Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-04-25
TORE His TROUSERS
And Pierced His Coat, But Brought No
Blood From His Body,
ALL OF WHICH IS UNFORTUNATE,
Particularly the Lack of Blood Letting-BOrrCws
And Fox Fight Duel With Pistols Eut
Decent Public Is Denied the Satisfaction
Their Deaths Would Have Given.

in duel and almosti in tragedy. Bor-
rowe aud Fox met yesterday afternoon
at Nieuport Bains, a seaside resort near
Ostend, and after firing two shots each
at twelve PAGES, retired without shaking
hands or passing compliments usual to
such occasions. Fox's first shot whistled
by Borrowers ear, while Borrowers last
tore through Fox's frock coat near the
hip bone, pierced the coat in three dlf-
ferent places and the trowsers over the
abdomen. The raison d'etre OF the duel
was the following letter, which was de-
livered to Fox by Millbank on the 18th
instant:
"SIR-You have stated chat you had my
consent and authority to publish the cor
respondence of the affair between Drayton
and myself You lied when you so stated,
and your letters to me on the subject prove
that YOU have acted without my knowl.
ledge, consent or authority. You have
further stated that have been sheltering
myself behind the broad shoulders of Mill
bank. l tell you that you lie. That Mill
banks good faith should continue after
vour despicable conduct had placed me
in a false position must be beyond
your comprehension. II would, in
deed, be difficult for you TO under
stand that to be loyal to ones friends is a
privilege among gentlemen, not an act OF
self-sacrifce. As a second you are Ia
mentable failure. Perhaps as principal
yCu might be success. Personally, l
doubt this, because, in my opinion, man
who is uetrue to others is untrue to him
self, and he who has not the courage Of his
own opinions has not the courage to combat
the opinion of others; or, to put 1T more
plainly, l believe you 20 be as contemplate
coward as you have proven yourself a
liar. May l not hope that the man who
once called himself my friend will still
give me the only proof that can justify
me in changing my opinion!
''BoRRowE."
This brought forth challenge from
Fox last Tuesday, and arrangements
we're made TO fight on the Belgian from
tier to-day. Fox left London for Ant
werp Thursday at o'clock. He was
followed Friday by WIN. b. Bacon, jr.,
of Boston, who acted as his second.
Millbank and Borrowe went to Brussels
Friday. They all met in Antwerp at
and at 6 this morning started
for Ostend. The party consisted of
Borrowe, Fox, Millbank, Bacon, Edwin
Cleary and the correspondents at
Ostend. A long drive followed
over the country road to Nieuport,
where ARRANGEMENTS had been made to
fight on private grounds. A hitch oc-
Cured here. and the party alighted in
the village at the Hotel Provost, where
the proprietor, after being made ac-
quainted with the object OF the visit,
personally conducted the party TO the
scene OF combat. This was in most
romantic position. AS far as the eye
could see along the beach were sand
dunes, dreary and desolate.
The spot finally found, was per-
feet amphitheater, as il 1t had been
scoOped out for that purpose. The sec
onds measured off the space and loaded
the weapons, while Fox and Borrowe
stood calmly by watching the operations
with interest. When all was declared
ready the principals and seconds took
their places, the doctor, who had been
pressed into service in the village,
opened his surgical case ready for use,
and the weapons were handed to the
principals. The weapons were heavy
rifled dueling pistols, 45-caliber. 1t was
exactly four minutes past when the
signal came from Milbank. Two
shots rang out simultaneously,
and bullet whistled by
Borrowers head, but no one was hurt.
The shots were too high. While the
pistols were reloading Borrowe took a
cigarette from case, lighted 1t and
smoked until the pistol was handed him
again. Fox stood his ground well.
The next shot resulted in piercing Fox's
coat, and the duel was declared over
according to the arrangement, which
specified two shots each, at twelve
PAGES. Neither principal spoke to the
other and left the field in the same un-
friendly spirit as before, but both pri-
vately declared that the other was not
a coward.
There was much excitement in the
village while the fight was going on, the
villagers having learned the nature Of
the visit OF the seven strangers. They
about and eyed the returning
party with much curiosity. Borrowe
went back to the Hotel Provost and
changed his frock coat and light trou-
sers for travelling suit, and the party
drove back to Ostend, where they sepa-
rated, the principals and seconds taking
the boat for Dover and the others COM
ing to Brussels.
Before the fight Fox gave me state
ment which he wrote at Antwerp this
reiterating his statement that
Borrowe authorized the publication Of
the Drayton correspondence. He says
Ochiltree got him into the affair, and
had persisted in efforts to secure him
as a second. He had explained that the
parties interested belonged to such we'll
known families in New York that re-
port OF it would prove very valuable
article, and that be (FoX)
would have the exclusive account.
Borrowers authorization is summed
up as follows: Use your own
judgment, and If you find that the
are getting the story In a
garbled form print the entire CORES
pondenee, leaving out the lady's name.
I shall meet Borrowe within few
hours, and in case there is any serious
result write these lines in order that
my friends in America may know the
actual facts, and am sure those that
know me as journalist will remember
that never broke faith in regard to q
news item"
From Ostend Fox went to BRUSSELS.
He will come to England tonight. The
Belgian police made frantic efforts to
capture the party, the penalty for duel
Ing in Belgium being = months I'd pris-
onment and a fine of $40.
The affair is not yet ended There Is
now row between Fox and Col. Tom
Ochiitree, the former claiming that
0chiliree advised him to sell the let
sers, oehlltree denies thar he did 50.