New-York tribune., 1901-03-24
A REAL DUEL.
FOUGHT ON THE PLAINS WHERE HONOR
is NOT so EASILY SATISFIED"
AS IN FRANCE.

From The Chicago Times Herald.
| If Count BOni and the French gentlemen OF
his class thirsting 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 stock
man, fought for theirs. 1t is only necessary TO
say of Kelly that once in his life he figured in
celebrated International law controversy
which the then Secretary of State Thomas r.
Bayard ended. His mother a friend OF
John A Logan. and one of his sisters was re-
Gently if not now. sehoolteacher in this
State. Malone was nothing more nor less than
a frontier cattleman He met Kelly first at
Calgary, where. in dispute over cards, an
enmity arose between them. Subsequently they
clashed in the Medicine Hat country, and Ma
hone wrOngfuIy accused Kelly of stealing stock.
Kelly would have killed him then and there but
for the interference of the Canadian mounted
police. Subsequently one of these policemen
suggested 10 him that he challenge Malone to a
duel and that they have it out alone. Kelly
evidently thought well of the suggestion. for a
day two later. meeting Malone in that iso-
/ lated 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 and
prove to him with gun that he 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 a ranch house that night, but
up before dawn saddlins his horse He
carried for arms two six-shoOters and a short
hilted bear knife. He rode away from the ranch
in the heavy darkness before daybreak. headed
for the Tortured trail. He was six footer.
sandy haired, heavy jawed. and called Pull
dog because he had once pitted himself against
an animal of that title and whipped him in
free fight His courage was extreme from the
brute point of view To illustrate this wears
after this event. when he on trial for his
life in a murder ease he was instructed by his
attorney to kill one of the witnesses against him
in the courtroom if he attempted to give certain
You listen to him." said the attorney ''and IL
he tries to testify as TO certain things let him
have it,"
COWED BY KELLY'S GAZE.
Kelly. as a prisoner entered the courtroom
with knife up his sleeve. and he sat through
all the proceedings with his eyes on the man
he TO watch. The latter grew restless and
when ne took the stand broke down completely
and did not aid the prosecution at all He d-
vined without knowing it that if he testified as
the prosecution believed he would Kelly would
then and there end him. And this all took
place not in frontier court but in a court OK
the United States Government.
Well Kelly rode down the trail gay in
spirit man of his nature could be. He did
not whistle. fOr whistins men rarely brutal
Of evidence that he felt well. He watched the
dark hang closer and closer to the plain grasses,
the stars grow less brilliant until suddenly in
the east it was as if curtain was drawn up
and the day came with the call of wild birds
and wind which rose from the west 10 meet
the He glanced toward Medicine Hat and
from that point. out of the black and gray OF
the hour. rode Malone. armed his opponent
was IhTE were d niiie apart Wheil tiIeY rtcoS5
nized each other Nelly refined IN his horse and
waited Malone came on. No surgeons nor Sec
Onds were in attendance. Medicine Hat was
asleep. Malone drew nearer. moving little TO
the left. if to circle about Kelly. The latter
suddenly dropped under his horses neck and
fired. His bullet Just clipped the name of Ma
homes horse. Malone gave wild whoop and
fired back. riding as Kelly was. Indian fashion,
-ld looking for opening Both horses We're
-ow in motion. and the shots came thick and
fast. kelly's animal went down first, screaming
from bullet through his lungs. His rider in
trenched behind him. MahOne made charge
and lost his horse. besides getting bullet
through his left 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 wiped himself off and tied a
handkerchief the mark
WITH KNIVES AND PISTOLS.
Each afraid to start out from his horse.
but in the of half hour their
munitiOn exhausted, and then they threw
their pistols from them and came toward each
other, through the grass. with their knives out
Kelly had two good wounds and Malone
had been shot three times They visbly stag
Sered 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
awkwardness MahOne gave him a savage cut.
They hacked and stabbed at each other until
neither could move. and the small population o.,
Medicine Hat, getting wind of what going
on rode out and brought them in for medical
attendance Kelly besides his bullet wounds