Show PISTOL DUEL IN california TOWN bakersfield cal A feud between two well known mountain families the walkers and burtons and extend ing over a period of two decades broke out again in the mining town of havilah monday afternoon when newt walker and dave burton fought a pistol duel in the street resulting in the instant death of burton and his companion a man named bagsby ten or a dozen shots were fired be tore burton fell and walker after reloading his pistol made his escape and is now hidden in the mountain fastnesses this is the third of the burton boys to die a violent death fletcher bur ton was killed by ben walker in 1891 and walker is still a fugitive from justice the gibson brothers were convicted as accessories to the crime and sentenced to life imprisonment but were subsequently pardoned jim burton was shot down on the same nigh that was killed but he recovered only to meet death a year later at the hands of H al lison a partisan of the gibbons gibsons alii son was subsequently acquitted |