The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-12-10

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 In the autumn of is,7. the discovery of the body of an unknown man on the shore of Lake on,arso. near the mouth of Oak Orchard Crock. gave a new and ah- sorhing aspect ,e the question. The dc seuption of that body as published by ;he coroner who held An inquest oeer II. induced belief that il was the body of Wm. Morgan. Our committee decided 10 hold another inquest Impressed with ;he importance and responsibility of the question. gave public notice of our ,n- ,en,ion. and personally invited several citifeEs who had known Morgan to bc present. One of our committee ~ent 10 RatnEia 10 secure the attendance ot Mx. Morgan, and as many others who knew him as would attend. The bod, had been inferred where is ~as found The rude ooffin was opened in the presence of between forty and .ift, persons. When it was reached. and before removing the lid. received from Mrs Morgan. and others who knew him we'll. descriptions of hts person. Mrs Morgan described the color of his hair. scar upon his foot. and tha, his teeth were double all round Dr. Strong confirmed Mrs. Morgan's sta,emen, about double teeth. one ef which he had extracted. while another was broken, indicating the position of the extracted and broken teeth. When the coffin was opened the body disclosed the pecuiiar,ties described by Mrs. Morgan and Dr. Strong.
 This second inquest and the examina- tons of the body proceeded in open day. asd in the presence of Masons and anti Masons. not one of whom disscnted from the ooroncr's Juy. by which ,he body was unanimously declared ,o be that of Hfiiiari Morgan Mrs. Morgan. in her testimony. failed ,o recognize the clothes, The bodyswas taken to Batavia. where Il was reinierred. no one as ye; expressing any doubt of its identity.
 Subsequently. however. NC were sur prised by statement that the body sup posed To be that of Morgan was alleged to be the body of Tlmoih, Monroe. who had been drowned in the Niagara nser SCI erzl weeks before holding the first ln- quest. This awakened general and sn- tense feeling. Notice was gwen iha, third inques, would be held al Batavlz. where the widow and son of Timothy Monroe appeared AS witnesses. Mrs. Monroe swsre to body essentially differ en, from ,ha, found at oak Orchard Creek. Her husband. she said. had black hair that had been recently cut and stood erect. Her testimony made her husband from three to four inc hes ,aiicr than that of the body in question. Si.e testified that her husband had double teeth all round, and described an extracted tooth from the wrong Iaw and knew nothing oi the broken tooth. The hair upon the head oi the drowned man was long, silky and of a chestnut color. while that of MoE- roe. according 10 me testimon, of Mrs. Monroe and her son, short, blaeh and close cut, While Mrs Monroe failed Tn describing the body, her description ot the clothing vas minutcl, accurate. The heel of his stocking was described as having been darncd with yarn different n color. Her cross-eSaintna,ion was yeD' rig.d. and her answers throughout were found 10 be correct. The clothing thus described had been in possession of the coroner. who testified that u had not been seen either by Mrs Monroe or any stranger from whom she could have ob- taincd information. On the other hand. Mrs. Morgan's description of the body before she had seen IT. was qus.e ss ,a,.s- factory as Mrs. Monroe's description of the ciothes.
 Our committee took no pan in the third inquest, and the body. as is known. was declared to be iha, of Timothy Monroe. Simultaneously an incident occurred showing the vindictivc spirits of our op- ponen,s. On the evening cf the day tha, the body inferred at Batavia was declared by third inques, to be that of Timothy Monroe. wen; into the billiard room of the Eagle Hotel to see irlend from Ciarkson. When leaving the room Ebe- nezer 6riffin. esq. prominent lawyer employed a. counsel for Aasons. who was playing billiards. turned to me cue Tn hand. saying Well. Weed. what will you do for a Morgan now. To winch replied. I Ina; IS q good enough Morgan for us ull you bring back the one you earned off On the following morn ing the Unly Hd1ey!fsey. Masonic of- gan, con,ained paragraph eharging me with having boastingly said ,ha, the body m question was good enough Morgan until after the election" That perveT- sion vent the rounds of the Masonic and democratic press. awakening much popu- lar indignation and sub,ect,ng me to de- nunciations in speeches and resolutions a; political meetings and oonseniions Explanations were disregarded the max i'm that 1Falsehood will travel miles while Truth is drawing on it's bootxn vas then verified 1 suffered obloquy and reproach from tha, wicked peverslon for nearly half a century. indeed, there is reason to believe that even now. where am per sonally unknown, generations ase ssc~- ing up believing thai l musilssed dead body for political effec,, and, when ex- posed, boasted that t was good enough Morgan till after the eiectioa. Forty years afteyward the editor of the papes who originated that ealnnsny, by sesies of pecuniary reverses. was compelled to apply t0 me for assistance. l avenged the great wrong he had done me by o6- tainins for him position in the custom