The New York herald., 1922-05-01
boy KILLED IN DUEL
| WITHRIFLEBY MATE;
| TWOACT ASSEC0NDS
Campers, Quarreling Over
Can of Soup, Decide OH
Gun Fight.
BATTLE IN SCOUT STYLE
Contestants, Hiding Behind
Trees and Rocks, Crawl
Up on Each Other.
ONE Is SHOT IN FOREHEAD
Three Arrested After Victim
Is Removed From Woods
in Queens.
ONE is SHOT IN FOREHEAD

Jacob Kabitz 70 years old, of 81
NORTH, First street, Brooklyn, and Vic
tor Janculidizh, IS. of 126 South Sec
ond street, quarreled over a can OF
soup yesterday afternoon, and to settle
their argument fought duel with
rifles in the woods north of the old
village of Queens. not far from Ja-
maica. Shooting across a pond about
a hundred feet wide and adopting In
dian tactics Of hiding behind trees
and rocks, tie two boys fired between
ten and twenty rounds at each other,
but finally Kabitz was shot in the
forehead and died while being sent to
the Jamaica Hospital in an ambu-
lance.
After the shooting young Janculidizh
went to Hillside avenue. about 1000 feet
mick that he had been shooting at tar
| gets and had accidentally shot ais
friend. He stuck to this story for sew
eral hours, as did Leo Lvoskowski. 20
years old, Of 81 North First street, and
John Zawastoski. IL, of 109 Grant street.
| who acted as seconds to the duelists.
| But after Detectives Kehoe, Harden
and Mehling of the Jamaica station had
questioned him for three hours and had
| insisted on being shown exactly how the
shooting occurred the boys broke down
and told of the quarrel and the subse-
quent duel.
Boys start on Camping Trip.
The four boys took tent and went
] late Saturday afternoon to the woods
/ north of the old village. There they
ceIpped Saturday night with no unpleas-
ant Incidents. Kabitz. having had ex-
perience In matters of woodcraft was
the leader OF the party and the others
had bound themselves TO obey his orders.
The police said that young Janculidizh
had agreed to this arrangement i'm spite
of the fact that there was bad blood
between them because two weeks ago
Kabitz had whipped the younger brother
OF Janculidizh. But there was no trouble
until yesterday morning, when Janculi-
dizh drew the cooking assignment.
He opened a can of soup, put 4. I'm a
pan and set the pan on the fire that the
boys had built. He heated it and then
started to pour 1t into the mess kits
But the boy spilled 1t, and Kabitz i'm
mediately began to reprimand him, be-
| littling him as a cook and calling him
clumsy and awkward. Janculidizh re-
sented Kabitz's attitude. and when the
leader Of the boys handed him another
can of soup and told him to heat that
Janculidizh threw the can on the ground.
Cook it yourself" he said I'm
through"
Throws Can ON Ground.
Kabitz tried to make him heat the
soup, but Janculidizh repeated that he
would not do It, and again threw the
| can on the ground when Kabitz handed
1t to him. They quarrelled over this all
morning. and soon after noon one of the
two boys-Janculidizh says it was Ka-
bitz and the two other boys say they do
not recall which II was--suggested that
they fight it out with rifles.
They had taken two guns with them.
both .22 calibrc. and they had taken also
a box OF IA caliber long cartridges
These cartridges are more powerful than
the ordinary % shorts, and have a much
greater penetrating power.
Lvoslkowski and Zawastoski tried TO
prevent the fight, but they could not, and
they finally agreed TO act as seconds.
although neither boy will tell for which
Of the duelists he served. At any rate,
1t was agreed that the fight should take
place after lunch, that the two boys
| should shoot at each other acrpss the
pond. that they would be entitled to
use rocks and trees and brush piled as
places of concealment and that the duel
would be finished when one or the other
had been wounded
They expected that one or the other
would be shot i'm the arm or leg. They
had no idea that either would be killed.
1
kabitz and Janculidizh took UP their
positions on opposite sides of the pond,
kabitz hiding behind tree and Janculi-
dizh back of rock. Lvoskowski and
Zawastoski went on the other side of
the pond and at signal from them the
two boys began shooting. Each had
taken with him one half Of the total
supply OF cartridges. The first shot IL
said TO have been fired by Kabitz. II
went wild and missed the rock behind
which Janculidiz1 crouched by at least
| twenty feet Then the two boys fired
several rounds rapidly, but they did not
take careful aim, and they missed.
Two bullets few so wide that they
whistled by the heads of tho seconds,
compelling these boys to take cover also.
During tine remainder OF the fight the
seconds lay hidden in the marsh grass
around the pond, waiting for one or the
other duclist TO shout that he had been
hit. They told the police that for
time there was no shooting. as both
kaots and Janculidzh had left their
'iding places and were crawling through
the brush to hunt another vantage point.
But finally the seconds heard the
crack OF rife. They looked up. just in
time to see "a bullet from Jsnculidizh'a
rifle clip the bark from a tree behind
which kabitz crouched. The next instant