Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-08-18
District Attorneyreceived the follow
ing mysterious letter.

me whether Mr.. G. w. Warren is in
Knoxville at Peasant? He wrote IN e
sometime ago, saying his office of bus
mess was in with yours. you will
answer you will confer "A kindness up
90 M. Pts. Ans. Jimmy, d oblige,
Yours, very respectfully,
Miss NJ. DERERICK,
Geneva, n. Y.
7. ). He has received his mail in
care of Box pa.
Judge Andrews replied that he had
never heard of such person as G. w.
Warren, but if she would send de-
scription Of him he would try to find
out something about him. He has
not had time yet to receive reply.
STIRRING HIM UP.
While at Greeneville writing
up the funeral obsequies, he got into
trouble with Samuel W. Small,
of the Atlanta Constitution, and
in few days that paper called
attention to the exploits of man
who had travelled and preached in
half dozen States, under fifteen differ
ent aliases and inquired if he might
not be the man.
| The Chattanooga Times called atten-
ton to the matter. When this came to
| Copeland's ears he manifested some
uneasiness, but tried game of bluff on
the Constitution, and demanded cor
rection or retraction. The Atlanta pa
per DID neither, and things began to
grow interesting.
A THUNDER CLAP.
On Sunday morning the Press and
Herald of this city reproduced from the
Baltimore Gazette the above alluded
to, but without in any way connecting
1t with our Mr.. Copeland. Some people
wondered why the Press and Herald
gave so much space to an apparently
unimportant matter to our people.
But soon it became noised about that
the Rev Mr.. Copeland, Esq, of Knox.
vile, bore remarkable resemblance
to the man alluded to in the Baltimore
Gazette. 1t spread and gathered vol
ume as it went, so that by IL o'clock
everybody was talking about it.
INTERVIEWED.
Soon Mr.. Copeland was interviewed
and called upon to explain. He man
ifesed a grief that was painful to be-
hold, and with tears in his ewes said
that the scandal referred to was too
true, but that his brother was the
guilty man. This appeared well
enough, and if his brother had been
such had man it was wrong to hold |
him responsible for deeds he had never
been guilty of. But when called !
upon to explain the Charles w. War !
rem matter, he failed to do it satisfac-
torily. He said that he had only re-
ceivcd the letters and forwarded them |
to his brother. But unfortunately for
his story, lie had stated some DAYS pre- |
vlous to this that his bad brother had |
committed suicide a year or two ago. |
lie made several attempts at explana- |
ton yesterday and on Sunday, but |
none OF them were satisfactory. On |
the contrary,
EVIDENCE OF HIS GUILT
Seemed to accumulate. He had had |
conversations with number of our
citizens, and it was gathered from one
and another that he had been at all |
the points mentioned in the Baltimore
Gdzette'S article. The more he tried
to explain the worse he got matters
mixed. Whether he was the man
who had been w. e. Copeland, of
Massachusetts,, Rev. G. w. Warren, of
Wilmington, n. c., Rev. w. f. Hor-
ton, of Canton, Mississippi, or G. w.
Copeland, the fOrger at Milwaukee.
Wisconsin, or the Rev. Epuphroditus
w. Simmons, of Memphis, or the
Rev. Lucius f. Horton, of Pennsyl-
vania, he soon convinced some of our
people that he was an adept in telling
different stories about the same thing.
de did it apparently without any
prospect OF making anything by it.
Several things leaked out during yes
terday which only confirmed public
opinion against him.
DESTROYING PAPERS.
Upon inquiry at his boarding house
we learned that when he first came to
Knoxville he had destroyed quite
number OF letters, and perhaps other
papers. He also destroyed num-
Der of papers in his room on
Sunday night. However, he
makes statement about this matter
which we give below:
CARD FROM MR.. COPELAND.
a good deal of excitement concern
ing certain statements in an article
which appears in the Press and Rer-
all of 10th inst, and which an active
c0terie of enemies have diligently
sought to fasten upon me, calls for a
card from me in relation to the mat
ter.
And first, 1 will say that the article
in question most unquestionably does
not refer to single individual; part
OF it, however, does refer to a talented
but cratic brother of mine, who did,
in Milwaukee, New England, North
Carolina, and Mississippi, do the
things charged upon him. L have
striven in the spirit of a true brother
hood, in connection with my other
brothers, to cover up his evil conduct.
The article does not contain a single al>
fusion to any act of mine.
Mrs. Marshall wife of a minister here.
who knew my brother and of his bad
conduct, yesterday in the presence of
her husband, Mr.. G. NJ. Thomson, and
myself, declared positively that 1 was
not the man though resembling him.
This would be true of any others, if
they spoke truly, who knew his face. ,
Mr.. Morton, who is referred to in an |,
article In the Age of last evening, as
having recognized me as being in Bal J
timore during the Sunday School Con- !
yention, 1 understand, says distinctly :