Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-04-25
THAT FAKE DUEL
BOrroWe and Fox the Laugh
 ing Stock of London:
A CUT AND DRIED AFFAIR.
There Was an Understanding That No
 body Should Be Hurt.

body Should Be Hurt.
 Some Think the Whole Story Was COn-
 cOcted, and That No Shots Were Fired. Details Of the Alleged COmbat-NO One
 Believes That . Bullet Gut Hole
 Through FOx's COat-MrH. DraytOn's Friends DIsRusted.
 LONDON, April 25.-Fox has not yet returned from Belgium, but Borrowe is here assisting the voluble Actor Cleary to air in hotel smoking-rooms amusing details of Fox's bloodless duel.
 About a hundred people who got wind of the affair met Actor Cleary at the sta tion when he returned last night and fairly shrisked with laughter when they learned from him that the most fatal result of the encounter was slight damage to Fox's trousers. The story that Borrowe's bullet really cut hole in Fox's coat nobody takes seriously. l Nobody in the town believes for one moment that any serious harm was in- tended. The event is generally desig- mated by Americans here as "the fake duel" Some even think the whole story was concocted and that no shots were fired. But it is the general impress sion that triggers were pulled as the result of mutual understanding that nobody should be hurt.
 Fox was goaded into challenging Bor- rowe because Borrows insisted on call ing him coward and liar. Borrowe is reported to have said to Q friend just after the duel that he could not now call Fox a coward, but he still | called him Q liar.
 It is hard to see how either party has benefited by this duelling fiasco. If the comments made in American circles 1 to-day are any criterion, both of them will be guyed more unmercifully than ever.
 L No one believes, of course, the state ments that Fox and Borrowe were thirst ing for each others blood, and that they are keenly disappointed because their seconds prevented them from firing more than two shots.
 | Borrowe's conduct on the field gives color to the general belief that no seri- ous harm was intended. He coolly smoked Q cigarette just before the first shot and lit another one just before the second shot.
 Fox claims the reputation of being Q | pretty good shot after his alleged expe- riences in the Modoc war, but there is no indication that either of his bullets went anywhere near Borrowe.
 Another interesting theory is; Who l notified the Belgium policef The secret was only confided to 8 few intimates of both parties, and now each accuses the other of blabbinR with Q view of pre- venting the fight. But they dared not return to England without at least ex- changing shots.
 Mrs. Drayton'E friends are filled with disgust at this renewed effort on Bor- I -mPz ~,a& &a d. l They feel that after what she has sacri- feed for Borrowe the least he might have done was to have borne in silence the re. I breaches showered upon him of his al- legged deal with Fox to make money out of an affair of honor.
 Mrs. Drayton has perSistsntly refused to see Borrowe since his return to Eng land, and has fully resolved never to see him again. She has met her parents frequently, and reliable reports point to her returning to New York with thsm | next autumn. .t ,
 The RIOodlOSs Encounter. : -; l The ttBattlO of Honor'' occurred aE' Nieuport Rains, Q seaside resort near Os- tend.
 After firing two shots each at twelve paces the men retired without shaking hands as is usual, but Fox raised his hat, and Borrowe acknowledged the courtesy by raising his hat.
 MT. Fox's first shot whistled by Mir. Borrowe's ear, while MT. Borrowe's last tore through MT. Fox's frock coat near the hip bone, pierced his coat and grazed the nap of his trousers over the abdo- men. It was undoubtedly close call.
 MT. Fox left London for Antwerp on Thursday night, followed on Friday by Mir. William B. Bacon, jr., of Boston, who acted as his second. MT. Milbank and Mir. Borrowe went to Brussels on Friday, and all went to Antwerp at mid night, and at 6 o'clock Saturday morn ing started for Ostend.
 The party consisted of Messrs. Bor- rowe, Fox, Milbank, Bacon, Edwin Cleary and 8 newspaper correspondent. A long drive was taken over the country road to Nieuport Rains, where the ar engagements had been made to fight on private grounds. A hitch occurred here, and the party alighted in the village at the Hotel Provost, where the proprietor, after being made acquainted with the object of the visit, personally conducted I the party to the scene of combat.
 Befere the fight MT. Fox gave core spondent statement, which he wrote at Antwerpt Saturday morning, reiterating the assertion that Mir. BOrrowe author ized the publication of the Drayton cor respondence. He says that Col. Tom Ochiltree got him into the affair and had persisted in efforts to secure him as . second, and had explained that the par ties interested belonged to such well known families in New York that 8 re- port of the fight would prove very valu- | ahla aa a naywananar arkfnla and that he