The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-16
THE MoREY LETTER FORGERY.
Result of John |. Dayenport's Investigations
-H. II. Hadley the Author of the Crime.

New York, Aug. 15.-The long-deayed ex-
pose by United States Commissioner John
/ Davenport of the Morey letter forgery will be
published tomorrow morning. 1t makes book
of 150 pages. 1t is largely made up
the forgery in its4various forms. The narrative
is only brief part Of the whole volume. The
book sets forth that the person who actually
penned the forged Morey letter was lawyer of
this city, named Henry II. Hadley.
Davenport describes him as m anipulator
of insurance companies of doubtful
character, and of other matters equally pre-
| carious, with an innate love of intrigue, and
with a craving for notoriety and an unconquer-
able desire todip into politics and to correspond
with public men. He quotes from his letters to
| show that he was always Democrat though
| at the time of the commission of the
! forgery he was secretary of the Hanco ck
Republican association, in the rooms of which
] the forgery was committed, on or about October
2, 1880 The forgery, according to Hadleys ad
missions and the confrmatory evidence col
| lected by Davenport, was originally in the form
of an extract from supposed interview with
General Garfield. Davenport possessed himself
| of about 1000 letters written by Hadley between
1873 and 1879, and finds all the distinguishing
marks of orthography and caiigraphy alike in
them and in the forged letter. Hadley al
ways misspelled the word s'religiously"
as it was misspelled in the forged
letter, and all nouns ending in
les such as companies, !" copies = enemies
he spelled with fnal ''ys, as the word com
panysn appears in the forged letter In his genu-
inc correspondence Hadley invariably dotted the
the letter r" when it occurred in word contain
ing an i, as in the signature to the forged let
ter Hundreds of fac simlle-reproduetions
prove this conclusively. 1t was on display of
aof 41o4I
part in the crime. Hadley admits
that he wrote the name OF Henry L. Morey in
the register of the Kirkland House, at Lynn, and
substituted it for the name of George e. G.
Morey in the affidavit of Mrs Clara Morey. de-
claring he was her son. These forgeries were
made to sustain the original forgery. There
was no such man as H L. Morey,
to whom the forged letter was supposed to have
been written, nor was there ever any such per
son as John w. Goodall, who claimed to have
been the executor of H. L. Morey. and who
transmitted the forged letter to Truth. Had
ley wrote the Goodall letter also. Davenport
also says that week or ten days
before the publication in Truth, of the
Morey letter, Charles A. Dana, of the New
York Sun, was told that such letter was in
existence, and upon his expressing doubt
thereof, his informant assured him such was
the case, and that he believed he could obtain it
and show it to him. To this Mr.. Dana replied
that he did not to it, for the reason that
he believed if any such letter was
in existence it was a forgery and he
wished to have nothing to do with
it. Lindsey, like Morey, was fictitious per
son, and the man OBrien, who personated him
on the Philip examination, was arrested for forg-
cry, confessed, and is now serving term in
Sing Sing prison for that offense The
language of the Morey letter is shown to have
been culled from speeches of Messrs. Cutter Of
New Jersey; Williams, of Wisconsin; Phil
lips, ,of Kansas; Luttrell, of California
and others on the Chinese bill, and from
the testimony of Henry George and others be-
fore the House committee on Chinese immigra
tion and in no sense is it an extract
from General Garfelds writing. copy
Of the account of Garfield with the stationary
clerk Of the House for the session
from March 21 to December %, 1879, shows that
Garfield never used paper with the peculiar
heading Of the sheet on which the forged letter
was written, and that that style Of paper was
never issued during the time indicated.