The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-08-26
he OldMorsan Story.

= A. pamphlet has been issued entitled !:
" American Political Anti Masonry, with
Good. Enough Morgan" In order to
give the reader an idea of the narrative
it may be well to state that in the year
1826, q Ffeemason, by tho name Of
William Morgan, then residing in Batayia,
attempted to make an expose Of Masonry.
He was Kidnapped on the 10Th of Sep
tember, OF that year, and was supposed
to have been drowned in the Niagara
river: When he disappeared he was
quite bald and wore no whiskers. More
than a year after this time the body Of a
man was found forty miles east Of the
Niagara river on the shore Of Lake On.
tario, and an inquest declared it to be the
body OF an unknown man. The clothing
was taken care Of by one Of what was
then known as the Morgan Committee.
Soon after this inquest Thurlow Weed.
who was chief Of said committee, pro.
fessed to believe the body might be that
OF Morgan. He, therefore, had it dug
up and second inquest held. The body.
being thus disinterred, was found to have
q full head Of hair upon its head and full
side-whiakers on it's face. All this Mr..
Weed well knew, for, in letter to the
New York Herald, written in 1875, he
says: "The head was covered with long
dlken hair Of q chestnut Color" The
second inquest declared the body to be
that Of Morgan, and twas buried as such.
But, douot having arisen as to whether
there mad not been foul plzy by Weed
and others, the Idly was again disin-
tered, and tn I'd inquest held at b.
tavia. The heao Vi the body this time
appeared very bald, and with no whis-
kers on the face, although the proof
showed that the head when found on the
shore was well covered with hair, and the
face covered with whiskers. It was also
proven that the body was. four inches
taller than that of Morgan, and was that
Of one Timothy Monroe.
Citizens Of Batavia, where Morgan
had resided, testified that the body was
not Morgan's, and the third inquest so
decided. After this Ebenezer Gufind
said to Weed, "What are you going to
do with Morgan now?' to which it was
said Mr.. Weed gave the celebrated re-
ply: " 1t is good-enough Morgan till
after election" Henry O'Reilloy, the
editor Of the Daily Advert;ser. pub
ished some statistics intimatine that
Weed had disfgured the head and face
of the corpse of Timothy Monroe so a.
to make it look like that of Morgan.
For this MIR. Weed caused o Kelley to be
indicted for libel. The suit remained
untied thirteen years, thus harassing
OReilley, but was finally noue prose-
Quied, and lately Mr.. Weed has publicly
stated that the case was sworn off by
OReilley, so that he could not get q
trial. TO this statement Of Mr.. Weed,
Mr.. O'Reilley now replies: "a lawyer
familiar with prominent legal proceed
.ings at that time knows that Weeds in
ability for twelve years to cause trial to
be had against us on his Indictment is in
itself libel upon our judiciary system,
and as to his declaration that he urged
the trial while he had been swearing it
of, it may be repeated by us that it
would require as much hard swearing as
it would to make the public believe that
Morgan's corpse had grown four inches
in length and crept into Timothy Mon
roe's breeches twelve months after his
death. "-Erchange.