Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-07-10 | Page 1 | Boys Fight over Girls

OVERjGIRLS One Dead and Another Dying-Battle Was With Knives Sturgeon, Mo., July 10. In a duel fought over two girls, Harris and Frank White and John Spencer and Jabe Wade, at the town of Riggs, seven sev-en miles south of here, Saturday night both the White boys' were mortally wounded, Frank dying Sunday, according ac-cording to word received here. His brother was expected to live but a few hours. All boys were farmers about 22 years old and, until two weeks ago, were the best of friends. The trouble trou-ble staited over the two sisters of John Spencer. The White boys are said to have threatened Wade with a revolver one day last week, and It Is believed the four met in Riggs by common consent to settle the affair, i The fight was with pistols and knives. Frank White was stabbed twice In the lung and his brother was stabbed six times. Spencer and Wade escaped es-caped uninjured.