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Updated: May 22, 2025
On the contrary, they had begun to be generally deplored and condemned, a fact largely due to the bitterness resulting from a famous encounter which had taken place a year or so before between young Mr. Cocheran, the son of a rich landowner, and Mr. May the circumstances being somewhat similar, the misunderstanding having arisen at a ball in Washington over a reigning belle, during which Mr.
Cocheran arriving at half-past five in the morning in a magnificent coach drawn by four white horses, his antagonist reaching the grounds in an ordinary conveyance, the seconds and the two surgeons on horseback. Both fired simultaneously, with the result that May escaped unhurt, while Cocheran was shot through the head and instantly killed.
This growing antipathy had been hastened and solidified by another tragedy quite as widely discussed as the Cocheran and May duel more so, in fact, since this particular victim of too many toddies had been the heir of one of the oldest residents about Kennedy Square a brilliant young surgeon, self-exiled because of his habits, who had been thrown from his horse on the Indian frontier an Iowa town, really shattering his leg and making its amputation necessary.
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