Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-01

forgery. He said Truth wanted no money
nor any other consideration for making thi.
admission, but thought Judge Dittenhoeffel
should receive whatever benefit was to come
from it, and requested him to impress that
particularly on Jewell. On communicating
to Jewell he wrote the letter which has now
been published. No Office, no consider
alton, was mentioned between us--Jewell
and myself - and no suggestion of the
United States District Attorneyship, or
any other Office, was at any time made
by Mr.. Hart to me. | showed the letter TO
Hart who then requested permission to show
! it to Post. gave him the letter and he left
the office. In the light of subsequent events L
| confess there has been one error, but consid-
ering our previous relations, the great friend
ship borne to me by Post, it was natural
enough that 1 should do so. The thought
/ that they were capable of acting treacherous-
/ ly toward me did not enter my mind. had
| as little belief that they would do so as L had
that my own son would. Then, again, 1
knew JEWELS letter expressed the actual
truth, that it stated on its face that The
| Truth had been deceived, and having found
| out that the Chinese letter was not genuine.
| they offered to frankly confess it." Often.
hoeffer afterwards heard that The Truth in
tended to publish a fac-simile of the Jewell
letter, and sought both Hart and Post Hart
told him he would not publish the letter if
Jewell would stop the prosecution of Philip.
This Dittenhoeffer declined to accede to, and
hence the publication of the letter.
THE FORGERY ADMITTED.
New York, October 30th.-Judge A. Dit
tenhoffer, a prominent lawyer of this city,
and the attorney of the Truth newspaper since
its establishment, published to-day in the
New York newspapers a letter in which he
states that on two occasions the proprietoTs
of that paper admitted to him that the letter
was forgery, and sought his advice as to the
wisdom of the Truth coming out squsrely and
admitting that it had been imposed on and
making such PREPARATION as they could. Judge
Dittenhoffer advised them to do so, and the
owner, Mr.. Hart. promised to publish edi.
torially on Wednesday the following:
Since the publication of General Gar fields
explicit denial we are in doubt az to the
authenticity of the bTorey letter" This was
to be followed up by full aud complete re-
traction of the libel.
MoREY'S MOTHER AGAIN.
BosToN, October 3Gth.-A special to the
Herald from Lynn contains the following aft
davit:
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Essex Co.
Lynn, October 30th.-Perspnaliy came before me,
Clara s. Morey, of Lyna County of Essex, and State
of Massachusetts,, who, being duly sworn, deposes
and says That she married Samuel Q. Morey in the
city of Lowell, Mass. that she has had two chill
dren by said samuel G. Mcrey that TIE first was q
girl named Martha A. Morey, and that the second
son named George +. @. Morey, who lives in
the town OF Medford and that the above all the
children she has ever had; that her husband had
three by a former wife-Samuel G. Morey,
Francis A. Morey and Julian A. MoreY-and these
are all the sons he has had. CLARA S. MoREY.
Sworn to, this 30th day OF October, 1850, before
| Benjamin E. Porter, Justice of the Peace.
THE FIGURES ON THE ENVELOPE.
| CHICAGO, October 31st.-The Times special
| from Boston regarding the Philip matter and
the Morey letter, says: james +. Babcock,
| Of this city, writes to an evening paper that
the figures on the envelope which purports to
have contained this now famous epistle sre
such figures as might naturally be made on
any old scrap of paper, or have been inten-
| tionally placed there by some person to give
the envelope an appearance of age, probably
| the latter, as shown, says the writer, by the
| fact that they occur in several places where
| there have been erasures which they are in
| tended to conceal. A careful examination
| which | made of the photograph of the en-
velope of the Morey letter shows very re
markable resemblance between these figure
| and those in the date of the letter. The fac
/
so well as the photographs, but anyone can
! compare the ''2" in % " of the letter with
the so in al, 729 " just above the ''26 y
on the envelope, or which the s. " in ''24 y
under the printed gu. S." or with the 50"
in "12i over the personal, or the ''Ss" or
"3s" or go" in the two specimens, and
| Judge for himself. No one viii cain that
General Garfield wrote the figures on the
| "Morey" envelope. The person who did
\ M 10 thau, Ynada ha data no pre1r :;
letter. The person who wrote the date wrote
| the letter. 1t was not General Garfield. and
| his figures are totally unlike any either on
| TIE envelope or in the date Of the letter
itself"
MRS. MoREY ExPLAINs-ANoTHER FORGERY.
| CHICAGO, October 31st. THE Times Bos.
ton special gives long discussion Of the
Morey letter, and the affidavit made by Mrs.
Morey that she had no son called H. L. No
rey, and says a reporter with two other gem
tlemen visited Mrs. Morey, who stated that
she had made contradictory affi1aVits about
II. l.. Morey, but affirmed that she never
heard of any person by the name Of H L..
/ Morey that she signed no paper saying that
II. L. Morey had visited her. On the con-
| trary, the pap5r that she did sign was written
MIR. Morey;;" that the person who brought
| the affidavit for her to sign was stranger to
her, and she agreed with him not to sign any
other paper contradicting the affidavit then
made but she was confident that no such
name as II. l.. Morey was on the
l.aper. 1t was written simply MIR.
! Morey, and the person who brought the paper
to her said the person was of no account. The
reporter continued The whole sum and sub
stance of the affidavit published from Demo
cratic sources is that a forgery has been COM
| mitted by inserting the letters = II. H." be-
fore the word " Morey." Clara A. Morey is
an elderly lady, a nurse by occupation. and
| has reached her second childhood. When
| Barnum'5 agent came to her house he pro-
| duced lot Of money, which was a dazzling
sight TO the old lady. She told the stranger
| that she could not sign any paper until
George o. Tarbox had seen it, and declared
! it all right she would sign any paper he re-
quested. Barnum's agent secured Mr.. Tar
| box. the Justice of the Peace, and the paper
was made up as printed, with the exception
of the forgery mentioned above. This en-
issary hired Mrs. Morey to keep silent on
| this money question until after the election,
| and this is the reason she would not sign any
thing excepting that furnished above. This
man wanted George o. Tarbox, Justice OF
| the Peace, to keep quiet until after the cleo
! ton, and when he left Tarboxs store he
| threw the money on the counter.
| RrDIcULE AND DISGUST.
| OHlOAGU, OclODeT OISb.--1 TIC NIolcy lCbbef,
which was never honestly credited by even
the most radically Democratic politician in
| the Western States, and which has been re-
garded with sidelong glance by the Bour-
bon papers even, which are usually quick TO
| pick up campaign SANDERS serves now to ex-
| cite Only ridicule and disgust among the
| Democrats, and intense pleasure among the
Republicans who daily hear that its effects
are much more strongly in their favor than
they ever were against them.
! POLITICAL AFFAIRS AT CHICAGO.
The Democrats in this county hope now
only for the local offices, ard are INDUCING in
the most scandalous campaigning ever heard
of. their leaders in villainy being Mayor
| Harrison and Mike Mcdonald, the noted
| gambler These two worthless go hand in
| hand. refusing to make any arrangement
with the Republicans to keep the peace at
the polls or Tuesday, and urging their fol-
lowers to get their votes into the ballot
boxes, if need be, by violence, and to prevent
the United States authorities from perform
| ing their duties The result will be in all
probability collisions between the officers of
| the Government and those of the city. 1t
certainly will unless the Mayor backs down,
or unless his officers are more discreet than
he The subject forms the basis of most of
the editorials this morning in the papers, and
of much matter in the local columns.