SHERIFF STOPS SHOTGUN DUEL
Crowley Signal February 28, 1925
News Article from Adadia Parish
Submitted by Winston Boudreaux, 2006

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SHERIFF STOPS SHOTGUN DUEL
Crowley Signal February 28, 1925

St. Landry parish was to have been the scene of an old fashioned encounter 
under the “code duello” today, except that the participants were to use 
shotguns at 25 paces instead of regulation pistols or rapiers, according 
to Sheriff J. Dassas Trahan of Lafayette parish, who arrested two men 
about 3 a.m. today and charged them with violating the state law against dueling.

Edward Guilbeau, 62, was charged in the affidavit with having challenged 
Adam Guilbeau 25, to a duel, and an affidavit was sworn out against the 
latter charging him with having accepted the challenge. The encounter, it 
is said at the sheriff’s office, was to have taken place at 10 o’clock this 
morning, just across Bayou Carencro in St. Landry parish.

The men who are farmers are uncle and nephew, and according to the sheriff, 
ill feeling had existed between them for some time, but he did not know the 
exact details.

The sheriff did not place the men in jail, but detained them after serving 
the affidavits, pending efforts of themselves and friends to arrange bonds.