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The Daily Dispatch: December 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], H. W. Beecher. (search)
contrary to the usual course of rumors at the present day, the report turned out to be true. It appears that Messrs. Washington J. Worsham and James McCullough had a misunderstanding in regard to a business matter, and in consequence of certain expressions not altogether agreeable, the latter sent Mr. Worsham a challenge, which was accepted. On Saturday morning, the parties, with a number of friends and several surgeons, repaired to Broad Rock Race Course, in Chesterfield county, a few miles pistols, at a distance of ten paces. The reports were simultaneous, and both fell at the first fire, badly wounded. Mr. Worsham was struck near the right thigh, the ball passing through his body; and his antagonist was hit nearly in the same placith which the principals stood up in the face of danger. Directly after the fight the parties returned to the city, and Worsham was conveyed to his residence on Sixth street, where he died yesterday morning, about 11 o'clock. McCullough, who came t