The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-11-03
A Gard From Dr. Knox
He Denounces Certain State
ments Made in the Buff
faloe Divorce Case.

DIR, A. w. Knox called at the News
and Observer office last night and re-
quested the publication of the following
city:
To the Editor of the Morning Post,
Raleigh, y. c.
Dear Sir:-In your issue of this morn
ing, in which are reported the proceed
ings of the court in the Buffaloe divorce
case on yesterday, your paper states
that the attorney for the defence asked
Mrs. Buffaloe the following question, to
wit:
"Will you please state when DR.. Buff
faloe made the charge or mtidelity, inn
plcating DR.. KnoXF'
1t is stated, in your paper, that Mrs.
BuffaIoe made this reply, namely:
when Dr. Buffaloe failed to carry out
DR.. Knoxs instructions, DR.. KNOX
withdrew from the case. He said he
made DIR. Knox withdraw. DR. Buffa-
Toe told me | would have to choose be-
tween DR. Knox and himself, accusing
me of infidelity. He said Dr. Knox
was the cause of all the trouble in our
house. Or. Knox was not treating me
he was treating)."
Again, your columns state that the at
torney for the defence asked Mrs. Buff
faloe this question:
Did not DR.. Knox lock himself in
room with you, and refuse to allow
any one inside| and that Mrs. Buffaloe
answered:
Certainly not
Now, in simple justice to myself, |
ask you to publish the following state
ment from me:
Before the court adjourned, | asked
the acting clerk of the court, Mr.. Roys-
ter, whether there was Il stenographlc
report of the courts proceedings, by
which | could determine whether your
report of the same was or was not ac-
curate in regard to the questions and
answers quoted above from your col
umns. He told me there was none. L
then asked Mrs. Buffaloe herself wheth-
er your report was substantially cor
rect. She replied that it was; and that
she regretted most deeply that she was
compelled by the court to answer the
questions. | sought out Mr.. c. NJ. Bus
bee and Mr.. Perrin Busbee, attorneys
for the defence, and asked each of them
if your report was substantially correct.
Each said that it was. Messrs. Doug
lass and Simms told me the same in
response to my personal enquiries of
each of them / asked DR. Buffaloe
himself lin the court house in the pres
ence of Il witness whose name / with
hold, unless he shall give his permits
sion to use it,, whether your report was
Il i,rr
him each of the questions and answers
quoted above He replied, in the her
ing of said witness, that he did not
know whether it was or not"
1t was told to me, later, that Dr. Buff
faloe himself had prompted his attor-
ney to ask Mrs. Buffaloe this question,
to-wit: Did not DIR. Knox lock himself
in room with you, and refuse to allow
any one inside?" / asked Il gentleman
who heard DIR. Buffaloe prompt his at
torney as stated, if it was true that
DR.. Buffaloe had SO prompted him.
This gentleman stated that it was true,
and that he had heard DR.. BuffalOe sug
gest the said question to his attorney.
/ then went to DIR. Buffaloes office to
ask him, i'll person, if he had so prompt
ed his attorney He was absent, and
| went second time at 6:30 p. IN. and
waited for half an hour without seeing
him. l left n note, to phone me on
reaching his office and give me the OPP
portunity to ask him a question.
Hearing nothing from him. Awent
Il third time to his office at 10 II M,
and this time l found him, and demand
ed to know of him if he had prompted
his attorney to ask the question indica
ted. He evaded my question, and could
not be induced to answer me categori-
cally- notwithstanding my repeated in
sistance that he was evading a direct
answer; | could only get him to say
that he was not sure; that he might
have prompted the question, and he
might not. | said to him: Il believe
that you did prompt it, and l tell you
TO your face, that YOU are beneath my
contempt; you are Il coward, a scoundre
and a liar, whose word | would not be-
lieve ON your oath; and | intend to pub
lish a statement to this effect in both
the morning papers" And the puppy
did not resent my words He simply
ordered me from his office"
/ therefore believe that your report
of the proceedings, which I have quoted,
is substantially correct. ] believe that
DIR. Buffaloe did make the statement
to his wife that she has sworn that he
made, and | solemnly declare:
LIST. That the charge of infdelity
against Mrs. Buffaloe. duplicating me, is
absolutely false; and | affirm my convic-
ton that Mrs. Buffaloe is as pure and
modest a woman as / know of any
where.
End. That it is unqualifedly false,