The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-08-16
The MOrey Expose.

New York. Is Pine long delayed
expOse by u s. Commissioner john
I. Davenport of the Morey let eT,
will be published tOsmorroW. ls
makes a book Of $50 psges. Ii Is |
largely made up of fac smiles OF |
d, cupoents showing The forgery IN
IT'S various forms. Inc narrative
is only brief part Of the WI lie
volume. The b ok sets forth thai
the person who actually penned he
| forged Morey letter was lawyer OF
this city n9med Henry 81. Had
10y. Daven or; describes him as
q manipulation of insurance com.
| panles Of DOUBTFUL character ard or
other matters equally precsflous,
with an innate love Of intrigue and
with GRAY ng fpr n0.OIiety and an
unoonquersbls desire to dip into
politics and to correspond with pnp-
lie men. He quotes from his letters
10 show he always WIS a Democrat,
though at the tims IF the commits
sion of the forgery he YVES secretary
of the Hancock Republican Associ>
ton, in tha rooms Of which the
forgery was committed, on
or sbout o t3her 2. 1850. The
fergfTy. according to ,HaGlay's
admission and confiFma.ory evil
dence collected by DsvenI OFT. was
originally in :he form OF an extract
froIa a supposed interview with
General Garfield. Davenport pos,
. sassed hinself OF b1ut one thousand
, letters written By Hadley between
, 1873 AMI 1879 aud 6nds all distinct
i i've marks OF OIthograpby and calls
r graphy alike In them and the forged
> letter. HSdley slwsys nnlsspellsd
: the wo.d ''rsligiOusly,' as it WsS
= mis.sI elied In the forged letter and
+ all nouns ending in "ies," such aS
9 com p MES, copies, enemies, ht
I spelled the final, "ys,' as the wore
s coppanys appears in the forged lei
j ter in his general correspond
s ence. H9dley invariably Got
ted thu letter CT" when it occurred
in a wo.d containing an SIP as in th'
signature 10 the forged letter. 4
hundred fac simiie reproduction
"a prove this eonciusive!y It was OF
! The display of this evidence OF gull
. that Hadiey confessed his part Il
= the crime. Il DIZZY admits he wrot
le the name of Henry l.. Mercy IL tn
" register OF the hotel at LYhp, an
l. substituted it for the name Q
to George E. Emery 10 The affidavit O
Mrs. Clara Mercy, declaring he va
"a her son. These fosgeries were mad
T. to sustain the original forgery
/ There was no such man az 81. i
il Morev, 10 whom the forged lettt
nil was supposed to have been writer
Es nor was there ever any such pefsoI
az as John w. 00Oiall, who elaine
= to be executor Of H l.. Morey an
e, who transmitted forged lei
eri ter to the TIuth. HALEY HrOt
the Goodall let,eIsa so. DaveDpor
m also SAYS that week or zen day
re before the publ. aiian in Truth G
I'd the Mercy let's Chas. A. Dana, {
} the New York SGa, was told tina
re such letter WIS in existence, sn
d upon his expressing a doubt thereo
ID his informant assured him such wa
the case, aud that he believed q
ut could obtain l. and show it 10 hin
ts To this Mr.. Dana replied the
Is he did not care to Sc il
IS. for the reason that he believed
e. any such letter was ia ex'stenc
"a it was forgery, and he wished
hit have nothing to do with it. Linds
m ley, Ike Mercy, was fictitious PEI
son, and the man Obey, who per
q souated him on the Philip examine
a lion, was arrested for forgel.
ed confessed and is now servin
he a term in Sing Sing prise
DIV for that ofiense. The language {
IN the Morey letter is shown TO hay
b en- culled from the speeches I
Cutter of New Jersey, Williams
Wisconsin, PHILLIPS OF K 'nsas; lIu
=, reIl OF California, and hers on Il
ne ne Chinese bill. and from the test
sss mony of II Dry George and 9TH
gu to tie House committee on Chine
&c &c immigration, and in no sense q
ne the ex tracts from Garfeld's writin
.os A copy of an account of Carrie
I 'Ss with the stationery clerk of Il
.u House, for tho session from Mare
1sU 21st to December %, 1877 shows tn
i Garfield never used The paper wi
ne ne the peculiar heading OF the she
1u' on which the forged Letter v
GU written, and that style Of p P
lp was never used except during :
'a time indicated.