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Show CERTAIN DEATH FOR ONE. Russian "Suicide Duel" Leaves No Hope for Participant Who May Be Unlucky. A tragedy, romantic on the surface but In reality throwing a repulsive light on tho hollowness of life In Russia, Rus-sia, Is reported from Moscow. Two young Poles named Nldctzkl and Komorovsky, attending a ball given by Count Feodorovo, were both so smitten with tho beauty of tho count's daughter that, though friends from boyhood, they at once became deadly enemies nnd beforo the ball was half over had determined upon n. duel to tho death by thnt most strango hut most deadly of nil methods tho suicide sui-cide of ono of tho conbatants. It was decided that tho l03er of a game of ocarto should kill himself, and toward tno end of tho ball tho In fatuated pair went to tl.e enrd room for their gamo of death. In a few minutes Komorovsky had lost, and, quietly draw'ng a revolve!1, ho shot himself through tho he t. Nldetzkl took tho first express for nerllu. As for the fair cause of tho tragedy, sho was so little Impressed that within with-in a few days sho had accepted a proposal pro-posal from a Russian nobleman. |