The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-04-01
NOT A WORD FROM DRAYrom
Mr.. Milbsnk Ruhiishes His Version q The
Drayton Family Agreement.


newspaper yesterday morning. He seeks to
make all Of Hallett Alsop Borrowers troubles
his own. even II half dozen duels and any
number OF lawsuits arc involved. In order to
protect Mr. Borrowe from social ostracism.
| His statement is as follows:
% WEST SEVENTEENTH STREET.,
NEW YORK. March 80. 1892. !
The time has now come whom Mr.. II. A. Bor-
rowe's honor and reputation must be cleared
| OF the imputations that now rest on them. Two
| grave offences arc charged against him, one
that the correspondence in the affair was
published with his authority. This Is disposed
OF completely by Mr.. Fox's letter to Mr.. Bor.
rowe in which he gives his reasons for send
ing the correspondence to the papers after Mr..
Borrowe left England. Any one can see that
at any ratio Mr.. Fox in no way shirks tho re-
sponsibiity Of what he did. The second and
far Craver offence 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, existed
only In his imagination, and was merely SUBJ
terfuge to cover his own cowardice. This
seems to have been generally accepted by Mr..
Drayton's friends and on the strength OF this
MIR. Drayton is alleged to have publicly stated
Mr.. Borrowe to be eur and coward"
There seems to be general agreement to
ostracize Mr.. Borrowe on these grounds. and
to treat him more or less rs a pariah. have
acted for him since the beginning OF the
matter. and we have had to fight against tre-
mendous odds. My first duty is to Mr.. Bor-
rowe. to do everything in my power to clear
his character before the world. The step
take now Is entirely on my own responsibility,
as ut present his honor. his reputation, his
entire future turn on this one point: Was an
n s me entered into between Mr. J. Cole
made: 1t was drawn UP BY Messrs. Lord. Day
Lord. Col. Hazard was subscribing wit
were. enforced by Mr.. Drayton's lawyers in
shs paI Whiob Il Is
tho monetary consideration is to the following
The wife has An income Of $35. 600 per an.
mum; under oil circumstances she retains
one-half. She agrees that the other half be
paid to the husband, and si36oo to S herse III
for maintenance of the children; out Of the
Sh@sn s %nd 4 TRe Sas
bands s5OOOfor his personal expenses, such as
f9tdhns hs at
Borrowe . hae the si%SS fon s Sii
have eontroI Of Sam Same and chldrsn H as6
on his part agrees that for the 5000 he will
dwelling place there with her. her. gnu '''-N' ''''
Mr.. H. 4, Borrowe has always asserted and
ss tS the
WIFE and that the latter only consented to ems
ter into this agreement under the pressure
which. though groundless. he did not scrIple
be uaso whehns Mr. na m
self were justified in the course we took in re;
fusing to allow duel to take place. We could
Mr.. Draytons sec Seconds. They owned them
selves that they only knew him in the fencing
The truth Win IT. Dssyton deny ii t lie has IS
81 sens ss and iess
and all the time he knew t this + to be false
The The object Of this statement. said one Of
Ing some sort of q defensive statement On
man. He has nothing at all to say. Since he
landed in this country he has kept his mouth
mouths shall they be convicted" '''
%sds the Ss 50 s Of the the
said another q Mr; Drayton's friends. do
S much wh hsy S not tns ts se9 m D
al public it will not in any way be discredit
the agreement. would not tell anything fur
Their about it Mr. George Lord Day Of the
firm Of Lord. Day d Lord said. when aues
Really. you don't expect this. firm to make
n ness s Of tsat Rna We cannot talk about bust
Col Hazard. who is said to have witnessed
the agreement. said. Il have nothing to say
except teat I do not see even a family re-
semblnnce between the alleged cause for re-
fusing to accept a challenge and the submit
ted extract OF an alleged agreement"
:, legal friend lot Of NJ REnytoI said; ~ think
lea with the idea that Mr.. Borrowe was on tho
top wave OF society here in New York. Instead
Of realizing the facts OF the case as he found
it. he has assumed that societys Indifference
to Mr.. Borrowe was ostracism on account Of
the failure to fight. Mibank's a good fellow
and is all right. but he doesn't know; that's
Mr.. Drayton answered every one OF twenty
questions with I've nothing at all to say"
Mr.. John Mel. Nash. his counsel. answered
no less than half hundred questions the same
One Of Mr.. Drayton's club friends said:
Mr.. Drayton's friends know the ins and outs
il is not discreditabIe to Mr.. Drayton and that
1t offers no excuse at al why Borrowe should
Mr. Borrowe and Mr.. Mibank both declined
to add anything to the statement or to say any
thing Of the news cabled from London to THE
Sun that Mr. Borrowe himself assented to the
publication Of the duel correspondence In the
contingency which shortly arose.
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