Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-10-30
EASTERN DISPATCHES.
THE MoREY.GARFIELD FORGERY.
Plenty Of Expert and other Testi.
mony TO Prove the Utter Base
ness OF the Forgery.

New York. October 2s.-The follow
inR Is furnished at Republican head
quarters: Philip could not be arrested
for forgery. inasuuch as the statutes Of
the State Of New York on the subject Of
forgery contain no provision for the
punishment Of forgery OF . letter such
as the Morey letter. The statutes OF the
State on the subject Of forgery are con-
ansd to the forgery Of papers or instru-
msnts affecting the rights Of property.
or the forgery Of records and wills. The
only way. therefore. to punish the
offender, Is all intelligent men know.
was to proceed against him for criminal
libel on General Garfield. The trial OF
the libel charge involves necessarily the
establishment Of the forgery. Bsrnum's
dispatches are simply attempts to mis-.
lead the public. He and his associates
undoubtedly hoped that the Republicans
would make q charge Of forgery. relying
upon their ability TO dismiss the charge,
inssmuch as the charge cannot be sus-
tanned upon the forgery Of . letter.
Their expectations were not realized,
and they are desperately disappointed.
New YoRK. October 29.-Aues.
who testified yesterday 10 the forged
Chinese letter case. 10 the generally
acknowledged chief OF experts here IN
c~hiroRrspby and q thoroughly upright
a His Identification OF the alleged
Garfield letter as in the handwriting oil
Philip IL complete. although he points
out conclusive evidence OF such incon-
sistencies In the characters as proves
that the writer was trying to simulate
some other hand. That Garfield did
not and could not write that Morey let
ter Amss 10 equally confident upon the
evidence furnished BY the written char
acters themselves. and without taking
into account certain illiterate blunders
which are common to Philips manu-
script and never found 10 Garaeld's.
A Herald Cleveland special says: Gar.
field arrived last night and gave o depo-
sition in the presence Of two lawyers
of The fact that the Morey Chinese let.
ter was not In bis handwriting, and that
be never knew OF or saw the letter until
its discovery was announced through the
medium Of the press. This deposition
was forwarded TO New York.
WASHINGTON, October 29.-Postmas.
ter Anger. OF this city In o telegram to
Governor Jewel today. repeats bis asssr-
lion that the postmark OF the Morey let
ter was not In use in tho Washington Of
ace ct the time when the letter purports
to have been mailed, and authorizes an
offer Of $1,000 for the production OF any
letter mailed In the Washington office on
that date whose envelope bears . post.
mark identical with that on the published
fac simile.
Allen NJ. Leste, o newspaper reporter.
was examined by the prosecution. He
was familiar with Philips handwriting.
He had seen q hoto.lithograph OF the
Morey letter and believed 1t to be In
Philips handwriting. He thought so
when he frst saw the copy. Philip always
had q habit OF spelling such words as
companies" and similar words with
''y's" instead Of ''ies." In the Morey
letter this mistake was made.
Witness Hogan was recalled BY Col.
Bliss for the prosecution. but his exam
ination was objected to on the ground
that Bliss wal the complainant. The
objection was ovsrruled. and Hogan tes-
tifsd: have submitted the Morey let.
ter to . microscopic test and found
erasures. I also found that on the
stamp figure 2 was printed, while what
call figure l 10 not printed, but 10 q lon.
Qitudinal stroke. and 10 not set in the
same field with figure 2. Above and q
little to the right Of the word "Morey"
IL evidence OF two erasures; one word. l
think, Is ESQ.," and in the other there
is no word. The erasure to tho left Of
"Esq." Is continued and 10 nearly in
line with Lynn" The stamp on'the
reverse OF the envelope shows evidence
OF two erasures with Q ring under the
word "Morey." There 10 evidence OF
an srasurs just under the letter ~"
The letters 30" and Ger" are written
over the erasure. The word Lynn" 10
written below o portion OF the erasure
and there Is o little erasure above the