GUN AND RIFLE
BATTLE AT MINING CAMP
MOUNT ISA, May 15
One of the most novel duels that have ever taken place in civil life was fought out within the environs of Tennant’s Creek recently. Two miners, allegedly under the influence of liquor, quarrelled. One grabbed a sawn-off shotgun and the other a pea-rifle. They then entrenched themselves about 20 yards apart in a costean on a hill.
For two hours the battle raged, but the man with the pea-rifle ran short of ammunition.
He crawled down the costean, which led past his camp, and quickly making a bomb with a jam tin and gelig nite, returned to the scene of battle. He threw the bomb, then waited for a few minutes and shouted, “Have you had enough?” to which his opponent replied, “Enough, be hanged! Come out here on No Man’s Land and we’ll finish it with fists.”
The invitation was accepted. The worst wound was several pellets of shot in the arm of the man with the pea-rifle.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 31 May 1935, Page 4
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