St. Louis (MISSOURI) Republic, August 8, 1891, p. 1. NOTE: In other newspaper accounts of this incident, Robert was noted as Pikes as opposed to Pike. A BLODDY DUEL Robert Pike and Ben Brown Fight to the Death in Indiana [Special to The Republic] English, Indiana, August 7-During a drunken spree tonight in Temple's saloon, Robert Pike shot and killed Benjamin Brown, each 25 years old. Witnesses say that Brown shot at least twice before Pike got in his work. He then blazed away five times, each ball going into Brown's breast. In five minutes after the firing, Brown sank to the floor dead, although he managed to shoot twice after falling. It was a bloody duel with revolvers, and each man stood up courageously to the work. Pike has four wounds-two in the leg and arm and two in the breast. He is under arrest, but too drunk to realize what he has done. He apparently knowns nothing of the affair. Both men were strangers to each other. Pike is from Anderson County, Kentucky, and now lies at the hotel guarded by a posses of railroad men in anticipation of being lynched by Brown'