Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-01-11

raids or faro layouts on 'ihih 7'eos' -
promptu puglistic encountFs IN farson
Davies's gin-mill. and 80 on. SO ne LOOK
a couple of days OF, carried big COB OF
copy paper to his room, and sat down 70
indite one that would give the sleuths OF
the town a little exercise. The yarn ne
evolved would have been a daisy had "
appeared as fiction I'm tbs COLUMNS Oh
highly-spced newspaper OF Paris. Sprung
however. as gospel truth, with Dig names
to back it up, and with completeness o.
detail such as Is advertised by the pro
jectors Of stage spectacies, IL certainly
was a casper even for Chicago. II was
the story lone page, with picturesl OF
duel that had been fought in south-
Side park AT gray dawn of the morning
before publcati IL was a duel OF the
most approved limelight pattern-rapiers'
the two gents to the encounter wearing
soft -bosomed, frilled shirts, seconds stano'
ing by with long and hooded mackih-
toshes; surgeons for both parties standing |
/ by a contiguous clump OF trees one Han
badly wounded, other pinked in the letl |
arm. and. finally, the appearance upon
| the scene of the innocent young thing III
skirts who had been the cause or the
whole fracas--a chorus girl figuring In the
| second row of the 'Sinbad operate TX
travaganza. which was then running mer-
rlly at the Chicago Opera-House. On,
that was a hot yarn, all right. one %
the contestants was represented as
young southern gentleman the scion Oh
the topmost family OF Mississippi name
not revealed. and the party OF the second
part TO the savage and bloodthirsty en-.
counter was Baron Kalnoky, the son OF
the Prime Minister of Austria. lhv
Baron was represented az having met the
chorus girl IN London. as having iaheh
desperately in love with her on the spot
k.ast rsNr
! ed her to this country, Of having been
vituperated and scorned by her because
she loved and was going to marry the
? scion of the swell house OF Mississippi
and as having finally. in a vortex OF rage
, slapped the countenance Of the not young
} member from the sunny southland. Hence
I the duel The pair of duelists were OF
I course, spirited away dn the story after
{ the fight. and the way they eluded the
E machinery of justice during lhe lew eN'
citing DAYS after the publication OF the
, storv was certainly a caution. They just
. seemed to have dropped off the earth com
PITNCTURING THE FAKE.
"Of course all OF the rest of the night
notice reporters were compelled 10 make
the best answers they could TO the " helu
were YOU at? question when they Weie
7 bauled an for not having got hold OF the
a abroad TO all of the metropolitan paper
d ~ Firope and correspondents were sem
e aving TO dig up the old Baron halhohy
e prime Minister OF Austria, who was STOP
Il ming at little inn In an inaccessible par
e 81 The Tvrolean mountains. taking res
l. iron, the cares of state. The name OK IN
e CON ~ the Baron Kalnoky didn't appea
n On the Almanac de Gotha, to be sure pu'
5 then. the correspondents were instruc'e'
u, al
T. whether he had morganauc SOIL
IN something ike that, whose name was en-
,d titled 10 a show I'm the Almanac. Inc Oh
NJ statesman grinned in the teeth OF the COZ
81 respoudents who found him out III III
SIS T,rolean mountain fastness. He had neVe
Ill had a son in his life. ha said, ana thd'
r. all there was to It. This was caDied 10 -
IL of the Chicago papers. but the only nlou
W acation that the young man who wrot
an the story would append TO 1t was that ia
e. military mustachioed gent from acros
Die the sea who had fought on account
he the second-row chorus girl, had repr'
tn sented himself 10 be the son OF Austria
ny premier. He hung on TO the story so pei
ch sistently that he made it STICK, ana
m wasn't dropped down the elevator sh'
lg- Of the newspaper he had faxed ne ne
lg- his end up in the weird ponce Stories y
of sly months after that, when along come
lie whom I hogan to tell you about him. h
he fascinated the song bird, perhaps by REL
m CON ~ his Oriental, seethins naglnauo
md ard they got married within a mont
the after their first meeting. He's been u
all nrosperous manager ever since.
prs INTERVIEWING COL. INGERSobi''
the .orben there was that extraordinal
'eI fake OF which the cherub-faced Coion
the Rob Ingersol was the victim. myers
IA happened to pass through Chlcaso On
nc wav to Butte. Mont, where ne naU Soi
eat business in connection with the Ia
zen will case (he having been one OF lne Id
me- yrs for the contestants of mat ianlo
en- vim and he stopped over in chicago
o. - a DAVIS rest before resumnS /
Inv ! tourney. one Of the remarkapie Cique
nts Cbirago hotel reporters nailed the 20.
avs mel i'm the corridor of the Auditorium II
'ets tel and asked him If, instead OF peins
'eie his way to Butte, he WASH reahS ~
the Tor & Paul. whittier all OF the spor
rom - ne country were just then repair
i "a attend a big prze-fight that was
the tie Mace within a few days. Inc Co.o'
lle- not only rebuked the playful lnslhua'l
10" hut he launched out on a lrehSuO q
lhls fierce TRADE against the Whoie pN''''' '
uCh of prlze-hghting. He called II pdDoot"
snt- and brutal, and spent Sood ten NM l..
gnu, telling how strongly ne reploDa'e,I -. pa.
HnhftmR
was morning one Of the prominent Ohlo'
leu, 1t,io- carne ont with a three-column
but tor,,iev with Colonel Ingersoll' III WI
not th, Iawver and lecturer was mace 10 u
in , nc under the heading Fights
ural uave witnessed colonel lngerSoh'
the oordiro 10 the interview, had atteh'
ring obont every big prze-fght in TINS CO..
7 of 49, and England since the days OF /
I'll -, c,,Ilivan and he was represented
t,ine, taken q huge delight IN fcld'
~ ~ the various points in these ns
.bat esnecially appealed TO his knoWle
the - kovinq The Colonel was on MS
i nul 20 Rutte by the time the story wa =
Dice ,t,bo1 but he got hold OF the interN
Ior a. oil az the papers along ms llhe
" travel The letter when ne "loto
muir S,otine the interview wasn't puoisne'
east 49, ant,retv: but. for all that II REM
no 49, mic dav in my mind the standlhs Il
o'dll ~ ali that Is most forclple' 1iIeS''
over eio6ye-bommerish in modern EnSllsh
.cteu &C. e,rievous to say that the youhs
the ,9bo wrote this Interview wasn't ruin
ca ~ discharged He was, instead tolu
Ven, - "a ouite so explicit henceforth' an
-tage oon,ir,ed on with the paper long enc
lie - 40 a partnership act on Il Dig
way to+oI fase in company with the hrsi-n
and .Tonod hotel-reporting fakir VINO W
hairs ~ ,nterview' with the Signor ABOUT
fixed oohardonmerA OF Rome by Leo.
over WHAT EKAFA TAHWHo SAID
solS .erhis il still known in Chicago as
Ooi"' -. interview. These TWO note
-, '..ere had grown a-weary OF enc
80, "a they decided 20 try their iol'un.
-, So YORK. They made arransenleH'
10y - frono their respective ne"spd