St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-01
A QUESTION OF HONOR.
Milbank Makes Statement Exon
Grating ROrrOwe.

Grating ROrrOWe.
New York, March Silt is openly
charged here through the morning
papers that Hallet Borrowe sold for
publication the correspondence between
himself and j. Coleman Drayton. Bor-
rowe and Fox, it is alleged, sold the
correspondence together, although Fox
in letter to BorroWe. takes all the
blame upon himself. This. of course,
if the story be true, is to shield Bor-
rowe from the modification OF having
turned traitor to the woman who is said
to have trusted him.
harry Vane Milbank called at the
Herald office last evening to submit the
statement for publication. The state
ment IS printed exactly as Milbank
wrote it. down to the minutest particu-
lar of punctuation and paragraphing.
Nr. MiIbank's Statement.
No. Is West Seventeenth Street, New York.
March 30, 1S92.-The time has now come
when II A Borrowers honor and reputation
must be cleared of the imputations that now
rest upon them. The two grave offenses
that are charged against him; one that the
correspondence in the affair was published
with his authority. This is disposed of COM
pletely by MIR. Fox's letter TO Mr.. Borrowe,
published in todays Herald, i'll which he
gives his reason for sending the correspond
dence to the papers after Mr. BorroWe left
England. Any one can see that at any rate
Mr. Fox in no way shirks the responsibility
of what he did. The second and far graver
offense alleged against him is that
the agreement referred to. upon which
his seconds Mr. Fox and myself based our
refusal to allow him to meet Mr. Drayton ex
listed only in hisimaginalion, and was merely
a subterfuge to shield his own coWardlce
This seems to have been generally accepted
by MIR. Drayton's friends, and on the strength
of this Mr.. Drayton is alleged to have pub
licly stated Mr.. Borrowe to be eur and
coward" There seems TO be general agree
ment to ostracise Mr.. Borrowe on these
grounds and treat him more or less as cur.
| have acted for him since the beginning OF
matter and we have had to fight against ire
mendous odds. My first duty is to Mr. Bor-
rowe to do everything i'll my power 10
clear his character before The world This
step take now entirely on my own respons-
Utility, as at present his honor, his reputa-
ton, his entire future turns OH this one point:
Was an agreement entered into between j.
Coleman Drayton and his wife? This agree
ment was made. 1t was drawn up by Messrs.
Lord Day and Lord. Col. Hazard was
subscribing witness, and later on III the begin
ming of February, this year, the terms of the
agreement were enforced by Mir. Drayton's
LAWYERS in London. Messrs. kingsford and
Darmon. 1t is dated Oct. Is. 1891 and the
part which concerns the monetary consldera-
ion is to the following:
The wife has an income of S35.O0) per
annum. Under all circumstances she retains
oue-half. She agrees that the other hall be
placed with trustees, 5000 OF which shall be
paid to the husband and $4,000 to herself
Tor the maintenance of children. Out of the
money she receives the wife is to keep up es-
tablishment for husband and family. The
husbands 5000 for his personal expenses,
such as clothing, amusements, travelling,
medical attendance, etc. Wife agrees, should
u al IN no
ton with H. A. Borrowe. that the $4,000 for
children shall be paid to the husband, and he
shall have control OF same and children.
Husband on his part agrees that for the $1,000
he viii go to Europe with his wife and make
his dwelling place there with her.
"Mr. Ii. a. Borrowe has always asserted.
and asserts still, his entire innocence as TO
the charges brought by Mr.. Drayton against
his wife, and that the latter only consented
into this agreement under the pressure
brought to bear on her by her husband and
by threats to make the accusation public,
which, though groundless, he did not scruple
to bring against her.
''All men of honor will now be able to
judge whether Mr.. Fox and myself were jus
titled in the course we took in refusing to
allow q duel to take place. We could net
and would not state anything of this to MIR.
DraytGns second, they owned themselves
thatthe only knew him slightly Here then
is the truth. Will Mr.. Drayton deny it? He
has. up to now, allowed Mr.. Borrowe to rest
under the imputation OF being liar and
coward. and all the time he knew this to be
false [Signed] HARRY YANE MILBANK.
NEW York. March 31.-InterviewS
appear here with a member OF the Royal
Yacht club of London who arrived on
the City of Paris yesterday, declaring
that Borrowe had gone broke" i'll Lon
don. Mrs. Drayton, as the gossips said,
having ceased to help him. 1t is stated
that BOrrowe and Fox, and possibly
Milbanil arranged the duel correspond |
ence fer publication and then sold it for
81, 600 Just before Borrowe sailed from
with the understanding that it
should be held until Borrowe was at sea.