The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-08-16
THE MoREY LETTER.
The Long Delayed Exposure Ap-
pears.
THE FORGERY SHOWN UP IN HTS
VARIOUS FORMS.

NEW YORK, Aug. 15.-The long delayed expose by
U. S. Commissioner John L. Davenport of the Nor
ey letter will be published tomorrow morning. 1t
makes book of go pages. 1t is largely made up
of ''fac SMILES of documents showing the forgery
in Its various forms. The book sets forth that the
person who actually penned the forged Morey letter
was lawyer of this city named Henry Fl. Hadley
of 10 Park Row. Davenport describes him as a
manipulation of insurance companies of doubtful
character, and of other matters equally precarous
with an innate love of intrigue, with craving for
notoriety and an uncouquerable desire to slip into
politics and to correspond with public men, He
quotes from his letters to show that he was ALWAYS
q Democrat though at the time of the commission
of the forgery he was secretary of the Hancock
Republican Association in the rooms of which the
forgery committed on about Oct. End, 1880.
The forgery according to Hadleys admission ami
confrmatory evidence collected by Davenport was
originally in the form of an abstract from a sup
posed interview with Gen. Garfield. Davenport
possessed himself of about 1000 letters written by
Hadley between 1873 and 1879 and finds all the
distinguishing marks of photography aud calgraphy
alike in them and the forged letter. Hadey always
misspeled the word 'Regiously' as it was mis-
spelled IN the forged letter and all nouns ending in
"ies' such as Companies, copies, enemies he
spelled them ''ys', as the word companys appears
in the forged letter In his genuine Correspondence
Hadley invariably dotted the letter 'R" when it
occurred In word containing an I'' in the sig
nature to the forged letter.
Hundreds of fac-simile reproductions prove this
concusiyey 1t was on the display of this evidence
of guilt that Hadey confessed his part in the crime
Davenport attempts to show the connection of Bar
mum and other members of the National Demo-
cratic Committee with the forgery and the employ
ment of forger, claiming that they paid Hadley
various sums for the work done by Lin. Hadley
admits that he wrote the name of Henry L. Morey
on the register of the Kirkland House, Lynn, and
substituted it for the name of George E. c. Morey
in the affidavit of Mrs. Clara Morey, declaring he
was her son. These forgeries were made to sustain
the original forgery. There was such man
H. L. Morey to whom the forged letter supposed
to have been written, nor was there ever such per-
son John w. Goodall, who claimed to have been
the executor of H, L. MoIey, who wrote the Good
all letters. Davenport also says: "a week or ten
days before the publication in Truth of the
Morey letter. Chas. A. Dana of the New York Sun,
was told that such letter was in existence, and
upon his expressing doubt thereof his informant
sured him that such was the case and that he be-
ieved he could obtain it and show it to him (Dana)
To this Dana replied that he did not care to see it
for the reason that he believed that if any such let
ter was in existence it was a forgery, and he
wished to have nothing to do with it.
Gus person, and the man O'Brien. who
personated him on the Phelps examination,
rested for perjury, confessed, and is serving
term in Sing Sing prison for that offence. The Ian
culled from speeches of Cutter of New jersey Will
iams of Wisconsin, Phillips 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 immigration,
and in no sense are they extracts from Garield's
writings. A copy of the account of Garfield with
the stationery clerk of the House for the session
Garfield never used paper with the peculiar head
ing of the sheet on which the forged letter was
written, and that style of paper was never issued
except during the time indicated.