Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-08-16
THE NOREY LETTER.
The Long Delayed Expose Published by
John 1. Davenport-Henry n.
Hadley of New York the
Author.
NEw YORK Aur Is.

NEw YORK. Aug. Is.
The long expose of United States Com
missioner John |. Davenport Of the Morev
letter will be published tomorrow. Ii makes
book of $50 pages. II is largely made up
of fac similes of documents showing forgery
in its various forms, The book sets forth
that the person who actually penned the
forged letter was LAWYER of this city named
Henry H, iIadley of IS Park Row. Daven-
port describes him as a manipulation of in.
surance companies of doubtful character and
of other matters of equally precarious with
innate love of intrigue and with craving for
notoriety, and an unconquerable desire TO
slip into politics and TO correspond with pub
lie men. He quotes from his letters TO show
he was always a democrat, though at the
time of the commission of the forgery he was
secretary of the Hancock republican asso-
clan in the rooms of which the forgery was
committed on or about Oct. End, 1880, The
forgery according TO Hadley's admission and
contirmatory evidence collected by Daven-
port was originally in the form Of an extract
from a supposed interview with Gen, Gar
field Davenport possessed himself of about
1000 letters written by Hadley between 1873
and 1879 and finds all the distinguishing
marks of photography and caligraphy alike in
them and the forged letter Hadley always
misspelled the word "religiously" as it was
miss PEELED in the forged letter and all names
ending in lies" such as companies"
copies, enemies" He spelled 'ys," as
the word companys appears in the
forged letter. In his correspond
! ence Hadley invariably dotted
! letter ''R' when it occurred in the word con
tanning an ~ as in the signature to the
| forged letter. Hundreds of fac simile repro
ducuOns prove this conclusively. 1t was on a
display of this evidence of the guilt that Had
/ ley confessed his part in the crime. Daven-
port attempts to show the connection OF
! Barnum and other membe.s of the national
| democratic committee, with the forgery and
! the employment of forgers claiming they paid
| Hadley various sums for work done by him.
! Hadley admits he wrote the name Of Henry
l.. Morey, and on the register of the Kertland
House, Lynn, and substituted for the name OF
Geo. +. c. Morey in aifidavits of Mrs Clara
Morey declaring he was her son. These for
geries were made to sustain original forgery.
There was no such man as III. l.. Morev to
whom the forged letter was supposed to have
been written. nor was there ever such per-
son as John w. Goodall who claimed to have
been executor of II. l.. Morey who wrote
Goodall letters. Davenport also says
that week or 10 days before the publ
cation in the Truth of the Morey letter
Chas Dana of the New York Sun was told
that such letter was in existence, and on
his expressing doubt thereof his informant
assured him that such was the case and that
he believed he could obtain it and show it TO
him. To this Dana replied he did not care
to see it for reason that he believed that il
such letter was in existence it was for
gerry and he wished to have nothing to DO
with it, Lindsey, like Morey, was fictitious
person and the man O'Brien who
personated him on the Phelps exam
ination was arrested for perjury, con
fessed and is now serving term in
Sing Sing Prison for that offence.
The language of the Morey letter is shown
to have been culled from the speeches OF
Cutter Of New Jersey, Williams of Wiscon-
sin, Phillips of Kansas, Luttel, Gala and
others on the Chinese bill. and from the tes-
tmony of Henry George and others before
the House committee on the Chinese imm
grafton and in no sense are the extracts from
Garfeld's writing. A copy of the account of
Garfield, with the testimony of the clerk of
the House for the session from March 2lst to
Dec. 23d, 1879, shows that Ghrfeld never
used paper wsth the peculiar heading of the
sheet on which the forged letter was written
and that style of paper was never issued
except during the time indicated.