The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-10-30
THE CHINESE LETTER.
THE --LATEST pEvELoPMENTl

AsREsT AND HoLDINa TO BAIL OF ITS At
LEGED AurHoR-THE "SuMMNG UP" OF
"TRurH's" EviDESoE
New YoRK, october 27.--Kenward PHI
ip, a journalist,w was arrested atBrooklyn, this
morning in the lobby Of the Park Theatre,
while in conversation with ex-SheriT Dog
gett, the Republican leader of Kings county
and other gentlemen. The arrest was made
by Detective Stewart, of New York, upon a
warrant issued by Judge Noah DaYis, pr,
siding justice of the Supreme Court, which
charges the prisoner with malicious libel in
connection with the Garfield Chinese letter.
Mr.. Philip and the officer, accompanied by
William Vedder, came over TO police head
quarters in this city. After a brief deten
ton here he was taken to the Supreme Court
Philips counsel, General Roger A. Pryor
objected to the prosecution, reading aflidav-
It's on which the order of arrest was obtain
ed, but the judge overruled the objection.
District Attorney Bell then read an afiidav-
it by Col. Geo. Bliss, who testified that he
had examined the fac simile copy Of the
letter, with others in his possession from
Gen. Garfield, and declared it a forgery; that
he compared the photo. lithographic copy of
the letter with writings Of the accused, and
On information and belief thought he was
the author of it. Aflidavits sworn to by
Joseph E. Payne and Albert 7. SouthworLh,
experts in handwriting, were read and were
of similar purport Attached to the affidav-
its was the original copy Of an article for
publication, written by the accused. A mo-
ton was then made to have the warrant dis
missed on the ground that the atfidavits
were not strong enough to support 1t. The
motion was denied by Judge Davis, who
held that the publication of an article, after
its authenticity is denied, which tends to
bring odium on the supposed author, was a
criminal libel The examination was ad-
journed until IL O'Clock tomorrow morn
ing. The prisoner furnished $4,000 bail to
appear.
After being brought over to the city, and
while waiting for the appearance OF Judge
Davis, numbers of Philips friends called on
him in the waiting ROOM He was as cool
and collected as though he had little or no
interest in the proceedings. While the As
sstant District Attorney was filling out some
papers in the case he placidly sucked an or
ange and listened calmly TO the excited re-
marks OF his indignant friends. "What are
you charged with ?" he was asked. "I am
not certain, but believe they say l forged
Garfeld's Chinese cheap labor letter. 1t
would be Just as absurd to arrest any one
here as to arrest me, for had nothing TO dc
with it, if it is forgery. The fact is that
they had to do something to counteract its
effects, so they captured me-" His friends
finally became so numerous that the officer
in charge began to show signs of funeasiness
and in consequence Mr.. Philip and his eoun-
sci were drafted into another room belong
ing to Assistant District Attorney Herring
and no one was allowed 10 see him. Before
the door closed upon him he said to a friend
"This amounts to nothing. 1t is simply 9
put,up job to weaken the effect of the letter. >
John |. Davenport was close upon the heel;
of the prisoner when the latter entered the
Court room.
The promised "clincher" on the part o.
the Truth appeared in that journal to-day
under the head of a "closng argument fol
the prosecutions" and the Summing up
amounts to about this. Lithographic fac
SMILES of the Morey letter; the envelope
with stamp, postmark, etc. in which 1t il
alleged to have been mailed from Washing
ton; specimens of Garfeld's signature Oh
cards received from him by Julia L. Zurich
of Jersey City, who asked him Tor them tC
be sold at a fair for the benefit OF the Ger
man American school of Jersey Heights
postmarks of the Washington post Office
ranging in point of date from January %
1880, on the Morey letter, to May Is, 1880
and of uniform appearance, by way of con
tradicting the Washington postmaster's as
sertion that new stamp was substituted il
! April last;a letter from John Pope HodnetL
president of the United Labor League; o
| America, in which the latter asserts know
ledge of II. L. Morey as president of al
Employers Union in connection with the
substitution of Chinese labor for that o
American at South Adams, Mass; beside tht
opinion of D. N. Carvalho, expert in hand
writing, and also a photographer, at No.
East Fourteenth street, New York, who say!
he believes that Gen. Garfield's letter of de
nial, Autographed and published in the n
Y. Herald of Yesterday, and the Morey let
ter were written by the same hand; the af
idavit of George Stimpson, Jr., of l4S Sew
enteenth street, Brooklyn, an expert Of thir
ty five years experience, to the same effect
while he had previously compared the Nor
cy letter with Mr.. Gariield's handwriting
hand; the affidavit OF Hon. John Fox, o
New York, that he is familiar with Gar
fields handwriting, from serving two term
in Congress with him, and believes tina
General Garfield wrote the Morey letter
Then follow references to the opinions o
Hon. W. II. Barnum Speaker Randall Hon
A. S. Hewitt, Hon. E. r. Meade and Gen
w. F. Smith, all of whom think the More
letter looks like Gen. Garfeld's handwriting
with which they are somewhat familiar
Henry C. Kelsey, Secretary of the State ,
New Jersey, telegraphs that he has eigf
etters, mailed to him from Washington, ,fou
previous and four subsequent to April lS,an
the canceling and dating stamps on all ar
the same. There is also a statement froI
VIM, Nash, of the Reynolds Brothers She
Factory at Utica, N. Y, who says he kne
a Mr., Morey at Lynn, Mass, in 1878, an
that Morey had charge Of an agency to en-
ploy men with view of destroying tn
Crispins' Union there, though Nash claim
no personal acquaintance, and says he onl