Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1901 — BONI WOUNDS HIS FOE. [ARTICLE]

BONI WOUNDS HIS FOE.

Duel with the Editor of Figaro Take* Place Near Faria. M. de Rodays, the Paris editor, was wounded in his duel with the Count de Castellane. The count was untouched. The duel occurred near Faria Saturday afternoon. Pistols were the weapons used. Twenty-five paces were stepped off, and the contestants took their station. Then the duel opened. One shot was fired. De Rodays fell, wounded in the thigh. The injury, Though painful, is not considered serious. The cause of the duel between Anna Gould's husband and M. de Rodays-, editor of Figaro, was the publication in Figaro of a list of the count’s debts, and an article in which it was alleged that the count and countess had gone to New York to raise money from the Gould family to make up losses of the count on the Bourse. This publication occurred while the De Castellanos were at sea, and when the count landed and was told of it he declared he would not challenge the editor, but would slap his face. The face slapping came off on schedule time, and Rodays promptly challenged De Castellaae to fight.