DUEL AT MELBOURNE
Gashed Ear, Then Coffee CLUB MEMBERS’ DISPUTE (Received 21, 10.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, June 21. To avenge his honour after he had been expelled from the Melbourne University Conservative Club, Stanislaus Josef von Ingwersen, a descendant of a noble Danish family, fought a duel with Pater Lalor, a great grandson of tho Eureka stockade hero. Lalor moved tho motion for Ingwersen’s expulsion. Ingwersen regarded this as a stain upon his honour and challenged Lalor to a duel with, foils. Clad in cloaks and accompanied by seconds, an umpire and a surgeon, the duellests fought until Lalor stumbled and Ingwersen’s foil gashed his ear. The contestants shook hands and retired to drink coffee. The registrar, Mr. Bainbridge, stated that no official notice would be taken of the affair, which was regarded as a joke.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 159, 21 June 1935, Page 5
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