SHOT AN INSULTER OF THE QUEEN.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 29, 3 February 1900, Page 5 (Supplement)

SHOT AN INSULTER OF THE QUEEN.

AN ■ IRISHMAN'S-. : LOYALTY,

PARIS, December 23,

Captain O'Neill Murphy, brother of the late Daniel T.: Murphy, the San Francisco millionaire, brother of Lady Wolseley,wife of Sir Chas. Michael Wolseley, recently, in a duel, shot and wounded, perhaps fatally, M. Marcel, editor in chief of "La Caricature." It was: "La Caricature's" cartoons, insulting ; Queen Victoria, that roused the anger of the Irish captain, who served for. many years in the Horse Artillery, and is a- crack, shot. Murphy galled Marcel. _ out for , insulting the Queen. As a result- the editor's collarbone |3 broken and 'he has a wound in his breast which may prove fatal.

"La Caricature" and''Le Riere" have been particularly nasty in their cartoons -not more so, however, than the English papers were in their.rlducule of the French during the Dreyfus affair. When the gallant captain saw his Queen attacked' he Wrote to the offending editor, calling him a dog and a coward. Marcei being slow at replying, Murphy sent to him two' Roumanian 'princes, the brothers Storsea, with, a message that if Marcel didn't give him satisfaction he would make mincemeat, of the editor and his gtaff and wreck theparaphernalia of "La Caricature." '

• This brought him to time,and a duel was arranged.. Captain Murphy wanted to fight with Winchester rifles, but consented to compromise on duelling pistols at twenty paces.

'All the preliminaries- arrange*!, the combatants, with their- seconds ax«td physicians, went to a spot near Rasle, close to: the borders of' Germany. This was done in order ■to make, certain of the duel. The combat was of short duration, for Marcel was hit at-the first fire. As ho fell his revolver was .discharged, and a. bullet grazed Murphy's arm. The editor lies in a precarious condition in Switzerland, while the Irishman is out skating in the Bols.

When a correspondent asked Murphy about-his encounter, he merely remarked:

"It is the poorest shooting I have done in many a day. I aimed for his head and merely broke his collar bone and put a hole in the wrong place.' I think these fellows will stop insulting women now; li not, I will hive some more of them out."