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Show Revolver Duel . Fought ia Streets Two Men Killed and Two Seriously Wounded in Leavenworth, Kansas. LEAVENWORTH, Kan.,.' Juno 25. Two men were killed and two seriously -wounded today In a fitreot fight with revolvers, the re-milt re-milt 6f a quarrel between two harvest hands. Dead: William Hammond, farm hand. George P. Cole, army deserter. Wounded: Chorion F. Seelcy, newspaper man, Minneapolis. Joseph Bessyi-i-. George P. Cole, a, deserte-r from the Thirtieth Infantry, who had been employed em-ployed on a farm near this city, got Into In-to a quarrel with WlUiam Hammond, another farm hand, and without a word of warning shot him through the heart. Cole, with the revolver in his hand, passed through the main business streets of the city, which were crowded with women nnd children shoppers, warning everyone to keep away from him. A posse of police ofllcers in charge of Chief of Police Taylor hurried to the scene, and about forty Hhots? were exchanged. ex-changed. Charles F Seoley, a newspaper news-paper man of Minneapolis, Minn., who happened to be in the crowd following the man, was shot down with a bullet through the left groin. Joseph Besser, a former Twentieth Kansan, was also shot in the left groin by the murderer. Cole took refuge in a private dwelling, and when Capt. Taylor entered and called upon him to surrender he shot twice at the officer, who returned the fire, laying Cole low with a bullet through the right temple. He died with- I In two hours. |