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THOMASVILLE, GA.FRSHOTGUN DUEL ON STREETS FATAL TO TWO CLOVERiHeld Death Tryst on Main Street of Small GeorgiaTown by Agreement,MONTH OF ENMITYBetween Men Ends,—Quarreled Over One's Attentions To Other's Daughter,Clover, Ga., Aug. 23. (.flP)—Two men who met in the center of town by tryst1 to fight a duel with shotguns were dead today as the culmination of a father’s objection to a marriedman’s purported attentions to hisdaughter.The duel, witnessed by a gathering of townspeople, marked the end of months of enmity between Pate Huddleston, 53, and Marcus Brown, 42, both farmers. The trouble between them was climaxed by the second alleged elopment of Brown, who was the father of eight children, with Huddleston’s daughter.The father sent a message to B’rown warning him to desist in his attentions to his daughter. Brown, infuriated by the message, was said by police to have challenged the father to meet him at a store on the town’s principal street yesterday afternoon.The townspeople heard of the chal-lenge, and a crowd of men had gathered, with hope of preventing the duel. »Huddleston already had arrived and was seated in front of the store with a shotgun on his lap* when Brown came up, also carrying a shotgun.Brown walked past Huddleston, and the latter followed him into the store. Brown stopped in the store and Huddleston went through the back way and around to the front where he re* occupied, his seat..Brown walked out, turning as if to pass down the street, but suddenly he wheeled, firing the load of one barrel into Huddleston’s stomach. Huddleston, fatally wounded, fired from his lap, the charge taking effect in Browns chest causing instant death. The gun’s recoil knocked Huddleston to the sidewalk. He died a few hours later.MEN
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Thomasville Times Enterprise
Thomasville, Georgia, US
Fri, Aug 23, 1929
Page 5
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