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Show . A DEADLY DUEL. The pirti j ilara of the remarkable duel which look place in New York city cn the 2d day of November, are ofthrillin- interest. The first that was he.i.'J of the aflair was reported by A ijuug lady, who lived in the buiMuig where the duel look place. She auk terrified by hearing the noise of : desperate struggle in the room ah vt her own. In a moment a pistol ot was heard, followed in rapid auc-' auc-' UKcn by eight others. Belore the l in ceased, a heavy fall was heard, m.d in a moment mora another. Then all was still. . Terribly frightened, she ran and gave an alarm. In a few minutes an officer proceeded to the door of the rojm, and knocking, demanded admittance. There was no answer, and, trying the door, ho found it locked and bolted. He then burst the fastenings and found still an obstruction. Succeeding finally in getting through the doorway, ho found that a dying man lay against the door, while a corpse lay six feet ofl. The: blood on the floor and the marks of bullets in the ceiling told of a duel a t' out ranee that had been fought in . the little room. Davis Jerslow, the j man who was yet alive, was speechless speech-less and apparently senseless. The; officer made repeated eflorts to obtain j a word from him, but with no success. Lying on tho floor, near his right hand, was a pistol. The body of Joseph Goldman lay with the he.d on I the hearthstone, by the little cooking i stove, lie whs dead, and clenched in his right hand was a pistol exactly; like the one on the floor. A wound in bis right cluck, and another in his. right temple showed the manuerof his death. The doctor found a pistol-shot pistol-shot wound just above bis right ear, i into the brain. Ho introduced a probe to the distance of four inches, but failed to find the bail. Jerslow was still insensible and the physician said that he could not recover his consciousness con-sciousness and must die within two hours. Ho was taken at once to Bellevue hospital, where he died. Goldman's body was searched, and $5-1.60 in money and a heavy gold chain, worth about $150, wero found on his person. There was no scrap of writing found which tended to throw any light on the dark chapter of crime that had been told in Ui loeked-up room. Tho two pistols were carefully examined, and found to be Colt's revolvers. Every barrel had been loaded, and four barrels of one and five of the other had been discharged. Investigation led to the discovery that the two men had been in buaineKg together for some time. Fearing that Jerslow w;m defrauding him, Goldman began, eome months ago, keeping account of the business carefully. He soon became satisfied that his suspicions were well founded, and hard words between tho two men followed, which resulted in a dissolution dissolu-tion of the pailneiahip in last August. Jerslow formed immediately a partnership part-nership with another man, and Goldman seemed jealous, speaking lo Jerslow reproachfully whenever the two met. From Ihe surrounding cir-cumtitancci cir-cumtitancci it is assumed that the two men met by arrangement to nglit a duel, with the doubly fatal event above detailed. The two men looked remarkably alike, both being men of more than averago size, well built and rather lino looking. |