Des Moines-Scott County IA Archives News.....Horrible Tragedy April 21, 1842
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Davenport Gazette April 21, 1842
Davenport Gazette, Davenport, Iowa Territory
April 21, 1842

HORRIBLE TRAGEDY

It is rarely in duty we are called upon to record so melancholy an occurrence 
as the one which happened at Burlington on the 11th inst. It appears from a 
statement made in the Hawkeye that Mr. John P. Bradstreet from a fancied 
insult given Mr. W. G. Ross was attacked by him in the street. Mr. Bradstreet 
fearing a rencontre had armed himself previously with a pair of pistols. Ross 
made the attack by firing once or twice with a six barreled revolving pistol 
before Bradstreet made the first fire. Eight shots passed between them, when 
both were carried away from this place mortally wounded. Bradstreet shortly 
afterwards expired. Ross still lingers.
The cowardly and barbarous practice of carrying deadly weapons has been 
productive of so much sin and misery in our Territory within the last six 
months, that hereafter, we trust, the good sense of the community will discard 
the custom as at least ungentlemanly.


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