Show HS F AGE GUT TO RIBBONS A Frightful Duel Between Brothers at a Christening on Sunday WHISKY WAS THE CAUSE Polc man Arrives As Usua Too Late Prominent Families of Clifton Prairie Prai-rie Tcxa Take Up iv Quarrel at i Church Pistol Being Freely I Used and with Deadly Effect Beginning I Be-ginning of I Fend That Has Hag oil for Many Months It Was Awful Aw-ful CHICAGO Feb iCarl Dahlke and Herman Dahlke brothers fought a frightful duel with knives tonight in the rear of 208 Blackhawk street the home of their sister Mrs William t Stuy There had been a family gathering I gath-ering for the christening of a babe when the brothers quarreled They adjourned I ad-journed to the back yard to fight and after it was over Herman was picked I up head and face cut to ribbons Before Be-fore going into the yard they had been drinking and quarreling but had been separated by their wives who clung to them Carl and Herman are middle mid-dle aged each having a large family Carl is a laborer and Herman a night watchman Get out your knife cried Herman and come into the yard Pushing the women away the two men sprang into the yard in the rear of the house Each had a keen bladed pocket knife in his hand and with j I screams of anger they jumped at one I another like tigers In a moment they were slashing and cutting in fury Suddenly Herman gave a scream of agony In the meantime the whole neighborhood had been aroused by the wailing women and the childrens cries I of fear Men and women were ranged II j about the fence watching the duel but I no one had the temerity to interfere A policeman arrived just too late to catch Carl redhanded with his brothers broth-ers blood A child had run to the after corner and informed him but Herman had fallen Carl jumped over the fence and made his escape When Herman was brought to the hospital his face and head were slashed in a dozen different directions and the left eye hung from its so ket ne cut extended ex-tended from the crown of the head to a point below the left eye and another cut had almost torn half tue scalp off Up to a late hour the fugitive broTher had not been captured j |