Grant County WI Archives News.....Charles Latimer Killed March 25, 1844
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The Daily Gazette [Utica NY] March 25, 1844
Charles Latimer, a lawyer, was killed on the 23d Feb., at Snake Hollow, Grant 
co., Wisconsin. It seems that Col. White, a Kentuckian, and formerly a member 
of the Kentucky Legislature, had on the previous evening been singing a Whig 
song at the Wisconsin House, and that Latimer, who was present, had applied to 
him some degrading epithet, whereupon Col. White slapped him in the face. 
Latimer thereupon challenged White to fight a duel, and the challenge was 
immediately accepted. A Mr. Gloster, who also had had a difficulty with 
Latimer, was to act as the friend of Col. W. This all took place on Thursday 
evening. On Friday morning, Latimer met Gloster in passing through the hall of 
the Wisconsin House to breakfast, and without giving him any notice, drew a 
pistol and fired at him, the ball grazing his breast, but without doing him 
any injury. Gloster then seized a rifle to defend himself, but before firing, 
Latimer had snapped another pistol at him which did not go off. Gloster then 
discharged his rifle and killed Latimer on the spot.

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