A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . en put in possession of contents ofthe correspondence between us. Inconformity with your request in yourlast note delivered at 1:05 p. m. today,I will meet you in Alabama, at CedarBluff, on the Rome and Decatur Rail-road, tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon,at 5 oclock. Unless I hear to the con-trary, I shall expect to find you thereat that hour. Mr. friend, Mr. King, will deliverthis note. Respectfully,J. D. WILLIAMSON. The Journal narrative starts he
A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . en put in possession of contents ofthe correspondence between us. Inconformity with your request in yourlast note delivered at 1:05 p. m. today,I will meet you in Alabama, at CedarBluff, on the Rome and Decatur Rail-road, tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon,at 5 oclock. Unless I hear to the con-trary, I shall expect to find you thereat that hour. Mr. friend, Mr. King, will deliverthis note. Respectfully,J. D. WILLIAMSON. The Journal narrative starts here: Captain John D. Williamson andMr. Pat Calhoun fought a duel Mathpistols Saturday night at thirty-fiveminutes past seven oclock on the Romeand Decatur Railroad somewhere nearthe state line, probably in Alabama. The weapons used were the im^proved Smith & Wesson hammerlesspistols. Capt. Henry Jackson acted as second, and Mr. Jack King,of Rome, as Capt. Williamsons sec-ond. Neither principal was hurt. A Journal reporter* was on the fieldwhen the fight took place, having fol- *Gordon Noel Hurtel. Anecdotes and Reminiscences 329. PROMINENT HGURES IN THE DUEL. Top, Jno. Temple Graves, editorial observer; Capt. Jno. D. Williamson, principal, andbelow him. Jack King, his second; Dr. J. B. S. Holmes, who obtained an engine, and W. , engineer; Dr. Henry H. Battey (in skull cap), Capt. Williamsons physician; PatCalhoun, principal, and below him, Capt. Henry Jackson, his second; Gordon Noel Hurtel andEdward C. Bruffey, representatives, respectively, of The Journal and The Constitution. 330 A History of Rome and Floyd County lowed the Williamson party from At-lanta. But for the lateness of thehour, nearly eight oclock, and the re-moteness of the place from a telegraphstation, the full particulars would haveappeared in Saturday evenings first authentic news whichreached the city Saturday night waswired by The Journal representative,but it reached Atlanta too
Size: 1300px × 1922px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, bookidhistoryofrom, bookyear1922
