The State Journal. (Mulhall, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, November 8, 1907 Page: 3 of 12
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GAVE FOEMAN LIFE
CALHOUN'S MAGNANIMITY
FIELD OF HONOR.
ON
Took Fire of Opponent Without Re-
turning It, and Then Refused to
Shoot When Adversary
Was Defenseless.
The public lias read with much In-
terest the stories from San Francisco
involving Patrick Calhoun, a former
South .Carolinian, who is charged with
being implicated in the San Francisco
scandals. According to the Rome
Tribune, a Georgia paper, Calhoun
spared the life of John D. Williamson,
president of the Chattanooga & Rome
railroad, by firing his revolver in the
air after accepting a challenge to a
duel with Williamson. The Tribune
says:
"In 1887 John D. Williamson, who is
well remembered in Rome as having
built the first horse car line in this
city, was president of the old Chatta-
nooga, Rome & Columbus railroad,
now the Chattanooga branch of the
Central of Georgia. At a meeting of
railroaD men in Atlanta, held some
time during the winter of that year,
Williamson got into an altercation
with Pat Calhoun, who was at that
time a high official connected with the
Piedmont Air Line railway, and the lie
was passed.
"As it is now recalled, Williamson
was the one who charged the other
withlying, and Calhoun issued the
challenge for a fight according to the
code.
"Revolvers were the weapons chosen
and the spot selected was on the Rome
& Decatur railroad, now a branch of
the Southern, somewhere between
Rome and Gadsden.
"Calhoun with his second and an-
other surgeon, went around through
Gadsden and came up the road to
about the Georgia line, where they
found Williamson in waiting. Both
cars, with their special engines, stood
on the track, while the duel was in
progress, about 60 yards away.
"Williamson won the toss for posi-
tion, and as the sun was setting chose
to stand at the edge of the woods, with
the light behind him. They took their
places, armed with flve-chambered re-
volvers, and the terms were that each
was to fire until the chambers were ex-
hausted or until one or the other fell.
It is said that the seconds became in-
volved in a quarrel themselves while
on the ground, and that pistols were
drawn.
"At the word 'fire' Williamson fired
at Calhoun, and then, as fast as he
could pull his trigger, emptied his gun,
only to find his opponent unhurt. Cal-
houn had not fired a shot, but stood
with his revolver upraised. It looked
as though he had Williamson at his
mercy, for he was privileged, accord-
ing to the code, to fire at will.
"The Roman, it is said, looked at
Calhoun intently, probably expecting
to receive a bullet the next instant,
and when Calhoun said, 'I have five
bullets here, with either one of which
I can take your life,' Williamson re-
plied:
" "Fire, air, I am ready to receive
them.'
"For reply Calhoun slowly raised
his revolver until it pointed straight
above his head, and then pulled the
trigger five times, discharging every
bullet in the air. Williamson was
thunderstruck, and when Calhoun
smiled and made a motion as though
to approach him, he took the first step,
and they met between the pegs which
they had been toeing.
"Calhoun and Williamson returned
on the latter's car, and when they
reached Rome they wore again fast
friends, and there was nothing to indi-
cate that they had come so near to
shedding each other's blood. It is said
that on the way up several small bot-
tles were drunk to each other's health
in renewal of their friendship."—
Richmond Times Dispatch.
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Woosley, Tom B. The State Journal. (Mulhall, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, November 8, 1907, newspaper, November 8, 1907; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc127974/m1/3/: accessed April 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.