Show DUEL AT DENVER denver oct lie james thornton and A B E hoff sess gamblers engaged in a pistol duel in the offices of the inter ocean brokerage company on curtis street between fourteenth and fifteenth streets this afternoon and thornton received a wound in the abdomen which may prove fatal ile iio is now at st lukes hospital Hoffs I 1 was nas shot lit in the right wrist thornton walked nearly a block to a drug store i and fell exhausted in the doorway Hoff sess awaited tho the coming of tho the police and submitted to anest hoft hoff I 1 sess was recently discharged from the employ of the hintor ocean company I 1 and thornton Tb ornton had succeeded him bad feeling resulted and when the 11 men ll met today it culminated in a dai il bot bat men are old timers lit in denver deliver an and d have families |