The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-21

TIts brought on n crop of DueIs-De
Lubersac Has Fought Three, but
Was WOrsted in This One-GOt n
Flesh Wound in the Arm and the
Duel Was Promptly Discontinued.
ROthschiId Had TO Wait TIL He
Came of Age to Fight.
Paris, Jan. 2O,-The long expected duel
between the Count de Lubersac and Ba-
ron Robert de Rothschild was
fought with swords at II o'clock
this morning on Baron Edmond
de Rothschild's estate at Boulogne-
sur-Seine. The carriages with the prin-
clpals, seconds, doctors and few friends,
arrived there from Paris shortly before
II o'clock. Count de Lubersac's seconds
were NJ. Schege and Count de IaBorde,
ana those of Baron de Rothschild were
Baron Leonino and Viscount de Bondy.
The duel began at 11:10 O'Clock and last
ed ten minutes, when Count de Lubersac
received a lunge, perforatng his arm at
the elbow. to the armpit. The duel was
then stopped Both the Count and the
Baron fought most determinedly neither
tlinched and neither showed the slightest,
desire to spare the other. Sixteen engage
ments took place all of a desperate char
acter. The combatants attacked each
other furiously. The sleeves of their
shirts were literally torn to pieces by the
points of their swords, as the duelIists
repeatedly lunged at each other. Several
times they came 90 close quarters and
their seconds were obliged to separate
them.
AT the sixteenth onslaught Baron de
Rothschild lunged at the Count who tried
to parry, but failed and the Barons
sword penetrated his arm. just above the
elbow, and issued at the armpit. The
spectators hastened around the wounded
man and two well-known physicians, Drs.
Berger and Poirrer, examined the wound.
They declared the Counts life was not in
danger, but that ii was impossible to con-
tinue the duel. Count de Lubersac was
then driven back to Paris.
Baron de Rothschild is still performing
military service with the Thirty-fourth
Regiment of Infantry, in garrison at Com
piegne He only attained his majority
yesterday and lost no time in settling his
account with Count de Lubersac
The Rothschild-Lubersac incident which
brought out a remarkable crop of duels.
had its origin in a boys quarrel. dating
from the time when Countde Lubersac and
Baron Robert de Rothschld were at the
same college. They quarreled one day
in regard to tennis court which was oc-
cupied by Rothschild and which Count de
Lubersac wanted. During the quarrel
Lubersac called his adversary sale Juif''
C"dirty Jew'D.
Ill feeling was revived after they left
college by an expression attributed to
Baron de Rothschild respecting Count de
Lubersac which was repeated to the lat
ter soon after his admission to the jockey
club. The Count then announced himself
ready TO meet the Baron, although, as
he expressed 1t, you know how you and
your people inspire me with disgust
Baron de Rothschild sent as his Sec
onds MN. de Saint Alary and de Neuhiz
to Count de Lubersac, who appointed
Count de Dion and Count Boni de Castel-
lane as his seconds. Baron de Rothschilds
seconds stated in a latter, subsequently
published, that their efforts to secure an
encounter had failed, because of the re-
fusal of Count de Lubersac's seconds to
allow the duel to take place when they
discovered that Baron de Rothschild was
still a minor.
Letters of Baron Robert to his seconds
and to the Count added fuel to the flames
and the Count announced his purpose to
again send his seconds when the Baron
should attain his majority He also wrote
to Baron Roberts cousin, Baron Edouard
de Rothschid, son of Baron Alphonse de
Rothschild, stating that as the son of the
head of the Rothschild family, he should
hold him responsible and should insult
him at their first meeting.
A duel followed between Count de LlI-
bersac and Baron Edouard de Rothschild
April II of last year, in which the latter
was slightly wounded in the forearm i'm
the first bout.
Count de Lubersac few days previous
ly fought with and wounded NJ. Michael
Ephrussi and a third duel, arising from
the same controversy, was fought between
Count de Dion and M de Saint A1arv in