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to have been some insulting expressions which were used in reference to certain card debts, and which M. Torre Bueno considered wounding to his dignity as a gentleman.
"The combatants met on Chinese Kowloon, and the ground being measured, exchanged shots from duelling pistols at 25 paces, each approaching the other. M. Checa having advanced fifteen paces, M. Torre Bueno still remaining at his place, fired at him and missed, the ball, however, passing close to his face. M. Checa then went up to him and discharged his pistol at his right shoulder, wounding him somewhat severely. M. Checa then left the ground and Mr. Torre Bueno, though wounded, was able to walk back to the boat and was removed on board the Spanish man-of-war, Patino.
"It appears that the wound is not dangerous. The ball has been since extracted, and M. Torre Bueno is said to be progressing favourably. The affair has naturally been the subject of a great deal of comment, and the general feeling is very strongly against the whole proceeding, which it is to be hoped will not be allowed to form a precedent for the settlement of disputes in Hongkong.
Perhaps as a result of that publicity, the matter did go before the Court.
According to another chronicle of the times, warrants for the arrest of every person present at the affair were issued but bail was allowed: the two duellists were tried at the Supreme Court on August 25, 1872, and having pleaded guilty, were each fined $200. This must certainly have discouraged any further affairs of the kind.
Strangely enough, I cannot find any mention of the trial of these duellists in Norton-Kyshe's comprehensive History of the Laws and Courts of Hongkong, which otherwise gives a full index of the more interesting cases tried.
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to have been some insulting expressions which were used in reference to certain czrd debts, and which M. Torre Bueno considered wounding to his dignity as a gentleman.
"The combatants met on Chinese Kowloon, and the ground being measure, exchanged shots from duelling pistols at 25 paces, each approaching the other. M. Checa having advanced fifteen paces, M. Toree Bueno still remaining at his place, fi- red at him and missed, the ball, however, passing close his face. M. Checa then went up to him and sicharged his pistol at his right shoulder, wounding him somewhat severely. M. Checa then left the ground and Mr. Toree Bueno, though wounded was able to walk back to the boat and was removed on bird the Spanish man-of-war, Patino.
"It appears that the wound is not dangerous. The ball has been since extracted, and M. Torre Bueno, is siad to be progressing favourably. The affair has naturally been the subject of a great deal of comment, and the general feeling is very strongly against the whole proceeding, which it is to be hoped will not be allowed to form a precedent for the settlement of disputes in Hongkong.
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Perhaps as a result of that publicity, the matter did go before the Court.
According to another chronicle of the times, warrants for the arrest of every person, present at the affair were issued but bail was allowed: the two duellists were tried at the Supreme Court on August 25, 1872, and having pleaded guilty, were each fined $200. This must certainly have discouraged any further affairs of the kind.
Strangely enough, I cannot find any mention of the trial of these duellists in Norton-Kyshe's comprehensive History of the Laws and Courts of Hongkong, which otherwise gives a full index of the more interesting cases tried.
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