Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1910 — The Mystery of a Duel. [ARTICLE]

The Mystery of a Duel.

Having fought his duel and saved his honor by firing a shot In the air, the editor of a French provincial newspaper weq,t back to his desk and the incident had quite left his mind when be felt something strange in his thigh. He looked and found that he was bleeding profusely. A doctor was called, who discovered that a bullet was embedded in the editor’s thigh some two inches deep and required extraction. "Why was this not taken notice of on the spot where the duel took place?” he asked. The editor was as much In the dark as the doctor. At the moment of the duel he had fired into the air and his adversary also took a distracted sort of aim. There had evidently been no intention of doing the slightest harm on either side The editor felt nothing as he left the field and had shaken hands with his antagonist as a sign of reconciliation. How a bullet came to be lodged in his thigh was simply one of the mysteries of dueling.