that many took effect, three on
ach of the duelists. 1t is difficult to
et at the exact facts as to how the fight
ommenced, as the combatants tell diff
brent stories, but it was substantially
follows:
DIR. Holmes was on his way to his Of
ce after call upon City Physician
Wheeler, when he met DIR. Ausplund at
he entrance to the building. They
nust have passed up the stairs from the
Vashington-street entrance, as the ele-
ator men did not see them. They
aust have been talking heatedly when
hey entered the Office, for the door was
eft open; still, the occupants of adjoin-
ntimation that there was trouble was
he fussillade of pistol shots, which
ommenced within a very short time
fter they had entered the Office,
DIR. Ausplund demanded that DIR.
Holmes sign the written retraction
Fhich he had prepared. DIR. Holmes
cad it over, and said calmly:
81 cannot sign that, for would then
g lying, and won't lie for any one."
"If you do not sign this paper al
nce," said Ausplund excitedly, 'sone o.
8 must go into eternity"
So far the stories OF the duelists agree
DR.. Holmes said that he ordered his
isitor out of the office, and upon the
after refusing to go, and exhibiting &
'istol to enforce his demand, STRUCK
i'm in the face with his clenched fist
rhen Ausplund opened FIRE, his frat bal