| Show A PItOSPEOTIVE DUEL Lieutenant George N Harries Calls Dr T S Verdi Baron Favas Confident I Liar and n Coward and Is Ready to Accept any SnjrgeB tlon sa to Time and Weapons Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch WASHINGTON April 18A duel at the capital may be one of the sequels of the Italian incident Lieutenant George H Harries is out with a stinging personal let tor to Dr T S Verdi tho close personal associate of Baron Fava in which Verdi is denounced as a liar and a coward It will bo recalled that when the Italian flurry was at its height Baron Fava was inac cessable to the press Dr Verdi was with him much of the time and the doctors interviews in-terviews were taken to represent the barons sentiments Ono of the interviews was secured by Lieutenant Harries adjutant adju-tant of the District National guard who is a journalist of high standing Verdi Questioned ques-tioned the accuracy of the interview and finally sent a letter to the New york Tribune flatly denying the language Harries attributed to him Verdi added the gratuitous gratui-tous statement that reporters were a now species of animal which anthropologists had not yet been able to define Lieutenant Harries now answers in a scorching personal letter He says For two weeks past you have been circulating circulatu loosejointed and negative assertions of misrepresentations assertions to which I paid no attention but you have at last stated flatly that the interview published publshed on the 1st instant is false and I in reply declare most emphatically that the only apparent difference between Ananias and yourself lies in the fact that Ananias is dead Your denial in warp woof fibre and finish is a plain unadorned lie not the semiexcusable falsehood of a brave man who denies to shield somebody else but the Ho of a coward of one whose sentiments are stronger than their creator The interview inter-view you now complain of is a literal and absolute fact and you know it to be so Harries is a fighter who has a son in the Indian service in the far west I Baron Favas confident does not like tho words liar and coward Harries is understood under-stood to be ready to accept any suggestions Verdi may make as to time and weapons |
