Morning journal and courier., 1880-11-02
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. THR CHINESE LETTER. Another Days Search for
 the FOrger. THE ACCUSED ON THE STAND. A General Disclaimer of
 COmplicity. COPYING SIGNATURESINF FUN 
COPYING sIGNATURESI IN FUN
A Suggestive Facility for Imi-
 tating Handwriting.
THE FORGED LETTER.

1 of Henry l.. Mercy; that the latter travelled I for a commercial house in Boston, and after l ward for one in Philadelphia saw him in l the autumn of 1877 and the spring of 1878 ;, l have seen Henry L. Mercy write and know
 his handwriting the signature in the register
 of the Kirkland House of Lynn, Mass, as
 shown me, is the signature of Henry L. l Mercy the date is February %. 1879;
 also find his signature here under date of October IT, 1879. It reads: HI. l.. Mercy, Lynn.'' His cross-examination revealed
 nothing new.
 G. B. Adams, postmaster at Lynn, Mass, 1 testified as follows Letters from Washington
 do not come in New York pouches; have
 never seen in our office any letter postmarked l Washington having on it the New York l stamp; when letters arrive we immediately l assort them and deliver them by carriers; I
 am generally acquainted with the names of 1 those persons who receive letters in Lynn
 never heard of a person there called H. L. or l Henry L. Mercy; since this question arose I I have made efforts to discover such a person
 there; have searched my carriers books
 and the city directories; I have looked at 1 the registry of deaths and have conversed 1 with many persons about him have never | been able to discover any one who knsw him;
 I do not know of the Employers Union-that 1 is, under that name; on the general delivery | letters we receive at Lynn we put stamp, 1 and if letter was addressed to H. L.. Mercy, Lynn, Mass, such stamp would have been impressed upon it; the general delivery let 1 ters are marked on lists and hung up in the l hox nI, l from the 4th to the 23d of January, 1880; l do not find H. L. Morey's name on it | have with me what call my postofice direc- 1 tory, which is a record of removals, etc., but i dc not find his name there; he never had l a box in our office I have never seen letter l addressed to Henry l.. Mercy until within l week ago; there are three in the 1 office now waiting to be called for. There is not, to my knowledge, any
 street in Lynn known as Maine street; this list you hand me is the list of general deliv- cry letters; it is dated on the back January Both; there is no alteration in the date the | figure is not altered to my knowledge; it
 looks as if it was poorly written or had been written twice; the 18th of January is miss l ing on the list; no list is put up on Sunday;
 the 25th was on Sunday were letter mail | ed from Washington to arrive at our office ! by the late Saturday or Sunday mail it would l be delivered on Sunday without a record be- l ing kept; on Sundays the office is open from
 10 to Il in the morning. The population of Lynn is 3S BOO. Occasionally our mails have 1 been delayed. When so delayed I do not know that in transit they are taken to the l New York postoffice, but will swear that l they have no New York stamp put on them. If there was a broken connection letters l mailed from Washington at 9 o'clock on
 Friday night might be delivered on Sunday
 morning, on which day no list is made. I
 knew of no association of manufacturers in 1878. I have not to my knowledge known of letters addressed to the Employers Union. Samuel P. Bubier was called and examined by MT. Bell am sixty-four years old and have lived at Lynn, with the exception of two trips to Europe, all my life. I am shoe manufacturer, and have been in the
 business forty years. have never known any organized association of employers in Lynn, and to my knowledge such an associa-
 tlon has never existed. During the crispin strike in 1878 I was Mayor of the city of Lynn. In that year the manufacturers held a meeting in the third story of the bank building, as the strike was hard one. Any
 one could go to the meetings. There was no
 name for the meetings, there being ganized association. When the strike ended the meetings ceased. I do not know nor do I believe there is such party as Mercy. There was no such man at our meetings Colonel Bliss called John M. Hurley, who testified for the prosecution as follows live in Washington, D. C., and am distribut- ing clerk in the postoffice there; have held the position since February last, and previous that I WI cfa oo1ar In the month of February, 1880, the can ceiling stamps were changed-about the 18th, think; the stamp on the Mercy envelope I was not in use in the office at the time it was dated.
 Abram S. Hewitt testified as follows: I live in New York city and do business here have been member of Congress and am acquainted with General Garfield and am fa- miliar with his handwriting these letters I 1 hand you are from him; there are three of l them and are signed by him; I have ire quently seen his signature the Mercy letter 1 which have in my hand is, in my opinion, in | General Garfeld's handwriting have no | doubt about it any further than that clever ! counterfeiter can forge any mans signature. | The signature in the Mercy letter is, in my opinion, in the handwriting of General Gar | field l have compared the signature with the I Jewell, Rockwell and O'Nel letters and am 1 more confident of the genuineness of the 1 Mercy letter than of the O'Neil letter 1 the word ''companys" in the Mercy letter is ! incorrect; in one of the letters sent me- 1 dated May 12, the postscript is in General
 Garfeld's handwriting; in that postscript Gen. l eral Garfield spells pedigree-pedidree do 1 not think that the envelope is in General Gar 1 fields handwriting. If I knew that stamp not in use was on the envelope I would cer- 1 tainly regard it as a suspicious circumstance l and would investigate further. If I knew l further that the letter came to this city and | was stamped here out of the usual run I | would certainly consider it suspicious. Also I if knew there was no Employers Union it l would further add to my doubts, and if | knew that no such person as H. l.. Mercy ex- 1 isted, would have thought it very extraordi- | nary indeed. I did not know these things at the time made the examination, and let me l add that do not know them new These | questions are mere assumptions. The letter produced May 19, 1879, is in General Gar l fields handwriting as is the postscript of the letter of May the 18th.
 | A recess was then taken until 2:3O.
 | At the afternoon session H. W. Dewitt, l night editor of the Washington Post, to whom | MT. Augur, the postmaster at Washington | had made statement that the change in stamps in the Washington postofice had talk en place on April F, was called. Objection l was raised by the prosecution and Mr. | Brooke called MT. Augur himself to the stand
 and obtained from his admission all that he
 intended to prove by Dewitt.
 Kenward Philip, the defendant, was called 1 and testified: The Mercy envelope and letter 1 which had in my hand were not written by me-not word, dot or comma first saw them on the afternoon on which the fac sim | ile was published. The manuscript of the arti-
 cles Lying and Sticking to It is in my writing;
 had seen fac-simile before wrote the arti- | cle which believed then and now to be gen.
 uine. I spell the plural of company ''com-
 panies." The testimony of Mir. Daggett that l I denied ever having written this article is
 untrue. do not think he would swear false l ly, but he is mistaken. first saw the origi- nal letter as stated in my direct examina- ton. I was sick at this time with infamma-
 ton of the eyes. I had an intimation of it
 from the publication limiting about the let
 ter on the previous day My editorial was
 -not published on the same day with the first ,l,linafinr, fl;srki,,ntl.r ,S.r.o,. aI.s4