St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-02-20
CODY WIRES TO ST. PAUL
F0R A SECOND F0R THE PROBAsL E
DUEL WITH NAY.
DIR. FRANK PowELL TALKS.

Col. Cody Got Into the Trouble
With Fred May Through Pro :
tecting a Respectable Am eri :
can Girl in London From tn @
Insaiting-Att ,ntious OF May,
Says DR.. Powell.
Unless the friends of Fred May and
Col. William +. Cody interfere with
persistence there will without doubt be
a duel between the two. Fred May is
the millionaire New York city blood
who was knocked down by Col. Cody in
Chamberlain's cafe, Washington, ID. c.,
Saturday morning. As intimated in the
dispatches at the time, May is not likely
to let the matter go unavenged. Sunday
a w%ell-known man of st. Paul sent a
message to Col. Cody in response to an
Inquiry by wire from him which read as
| follows:
u am yours to command GA all 0cca-
sions, at any place or time. AMI under
any circumstances"
DIR. Frank Powell, the lifelong bosom
friend of Col. Cody. was seen yesterday
afternoon at his Office IN st. Paul con-
corning the matter. He said:
Fred May is IA young millionaire and
a great society He spends his
time between the 400 of New York, the
400 of Washington and the societies OF
London and Paris. In the main he is a
good fellow. The incidents that led up
to the affair at Washington are not gem
orally Known, and the dispatch from
Washington concerning the matter is
misleading. Col. Cody is not the cham
ptou OF cheap actresses. l was in Lon
don with him at the time the trouble
with May began. One day a young
American girl, whose name | will not
mention because she is thoroughly re-
pectable and belongs to a highly reput-
able family, came to Earl's Court, West
Brompton, where C0dy'S SHOW was
located. She said to Cody: Col. Cody.
L have known you since L was a BABY,
and L know you are a good man. | am
III London without any influential
friends about me, although l have plrlity
of good friends. | come to you because
you are both influential and good. My
reason for calling is that a prominent
AAhhN Ioh INV III VI City, 10 pCloCCul-
ing me with his attentions and not in a
gentlemanly way. His name is Fred
May. He manages to waylay me in ali
places in his attempts to become tamil
lar with Inc, and when under the in
tluence of wine he forgets that he is a
gentleman. and does things no gentle
man would do
Il remember distinctly" said DR..
Powell. IAN expression she used at the
time. 1t was partly a quotation. Said
she: Mr.. May has said to NE wha t no
honest man could, and no gentleman
would say
Sol. Cody replied in a laughing
way: Well, What do you expect ms
to do? Can't your friends look after
YOU? She said: 'One word from you,
Col. Cody, would stop this annoyance
quicker than anything all my friends in
London or America could do
Cody has a nabit of speaking to girls
and young women in a fatherly-
familiar way, and it natural for
him to say, little GIRL" little one,' or
my DEAR and he says it with the sam e
feeling that prompts him to call one of
his own little children pet or darling
He said: Little one, [ will see Mr..
May. Fred is a good fellow in the
main, and [ am quite sure he will not
annoy you any more after he learns
that his attentions are di~sagreeable.'
- remember very well that at the
time Col. Cody was about to enter one
of his performances. and he said to the
uir1c chanaron. LVnu +,l-o 49,.
home; no American intends to hurt a
little girls feelings in a strange country,
SO it will be all right when | see May
Both thanked him and went away.
Nov it SO happened that when Col.
Cody saw May it was after a dinner or
social occasion of some sort, and before
Cody realized that May mad been winlng
he spoke of the caseo of the little girl. May
immediately resented Cody's interfer-
ence, a thing he probobly would not
have done had he not been drinking.
Cody seeing his condition made a jocu-
lar remark of some kind about seeing
him later. May replied that he could
see him whenever he wanted to.
May, however, continued his often.
sive attentions upon the girl, and the
girl came to Cody again, and this time
crying. That ratified Cody a little, and
he sent word to May that he would have
to stop it or there would be trouble.
About this time Cody left London. Gil
cumstances afterward arose in the mat
ter that made Cody send word to May,
either by letter or a friend. L have for
gotten which, that he would whip him
on sight. Their first meeting since was
in Chamberlain'S cafe last Saturday
morning. May knew enough about
Cody to be perfectly assured that when
Cody said he would whip him he meant
just what he said, and that he would
attempt to keep his promise, no matter
how long separated they might be. In
view of all this May was not at all un-
prepared for the attack made upon him
Saturday morning, if such an attack
was made. He saw Cody come into the
restaurant. and knew that Cody saw
him, and the moment he cast eyes on
Cody he knew what his intentions were.
Il am prompted to say this, because
lfind people are generally disposed to
condemn Cody for hitting May without
giving notice of his attack. No one that
knows May ever questioned his cour-
age The fact that Cody, at his age,
attacked a young man well known in
athletic circles as being bold, aggressive
and capable of holding his own, proves
that May has met a .foeman worthy of
his steel, with the odds for bravery on
the side Of the scout.
"Unless the good friends of both men
interfere, there will be trouble across
the border probably"
Here the doctor recited the telegram