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Essays and addresses, and that the defendant lost six weeks allowance by his caution. From leading counsel to prisoner charged with murder was an amazing change ; yet nothing was more natural in the existing state of society he had been concerned in a duel which terminated fatally. The important parts of the story are short and simple 12 the leading families of Kidoufc and Jarvis were at variance through a misunderstanding aggra- vated by the tongue of an unwise and impulsive woman. Young John Eidout, a law student 13 not yet twenty- one, assaulted Samuel Peters Jarvis, 14 a barrister; a challenge naturally and necessarily followed; Jarvis chose Boulton as his second and the principals and their seconds met early at Chief Justice Elmsleys barn, not far from the north-west corner of Yonge and College Streets ; and Eidout was slain. 15 11 Mr DArcy Boulton was DArcy Boulton, Jr. prev next |