The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1880-06-25
TnE OH MORGAN SroRT.


4 wonderful. hat Familiar RemiBiserhcs.
4 pamphlet has been psued entitled
"American Political Anti Masonry,
with Good. Enough Morgan" In oider
TO give the reader an idea Of the nara
tive il may be well to state that in the
year 1896 Precmason by the name Of
William Morgan, then residing in Ba-
taVia, ATTEMPTED to make an expose Of
Masonry. lie Was kidnapped on the
18th Of September OF that year, and was
supposed 10 have been drowned in the
Niagara river When he disappeared
be Was quite bald aud woru no whis-
ker1. More than year after this time
the Issly of man WIS found forty
miles. rssst Of the Niagala iivsr "u the
shore of Lake Ontatio, AMI an ingnt7st
declared it 90 lee the h.,ly If au tu-
known ,nan. The clDthing WIS taken
care uf hy unc of hat wa< thea known
aN be Morgan COMMITTEE. Soon after
this inquest Thuri,@ Weed, ~,ho was
chief OF said committee, l,rcfsss..d IN bs-
lieye the holy might tss that of Nor
gan. lie Therefore had il Ding ul, aud n
second inquest hsl,l. The, l.e,iy, being
thus disiutcrre.l. WAS flunl To have a
full hrsd of bair Hia'n Is hrssl and fili
side ~hisk.r5 ot iis t'.es.. Ail tiia Mr.
Weed we'll knew. irs. ~ letter to the
New York UsguLi, written in 1919, he
avs; "'ftr heu,l w's> rDvrs i ~ith l"ug
siikeu hair Of a chestnut c.i.,r." The
s,.,' .,.,i Inquest DECLARED IL, la-!v Ia H.,
tlfattf Morgan. and It WpA butissi ak
sus.li- liai, .lasbt having arisen a. -
~i,rti,,r ti',," hud rot I-tu foul play
hy Wcehanl ofhcrs.ll,e ls.iy Sas.aa
.tieiat.-'r,,.i. a,ii "a ,bir,i iuJasst hrid at
Batavia The head of thc body this
time aIq@atel very bald aud With no
whiskrIs on the face. although the i,rouf
shOwtsl that tle hesea when found on
tho shore wns well covered with hair,
aud the face covered with whiskers II
was also proven that the body WAS four
inches taller thar that Of Morgim and
that it was the body Of one Timothy
Monroe.
Citizens Of batavia, where Morgan
had resided, testified that tho body was
not Morgan's, and the third inquest so
decided. After this Ebenezer Guiiind
said to Weed, "What are you going to
do with Morgan now y to which II was
said Dir. Weed gave the celebrated re
ply: at is a good. enough Morgan Till
after election" Henry O'Reilly. the
editor Of the Daily Advertiser,pu
some statistics intimating that Weed
had disfigured the head and face of the
corpse of Timothy Monroe so as to make
it look like that of Morgan. For this
Mr.. Weed caused 0'Reilly to be indict
ed for libel, Tho suit remained untried
thirteen years, thus harrassing O'Reilly
bat was finally slolie prosecuted, and
lately Mr.. Weed has publicly stated
that the case was sworn off by O'Reilly
SO that he could not get trial. TC
this statement Of Mr.. Weed Mr.. 0'reil
| ly new replies: "a lawyer familiar
with prominent legal proceedings a
that time knows that Weeds allegation
about inability for twelve years to caus'
trial to be had against us on his indict
I ment ig in itself libel upon our !iudi
ciary system, and as to his declaration
that he urged the trial while he hat
been swearing it eli, it may be repeated
to us that il would he hard to make til,
tpnblio believe that Morgan's corpse ha.
grown four inches in length and crep
into Timothy Monroefs breeches twely'
/ months after his death"