The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-14

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heved firmly in the justice OF his cause.
and trusted in the Lord for the rest.
Judge McKinstry's court room was in
the city hall. and De Young's Office was
on Clay street, near Sacramento The
judge walked down Clay to Montgomery.
and right at the latter corner he met De
Young. The men saw each other stimuli
taneously. and without a word both drew
their weapons. De Young fired first. mis-
bullet missing its mark. but chipping off
a splinter from telegraph pole. The
judge took deliberate aim, and every body
thought the editor was gone lnjun.'
but the judges pistol Snapped. De Young
fired again. but again missed. the bullet
find lis way into a window of the old
Blue ing saloon. The judge tried il
once 'e. This time his bullet took a
piece out OF De Youngs hat. At the next
attempt the judges pistol again snapped.
and he then threw II away and went for
his antagonist with the ferocity of a
tiger. Before De Young could fire again
the judge was upon him. Being heavy
man, he crushed the editor TO the ground
and would have beaten him 10 a jelly had
him of. The two men were separated
with difficulty. and hustled away in diff
ferent directions by friends They never
fought again. The judge never again re-
ferred to the matter, and for many years
De Young never mentioned Mckinstry's
name in his paper. So the bloodless fight
had a salutary effect, after all.
Not long after that De Young had even
a narrower escape. He began the same kind
of a crusade against Judge Delos Lake,
as McKinstry The judge did not wait for
any prelimnaries, but meeting De Young
on the street one day, grabbed him by
the throat with one hand while with the
other he whipped out big revolver. Lake
was a powerful man, twice the size of De
Young, and he crushed the latter TO the
earth with ease. A moments struggle, and
both men were in the gutter. Lake on top.
BY this time a great crowd had gathered,
but Judge Lake fiourished his pistol and
told everybody to stand back. Then. with
or
other holding down the latters pistol arm
he deliberately cooked his revolver and
pressed it against De Young's temple. The
crowd shouted Murder" and made
rush for Lake, but he pulled the trigger.
Had the cartridge exploded De Young S
! career would have ended then and there,
but before Lake could pull again the crowd
was upon him, and he was speedily dis
armed and the men separated.
Charles De Young had very many other
street fights" continued the gentleman,
but none that were serious, until the one
in which he met his death al the hands Of
young kallOch. That however, was not
exactly a fight, but a cold-blOoded muir
der. Kalloch walked into his office and
shot De Young down without moments
What were the particulars of that?"
"Oh. that was the elimination of long
standing feud between De Young and
young Kalloch's father, Rev. Isaac S.
Kalloch About 1875 there came from
Kansas a preacher, of politics and reig-
ion and with something of a shady repu
tation He was a man of extraordinary
eloquence, a dealer in pulpit sensation
alism and in less than two years he had
gathered a great congregation, built a
tabernacle. and, like DIR. Parkhurst, set
out to reform things generally. He joined
the Kearney movement and made sand
lot speeches as hot as kearney's, though
ten times more eloquent.
From the start De Young fought HIM
He showered every abuse upon him; sent
to Kansas. hunted up his record, his
troubles with women and everything in
his career that might reflect upon him
All this he printed in his newspaper. Kali
loch retalated in kind. From the balcony
! of his tabernacle he would entertain 5,G01
people with his opinion of the De Youngs,
and for once Charles De Young found
that he had met his match. And what
made him angrier was that Kolloch had
all the sympathy and all the applause.
zone Saturday night. after an unusu-
| ally atrocious attack in the Chronicle.
Kalloch had an audience Of nearly 10000
/ people. who crowded. and jammed ard
! strained their. ears tQy,hear the preacher S
1 reply. 1t was then fhat he entered into
! the history of De Young's family, assail-
/ ing his mother and sister in atrOcious
/ terms. The thousands who heard him
/ knew there would be bloodshed next day.
Just after the close of service in the
! tabernacle next morning Sunday. and
/ while.-Kalloch was yet in his study, a
4 coupe with closed curtains drove up To
| the side entrance. and boy alighted and
went to tell the preacher that a lady was
/ to speak to Mr.. Kalloch just a moment.
! kalloch went down, and as he approach
| ed the carriage door the curtain was
/ suddenly thrust aside, pistol protruded
/ and De Young-for it was he in the car
! riage-fired twice in quick succession.
| As usual, his aim was bad. The frs,
| shot missed its object, but the second
! struck Kalloch in some part of his body
! i have forgotten where-but ii was q bad
wound, and disabled him for several
| weeks.
They came near lynching De Young
! that afternoon and evening but his
friend, Capt. Lees, succeeded in hiding
/ him. For a time after that the fued sub
sided. Then Kalloch was nominated for
mayor on the sand-lot ticket, and the
/ Chronicle opened up again with, If posi-
/ BILE, worse Virulence than ever Kallocn
stood it this time without reply, being
assured that to do so wauld help him III
! his canvess. One day, about two weeks
haired youth, about 80 years Cid. whom
/ everybody know as Kalloch's son, walk
! ed quietly into the. Chronicle counting
room. De Young was standing at the
young man as he entered. He rushed for
his pistol, found it, and crouching be-
/ 1t worked badly-a fatal delay. The young
man calmly leaned over the counter, took
! deliberate aim at the cnouchng figure
and put bullet through his BRAIN De
Young fen in heap on the floor and
| died instantly.
"The bloodiest tragedy ] ever knew in
] san francisco, SAID the gentleman, was
one that occurred in 1879. Two young
men, moving in the best society and liv-
| ing at the Palace hotel fell in love with
| Miss Clara Huntingdon niece of c. p
| Huntington, who afteFward married
| Prince Hatzfeldt The young men were
| both of good family, and both occupied
! fine positions in the business world They
were, likewise, fine-looking young men
| and popular everywhere They had been
1 good friends, but being rivals in love, soon
| became hostile One morning they met at
/ the foot of the elevator in the hotel and
by accident, perhaps, one jostled against
| the other.
Instantly quarrel began, which end
| ed in one Shaping the others face By
/ ISLANDERS interfered, and the quarrel
! ceased for the moment, the one who had
| done the face-slapping going off to his
/ office, while the other got into the eleva-
/ tor and went to his room. In a second or
/ two he came hastily out and sped down
/ the stairway, not waiting for the eleva-
1 tor He walked rapidly down Montgom-
/ cry street, and at the corner of Pine he
! overlook the man who had slapped his
4 face Without a word he grabbed him
/ by the shoulder, and putting the pistol
/ to his ear, fired. The movement was so
! quick nobody could have interfered If he
/ would. The poor fellow fell dead in his
| tracks.
Naturally there was great excitement
/ over this event for il was nothing but a
/ vile assassinat ton, and for a little while ii
| looked as if there would be a lynching