Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-27

= 4 GENERAL BELIEF THAT THE Cu.pays
S SLss AND THE LETTERS WERE FORGED.
,,Spet:A correspondence Of the Philadelnhi.
ItmtS from Detroit, April %, saws: NIt has h
come known that the person who CLAIMS 10
1870 discovered the correspondence is one
!he Fanny Richards with whom. II Is siasaJ
nc Ge biShop was improperly Connected NJ
Rih s "a ~ mat he stole the letters from Miss
hlcnaruS While he was courtinp her ana nnI~
produced them as a measure Of safety ~ b SiIy
Ss.; some OF The letters deposited I'm the safs
OF the FIRST National Bank are signed hv thS
Bishop. These are letters Sncb az an ~ ~ nc
llan gentlemen, especially clergyman might
write 10 young female ward-letters of sd-
vice, counsel and instruction A father VIZ
ting 10 a daughter would adopt such a ,ona
i he Indecent letters are not signed save INV !.
nler8giyphic cypher, and they are plainly the
work oil another hand. The obscene draw
lngS, TO which reference has been made I'm the
Chicago Times report, could hardly have en-
anated IRON the aged hands of the Bishop He
cannot draw, while Mcconnell can The Ian
gnage OF the signed letters il refined and bean
uiully expressed; i'm the unsigned IL is coarse
ana there are frequent miss-spellings and
Mrs. BaniSter claims that she never received
any letters from the bishop that were NOT
signed, either while as Fannie Richards, his
ward, or since her marriage She did moi knoyx
OF the abstraction of the letters until She
heard of them i'm the charges promulgated i'm
a, local sheet and the Chicago Times She
charges that all the unsigned letters are
forgerieS, and declares that Mcconnell has a
peculiar faculty for initiating handwriting
mat this Is true have learned from other
sources. Mrs. BaniSter further states that after
she was married Mcconnell Swore he would
have revenge upon her and the bishop, for the
interference OF the latter and the part he had
taken In inducing Fannie 10 refuse Mcconnell
on account OF the Indifferent moral character
ol The young man. Not till nearly year after
her marriage did these letters come TO light.
some OF them apparently newly written This
same person, II ought To be borne in nina
served six months in WAYNE county iail on a
charge of baStardy. His moral character is OF
The very lowest. There is no other accuseT Of
the bishop"
Following up his denial of the charges made
against him, Bishop McCloSkry has demanded
that a court of inquiry shall be instituted Tn
Inquire into all the matters appertaining to
those charges. He has sent on from New
York his nephew Mr.. Cleveland a LAWYER of
note, TO take charge of his case, which will be
speedily tried, as the court must report TO the
House of Bishops, which meets early i'm June.
fs-At recent marriage in Nova Scotia the
bridegroom was 20 and the bride q years OF
age.
ga greenback paper i'm Iowa complainS
mat us party does not flourish because Fit is
under the control of a set of mutton heads"
Hp Make yourself necessary, young man
and your success is certain.
RB-The Z. /. man says that George Wash
IngtOn stood up and told the truth like a
little bellpunch.'
EPWife (SarcaStically, to husband coming
home al five in the morning.: Home already
my dear? Why you are early" Husband.
- les, my love bat didn't care about Stay-
ing any Later; 1t was getting dull Pack.