The copper era., 1905-06-08
PISTOL DUEL AT DOUGLAS.
Riehwaymah Who Attempted HOld-up is
 Put to Flight.
From the Bisbee Review.

From the Bisbee Review.
 There are a good many systems of beating the wheel, used by different
 players, and devotees of the little
 ball. A forty-four and the drop on
 the man with the "roll'' until one
 evening was supposed to be the only
 sure system and even that won't work
 in Douglas. There is lone highway i man in this town or vicinity who will testify to that fact. Pistols are a
 game at which two men can play.
 The Brunswick saloon is located on
 office, Jack Kniaziewich is the boni-
 face who owns and runs the place.
 He is peaceable and good natured
 and not looking for trouble. Pat
 Kennedy and J. F. Fitzpatrick look
 after the gaming end of the busi-
 ness. Business ruin along in it's usual
 trend until d few minutes after mid
 night when there was diversion not down on the program. The crowd
 had dispersed and gone their various
 ways excepting two young men from
 Texas who were. friends of the pro-
 prietor, who came in from Texas the day before, and were at the bar talk ing to MT. Kniaziewich about the old
 home in the "Lone Star" state. MT.
 Fitzpatrick had just sacked up the
 bank roll of S7OO and was preparing to place it in the safe for the night preparatory to closing up. Pat Ken nedy was behind the roulette table giving the elusive little ball final twist, when the rear door to the sa- loon was opened and man with a handkerchief tied over his face and two bad looking guns in his hands stepped in and ordered all hands up, covering Kennedy and Fitzpatrick and demanding the sack of money Things at once became active. The proprietor dropped behind the bar as did one of his Texas friends, the other made q bee line for the door or Texas and vanished. Kennedy did the disappearing act behind the rou- lette table. The pistol of the bandit was so close to Fitzpatrick that he had no chance to either run or duck and for once in his fife had sacked the money without his pistol in his hand. Meantime the robber took crack at Kniaziewich through the bar just for luck, but that gentlemen had not been idle. When he dropped out of sight he went after his gun and at the crack of the robbers gun he reappeared with a good "4l" ready for fun or fight and began pumping lead at the masked gentle | man in manner that thoroughly l disconcerted him and made him for | the moment forget the sack of coin | in sight. He turned to the proprie- | tor and said with an oath, ''I will | kill you" Jack, not to be outdone in | good manners, said ''[ will get you first" and the fight became fast and | furious. Three times the bandit shot at the big saloonist, one bullet | its way across the bar, cutting deep furrow, another smash ed the glass in the front window and | another buried itself in the wall be- hind the bar but did no damage to Jack, who kept pumping lead at the robber. The fight was becoming so that the hold-up man evidently concluded it was not a good night to beat the wheel and commenced to back towards the door at which he had entered.
 When near enough he made run for it, closed the door behind him and disappeared in the dark. An ac- counting of stock showed no damage done save the bullet marks and the broken window.
 MT. Fitzpatrick is almost certain that the robber was hit by one of Jacks bullets and thinks his right arm was put out of business. The money was all intact. In addition to the sack on the roulette table there were two other sacks of money one containing 500 and the other Sl6O, all of which the gentleman might have had if it had not have been for the nerve of Kniaziewich.