DUEL IN GERMANY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1164, 27 June 1911, Page 5

DUEL IN GERMANY.

4 . "HONOURABLE DETENTION." By TcleeraDh—Press Assoniatlon-Oopyrleht Borlin, Jure 25. Augustus Thyssen, a millionaire's son, has been sentenced to three months' honourable detention for fighting a duel with a lawyer.

SEMI-OFFICIAL APPROVAL. Tho duel still persists in Germany, and is by no means the farcical affair that it has dcgeneiatcd mtoin France. In a forest on tho outskirtsof Berlin Lieutenant Wilhelm von Gatlron, a retired officer of the Potsdam Guards, was killed at dawn on Hay 11 by Lieutenant Baron Oswald von Richthofen, of tho Reservo Corps of 2nd Uhlan Guards, and son of the late German Foreign Secretary. Aftter killing his antagonist Baron yon Richthofen surrendered to his regiment, tho uniform of which he wore (luring tho combat. Ho then underwent the usual prosecution before a court-martial ending in a sentence of detention in a fortress. Tho duel took place with tho approval of a military "court of honour. Uniformed officers officiated as seconds and witnesses. The combat was waged under tho deadliest conditions by tho express wish of the contestants, both of whom were expert with the pistol. Tho firing began at fifteen paces, and was to continue without cessation until ono of the contestants was incapacitated or killed. At the first exchange of bullets neither man was hit. At the second Herr von Gaffron fell mortally wounded in , the lungs. Hcrr Gailron wns fifty years of age and his adversary twenty-five.