The Portland daily press., 1880-10-30
The M0REY FORGERY
DESPERATE PLIGHT OF
THE DEMOCRACY.
Positive Proof that the Let
ter Never Went to Lynn.
THE STAMP AND THE AD-
DRESS ALTERED.
The Letter Shown to be in
Philips Handwriting
A PUT-UP AFFIDAVIT FROM
A WOMAN.
PHILIP ON THE ROAD TO THE
PENITENTIARY.
Whittier Good Many Democrats
Should Follow Him.
Whittier q Good Many Democrats
Should Follow Him.
Especial Despatch to the Press.

New York contain no provision for the pun
ishment of forgery of letter such as the
Morey letter, all statutory provisions on the
subject of forgery being confined to the forgery
of papers or signatures affecting the rights OF
property. In order, therefore, to bring the
offender to iustic it was necessary to charge
him with the offense of criminal libel against
Gen. Garfield. The Democrats anticipated
the charge of forgery and they expected to dis
miss il ON the ground that no legal offence was
charged.
1t has been to-day conclusively shown by
the evidence of postofice officials whom the
letter never went through the mail to Lynn
but that the envelope produced as having con-
tanned it was an envelope addressed to
New York city upon which the
address and all the dates have
been altered Hart, the owner of the Truth
newspaper, is the variety actor known as
"Josh Hart" To avoid being committed to
Jail he to-day produced the original envelope.
Mr.. Barnum has teleeraphed that his thus
escaping from confinement implies that the
Morey letter is not forgery when in fact
Hart has not been accused of forgery but the
proceedings are against Philip and no one
doubts that he will be convicted.
MARSHALL JEWELL, Chairman.
ITO the Associated Press.l
New YORK, Oct. 29.-The examination of
Philip was resumed this morning. A large
crowd was present. The envelope in which
the Morey letter was contained was handed
to Judge Davis, and on motion of his counsel.
Mr.. Hart was declared purged of contempt.
Albert S. Southworth test fed that he was
on expert in handwriting OF 10 years expert
ence. He had compared the pho ographic and
photographic copy of the Morey letter with the
Rockwell and Jewell letters, and did not
think they were in the same handwriting He
also compared the Morey letter with the ex-
hibits marked A, B, c, D and E, exhibits on
which the warrant of arrest was obtained, and
found sufficiency of characteristics to enable
him to form the opinion that they were the
same handwriting. In reply to question of
Mr.. Bell, after the interrogating had been
changed to meet an objection of the defence,
the witness said: "My best judgment is Chat
the handwriting in the Morey letter and in the
exhibits marked A to K are the same" The
The cross examination of the witness elected
nothing important.
The prosecution next called William E.
Hagan of Troy, an expert in handwriting.
The witness was Of tn. opinion that the per-
son who wrote the exhibits wrote the Morey
letter. The Morey letter was evidently the
writing OF person initiating another's hand,
introducing however, trongscharacteristic of
his-own. In exhibit A, in the signatur. of
Kenward Philip, SIX" is exactly similar to the
tx" in "kept'' in the Morey letter. He had
examined photo-lithographic copies of exhibits
and 2, and the originals thereof (tne Rock
well and Jewell letiers), and he declared that
they were not in the same andwriting.
On cross examination he said he received q
telegram from Gov. Jewell yesterday to come
here, and he expected to be paid. He did not
know General Garfield, and was not interested
in him any further: The witness was then
sh " the envelope produced this morning. He
da,e of the month. Icannot say what the orig
inal date was. The indications are that the
date and month have been erased by rub
bing."
There are three stamps on the envelope on
which no dates can be made out All the
dates seemingly have been erased.
Mr.. Southworth was then recalled by Mr..
Stoughton, and testified that the address on
the envelope was not in the handwriting of
the pe rson who wrote the Rockwell land jew
ell letters, but closely resembles the writing of
the person who wrote the exhibits A to K.
Allan NJ. Leet, newspaper reporter, testi-
fed that he was familiar with Philips hand
writing. The exhibits A to x were, in the
witness opinion, in Philips handwriting. He
had seen photolithograph of the Morey letter
He thought so when he first saw the copy.
Philip always had the habit of spelling such
words as "companies'' and similar words with
"ys'' instead of "ies.". In the Morey letter
this mistake is made.
At this stage Mr.. Bell said he would like an
adjournment, as he had other witness to ex-
anime who we're not present.
This was objected to by Philips counsel
Gen. Pryor said, "It is not the purpose of
the prosecution to allow us to proceed with our
evidence, so as to let it have its legitimate
effect on the country" (Applause.) The ap-
pauders were elected.
Mr.. Stoughton said he knew no reason why
the envelope had not been previously produced.
The stamps on it were not genuine, and wit
nesses to prove that fact would be called from
imputation of Pryor, and said the prosecution
was honestly conducted and would be speedily
continued.
After the arguments on postponement Judge
Davis said:
Sowing to the national significance of this
case, feel it my duty to sit as examining
magistrate, and although it is not usual for a
Justice in the Supreme Court to so use his au-
thorty, it is not without precedent. If this
letter was in fact written by General Garfield
as an expression of the sentiments he euter-
tains on the subject of the letter. it is not only
unworthy nf him but should condemn him.
There is no doubt, think, in the minds of
thinking men in the country that the idea
with which the Letter closes, that the treaty
with great power, 80 far as population is con-
cerned the largest on earth, should not be alb
rogated until the manufacturing and other
corporations are conserved on the question of
labor-simply means until they are supplied to
their satisfaction with the cheap labor of Chi
nese. Such sentiment uttered by Presi-
dental candidate would, az matter Of course,
have the most serio effect. But if 1t be not
genuine and a forgery, every thinking man not
only will admit it but will at once entertain
with pleasure the thought that the forgery will
be promptly and severely condemned. Now.
under such circumstances, feel it my duty to
81. as examining magistrate"
After some remarks by the Judge, referring
to the loss of half day by the delay in pro-
ducng the letter and envelope, he adjourned
the Court till 2 p. m.
Court came in at 2 p. m.
Mr.. Hogan stated that he found on the
stamp that the figure ''2'' was printed while
what he called figure "1'' is not printed, but is
a Longitudinal stroke and is not set in the same
field with the figure 49," Above and a little
to the right of the word "Morey" is evidence
of two erasures, one woru that 1 think is
The erasure to the left of ESQ., is continued
and is nearly in line with it. The stamp on
the reverse side also shows evidence of two
erasures. Within the ring under the word
''Morey" there is evidence of erasures. Just
under the letter "Y" letters 20. r. are writ
written below portion of the erasure and
there is little erasure above Mass"
Chas. Hoffman, photographer, testified that
the letter was returned in the same condition
as when he received it,
Joseph Phin, professor Of microscopy, testi-
fed to erasures, ETC., substantially as Hogan
with the exception that he did not believe the
disturbance on the stamp on the reverse was
caused by anything more than ordinary fric-
ton. He said the figure 2 seemed to have
escaped Before the 2 there may have been
all extra degree of rubbing. The microscope
shows that the fgu,e l alongside the figure
was not stamped On the face of the envelope
saw the word ESQ.," but could not tell what
Il other erasures were. There are some
small spots OF ink under tho word "RepIe-
ssntatives. Witness arranged the microscopes
aud an examination was made by Judge
Davis.
PUN was GROSS examined by Mr. Howe and
was shown parts of an envelope with the words