BOY KILLED IN A DUEL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14103, 3 July 1909, Page 2 (Supplement)

BOY KILLED IN A DUEL.

FIGHT WITH STOLEN PISTOLS. Paris, May 20;-~Auguste and Marcel Maid, cousins, aged respectively 12 and 13 years, fought a duel with pistols yesterday, and the- younger boy was killed. The ■fathers <>!' the hoys, who wore brothers, had married two sisters. Some months' ago the mother of Marcel died, and her husband and • his brother quarrelled over, her inheritance. The two children heard so much talk of ail angry kiiifl that : they too quarrelled, l and yesterday the" • younger one clapped his cousin in the face, ■ and Marcel called him out. They stole a case of pistole "belonging to Augusta's father, and-went oft' together into a wood near their home. They faced each other,' and both fired at the same momenta Au;gufcLe missed, but his coiwin\-: (.of struck' him in the neck, cutting tho t-arotid artery, „md he died immediately. Mai col Malo threw his revolver into 'the • River .Moselle, which runs near Ludres,' and began to i;u-: dress. with the idea .of frowning; himself; gendarme saw him, and took him to la-? station, where he described whit, had hup-' pened. , " My, cousin called my mother a' thief," he-said,''' and raid she had stolen money from our grandmother, and ' ii.vtigod her honour, hut I am sorry now fur , what has happened." '. ~ ■ ' • " ■ ■ :; . :;