Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1900 — MAN AND WIFE FIGHT A DUEL. [ARTICLE]

MAN AND WIFE FIGHT A DUEL.

Philadelphians Engage in Combat Fatal to Beth. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Sinclair pulled triggers at the same instant and both fell dead in front of their villa at Duffryn Mawr, a select suburb of Philadelphia Saturday evening. They had quarreled; the woman was armed and dared her husband to touch her. Then she threatened him, and in a fit of passion he challenged her to shoot him “down like a dog.” With the devilishness of a woman, cultured and advanced. Mrs. Sinclair deliberately entered the house, proeflred a revolver and, handing it to her husband, said: “We are equal now. I dare you to fight me like a man.” Sinclair coolly proposed a duel, his wife agreed, and before Mary Clark, the servant who heard and saw the preliminaries, could summon help the man and the woman—husband and wife—had deliberately paced off five yards, counted one, two, three—fired nnd died in their tracks. Sinclair was shot through the right eye and his wife was killed by a bullet passing through her forehead on a line with her nose. Mrs. Sinclair was an ultra type of the new woman. She affected manly dress, rode a diamond frame bicycle and entertained her friends with “red” teas at which tea was never served.