Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1875-09-02

"S'N '"S PuiPNSS Va Sot"p'i'hihb ouS
claim Of Mrs Monroe. A large coucourse
Of citizens was in attendance. Mrs. Mon
roe appeared, and gave, a description of
her husbands person aud of the clothes
in which be left home on the morning of
the Gay he vas drowned. Previous to
her examination Bates b., Ike, chairman
Of the Morgan Investigation Committee,
examined the clothes taken from the
body and carefully preserved by the Cor
with great miuuteness. This en-.
abled him to test the accuracy of Mrs.
MonrOe's knowledge and memory.
Neither Mrs. Monroe nor any person
sympathizipg with her or interested in
the Identification OF the body as that Of
Monroe had access to it or bad seen any
of tile wearing apparel 81 the deceased
And yet Mrs. Monroe not only gave a
general description of each garment, but
underwent a rigid cross,examinstion by
Mr.. Cooke of moro than an hour, in
which she described with singular ac>
curacy every rent and patch found in
each garment. She indicated buttons
slv had sewed on the pantaloons to
replace those lost which did not match
the others. She also described one stock.
ing that had been darned With yarn Of q
different Color. Tn a word her descrip>
ton Of the clothing was 50 accurate in
every particular as to leave no doubt
that each article had been under her
special care. But wonderfully accurate
as she had been on this point, She was
most strangely wrong in her description
Of the body, Monroe being at least three
inches taller than the corpse. She dc.
scribed her husbands hair and wbiskers
as coarse and black, adding that his hair
had been cut quite short few days be.
fore he was drowned willie that upon the
head of the deceased was long, silky and
Of a chestnut color. Monroe's son con.
frmed his mothers testimony relating
both to the clothes and the body. Nc
attempt was made to impeach either, mol
was there any doubt that Monroe had
been drowned as alleged. 1t was diff
6cult to reconcile these conflicting state.
ments. Mrs. Monroe was as clearly right
about the clothes as she was wrong about
the body found in them.
THE THIRD INQUEST.
resulted in finding that the body pre-
viously adjudged to be Morgar's was tina
Of Timothy Monroe. There were other
circumstances connected with the disap
p%earancs of both Morgan and Monroe, as
suming that both had been drowned il
Lake Ontario, calculated to complicat
the questions of identity. The body wa
found at Oak Orchard Greek q full yea
after Morgan's disappearance of couls
it could not have been drifting about thu
length Of time. 1t was known, however
that Morgan was weighed heavily whe
thrown into the lake and, two month
before hat body was found, the mouth c
tho river and that part of the lake wher
Morgan was supposed to have been throw
overheard, had been thoroughly raket
In this way it was supposed that the bod
had been released from its weight, rise
to the surface and drifed to Oak 0rchar
Greek. Monroe was drowned on the 25t
or 9th Of September. The body
/ Oak Orchard Creek was found on II
9Th day of October, leaving but eleven
twelve days to drift a distance of fort
i miles, where it was found. 1t is unde
\ stood that drowned persons remain Sc
/ eral days under water. 1t was ascertaine
by meteorological records, that, during ii
interval between Monroe's death and IL
finding Of the body at Oak Orchard Cree
r the wind blew most Of the time up IL
Y lake. Now, as there is no current
Lake Ontario, and as objects float vii
s rather than against the wind, it SCENE
Improbable that the body found should
that of Monroe (; while on the other har
it seemed equally improbable that a MT
h drowned in the latter part Of Ssptembe
n 1926, could have been found in q toler
bic state Of preservation 10 October, IS;
So that there were irreconcilable fac
4 and circumstances connected with ii
d strange history. a.g slgtr.
d. Mrs. Morgan and the intimate frien
Of Morgan described marks upon bis pc
son before seeing that body, which Ii
no doubt in the minds of Nil present I'll
il was the remains Of her husband.
,r Strangely enough, however, she repudi
If ted every article Of clothing found up