The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-06-15
A SENSATIONAL DUEL.

A SENSATIONAL DUEL. l.
LIGHT OF BULLDOG" KELLY AND .
MALONE. THE sTocKMAN.
hey cIashed in the Medicine Hat Coun.
try-Mahone Had WrongfulIy Accused {
Kelly of stea::ss Stockholm the Game
Men Settled Their Feud.
II Count Boni and the French gentle
men of his class thirsting for each
,ther's gore really wish to know how
10 fight for honor's sake let them
fist Medicine Hat and hear the story
If how Bulldog" Kelly and Malone,
The stockman, fought for theirs, writes
H. /. Cleveland d, in the Chicago Times
Herald. 1t Is only necessary to say
81 Kelly that once in his life ne
figured in q celebrated international
Jaw controversy which the then sec
retary Of State, Thomas F. Bayard,
ended. His mother was frlend OIL
John A. Logan, and one OF his SIS
,ers was recently, If not now, school,
teacher in this State. Malone was
aothing more nor less than frontier
.attleman. He met Kelly first at Cal
rary. where, in a dispute over CARDS,
IN enmity aros, between them. Sunse-
,uently they clashed in tie Medicine
Hat country, and Malone wrongfully
accused Kelly Of stealing stock. Kelly
would have killed him then and tnere
out for the interference OF the Cana
iian mounted police. Subsequently
pne of these policemen suggested 10
nim that he challenge Malone 10
iuel. and that they have 1t out alone.
Kelly evidently thought well OF the
mggestion, for day or two later,
meeting Malone in that Isolated anu
abused town, Medicine Hat, he quiet
" told him that he would meet Ill"
The next morning as the sun rose on
The Tortured trail and prove to MIN
with a gun that he was not tnleI.
Malone nodded his head In acceptance
pf the defiance, and that was all tnere
va, to the challenge.
/
Kelly slept in a ranch house that
light. but was up before dawn sadollng
ais horse. He carried for arms TWO
,ix-shooters and short-h4lted pear
Knife. He rode away from the rancn
n the heavy darkness before daypreak'
headed for the Tortured trail. He
was a six-footer, sandy-haired. heavy
llawed and called Bulldog" because
ae had once pitted himself against an
lanimal of that title and whipped MIN
lin a free fight. His courage was ex-
IRENE from the brute point OF view
70 illustrate this, years after TINS
,vent. when he was on trial for mis-
life in a murder case, he was INSTRUCT
ed by his attorney to kill one OF the
witnesses against him In the courtroom
lie he attempted to give certain testi'
mony.
"You listen to him." said the attor
new. land If he tries to testify as te
certain things let him have 1t.
Kelly, as a prisoner, entered tn'
{ courtroom with a knife up his sleeve
and he sat through all the proceedings
: with his eyes on the man he was tt
watch. The latter grew restless, AM
when he took the stand broke doWi
. completely and did not aid the prosecu
ion at all. He OWNED without know
> ing II that il he testified as tn
prosecution believed he would KEN
lwould then and there end him. An
This all took place not in frontle
court. but In a court of the Unite
? States government.
q Well Kelly rode down the trail a
" CAV in spirit as a man OF MS Ia
Ieure could be. He did not whlstl
: ;or whistling men are rarely bruta
u But he abused his horse, and that wa
10 the best of evidence that he felt wei
- He watched the dark hang closer an
70 closer to the plain grasses, the stal
10 grow more brilliant until suddenly
1.-The east 1t was as IL curtain W;
D. irawn I'D and the day came with II
d. .au of wild birds and wind whiG
40 rose from the west to meet the su
.. He glanced toward Medicine Hat al
- from that point, out OF the black al
w. gray of the hour, rode Malone, arm'
~ as his opponent was. They were
mile apart when they recognized ea
:. other. Kelly refined in his horse al
nu waited. Malone came on. No su
A. icons nor seconds were in attendant
Medicine Hat was asleep. Maho
ne drew nearer, moving little to t
II left. as il to circle about Kelly. 7
no latter suddenly dropped under
ny 1horse's neck and fired. His bullet il
~ slipped the name of Mahone's hor
VI Mahone gave a wild whoop and fir
30 back, riding as Kelly was, Indian fas
On Ion, and looking for an openil
- Both horses were in motion, and
.no ,hots came thick and fast. Kell
animal went down first, screami
=. from q bullet through his lungs.
- dder entrenched behind him. Mahc
made a charge and lost his own hor
!, besides getting a bullet through
left arm. He, too, entrenched. Ii
lew moments one of his shots GU
red crease across the forehead Of Ke
and filled his eyes with blood.
- wiped himself OF and tied handk
~. :hief over the mark.
des Each was afraid to start out fl
ma his horse, but In the course Of l
An. AN hour their ammunition was
all. Aausted, and then they threw Il
.ost pistols from them and came tow
,ess zach other, through the grass, v
,erv their knives out. Kelly now had
that good WOUNDS ana Manone nad
hat shot three times. They visibly 8
With yered as they played for the
tted chance to close in. 1t was almost