The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-22
THE DRAYTON CASE
The Daughter of the Astors
Makes no Explanation.
THE CHALLENGE TO BoRRowE
He Could Not Accept it-Drayton Brands Him
Is a Coward-Another Disgusting
Scandal in High Life.
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NEW York, March 21.-A World special
from London says: Mrs. J. Coleman
Drsyton is in London and she has
not been placed in G private re-
treat as has been reported. She was
found by your correspondent tonight in a
little lodging house just off Picadilly, where
she had arrived short time before from
Paris. She appeared at the top of the
staircase, her face pale and careworn and
her eyes swollen from weeping. "l have
no explanation whatever to make" she said
with tragic air. eff Coleman Drsytun has
chosen TO make fool of himself it is his
affair not mine.' Then she slammed the
door and disappeared.
So far as facts can be learned here Cole
man Drayton has ample sympathy on his
side. He challenged Hallett Borrowe TO
fight and was quite ready to meet him with
any weapon Borrowe might select.
Drayton told his friends in Paris and
London that if Borrowe did not fight he
would shoot him on sight. Borrowe con-
trlved through his seconds in London to
Aet the matter referred to an alleged court
of honor in Paris of which the Due de
Morny was chief This so-called court
decided that as there was good reason to
believe Coleman Drayton had forgiven his
wife after obtaining her written confession
of intimacy with Borrowe, it was there
fore improper for Borrowe to pay any at
tention whatever to Drayton's challenge.
At one time IL seemed almost impossible to
avoid a duel, but Borrowers friends
managed to atave it off. Coleman
Drayton thereupon threatened to go to
New York Immediately and publicly brand
Borrowe as an arrant coward. He has al
ready done so in the ST. james and two or
three other clubs with which he is con-
nected. Drayton took passage on the Ma
lestic, sailing under the name of Dixon.
When this news reached Borrowe and Mil
bank they took the Irish Mail for Queens
town TO catch the steamer under the as
sumed names of ''I5orrowes" and 'Mil-
bury When they went aboard the tender
at Queenstown they had not purchased
their passage tickets.
Much surprise is expressed here at Bor-
rowe's choice of seconds. Ed Fox was
chosen because be knew Borrowe in New
York some years ago. Harry Milbank is
little known except as q contestant for
property left to somebody else by the late
Duke of Cleveland's will.
Mrs. William Astor came here about
six weeks ago on purpose TO settle
Waldorf AStor declined to be mixed
up in it in any way whatever.
He permitted Mrs. William Astor to put
up at a hostelry less than hundred yards
from the Landsdowne house. Coleman
Drayton came here from Paris to see Mrs.
William Aston, and after listening to his
story she went back with MIN TO Paris,
convinced, SO it is reported, that his i'm
parchment Of her daughters chastity was
NO aIfnunthpr N
fact, if what she said to two OF
three intimate friends in London is to be
believed, her sympathies were altogether
with Drayton. The intimacy between
Mrs. Drayton and Borrowe began in New
York. Coleman Dray ton found it out and
complained 10 Mrs. William Aston, who
contrived TO mend matters by sending back
Drsyton and his wife TO Europe upon Mrs
Drsyton's absolute promise that she would
never see Borrowe again. Before her hus-
band had been in London many weeks be
discovered Hallett BorroWe was here also,
and was meeting Mrs. Drayton in the
drawing room of the Victoria hotel. 1t is
untrue that Borrowe and Mrs. Draytor
were living openly ct this hotel. Borrowe
had single bed room there. When Cole
man DrayIon heard that Borrowe was il
London ne cabled to Mrs. William Aston,
who promptly came over. When she mel
her daughter in Hotel Liverpool, Paris
there was a stormy scene. Drayton went
Immediately to another hotel and refused
TO see his wife. Then he started for Amer
lea, Mrs. Drayton came to London, ano
Friday Mrs. Astor left for Algiers.
All this is current gossip in London
clubs, where Drayton spent most Of his
time, and where sympathy is almost en-.
tlrely on his side. He challenged Borrowt
10 fair fight, it is argued, which Borrowt
evsded through a fimsy excuse invented
by his seconds, that as Drayton had prac
tically connived at his wife's in timacy they
could not allow him to fight
William Waldorf Aston has left London
for Taplow. He declined to to be inter
viewed before ne left, saying he knew
nothing whatever about the case.