The New York herald., 1921-05-29
H. AlSop Burrowes's Death
Recalls "Duep With Drayton
International Cause Ceebre Started Seriously in Lon
don and Petered Out in Paris Nearly
Thirty Years Ago.

was promptly accepted by the seconds
for Mr.. Borrowe. The following proces
verbal was then drawn up:
HOTEL CHATHAM. PARIS, Feb. 13. 1892.
For reasons OF a purely private ma
ture Mr. J. Coleman Drayton has de-
manded from Mr.. Hallett Alsop Borrowe
a reparation par les arnles. .,
This reparaton has been refused by
the seconds Of Mr.. B6rrowe acting for
him for the following reasons: Accord
ing 10 them all the facts that have
given rise to this affair do not give the
right to Mr. J. Coleman Drayton To
claim this reparation.
The seconds of MIR Borrowe declare
themselves ready to refer the matter
to jury OF honor. who shall decide
or not
For ]. Coleman Drayton:
FERDINAND BorsAco,
L. CHERBoUoUET.
For II. a. Borrowe;
II. NANE MILBANK,
EDWARD Fox.
After waiting forty weight hours. dur
ing which time the seconds OF Mr.. Bor-
rowe. losing thei. patience, asked Mr..
Drayton for reply. the latter re-
sponded that he did not care for the
suggestion that the facts be laid before
the Jury OF Honor In this letter, dated
February 10, 1892, he wrote to Mr.. Bo--
rowe's seconds that their client had in
flicted upon him "the most grievous in
jury that one man can inflict upon an
other" and added concerning Mr.. Bor-
rowe: II shall make no further pro-
posals TO him Of any nature, but shall
consider him coward and shall take
pains to publish this opinion of him.
Messrs. Milbank and Fox then con-
suited Aurelien Scholl and the Due do
Morny. as courts of last resort in mat
ters of honor. and received from them
the opinion that all the previous corre-
spondence had been wasted energy. M-.
Scholl writing for himself as well as for
the Duke, said: 1.-THE meeting upon
which you desire my opinion should not
take place under any consideration
whatsoever. Where there is a question
OF money referring to an alleged finan-
cial settlement upon NJ. Drayton) there
can be no question of honor. As to the
taunts and insults of a man balked-
they are null. non-existant, without right
and without import"
CorrespOndence Is StODped.
AS under the rules of the field of
honor In France Mr.. Drayton could not
make Mr.. Borrowe fight him there. the
correspondence stopped on February II
and month later both were on their
way back to New York on the same
steamship. Their friends feared that
their differences might be followed up
on American soil. but nothing worse
than voluminous statements from
Messrs. Drayton, Bo-rowe and Milbank
who accompanied his principal to New
York, followed and the famous cause
celebre petered out.
Although duel in that instance was
averted Mr.. Borrowe did. 1t is said. en-
gage in an affair of honor and
the other party is said to have been Mr.
Fox, one Of the Borrowe seconds. They
are said to have met at Nieuport Bains
near Ostend. on April "a, 1892. according
to an Associated Press despatch of that
date from Ostend. Three shots were
said to have been fired with pistols of
45 calibre. The first two were ineffec-
tual. The seconds. Mr.. William B.
Gacon Of Boston for Mr.. Fox and Mr..
Harry vane Milbank for Mr.. Borrowe
reloaded the weapons. Messrs. Fox and
Borrowe are said to have fired stimuli
taneously. Mr. Fox's bullet missed
Mr.. Borrowe's pierced his antagonists
coat near the waist line without in
flicting injury. The duel was then de-
clared at an end and the anita gonists
parted without having been reconciled.
After the Borrowe-Drayton incident
Mrs. Drayton remained in London. The
Drayton children were sent by him to
friends in Wales. Mr.. and Mrs. Astor.
her parents, went from London to Paris
and International society settled down
again into It's gay routine.
The final paragraph in the exclusive
account OF the duel correspondence in
THE EVENING SUN read as follows:
1T is probable that the present condi-
tons win result in a divorce"
III March, 1896 Mrs. Drayton obtained
a divorce from her husband in New Jer-
sey on the grounds of desertion. In De-
cember Of that year she was married
in London to George Ogilvy Haig, who
died in December. 1906. On July 30, 1920,
Mrs Haig died in the American Hos
pital at Neuilly. near Paris. Mrs. Mar
shall Ogme Wilson. the only surviving
child OF the late Mr.. and Mrs. William
Astor. was with her sister at the end.
A month before Mrs. Drayton was
married to Mr.. Haig. Miss Anna Wheel
er Corbln. daughter of the late Austin
Corbin, was married to Mr.. Borrowo in
Christ church. Islip, /. l.. and survives