The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-16

lighting was most determined ant
lastea "a minutes.
There were i've engagements, Of
which two were at close quarters
Prince Henri received two serious
wounds in the right shoulder and
! the right side of the abdomen. The
Count of Turin was wounded in the
right hand.
Prince Henri was taken to the resi-
7-nce OF the Due de Chartress and re
/ ceive1 medical attendance.
The condition of Prince Henri of Or
| leans this evening is as satisfactory as
could be expected. The doctors, after
! a consultation, expressed the opinion
! that no important organ was touched.
but absolute rest is necessary for re-
coVery. Owing to rurnors at Naples
and elsewhere the public had not eX-
pected a duel to come off. 1t was,
therefore, quite private. The official
account furnished by the seconds re-
cites fully the circumstances leading
up to the encounter.
The Count of Turin, considering the
letters of Prince Henri of Orleans to
the Figaro offensive to the Italian
army, wrote to him on July 6 demand
be answered until Aug. II. the day of
the arrival Of Prince Henri in France
The prince replied to the counts de-
nland by telegram, maintaining the
right of a traveller To record his eX-
periences. The Official account then
describes the arrangements for the
duel, gives the names of the respective
seconds and says that at their first in
tervieW they agreed that the encoun-
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the conditions were settled as follows:
The weapons TO be dueling swords;
each combatant TO use that of his own
country but the blades to be of equal
length, either combatant TO be at lib
eriy to maintain the ground he gains,
and each TO be allowed the space of Is
metres within which to adv ance or re-
tire; each assault to continue four
minutes; the combat to be resumed in
the positions occupied and only to ter
inmate on the decision of the four sec
onds or the advice of that one of the
adversaries is manifestly in q state of
inferiority; the conduct of the meeting
to be entrusted alternately to the two
parties, lots being drawn at COM
mencenent. This latter feature of the
arrangement was due TO formal objec-
ton of the seconds of Prince Henri OF
Orleans to the direction of the encoun-
ter by a fifth party
At later meeting, yesterday, the
seconds decided upon the rendezvous.
The process verbal then proceeds to de-
scribe the encounter. 1t says that in
the first assault Prince Henri was hit
in the right breast, though the weapon
did not penetrate the thorax. On the
strength Of the report of the doctors,
the seconds decided that the combat
must go on. The second assault was
stopped because the combatants came
into close quarters. In the third as
sault, the Count of Turin was hit in the
back of the right hand, but the wound
was slight.
In the fourth assault, the umpire,
Major Leontieff declared that the sword
of Prince Henri vas bent, and stopped
the enga cement long enough to furnish
the prince with a new weapon.
In the fifth assault. the combatants
again got into close quarters, and were
stopped, Prince Henri in
a. counter blow, being hit in the right
tors on both sides examined the wound
and declared that Prince Henri was
rendered by it clearly inferior to his I
Major Ileontieff and Maurichon pro-
posed that the combat be stopped. and /
his was done by common accord. While |
his wound was being dressed, Prince |
Henri. raising himself upon the ground. I
extended his hand to the Count of Tu- |
rim. saying: Allow me. nonsigneur, (
to shake hands with you The count |
extended his hand. The physicians