The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-21

''Itis nonsense 70 believe Borrowers story, n
be said. IAN you have TO do is 70 look
upon the record. There is 10 crsdence to
be placed Ia what he says
All the authorities in the code Of honor in
this city take issue with the decision arrived
at by the seconds Of young Borrows. The
best written authority on the question is
Lorenzo Sabine. whose work entitled "Duels
and Dueling" is accepted as authoritative
All the Laws OF the code are unwritten and
established by custom. Sabine declares
Borrowers position 10 be false one.
Perhaps the best authority now living In
the city on the code is Gen. Thomas Jordan,
editor Of the Fin0nciGl and Mining Rec
ord. Gen. Jordan was an aid in Gen
Beauregards staff during the late war. and
afterwsrd was commander in chief Of the
Cuban army during the revolution OF Yara.
He is himself an old duelist.
BoRRowE's POSITION UNTENABLE.
The action OF Borrowers seconds said
Gen. Jordan, was a bold subterfuge, and
neither principal nor seconds followed the
rules OF the code. The accusations they
made against Mr.. Drayton were ex parte.
There was only one side OF the question
heard. and IN this country, even IL they
were true, they would not justify a chal-
lenged PARTY in declining TO fight.
Z" If they would justify him in France
they were not properly presented to M.
Schall and the Due de Morny. Borrowers
seconds go TO these gentlemen and state
their own Hypothetical case, mentioning no
names. These gentlemen declare that upon
the statements made 70 them the challenged
party must decline to fight They in no
way pass upon the truth of these charges.
Suppose Fox and Milbank had told them
the challenger of their principal was pro-
fessional burglar or gambler. Their find
ing would have been of the same nature.
Mr.. Drayton has a right to call Borrowe TO
account for these statements.
But the code was not followed apart
from that. Il is a well established law of
the code that If a challenged party refuses
TO fight, alleging that his challenger is not
a gentleman, be must fight the challenger's
second. The statement to the second that
his principal is not gentleman Of honor is
an insult to the second, which can only be
satisfied by an encounter. This rule has
been well established in many cases. Young
Borrowe's position is absolutely false, 1t
looks to me as If his seconds jockeyed the
affair"
At the Calumet Fencers' Union and other
clubs the same opinions prevailed. Bor-
rowe. it was declared, must have given the
correspondence to the newspapers, and this,
they said, was far from the act of q gentley
man of honor.
YOUNG AND RATHER FOOLISH.
A member of the Union Club said: BUR
rowe Is about % years old. His one great
trouble is that he has never graduated from
the manners and tricks he learned so we'll at
college. He is a young man whose very
ambition in life seems to be to spend money
and have a good time. Two years ago, a
clubman will recall, he was blackballed at
the Union Club"
Mr.. and Mrs. Drayton were married ten
wears ago at the Aston mansion In Fifth
avenue. Mr.. Drayton is a member OF an
old. wealthy and aristocratic Philadelphia
family. The Draytons had a century
house, known as "Crow's Foot" at Ber-
nardsville. N. j. There was a good deal of
gossip at Bernardsvile last summer about
Burrowe's visits to Mrs. Drayton during
her husbands absence from home.