The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-10-31
THAT nOREY LETTER.
Philip Did Not Write II, or SO
it Appears.
And Now The Republicans are
SQuealiug.

New 1OrK, 5O.-JuOge OhVB again
took his seat on the bench at 2 o'clock.
PnIlp was present. A lady attracted
much attention. Some delay eDsued after
the opening of the court. Mr.. Bell for
the prosecution asked, SIS the delay wss
not Of their seeking, that he be permitted
10 call Joseph E. Payne as a witness.
The court consented and Payne testified
that the Morey letter and envelope were
IN the same handwriting as that Of the
of the editorial sly
ing and sticking to it," pub
lished in the Truth. The editorial,
it is admitted, was written by Philip.
The defense called Anderw Mclean. He
testified that be was manager Of the
Brooklyn Eagle and had known Philip
for twelve years. l know his hand
writing well, ss during lhess. yeArs he
and l have bten working In the same
office. l have seen him write almost
daily. l have seen the fac Sinlitie + The
original Morey letter aud envelope, and
from my knowledge of Mr.. Philips
hand writing, l have no doubt whatever
that il is not in the hand writing OF Philip.
de has been in the habit of spelling
companies IL the way il il spelled here. 1
must have edited nearly 10, 600 columns
Of SIR. Philips matter, and have never
known him TO speil such words in that
way. l have been editor of the Eagle
eight years, aud during thGt time James
McDermolt was never on The paper. !
know his reputation and would not be-
lieve him under oath if there was any
temptation for him to testify untruth
fully
james Goodn, menu er of the
Brooklyn EdgLe staff. and engaged
with Philip in the composition Of the
dramatic columns, testified: am posi-
tive the MoEey letter is not in Philips
handwriting l never knew Ar. PhIlI
to spell the plural Of the words ending III
lies " "yS," as companies is spelled
James McDermott'S character for vera
city is not good.
Fre1erlck G. Hudson, also Of The
Brooklyn Eagle, gives similar testi
money!
Wm. s. Harvey, graduate of OXFORD
University, England, and for fourteen
years the associate of Mr.. Philip in edi
torial work, testified that the Morey
letter and envelope are not in Philip
handwriting. L know James McDer
| mott, and while l have been on lht
Eagle have not known him to be a re,
porter on il. L would not believe hin
under oath if there were SOC. one wsy
snd 81 the other.
Several proof readers and the city ed
to- iOf the Brooklyn Eagle testified ina
the Morey letter was not in the writing o
Philip. John /. Davenport testified tina
Mr.. LSnegsn, private detective, hrst CAV
MIN the editorial manuscript of Lying
and Sticking to It, He did not sal
whsre he got it; nor did the witEess pa
| him for it. Cross-examined;. L never at
tempted 10 steal or get possession OF tn
NJ .rey letter in any wsy. 1 had only
been in the Truth office once 10 a month
aud then at the request Of Mr.. Post
| (Ruled OUT.
Two Lynn Workmen testified that theI
knew OF the organization named the En-
ployer's Union, or something like that
but knew little or nothing abJut 1t. tn
defense attempted to show, by Witress
that General GsrieId's vouchers for pa
in Washington we're in the same hand a
the MOrey letters. (Ruled out as incom
petent testimony) The testimony OF w
g. Cotton was first ruled out, but fnsll,
received, when it should be show
that it contrsdicted Mr.. Gaylor'
testimony. Cotton showed envelope
which he had received and which ha,
stamps on in spite OF Mr.. Gaylor's CLAIM
that such letters wore not SO stamped
mo REORGANIZATION. The prosecution
claimed that this evidence cOntradicte
nothing, because Gaylor's testimony onl,
related to letters from Washington to tn
east. George Timson testified that h
considered Garfeld's signature and tn
Morey letters in identlcally the sam
hand.
Judge Dittenhoffer rays that he Wa
lcounsel for the Truth because of III
long standing friendship with Louis 4
Post, who has been assistant district al
torney, but was now its managing editol
When he saw the Chinese letter ne trie
to persuade Post not to publish it, be
cause it WAS q forgery Hart sent 70
him after it was published and Volun
ltarily told him twice that he had been i'm
posed on, as the lie ter was fraud; this
line leading democrats were beginning {
90 back on it, and Garfeld;s deDis
proved it a forgery. The following
nom Dittenhoetfer's statement. HaI
requested me to see Jewell at once an
inform him Of this. l asked, what for
he said: at will be mora 10 our credit
they are Informed before hand that W
are going to do it voluntarily, butt sal
he, I'VE want it understood tina. W,
want no money or any ether considers
ton, but want 1t known that you, as on
counsel and friend, should. receive III
credit. 1t is q greas serYice an,
lif anybody gets any benefit
from it, it ought come to you" becam
more convinced than ever that they Wer
getting frightened and wanted it under
stood that they were doing it IN the hop
thus to drop the thing quietly. went u
at once to Governor Jewell and reporte,
substantially what Was said. l tod his
they were doing it without any hope O
consideration; but would be pleased !
they knew would receive the credit 70
having brought about the publication
Of .rvtraction. The governor said
"Thst Is flair and decent, and 1 Will b
glad to assure them that you will be re
gArded as the person who was instrumen
tai in having them publicly aclknowledg
that they were convinced Of the spurious
ness Of the letter" He then wrote tn,
letter which has been published, and said
"You may show them the letter" l 60
down about o'clock. Post was present
Nnd when l asked for him Har
laid he was very busy and 1 coulC
not Sc him. Hart said: ibid vol
Sc Jewell?" 1 SAID "Yes, " and showed
the letter to him. Mr.. Hart, after read,
ing it, said, "Are yeu satisfied" 1 saic
"Yes, completely" He said, "But it
specifies nothing" 81 wish nothing"
said; ~ am completely satisfied. " 81
you are satisfied l am" he SAID, and ]
was on the point Of leaving when he
said: Cant you leave the letter
and let me show it to Post ~
[ said: 81 was only instructed to show
it. and not TO leave it" he said:
Cant you trust US? have we ever done
anything to hurt you, and what harm
can come of it?" / consented, and now
aczno Sledge that this was an error, but
| considered the warm personal rels ions
between Post and myself, and the thought
did not cross my mind that he was capR-
Die of acting treacherously. After hav-
ing left the, letter l began to feel little
uneasy, without being Here occurs a
grateful break.-EDs.
BRIEF KILOGRAMS
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