The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-28

when went downstairs and met Doz- fer, the old engineer, again on the platform.
 In my youthful enthusiasm said: ''Dozier, let us get on this engine with the yard crew and tell them we have orders to go to the Junction. that you are pilot"
 Good" he said. And on that engine we jumped, Dozier taking the throttle and in some 10 or 15 minutes we were at the Junction.
 There was the private car on the siding. Some 20 yards from the track Judge Tompkins had taken an axe from the private car and blazed the bark from the side of a big pine tree. Ten paces from the tree stood MT. William son, pistol in hand. Judge Tompkins would count, One, two, three, fire" and MT. Williamson was blazing away at the tree as if he were fighting a real duel.
 Thinking it was their engine, Judge Tompkins and Mir. King ordered Dozier, the engineer. to couple their car on, and proceed. Dozier promptly replied tnat it was my engine and that he was under my orders; at the same time winking at me.
 As 8 youngster. I felt my oats, so to speak, and told the party that the only way they could get to the duel was as my guests, and that I would not pro- ceed another step unless there were full apologies and I was invited to ride in the private car as their guest with the privilege of writing anything l saw fit to write.
 The apologies were extended. and we proceeded without orders. running wild toward Gadsden. Dozier, however, knew the schedule. and at Cedar Bluff we ran beside the regular train coming from Gadsden, on which was Pat Calhoun. Capt. Harry Jackson, their surgeon. and Bruffey.
 The news of the duel had gotten to Montgomery, and the then Governor Seay had wired to Cedar Bluff to ar- rest all the participants, mentioning, however, only Pat Calhoun and his party, who were proceeding from Gads- den eastward.
 Bruff and I had a quick conference the mail car, which he did, more or less hiding behind the mail sacks.
 In the meantime there must have been 20 armed men and boys, acting as deputy sheriffs and armed with every thing from horse pistols to shotguns, all demanding to know where one Pat Calhoun was Bruffey quickly volun- teered to impersonate Pat Calhoun, and ing that he thought it was an outrage to break up a gentlemen's duel and he appealed to them impersonating MT. Calhoun, not to interfere; but if they did interfere he was willing to fight any sheriff or anybody then and there. Bruffey was quickly dragged from the platform, pretending to fight all the time. and thrown upon the ground, where a number of men held him down.
 In the meantime we got Calhoun from the mail car, put him in one end of Will liamson's car with his friends. and got Williamson located in the other end of his car Then went back and told the sheriff that that was Bruffey of the At lanta Constitution. and that if he didn't believe it. to look in his pockets and he would find letters addressed to him that the whole thing was joke. Everybody laughed Bruff and got on the rear platform of the car; Dozier threw his throttle wide open and away we went.
 Within 200 yards of the Georgia line, just at dusk, the car stopped and prep arations were made for the duel.
 Williamson, King and his surgeon stepped from sthe front platform. Pat Calhoun. Capt. Harry Jackson and his surgeon stepped from the rear plat form.
 Captain Jackson stopped quickly and observed the other party. Just at that moment Judge Tompkins was stepping from the front platform. Captain Jack son quickly reacLed into both coat pockets of his jaunty little gray suit