FOUR DUELS IN FOREST.
JUNKER KILLIS OPPONENT. The practice of duelling continues to be the accepted way of eettling quarrels among men of the upper classes in certain parts of Germany. Public attention has lately been thrice drawn to the matter: (1) By the Pope, who condemned the practice in a speech to a pilgrimage of German students. (2) By an attempt of the Nationalists in the Reichstag to make duelling punishable for officers, and (S) By the recent case of Boguslay yon Sommitz, a Pomeranian Junker, who is to be tried on December 2 for duelling. A quarcel at a hunt breakfast at his castle led the Junker to challenge four guests, three of whom were neighbouring landowners. His opponents and the seconds met in a clearing in the forest, and he fought four duels with pistols one after the other. In the first three no blood was shed, but in the fourth the Junker killed Walter Helweke, who was shot in the head. He has therefore to answer a charge of manslaughter as well as one of duelling.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 13, 16 January 1926, Page 23
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