Freestone County, Texas
History & News of 1922
Duels



San Pedro Daily News, 26 October 1923, front page

GUNMEN STAND TOE-TO-TOE AND SHOOT EACH OTHER TO DEATH IN PISTOL DUEL

TEAGUE, Texas., Oct. 20. — In a little room in a barn at Young, in Freestone county 
shortly after dusk Wednesday night, two men stood toe to toe, their left hands 
locked together their right hands clutching smoking revolvers which spat bullets 
until enither [sic, neither] man could summon strength to pull the trigger. Dead 
with their boots on and still grasping each other they were found. The principals 
in the shooting, one of the grimest pistol duels Texas ever saw. according to Sheriff David Terry 
of Navarro county, were: Norwood Huckaby, a member of a prominent Freestone county 
family. Charles A. Williams, until recently a resident of Navarro county. Huckaby 
was wounded four times, three bullets lodging in the chest, one on the side 
Williams was shot in the forehead, right breast and side. Every chamber of the 
two pistols, a .38 calibre and a .32 calibre, found clutched in the men’s hands, 
had been discharged. Former trouble between the two men, in which Huckaby received 
a bullet wound in the leg, was believed to be the motive for the shooting.