Sacramento Daily Record Union

TWO WOMEN FIGHT A DUEL.

After a Terrific Battle. One Stabs the Other Through the Heart.

[By Telegraph.]

LAMBERTON (S. C.), June 3—St. Paul's township was yesterday evening the scene of a deadly hand-to-hand conflict between two young women, Jane McKellar and Frances McNair, in which the victorious one sent a dirk into her rival's heart. For a long time there had been bad feeling between the two women, although they had lately as much as possible avoided each other. There was a young gallant in the case, and it is said Frances McNair had won his affection, although at first he seemed to have preferred the other. During the last three days hostile messages had passed between the two women, the exact tenor of which has not leaked out, although important sensational developments are looked for before the officers get through with the affair. At any rate, whether by appointment or not, the two women met last evening in a quiet dell, not far from the main road, and began to settle the trouble between themselves. Jane McKellar was the larger and more muscular, though her antagonist, while spare, was lithe and quick of motion. They fought each other like tigers, and finally Jane McKellar succeeded in throwing her small but plucky opponent, and with her knee pressed on the stomach of the prostrate woman, grasping her by the throat with the fury of a demon and well-nigh choked her life from her, when finally, by a great effort, Frances McNair gave a sudden twist of the body, forcing her antagonist to lose her perch and fall sideways to the ground, and with a cry of hate and revenge, drew a bowie-knife, and plunged it in the heart of Jane McKellar, who died with one gasp. Then, at the sight of the gaping wound, the victor in the fight fell in a swoon across the dead body, where she was found by a party who had followed them, but arrived too late to prevent the terrible tragedy.