Evening star., 1895-06-08
LATE NEWS BY WIRE
John s. Wise VIII Not Send a
Challenge.
SAYS he WAS GROSSLY ABUSED
It Was an Old Friend Who Used
Offensive Language.
! HE WAS GROSSLY ABUSED
RES HIS SON

NEW YORK, June S.-Mr. John S. Wise
has issued a statement of the scene be-
tween A. B. Boardman and himself in court
yesterday, and, after claiming that the
other had repeatedly used offensive lam
guage before he replied in KIND, says:
He now goes to the trouble to say he
did not mean what both his language and
his manrer imputed. If he did not mean
what he said, he ought to have disc!aiIned
such meaning and not have tried to buiiy
and insult me before jury Of strangers.
That wa; my grievance against Mr.. Board
man, and in Difference to the court ard its
proprieties I did not pursue it further. hut
went on with the case. The jury retired
and l went out into the hall, where 1 was
talking with my son. Mr.. Boardnan came
out and approached me. extending his hand,
saying, Wise, you know the fact you
stated was not so.'
IT withdrew my hand and said, I will
not take your hand until you apologize to
me fer what 1 consider the most unjustlf-
able language and manner. Until that l5
done 1 will not discuss with you whether
/ was right or wrong. You know you had
no justification for speaking that way
He then bridled up and said, oh, very
well, 1 don't intend to apologize, and
replied, saying, You are liar, coward
and a puppy
lie said, That's your southern blood,
and I again said. You would not have
dared use that language in place where
my hands were united and l could have
slapped you in the face
He then said, Why don't you slap me?'
At this point my son stepped between us.
OF course If I had slapped Mr.. Boardman
we would have been as much in contempt
as if 1t had occurred in the court room
proper. I was doubly embarrassed by ap-
prehension that my son Henry would get
into the snarl, and while Mr.. Boardman
seemed to have been measuring my height
and girth in contemplation of a twenty
four-foot ring performance, he did not
know 1 was trembling with fear lest a
youngster who could whip both of us was
straining at E.y side and likely to avoid
restraint and pitch in pell neil.
Mr.. Boardman passed down the steps
expressing a willingness il l would come
down on the grass to hit him to hit back.
The absurdty of the whole thing grew on
me more and more, and 1 did not follow
him. u-.-
1T is totally untrue that 1 used any
language about hearing from me again. l
am neither pugilistic or duelist, and have
not the slightest idea Of pursuing the mat
ter further feel that was right through
out. believe that Mr.. Boardman on re-
Election. will admit to himself and to me
that his language and manner was totally
= un justifiable, and that I was right in re-
fusing to be friendly until he apologized.
If l committed any error it was in the
violent language used in the hall, but it
Is easy enough for any one cool and un-
ruffled to. see errors of that Kind when
they themselves in like circumstances
would do no better,
Il don't think gentlemen in the north
any more than in the south permit men to
insult them in public and then come up in
private without apology and shake hands"