Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-07

HE'LL FACE The mUS1Cs
james Gordon Rennett Wfll Return to IN
s,cer for Has Duel With May.
BALTIMORE, Nd, June 4.-The San prints
the following cable message from James
Gorden Bennett in regard to the recent pub
LEGATIONS in New York and Baltimore relative
to his meeting with Mr.. May:
PARIS, June 3, 1878.
ITO the Editor of the Baltimore Sun.
"S1R I have just received by this mail
from America q communication which ap-
peared in your columns two weeks ago in
reply to statement published in the New
York Times. Permit me to say that the
details of your communication are to a
certain extent correct. regret that when
the Times statement in regard to the unfor-
tunate affair with which my name was con-
nected was made, was not consulted. Mr..
Wilkes who is said to be responsible for the
Times statement, resembles the bear in the
fable, who killed his friend in killing the fly.
am thankful for all that Mr.. Wilkes in
tended, but uot for his uncalled for inter-
ference. In your paper the following ap-
pears:
"'Mr. May way as cool and calm as any,
IAAAS COuAO n.y. NIL DCuAobG WdS ScIy uuCA
excited and nervous, his body swaying to
heard to snap. Believing it to be Mr.. Ben
nett's pistol that had snapped DR.. Frederick
May called out, Stop He walked up to
Mr.. Bennett and said, Did your pistol
fre?' Mr.. Bennett said: No, I did not
shoot claim my shot. Here is my pistol
Mr.. Bennett was extremely nervous
SST% SC orI1 of
fair occurred. I had supposed that people
have other amusements; but it seems not.
Now beg leave to say that shall arrive in
America about the middle OF July. If pub
legal penalties, am perfectly willing to bow
the land. did send challenge to Nj.
May, which was accepted by him. Mr.. May,
in your account, is said to have been per-
fectly cool. do not question his GOODNESS
or his courage; but in the same report Mr..
Bennett is said to have been very nervous
and excited. It appears, then, that Bennett
was scared to death, and that May was as
cool as cucumber. Being a principal, l,
this, but think am now at liberty to with
draw any injunction of secrecy upon the
gentlemen who acted as seconds.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
16Avenue Du Bots De Bologne, Paris"
DR.. Fred May, of this city, was shown the
above, but declines to say anything. He
was Fred Mays second.
New York, June 4.-The publication to-
day here of cable letter from Bennett te
the Baltimore Sun anent his duel with Free
May is all the talk of society people, the
clubs and the masses. While opinions are
divided, all seem to agree that Bennett comes
back, meaning business. in July.
The papers are to-day interviewing thu
actors in the duel, to see if they will tall
now that Bennett has removed the seal O
secrecy. have just had an interview will
one of Benefits most faithful confdants
who says, if the seconds now speak and tel
the truth the public will learn for the frs
time that Bennett magnanimously saved til
life of his adversary, who, in his frigh
| jumped the fence and fled the field Of homo
only to return to New York after Bennett
departure to boast over the public bars o
his prowess, and the fact that Bennett ha
left for Europe. This gentleman authorize
me to say that May is a stalwart bully, VIII
travels on his muscle.