OF THE No. 326. ARCHIVES domo took the revolver from him, and after he was disarmed he and Mr. Mendoza engaged in fisticuffs, in the course of which Mendoza obtained a secure hold of General Perdomo, who was in undress uniform, and dipped him several times head first into the fountain of the Café, after which Mendoza set Perdomo on his feet.
His friends then surrounded the dripping General, and the participants in the brawl were ejected from the Café.
These incidents, as stated before, happened on the night of the 25th ultimo.
At about four o clock of the 28th of July, near the Parque Dueñas, General Perdomo met Mr. Arturo Gómez, the associate editor with Mr. Mendoza of the paper LA TRIBUNA, and stopping the General asked Gómez. who had taken no part in the Café Nacional encounter between Mendoza and Perdomo) whether there was not a little matter between them that ought to be settled, at the same time drawing a revolver ani firing five shots into the body of Gómez, who also drew his revolver and emptied its five barrels into General Perdomo.
The result was that General Perdomo, the aggressor, came to the termination of his life on the sidewalk of the street there and then, and that Mr. Gómez, who lingered until the following morning, died at the Hospital Rosales.
Mr. Gómez is said to have been a young man of excellent habits, that he stood well in this community, and that he had a bright future before him, while of General Perdomo they say that he was a man of low instincts, a braggard, and a blackguard, and that little regret, if any, is expressed for his death.