The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-31
Two REMARKABLE DUFLS,
Chicago Times-Herald.

# Count Boni and the French gentle
men of his class tltirstins for each others
gore really wish to know how to fight
for honor's sake let them visit Medicine
Hat and hear the story of how Bulldog
Kelly and Malone, the stocllman, fought
for theirs. 1t is only necessary to say
of Kelly that once in his life he figured
in a celebrated international law con-
troversy which the then secretary of
state Thomas f. Bayard, ended His
mother was friend of John A. Logan,
and one of his sisters was recently, if not
now. q school teacher in this state. Ma
hone was nothing more nor less than
frontier cattleman. He met Kelly first at
Calgary where. in a dispute over cards,
an enmity arose between them. Suisse
quently they cIashed in the Medicine Hat
country. and Malone wrongfuuy accused
Kelly of stealing stock. Kelly would have
killed him then and there but for the
interference of the Canadian mounted po-
lice. Subsequently one of these policemen
suggested to him that he challenge Ma
hone to a duel, and that they have it
out alone. Kelly evidently thought well
of the suggestion, for a day or two later,
meeting Malone il an isolated and abused
town, Medicine Hat, he quietly told him
that he would meet him the next morn
ing as the sun rose on the Tortured trail,
rNAO bAONN ~ lllAAA Win q ; III bAASil iN was
not a thief. Malone nodded his head in
acceptance of the defiance. and that was
all there was to the challenge.
Kelly slept in s. ranch house that night,
but was up before dawn Saddlng his
horse. He carried 70, arms two slx-shoct-
e,s and short hilted bear knife. He
rode away from the ranch in the heavy
darkness before daybreak, headed for the
Tortured trail. He was a six footer
Bulldog" because ne had once pitted
himself against an animal of that title
&nd whipped him in free fight. His
courage was ext enc tom the b ute point
Of view To illust, ate this years after
this event. when he was on trial for his
life in a murder case, he was instructed
by his attorney to kill one of the wit
nesSes against him in the courtroom if
he attempted 10 give certain testimony.
"Eo1 listen to him.. said the attorney,
ard i he tries 10 testify as to certain
thinS0 let him have it.
COWED BY KEILY'S GAZE.
Kelly. as a prisoner. entered the court
room with knife up his sleeve. and
as ne sat ali through the proceedings
with bis, eyes on the man he was to
Itch the latter grew reet loss 80
when he took the stand broke COM
pIetely down, and did not aid the pros-
scutIcn al all. He OWNED without
prosecution believed he would Kelly
would then and there end him And
ot,is al took place nor in fr0rf
SQUIRT. but in court of the United
States government.
Wei, Kelly rode down the trail as CAV
IN spirit as a man of his nature could
be. he did not whistle for whistlinc
men are rarely brutal. But he abused his
morse; and that was the best of evidence
that he felt we'll. He watched the dark
hang closer and closer 10 the nlain
grasses. the stars lass hriJl
III suddenly in the east it was as if a
curtain was drawn up and the day came
with The call of wild birds and a wind
which rose from the west to meet the
sun lie glanced toward Medicine Hat
and from that point. out of the black
and gray of the hour. rode Malone
armed as his opponent was. They were
mile 3part when they recognized each
other Kelly reined in his horse and
waited. Malone came on No surgeons
nor seconds were in attendance Medt-
enc Hat was asleep. Malone drew
a. 4eaTer moving I,tle t. m" left. as if
to circle about Kelly. The latter sud
denly dropped under lis horses neck and
hred His bullet just clipped the name
of M2hone's horse. Malone gave a
wild whoop and fired back riding as
Kelly was, Indian fashion. and looking
for an opening. Both horses We're now
IN melton and the shots came thick ard
fast. KellY'S animal went down scream.
ing from bullet through his lungs His
rider intrenched behind him. Mahcne
made a charge ard lost his own horse
arm He. too. intrenched In a few
moments one of his shots cut a red
crease across the forehead of Kelly and
filled his eyes with blood. He Wipad
himself off and tied a handkerchief over
the mark.
WITH KNIVES AND PISTOLS
Each was afraid to start out from his
horse, but in the course of half an hour
their ammunition was exhausted, and
then they threw their pistols from them
ana came toward each other tbTOUo OH ia
grass. with their knives out. Kelly now
had two big wounds and Malone had been
shot three times. They visibly Stagger-
ed as they played for the. first chance
TO close in. At last the knives crossed
and Kelly got the first thrust and missed
for which awkwa rdne SIS Malone gave him
a savage cut. They hacked ami stabbed
at each other until neither could move,
and the small population of Medicine Hat,
getting wind Of what was going on, rode
out and brought them in for medical at
tendance. Kelly, besides his bullet
wounds, had fourteen knife cuts, and Ma
hone had fifteen They were put to bed
in the same room and the same doctor
attended both. For days they lay almost
COUGHING each other, and neither spoke
Medicine Hat had been unable to decide
which had the better of the fight and
It seemed as if it would be resumed if
Doth lived to recover. But one morning
Malone raised himself painfully from his
mattress, ana he put out his hand to
Kelly and said:
You amt no thief. You're game"
And Kelly covered the hand with his
own and shook. That settled their feud
They We're under the doctors care for
three months and when able to go out
rode away from Medicine Hat together
the best of friends
That was a real fight the only kind of
nght that a real man goes into if he is
going TO fight at all. 1t was a pity that
Kelly did not hold his courage afterward
for better uses. He became involved in
one of the most brutal murders known
to the Calgary region. escaped the hang
mans Moose by technicalities, and finally
in Nebraska or Wyoming fell off boxcar
enc night and was ground to pie ces by tie
wheels OF d tranScoUtinental freight
Malone never fought again.