Fatal Duel
From a Cork Correspondent
1826.
Daniel Connor Esq. (magistrate) of
Manch, Co. Cork.
v.
Captain Daunt. Kilcuskin?
The duel arose due to a remark made by Daniel Connor
while working as a magistrate. Captain Daunt having been summoned to the Petty
Sessions due to none payment of wages to his servant. Daniel Connor was heard ( off record) to express his sympathy towards the
plaintiff to which Captain Daunt took issue.
Both Connor and Daunt were bound over by
the Cork Magistrates, therefore their seconds
arranged for them to meet on the Waterford
side of the Blackwater river. They both spent the evening prior to the duel in
Youghal. In the early hours they took up their positions on the Waterford side. The word
was given and at the first shot Captain Daunts hat was knocked off, his
adversary's ball having passed through it! An attempt at reconciliation was
resorted to, which , having proved ineffectual, they fired again, and Mr
Connors passed quite close to the adversary’s second, who stood rather too
close to his friend, while Captain Daunts ball tore the ground from under the
feet of Mr Connor. The efforts at adjustment were again had recourse to, but
with as little success as before, and the word was given the third time, when
Mr Connor’s ball entered the centre of Captain Daunt’s forehead and killed him on the spot.
Galway Advertiser
dated June 1826.
Dave Stroud. ramrodantiques.co.uk
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