Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-01-13
FAMOUS FORGERY.
The Guilty Parties Said to be Known.
and Some Persons Who Occupy
High Places Named in Con-
nectiOn With the ImpOsi-
tiOn--Facts of
the Case.

nectiOn With the ImpOsi-
tiOn--Facts of
the Case
NEW YORK, January 5.-The real
facts in connection with that daring for
gerry and base imposition, the Morey
Chinese letter, seem to be bound to come
out at last, and the guilty parties if by
some technicality they escape the Just
penalty iof their crime cannot escape the
odiumwhich rightly attaches TO the COM
mistion of such deed. B. G. JAYNE. a
detective who has been investigating
the matter for the Truth. and upon
whose investigation it declares the Mo-
rey letter to be a forgery, had talk with
correspondent this evening. He re-
lated at length Truths side of the story.
The letter, he said, had been conceived
by group of newspaper men, who met
frequently in the AstOr House, in this
city. He first heard it discussed while sit
ting in the smoking room of the hotel
by these persons. He did not know
them at the time Stilson Iutchins, of
the WashinntoR Post; Huntley, of the
Brooklyn Eagle; Colonel" H. H. Had
ley, and Colonel Lonergan, of the Hotel
Mail. he charged were implicated in the
conspiracy.
THE ENVELOPE
which contained the letter was one sent
by General Garfield to Colonel Lonergan.
enclosing sample of seeds which Lon
ergan had asked Garfield to procure for
him from the Department of Agrieul-
ture. LOnergan's name and address,
No. 81 Nassau street, have been "devel-
Oped" from the erasures on the envelope,
by means of a camera, and the word
seed" together with Garfield's frank"
have been discovered on the upper left
hand corner of the envelope by the same
means.
Jayne showed your correspondent a
Photographic proof disclosing the out
lines as described. He also said that the
letter was offered to the Sun ten days
before it was published in the Truth,
but that Dana, after consultation with
his counsel, refused to publish it, believ-
it to be forgery.
Just before it was sent to the Truth
there appeared in the Truth several ed
itorials on Chinese questions, which
were inspired by Josh Hart, who, in his
capacity as theatrical manager, had
visited California and had seen some
thing of the trouble with the race in
that State. Jayne says the "conspira-
tors" hit upon that time, as in their
opinion. AppOrtune to gain means of
publication. Hart claims to have sub
mitted the letter to
THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE
and to have had assurances of its genu-
ineness from Barnum, Smalley, Hewitt,
Scott and Cleveland, and also from
Speaker Randall, who happened to be
present on the occasion of its exhibi-
tion.
Jayne also asserts that Colonel Had
ley, who was much at the Democratic
headquarters, had convinced majority
of the gentlemen mentioned before the
letter was seen by them of its genuine
ness.
Jayne also asserted that the letter
was drafted by Stilson Hutchings, ard
that Barnum, Cleveland and Scott knew
from the first it was fraudulent.
A mass Of matter is to be published in
the Truth to show that Philip had moth
ing whatever to do with the forgery
further than that he was subsequently
made a scapegOat of by Hutehins, Lon
ergan and their companions. The
means taken to bolster up the letter are
to be traced to Hutchins and Hadley.
The former owned the Union, a paper
published in Manchester, Mass, and in it
was published story tracing the Morey
family and unearthing II. S. Morey, the
nephew. 1t was in the Washington
Post, controlled by Hutehins, that a let
ter purporting to come from one Lind.
say, but written in reality by Col. Had
ley, from Cumberland, was published.
The tracing of the fOrger, Jayne says.
is to be extensively explained. Fac SIM
lilies of the Chinese letter, as published
in the Truth in October, and of the
Weaver letter. which was published in
the Star, are, he says, to be printed side
by side in the Truth. From these, he
it will appear to the least prae-
ticed eye that
BOTH WERE WRITTEN BY ONE AND THE
SANE PERSON.
He claims that the person who sent
the forged letter to the Star, has been
but he declined to name him
At present He said, however, that he is
)ne of those already mentioned in con-
lection with the Morey letter. The
Weaver letter was sent TO the Star as
1 missing link" at the time that that
Journal was endeavoring to show that
he Greenback candidate had sold out
20 the Republicans of Maine.
jayne also says that Colonel Lonergan
wilfully deceived Stought0n, Bliss, Day-
,nport and Bell, and that he attempted
throw them off the scent by indicating
hat Philip was the author of the letter.
Jayne said that the above was the
,ist of the facts, which are to be the
oundation of a series of articles to be
printed in the Truth the coming week.
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