Show A atel dl BOTH KILLED 6 tim tho lve I 1 ba I 1 y or of the louisville courier writes july A deplorable tragedy was enacted about a i mile from our quiet little this at daylight which resulted sul in the death of a promising prom ising young man dan and the mortal wounding of another whose future was waa all and promise littleton wells all and sanfrid B roberts were both young met men occupying enviable positions in in society veils was aboul twenty two years old and roberts was probably two years his senior the former was deputy postmaster while the latter at ter was bleik in the store of roach alz titer for some time both had been paying attention to in an amiable and beautiful young lady of the neigh b but ul hood and until a month wei wuie 0 generous deals their relation toward each other being t on oil the alic most fendly fooling footitt some thice or four weeks ago wells visited tile young lidy lady and made a pio poal fur for lier her liand hand his piol was respectfully but de declined elined and upon ples bing lier her 1 for 01 her 10 for her declination slie ile him that fhe anid I 1 ia d alicade accepted a bifilar bioni youny youn Robe roberts its wells tu cited to the hie village villa gc 0 lie ile first himself with a 1 pistol and theia sought his is BUC cival it at the store ileac an all al tur cation ensued which would have had a bloody termination had biot bastan cisi giom abat time until saturday Salu Satu iday they were is aa strangers to each othur other on oil that day they both attended a picnic kobetts being accompanied by liis fiancee ay boon as walla saw them thein lie seemed to be imbibed with lite very spirit ol 01 of insanity approaching them lie 11 e grossly insull cc roberti in ill the presence or of tim the whole assembly tho the outraged inan to his hid feet and estal stalled ted toward towai 1 I his in i n ilter bi til lter evi evidently elitle to resent the insult who when gentlemen a 1 collision Ito kobca belts ts and his fail acm all ion left tile ground andre ans re baited to tier her home where she rile fearing a difficulty dini cully between tile pai ties endeavored deavo red to him to bhend the night lit in that she f died but succeed in extracting a front froin librn dial lie would not return to alic picnic ground reaching tile village and brooding over tile the gloss giosa that thai had bew berci put upon hirn him lie he went to liis his room and penned a 1 challe clial lungu tip 0 tu to moita casu bat which lie he entrusted cd to a friend to be delivered into tho hands ol 01 it alla vell cl la 4 this was accomplished that night 0 next in morning orning a friend of tile the challenged auty pat ty called upon the friend of f W to arrange the nie wis wab doon accomplished tho the ar t gernentz an gernen ts WAS that the fight was to conic olt off in a meadow about one milt mile caba ot town at on oil tile weapons to be cults colts revolvers arfi at aliu appointed time principals and seconds were on oil the chosen ground the principals wele placed ilic cd ten tell feet apart with instruction to fire between the words one and three and then advance firing as they advanced suel being the terms insisted on by the challenged leng ed and not rejected by tile the clial chal i len longer lener er at the word vord both parties fired and so accurate was their aim that wells wella fell dead pierced through the brain by his ball roberts received his opponents bullet in tile the center of the breast passing 1111 enough ough his body and lodging under tile the skin just to tile the left of tile the spine t at the moment I 1 write he is not dead though sinking so BO rapidly that the physicians physic batis say lie ho cannot possibly live more thau an hour |