The evening world., 1894-04-19
MAY CAUSE A DUEL.
Lawyer stoll Brands Judge "Jere"
Wilson as a Coward.
Scathing Letter Sent to Washington
by the InsuIted Attorney.
Possible Outcome OF Scene In the
Pollard Brec kinridge Trial.


VIII Judge "Jere" Wilson, the senior
counsel for Miss Pollard in her suit
against Col. Breckinridge. fight duel
with Lawyer Charles IL. Stoll, of Lex.
ngton, Ky, who has virtually called
him out?
That Mr.. Stoll means business Is GER
| tain, and in the letter which he wrote
to Judge Wilson three days ago from
| Washington, he expresses his opinion
| Of his conduct in most forcible
manner. that means, apologize or
fight"
A portion of the letter. which is n
very long one. was printed in morn
ing newspaper, but Mr.. Stol told an
Evening oWrld" reporter this morn
ing that an important portion of it had
| been omitted.
This was the opening paragraph.
porter. 1t readas follows. the letter be-
ing dated "l725 @ street. n. W.. Wash
ington. ID. c., April l6, 1894"
jeremiah NJ Wilson
Dear Sir: ON Saturday in the trial OF the suit OF
the fact that your speech was the last and there
fore could not be responded TO, to deliberately use
onS infer that ya bscwsa 1 had some copDe u
tion with an alleged forgery OF a letter From tho
questions | asked YOU fully uuderstood the i'm
preston | had az to your purpose, aud from the
answers given by YOU the Jury and the public
must have known your purpose.
! II Is true that before I met you l had
heard what your reputation was here as falsi-
der Of facts and az man given to the misrep-
had the lsst speech; though had been informed
that at least upon the trial OF one cause In this
inTiy used pcT,ared testimony' l was not pre-
pared for the attacks OF Saturday. ! feel that
no LAWYER however mendasious hts character
might be, would dare to make 40 foul an nIsin-
nlon ,hn, against the opposing counsel IN case
what to come. so that the charge could be
met by proof or by argument OF friendly counsel.
After that Mr.. stol goes on to ar
raign Judge Wilson in the most bitter
language, and declines to accept the So
called apology which the latter after
| The letter ends as follows:
| In conclusion. permit to say that in the trial
Of this cause you have in this instance at least
you have connivei at. II. In fact you did not
yourself advise, perjured testimony that you
your deliberate statements, and demonstrated your
| lack OF decency by saying enough to save your
away the sting caused by your Infamous
duct
II think ! have said all in that letter"
said Mr.. Stoll this morning, that the
occasion demands. and 1t is now Mr.
Judge Wilson to say what he will do
about it. The language is perfectly ex-
pliGit, and could not be made palmer.
me, for, at the conclusion OF the letter
you will see that / say that all communi-
cations sent to the address at the head a.:
whether was in Washington or not.
II left word that II Judge Wilson
Should srion make any reply or send any my
dress, the. fact should be wired me at
once to this city. and ] would give imme-
diate attention TO the matter.
| Three days have now elapsed and he
has made no response to my letter. | do
not know what his intentions are, nor
can tell at present what further steps
may take In the matter.
respect and my manhood calls for. and
he knows my opinions Of him ! placed
my letter to him In the hands of
response. ana now the public also knows
what | think Of him. | cannot do any
thing more than this"
| 1t was evident that Mr. Stoll expected
| that his letter to Judge Wilson would
compel him to apologize or send a friend
to arrange the ,preliminaries OF meet
clined to say whether he expected to re-
ceive such a visitor or not.
II am n,H1yy,y sorry the matter must s have iS
circumstances demanded that the cor. or
respondence should be given to the
public. OF course, Judge Wilson may
so, and not resent the charges which l
matter drop.
~ cannot say at present what will be
the outcome. 1t will depend entirely
upon what steps are taken by the other
side. The matter is now in the hands
Mr.. stoll said in addition that previ-
GUS to his connection with the Breck
| inrldge suit he had never met Judge
time attending the trial OF suit
| brought by Garrett ID. Wilson, OF Lex
| ington, Ky, against Pierre Lcri.iaTd to
recover $3.50, the price of u brood mare
| which Wilson sold the defendant, but
which the latter refused to pay. claim
Tho lawyer was found in Judge
Iacombe's Court, la the Federal Build
ing.
| He is a young man OF mild appear
are clean cut and intellectual. and his
| face Is smoothly shaven. He showed
| no emotion whatever when speaking
OF the case to the reporter, although II
was evident from hts manner that he
| regarded II as a most serious matter
and his eye was full of determination.
He said he was perfectly willing to
stand by everything. he had said to
Judge Wilson in his letter 10 him. and
was prepared to meet the consequences
| Il do not like to be represented. how
ever" he said. "as going about the
| country waving red nag or crying
for blood. What I have said, ] have
remains to be seen what Judge Wilson
and his friends will do about it."
| Mr.. Stoll Is staying at the Park Ave
| nue. Hotel and may remain in this city
for several days longer.
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