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Show CAN HARDLY BELIEVE OUR HUSBANDS CAME TO BLOWS, WIVES SAY Lieutenants Farrell and Hinton. Naval Balloonists. En deavor to Forget Differences Which Resulted in Blow to Jaw on Day They Reach Frontier. NEW YORK. Jan. 12. Mrs. Stephen A. Far. . -11 c l M; I Hinton, wives of the two naval bnlloonists, today ehsracteriked a uiilielii-valil " the story of the dispute between their DOSbSndl 0VS1 .the letter Lieutenant Hinton ii alleged td have written t bii wbV Mn Hinton, after expressing her disbelief r the affair, fled ts her room, saying: "I have no itatsoisnl to make until I hesr from my husband. ' i 'Aftei what Lhosi men bav "iJli- led. ' wild Mr. Farrell. " cannot n-UeVfl n-UeVfl they would be anything but1 hrotherjj for the 'c-ft of their lives. 1 . one of theip deserves more credit 'than the others." 1 am the happiest woman In thn( world," she continued, "and my pray-, it ha- l.-. -n .! i-rcil. 1 never !os; coiitider.ee, you know. As 1 said on, ;fhri?tinos SVS, 1 would not hav glv-i en up hope for their return until next I spring. The children have nuvr glv- ; en up hope, either. Mr. Farrell hsaj t .ugbt us all not to worry, but to be ioI. l-heailed :"nl iulel " Later Mr. Furn II said h.- believed j her husband wax -ii i i. litre; hli harac ter whan h struck Lieu tenant iiiiitm . t Uattlos yesterday and was right ilefendini It "Of OOUrSe 1 think Biy husband as 'iiirht In defending bis character' im. , i ii 1 1 ell laid, ) f ieail letter received from Uleu-taMtnl Uleu-taMtnl Varrell by Pranola r. Beht, coxnnjlssloner of contracts, and it a' marked that It was not to m publlsk-cd. publlsk-cd. "In my opinion tin- ;.-'t irs thai IJ u-tsnahts u-tsnahts Hinton and Kloor wrote tbolr ii latlvi and frienns should not hav been published. Now you ..n MS whot it has caused. Had l received u letter let-ter from my husband all the MOUC3 I In the world could not buy it. It is a question of principle and loyall; to . my husband." 'MMIls 1T3 W I I WASllINUTo.N, J.in 12. 1 -on as to appolntmonl ot haval court lo (Inquire into the personal clash at lut-jtlce lut-jtlce yesterday between toe American I naval balloonists, Lieutenants Farrell land Hinton. Is being withheld pending further and offielul reports. Secret.ir' 'lunlela ta'd today. The secretary added ad-ded that "ii was to ie deplored" that there should hue boon .my personal Conflict between th.r young men who had "endured hardships and set new : t tndurds." Tim MM II .11 LLOI . "It seems that the navy." continued .Mr. Hanlels. after doing work that challenges the admiration of the world in a number of btstorlc incidents, has -'n t . gloig. dimmed and marred pe "sonal differences, jenlousies and often of-ten bitter feelinr The grea.1 record of tho navy in the Spanish -American war lost, In a measure, the glory Of ItH : achievements through the courts of Inquiry and difference. s which followed follow-ed it. Eton after the late world war. where lhe American navv won world renown, there followed this unfortunate unfortun-ate public exhibition of differences." GOT GOOD RKT. MATTICK, nt Jan. 12. United Slates Naval Lieutenants StephJ D Far ; rell. Al Kloor and Walter Hinton. refreshed re-freshed by their firm night's sleep In I complete comfort ince setting out from the Hudson Bay regions where thev landed on I December 14 after n hazardous balloon flight from Rook-away. Rook-away. N V.. today enjoyed tbla trading trad-ing post's hospitality preparatory to their departure late this afternoon; for Toronto DISP1 ii 8OTTX.1 ' To nil outward appearances the bit-I tier dispute that arose between Ldeu- tenants Farrell and Hinton nhortly :aftr their arrival here' es'?rdcy,l which culminated In a blow from Far-j rell that sent his fellow airman sprawling sprawl-ing oer u table In the home of EL P. u II lamson. had been settled todaj The ;ieroi:.iiit rM,. eully. had hreuk-fast hreuk-fast together In their private car and i all regretted the incident that DUU their hlHtorlral adventure. Both r'ar-roll r'ar-roll anti Hinton were reticent today regarding re-garding the occurrence. , The altercation arose over a letter purported to have been written by Hinton to his wife from IffpOM PaV itory, whero they found succor after wandering through the illderness im:r days subsisting on two carrier plfeons and caribou moss. In the letter, published pub-lished In a New Vok newspaper Is alleged al-leged that Farrell, exhausted from the . rigorous wandering, pleaded with his two companions to kill him and eat his body to enable them to get back to civilisation. s in t in I OR4 iSSEffG." Farrell charged his companion with , "doubling crosMlng" him. saying all had agreed that their letters could not! be published. Illnton's refusal to re-i 1 tract, was the immediate cause fori ParraU's blow. Newspaper correspondents interfered inter-fered and separated them. PISfD IN IU N AM three, today wero somewhat tS4 -iturn regarding th-lr four days' icn-sltudes. icn-sltudes. after landing In the woods; and found Tom Mark, the t.'rc-e Indian, In-dian, who led them to the little Hudson Hud-son Bay company's trading post at Moose Factory. Lieutenant Farrell. however, outlined Mielr hardships to the correspondents, telling how they xlg-sagged through the wilderness. n the tecosjd day after tho barking Of a dog caused them to descend, he said: 'We were beginning to think that dog bark proposition was rather 'phoney.' HI l!s III B4 KJTS, They were so hungr' on the Uiird night they could uui slOOP, he said. except Kloor. who ilept so soundly and so close to the fir he burned his ftjing bootn." Tbey were beginning come desperate, he said. e the 1 1 oakteued on Pse I 1 I Can Hardly Believe Cur Husbands Came to Blows, Wives Say (Continued Prom Page tine.) time they sighted sled tracks about 10 o'cloclc on the morning of the fourth day. They followed the tracks about tl'e mile, :ilo,e- ii,e Mm v rlv r. before they siRhted the Indian, who started to flee when Hinton offered him a cigarette, lie became more communicatee, com-municatee, however, when Kloor g.ie him a dollar. Farrell said the trip from Moose Factory to Mattlce was uneventful I oo |