The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-11-11
THE mOREY LETTER.
4 Perjurer's Confession, which
Must Cause Pleasant Sem
sariOn tn Animate The Ver-
zebra OF the National Demo-
cratic Committee.

Must Cause ii Pleasant Sem
sation to Animate The Yer.
zebra OF the National Demo-
cratic Committed.
New York IO.-The Times furnishes
the following: When Morey and Lind
sey were arrested, on Tuesday evening,
the former, who is an invalid was placed
in charge of bic uncle, John W. Morsy,
the Boston pclice3nan, who came
to testify at the !rial Of Philp. Members
Of the Morey family, and especially Mrs.
ClRra L. Morey. asked permission to see
him and one old lady said she was sure
sha could make Sammy" tell the truth.
| She visited Kim at the hotel where his
uncle had him in charge in company
with other members of the family, and
| besought him, for all their sakes, to make
clean breast of the whole affair. The
young man was brought to tears and
offered to tell the whole sorry to Colonel
| Bliss, who was present; but Bliss, being
prosecutor in the perjury case, refused to
hear il; and advised him 10 tell it to the
magistrate when he was brought up for
| examination in the morning. Morey hen
made con ession to his I'm lie; and yester-
day when he appeared before Justice
Manning in the district attorneys Office
was fully prepared to make true state
ment of thu means used 10 induce him TO
come to New York to testify falsely to
the existence Of Michael II. Morey. As
soon as he announced this determination
tue justice had the room cleared and the
con iession was tsken IN secret.
| Morey said the scheme for bring
ing him to his city to testify as 10 the
existence of II. L. Morey originated in
the law office of John Sanborn, in Law
renee, Mass, and was the result of con.
,pi acy between Gal" Clark and
Ssnborn. Clark kee S pool roo n
in Lawrence. SanbOrn is a lawyer, and
was candidate for presidential elector
on the democratic ticket in Massschu-
sets. Morey was crsmmed by Clark
in Sanborn's Office before coming here,
and both Clark and Sanborn knew be
was coming to New York to testify TO
a lie CLARK volunteered to come with
him to pay his expenses and take him
back cut Of the money he was TO re-
ceive for his testimony. The two came
to this city the Saturday before the cleo
ton, and Morey quartered for the first
two nights in the rooms of the national
/ democratic committee. On the day after
his arrival he was taken to the Office OF
the paper which published the forgery,
where he was asked if he could recognize
the handwriting Of Henry l.. Morey, his
reputed uncle, and he answered that he
could. He said it was large and bold.
He was shown no hotel register at the
time, but the next day was taken to
the newspaper Office again aud
shown the name Of Il. l.. Morey
in the Lynn Hotel register, and asked il
he recognized it. he said he did, and
was taken away again. Every word Of
his testimony on the stand in the Philip
case was a lie, and he had been educated
to tell it. When he left New York to re-
turn to Lawrence, after giving his testi-
mony here, he received $3.50 from the
national democratic committee in the
form of a check drawn to his order on
the National Park Bank of this city. He
drew tie money, refunded to Clark the
advance which he had made for his ex-
pen,es, and went home.
Robert Lindsay, or James o Brien, as
he now claims his name to be, was also
, brought to the district attorneys office
from the police headquarters, where he
had passed the night, for examination by
! Judge Morgan, on the charge of perjury,
at about the same time Morey was pro-
duced. While AlOrey was making his
confession, Lindsay was kept in District
Attorney Phelps Office. An employee
of the lawyer who had been defending
Philip visited him, and after asking q
single question and getting his reply hur-
ried away. Ia a short time the lawyers
employee returned and said something
to the prisoner and sgain LETT. His
lawyer has deserted him" said a prom
inent official, when the clerk had gone.
Lindsay looked very much frightened
and after a few moments hesitation sent
a request that Assistant District Attorney
Bell would see him. When Mr.. Bell
arrived Lindsay asked if any confession
would free him from the consequence OF
mis- crime. Bell answered he could not
promise that; but in the event
of Lindsay confessing he should
feel disposed to take into serious ccnsid-
Grafton the propriety of dealing leniently
with him. Lindsay then expressed his
willingness to make full statement.