People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1894 — GIRLS FIGHT A DUEL. [ARTICLE]

GIRLS FIGHT A DUEL.

One Kills the Other andj Then Commits Suicide. Sr. Louis, Sept. 22. —A special to the Chronicle from Birmingham, Ala., says that Emma Anderson and Irene Washington, aged 17 and 18 years respectively, of Daphne, Ala., were rivals for the affections of Ben Olson, a Swedish sailor. The girls quarrelled and agreed to settle the matter by a duel with knives. Each girl stripped to the waist and began shashing with the knives. In a few minutes the Washington girl iiad received over a dozen cuts and fell, dying soon afterwards. Emma' Anderson, realizing that she had committed murder, stabbed herself to the heart and fell dead across the body of her rival.