The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-11-05
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE


Kenwood Philip was arrested in New
York, Oct. 81, on charge of forging the Gar.
feld-Morey Chinese cheap-labor letter. PhilE
is one of the editors Of TrtIGl, daily paper IN
which the letter was first printed.
The Ansonia watch and clock works,
In Brooklyn, N. Y, have been destroyed by fire.
Loss, 100000.
@. Risley & Co., of No. " Wall street,
New York, firm which has been engaged in
the coffee trade for thirty years, has made an
assignment for the benefit of its creditors. The
liabilities of the firm are placed at $780, 900 and
the assets at 100000.
Three of the Pennsylvanians who,
some months since, chased q gentleman into
the Ohio river and stoned him to death for
stealing bunch of grapes, have been SEN
&ncsS cents fine and three months in Jail.
Philip, who was arrested in New York
on charge of forging the Garfeld-Morey let
ter, was arraigned for trial on the 2ssh ult.
Hart one of the proprietors of Truth, APP
peared on the witness-stand, but refused to
produce the letter. He was handed over to q
Police Captain for contempt of court At the
afternoon session the original letter was shown,
but the prosecution demanded the envelope, and
an adjournment wac necessary to secure it.
Col. A. +. Rockwell, of the United States army;
James McDerlo oft, of Brooklyn, journalist ex-
Sheriff Dagget, of Brooklyn; and Daniel +.
Ames, an expert, testified that they believed
the Morey letter was in the handwriting of
Philip.
The examination of Kenward PhilI
on charge of connecting the Morey letter was
resumed in New York on the goth ult. Tho
opening feature of the day was the surren-
der of the envelope by Hart, the publisher
of Truth, to Judge Davis, when testi-
mony by experts in handwriting was lis
tened to. Albert Southworth and William E.
Hagan, experts, testified that the writing of the
letter was similar to the acknowledged writing
OF Philip. Mr.. Leet newspaper reporter,
also testified that the letter was in Philips hand
writing number of postofice employees, in.
Guiding Mr.. Pearson, Assistant Postmaster al
' NAS0 Ih@S lne pOstlIaLhS Oh TIE
envelope were not genuine.
G. W. Hayward & Co., Wholesale
coffee and dried fruit dealers, of Buffalo. have
made an assignment.
On the third day of the trial OF Ken
ward Philip, at Now York, Postmaster Anger,
CT Washington, and one of his stamping cleSkt
testified that the postmark on the Morev letter
did not come into use until Feb. Is of this
year, and therefore that the envelope could not
have been mailed in January. The prosecution
also presented three or four witnesses who
claimed to be familiar with Philips handwriting,
and who swore to their belief that he wrote the
Morey letter. To offset this testimony the de-
Tense introduced ten witnesses, all attaches Of
different newspapers with which Philip had
been connected, and all of them were perfectly
positive that the Morey letter and the address
were not in Philips handwriting. The young
man, James M:Dermott, one of the States
witnesses, was given an exceedingly bad char.
acter by eight Of these associates of Philip, who
united in saying that they wouldn't believe hin
under oath.
In the Philip trial at New York, on tn.
LIST inst, the prosecution introduced the Post
master of Lynn, Mass, who testified that n,