Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-11-01
The WOrey Letter MIDDLE.
WHAT MARSHALL JEWELL WROTE TO GESERJ


Garfield.
The New York Truth and Stag' of Saturday
last published fac smile letter from Marshall
jewels, chairman Of the republican national
committee, 10 Gen. Garfield as follows:
'tContdentiall
NEW YORK, Oct. PC, 1Ss0.-ny D 5Ir General
Moiey letter They thought it was genuine
Finclng IL was not, they have consulted their
lawyer n and friend. and through him offer TO
come out ana say SO plainly, the only consider
a. ION Tor II oeing consideration for Judge Dit
lenhoe1er, their friend and counsel By con-
sheraton tIT mean that you and myself should
Know and recognize 1t as Judge DIS act, and
the ool1gafion, II any. should be due from you
10 DIM ioT IL. 50 far as could have assured
them mat you would 50 consider It; lisa great
service To-Day, General. 1t IS their proposition
aid nave accepted 1t. Yours. very truly.
MARSHALL JEWELL"
WHAT TIE PuBlIsHER OF TRUTH SAYS ABOUT 1T.
Accompanying the letter is an affidavit by
Joseph Hart, publisher OF the Truth, recltlng
Tue circumstances under which the letter was
", WlI;,em. ne opposes that he received fnforma
1on that it was The intention OF the republican
managers Ia New York, with the aid and assist
ance VI John /. Davenport and hts marshals,
TO destroy the presses and fac Smiles aud other
proofs or the genulneuesS OF the Morey letter
Inc property Oh The dep0nent. This was TO have
oeen done Monday last but by disagreement
IL was postponed iii Tuesday. Hart, on learre
lhg OF This, cast about him for Some meth ID OF
protecting his property. He placed himself In
comtnun1ca' lon with Abram j. DittenhOefer,
counsel for the paper, and friend OF another
attache; he had repeatedly urged the defeadant
TO declare the letter forgery Ia face or The DOS
iilve assurance of his friend that ii was not 50;
iiait determined TO tHe the same methods In
Tee emergency that had been adopted by his
9, POnantS: he asked DittennOefer TO 60 TO Mr..
JeWell ard make his own terms for ackuowl-
tdslhg Tie letter Il forgery; he wanted the Uni
leo States district attOrneyship, and returned,
sdyif s. he would have the appointment for the
:erial; IN interview with Marshall Jewell fol-
lowed. In which Har. denied that the letter was
forgery ard demanded that DavenportS raid
should be stopped. THIS last was done, and he
ase,s mat only by the most extraordinary pre-
issued The deposition closes as follows: AT
all times being resolved TO be prepared with
proofs for all Truth should state depoaen5 took
pains TO secure tndsputable evidence OF the
foregoing bargain with Marshall Jewell. ana 1t
Is herewith presented In the form or a fac
smile letter OF said Marshall Jewell the chal
man OF the republican committee." The affiia-
VII IS sworn to before Justice Donohue OF the
New FORK supreme court.
WHAT JUDGE DITrEHHOEFER SAYS
EX-Judge D1ttenaoefer, who figured as c1un-
sel Tor Truth IN connection with the consulta-
uon With eX-Gov. Jewell regarding the Morey
Chinese letter, MAKES a long statement in self
Ce;ense, Which, in substance, is as folio VS.
establishment. An Intimate friend and ass
cate counsel, Lewis L. Post, managing editor,
Formerly assistant Uh1ted States district atCor-
nty. publisher OF the Truth, voluntarily sta.ed
10 me that he had doubts regarding the gen
uiDeness OF the letter. and requested that |
should see Gov. Jewell, which did; the pub
bAlt
Test interests OF tie paper TO do what justice
required, and acknowledge that he had been
deceived; he added that he wanted no consider
aton except that which Dlttenh5efer, as coun-
sci and friend. had brought about by the publ |
cation OF the retractiOn. jewell wrote the |
letter TO Garfield in his Dittenhoafer,s) pres
fhce, ara Dlttenhoeier gave copy in conf. |
deDce TO Hart, the publisher OF the Tt'Utb who |
SAID he wanted 10 show 1t to Post. Jewell and |
Hart had an interview, in which Hart said that
While his paper could not make a complete |
soIe sault. he would publish an article next |
morning In substance tnat there VAS some |
doubt as TO the au hentictty Of the letter and |
he would declare IL boldly. The retractton was |
not published and l subsequently, heard thai |
the T,nth proposed to publish fac smile Of |
JewelPs letter to Garfield, which he had left |
With them. l saw Hart and protested, and Hart |
salo II L would stop the prosecution against |
Ihilp be would not publish tne letter. He Dit
no power, ana Hart answered Business is oqs-
ness"
THE PHILIP TRIAL SATURDAY.
Alter our report OF the proceedings In the
kennard Philip trial closed Saturday d number |
OF experts were called for the defence ana ex-
amined touching the genuiness OF the Morey
letter. The court then adjourned until this |
morning.
ANOTHER MRS. MoREY HEARD FROM.
"A special dlspatch to the Boston He.ia!d from
''COn1nOa'redlLh Of Massachusetts, Esser |
county, Lynn, Oct. S9.-Personally came before |
me Clara I: Morey, OF Lynn, county OF Essex |
sworn, depoSeS and says she married S lnuel C. |
Morey in the city Of Lowell, Mass; that she has |
had three children by said Samuel c. Mercy; !
lnat the flrst was girl, named Martha A. |
Mercy; that the second was sou, named George |
Il. Morey, who died when be was one year oiG: |
ana that the third was son. named George E.
{. M0rey, who lived In the town OF N.d!orl. |
and THAI the above are all the children she has !
over had; aid that her husband had three sons
ny former Wiie-Samuel c. Morey, Francis A /
Mercy aud Julian A. Morey, and they are all the !
SOILS he has had.
'(Signed) CLARA MoREY.
Sworn TO this 30th day OF October, 1880 be-
fore he. BENJAMIN ~ posrER + p
THE INITIALS Of the Morey TO whom the letter
fuiporiS to have been written were 81 L."
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