The Saint Paul globe., 1899-06-04

Bourk of Glinsk and Andy Bodkin, one
of the makers of the Galway rules, Illus
trates the kind of dueling prevalent in
Ireland at that time. Principles and sec
onds did battle that day and son OF
Bourk was hoisted on the shoulder of
friend to see papa fight" Principles
and seconds fought at ten PAGES at right
angles. At the first fire the principals
were both slightly wounded. On the sec
ond both seconds and Bodkin were severe
ly hurt. Quite crowd was present, for
Ill those days the Irish fire-eater rather
enjoyed having crowd present
A CONGRESSIONAL DUEL.
One of the saddest duels which ever
b.ighted the United States was that
wherein Jonathan Cilley of Maine was
killed by William J. Graves of Kentucky
Both were members of congress who had
the greatest respect for each other per-
sonally. A trifiing matter of personal
honor was involved. The field was in
Maryland, near Washington, in 1885, Crit
tenden and Menefee, of Kentucky; Wise
of Virginia, Duncan Of Ohio, Bynum of
North Carolina and Jones of Wisconsin
were colleagues present at the fight. Mr.
Cilley fell at the third fire, mortally hurt.
The fight never should have taken place.
Probably the first duel ever fought in
the Northern states was such as to give
diversion" Edward Doty and Edward
Leister, servants Of Stephen Hopkins, Of
Plymouth, became involved in a row In
1921. Not content to settle 1t with nature s
weapons, the only proper course for those
not gentlemen, they fought a regular
duel with sword and dagger. They both
received hurts, as much due to lack of
will as anything else. But this was not
all they got out of 1t. There was no
statute on the subject, so the whole COM
pany of puritans assembled to consider
and punish. Doty and LeiSter were ord
cred to be tied together, heads and feet,
for twenty-four hours, without food or
drink. Their master interposed and had
them released after time. But the fact
that serving men had invaded the field
supposed to belong only to gentlemen
stopped any duelling in the North.
That only men Of honor according to
the code can fight a duel Is shown in
the fatal encounter in Paris in 1845 be-
tween Dujarer and Bouvallon. They were
newspaper editors and had difficulty at
dinner party in one of the most cele-
brated establishments at the Palais
Royale at an expense of IS francs plate.
The duel resulted in the instant death of
Dujarer, who received a shot in the head.
But the interesting feature is the trial
Of the winner at Rouen in March, 1885,
This Is part of It:
FRENCH EDITORS COMBAT
THE defense was that the deceased
was killed by the accused in a duel ac-
cord1ng to the rules of honor regulating
such combats. 1t was gravely objected
on the part of the prosecution that the
defendant was not entitled to avail him
self of these laws, because at one period
of his life he had been guilty of steal
ing watch. And a distinguished law
yer said that a French jury would only
tolerate duels among men of honor and
a man would forfeit his privilege to COM
NIT murder If 1t was believed he had
ever been a thief
"Forty-six witnesses were examined
The first was Alexandra Dumas, the cele-
brated and popular writer of the day. He
was the common friend of both parties
engaged in the duel and, being informed
that the weapons selected were pistols
and knowing how unskillful Dujarer was.
sent him with his son to a shooting gal
lery, where he was able to hit q mark as
large as g. man only twice In fourteen
times. But the testimony of Dumas went
strongly on the respectability of the par
ties as men of honor
In 1882 Lloyd Dulany incurred the wrath
OF Rev. Bennet Allen. 1t seems that Allen
published in London paper a variety of
American characters, among them that of
Dulany. The reverend duellist was de-
nounced in the samepaper as coward and
scoundrel. He avowed writing the papers
objected to and meeting was arranged.
1t took place in the evening at eight
yards, pistols being the weapons. Before
the firing the reverend duelist calmly put
on his spectacles and then as calmly
shot his man. Dulany died in day or
two.
Everybody has read of the duel in which
Sir Harry Boyle blazed away for several
shots at an antagonist he supposed was
Archy Devine. for whom he had dislike.