Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-04-30
WHOM DIDHE FIGHT?
Different Stories Regarding Milbank's Latest.
HE SAYS IT WAS NOT DE HORNY
Positively Asserted, However, that H. Vans and tho Duo Had Quarrel.

Another Report is that AIIbauk Had .
 Fist Fight in Brussels with an Un-
 known FrenOhman Who Had Sneered at
 England and EnElishnnen-whOever STIl-
 banks AntagOnist Was, He IS Danger
 0usly Wounded.
 LONDON, April 30.-The duel fought by Harry Vane Milbank at Ostend Thurs day has no connection with the Borrowe- Drayton affair. Milbank's opponent was not the Duo de Morny, as has been reported. Milbank, who returned to Brussels immediately after the duel last evening, informed 8 reporter at the Grand Hotel that he was under a prom ise not to give the name of his opponent or his seconds, but stated that he has not seen De Morny since his (Milbank's) return from America, and that he had not had any communication with him.
 A reporter also saw the Due de Morny in Paris, apparently not suffering from any recent wound. De Morny said that he had not fought with Milbank and did not apprehend Q hostile meeting with him.
 The duel was brought about by causes that have no connection with the Bor- rowe-Drayton affair. After the meeting between Fox and Borrowe at Nieuport, on Saturday, Milbank went to Brussels, the others going on from Ostend to Lon don, and put up at the Grand Hotel On Monday he dined in the hotel cafe. The story at the hotel is that near his table sat two Frenchmen at another table who spent most of their time during dinner making insulting remarks about Eng lishmen, which were obviously intended for Milbank's ears. He paid no attention to them until they came out of the cafe, when he met them in the courtyard of the hotel and slapped the face of one of them.
 The result was 8 challenge and meeting of the two at Nieuport on the identical spot where Fox and Borrowe exchanged shots last Saturday. The conditions were the same as on that oc- casion. There were also two shots at twelve paces. Milbank shot his opponent through the hip at the first fire, and he was carried at once to yacht owned by 8 friend that lay off the coast, saccom- panied by his surgeon and seconds.
 Milbank and his seconds, De r 'Estrange and Tournier, Belgian gentlemen, re- turned at once to Brussels. It is not known how seriously the wounded man is in jured, as no report has been re- ceived as yet from the yacht, which sailed toward the French coast. The surgeon feared, however, after his first inspection of the wound, that 1t was very dangerous.
 BRUSSELS, April 30.-Harry Vane Mil bank was seen at the Grand Hotel just before his departure for London, but re- fused at first to be interviewed concern ing his latest duel. He eventually ad- mitted that he had fought, although he denied that his antagonist was the Due de Morny. He would nor give the details of the duel.
 Despite MT. Milbank's denial there are a dozen persons in the Grand Hotel who say positively that the quarrel in the restaurant was between Milbank and De Morny, and that they were the princi- pals in the duel The landlord of the Grand asserts that he witnessed part of the quarrel and knows that De Morny was Milbauk's adversary.
 The contradictory reports are due, the restaurant people say, to the fact that on Tuesday Milbank had fist fight with an unknown Frenchman. The latter sneered at Englan. and said that Eng lishmen had no proper idea of honor. Thereupon Milbank struck him on the nose. The FrenchmAn raised his arm, but Milbank hit him blow on the neck and knocked him down. Cards were ex- changed, but nobody seems to have | heard more of the affair. It is rumored, l however, that the Frenchman was Aure- lien Scholl, the Duo dc Morny's comrade on the court of honor.
 | The trouble between Harry Vane Mil bank and the Duo de Morny dates from the publishing of the correspondence in the notorious Drayton-Borrowe dueling affair
 One of the letters written by Milbank and Fox, Borrowe's seconds, to J. Cole man Drayton, dated Feb. 17, 1892, in forming Drayton that they should de- cline to permit their principal to meet him upon the Held of honor, stated that l the case had been submitted to M. Aure- lien Scholl and the Due de Morny, two of the best known authorities in France on the Code d d'Honneur, and that they had decided that MT. Drayton was not en- titled to claim the satisfaction of 8 gen tleman.
 After the fire-eaters arrived in New York on the Majestic, it was learned by Milbank that the Due de Morny had given out for publication the letter that he (Milbank) had sent to the Due sub mitting the facts in the case without mentioning names, but which contained statements extremely compromising to the woman in the case, who was Mrs. DrAyton.
 When Milbank saw this he was very angry, and declared that the Duke had violated sacred trust in giving out the letter, and besides that, he had been guilty of garbling the letter, making
 Milbank say things which he denied that he had ever written.
 q shall demand an explanation from the Duke for allowing that letter to gel out" said Milbank. 'It was a private
 letter from one gentleman to another
 and he had no right to show it to anyone
 without asking my permission.
 There was some cable correspondence
 between the Duke and Milbank befOrt
 the latter sailed for Europe, but it wal
 not satisfactory to the Englishnan, ana
 when he went away he vowed that he
 would make it warm for De Morn! I ...l..-- l. -..al.l pa-in