Omaha daily bee., 1884-08-16
THE MOKEY LETTER.
The Long-Promised Expose of Its
Authorship.

NEW YoRK, August 15,-The long-dclayed
expose by United States COMMISSIONS John
l.. Davenport of the Morey letter will DO pub
lished tomorrow morning. 1t makes n book
of $50 pages. 1t is largely made up of fac
SMILES of documents showing forgery in its
various forms. The narrative is only a brief
part of the whole volume. The book sets
forth that the person who actually penned the
forged MOrey letter was n lawyer of this city
named Henry A. Hadly. Davenport de-
scribes him as n manipulation of insurance
companies of doubtful character, and of other
matters equally precarious, with AMI mate
love of intrigue and with a craving for no.
toriety, and an unconquerable desire to dip
into politics and to correspond with public
men.
He quotes from his letters to show that he
was always n democrat, though rs the time of
the commission of the forgery he was secretary
of the Hancock republican association, in the
rooms of which the forgery was committed, on
or about October End. The forgery, accord
ing to Hadley's admissions, and ~conirmatory
evidence collected by Davenport, was original
ly in the form of II extract from a supposed
interview with General Garfield. Davenport
possessed himself of about coo letters writ
ten by Hadley between 1873 aud 1879 and
finds all the distinctive marks of photography
anu CiilSiulul ulihc III tIlNIH dllu tlt lpIbtd
letter. Hadley always misspelled the word
''religiously" as it was misspelled in the forged
letter and all.
Nouns ending les" such as Companies
COPIES enemies" He spelled the final
"ps'' as the word company" appears in the
forged letter. In his genuine correspondence,
| Hadley invariably dotted the letter "R, when
it occurred in the word containing an 81" as
in the signature to the forged letter. A hun-
bred reproductions prove this conclusively. 1t
was on the display of this evidence of guilt,
that Hadley confessed his part in the crime.
Hadley admits that he wrote the name of
Henry l.. Morey on the register of the Kirt-
land house at Lynn, and substituted it for the
name of George f. Morey in the afiidavits,
Mrs. Clara Morey declaring that he was her
SON.. These ~forgeries were made to sustain
the original forgery. There was no such a
man as III. l.. Morey to whom the forged let
ter was supposed to have been written, nor
was there ever any such a person as John w.
Goodall, who claimed to have been the eXecu-
tor of II. l.. Morey and who transmitted the
forged letter to Truth. Hadley wrote the
Goodall letters also.
Davenport also says that a week or ten days
before the publication in the Truth of the
Morey letter Charles A. Dana, of the New
York Sun, was told that there was such n
letter in, existence, and upon his express
ing n doubt thereof his informant assured him
tlibtb p'''l h'bp WIZ SN'1 anu SIiib IO Vli NCt
he could obtain it and show it to him DANA.
To this Mr.. Dana replied that he did not care
to sea it, for the reason that he believed if any
such n letter was in existence it was a forgery,
and he wished to have nothing to do with it.
Lindsey, like Morcy, was a fictitious per
son, and the man O'Brien, who per, onated
him on the Phelps forgery, confessed his guilt
and is now serving a term in Sing Sing prison
for that otfense. The language of the Morey
letter is shown TO have been culled from the
speeches of Gutter of New Jersey, Williams
of Wisconsin, Phillips of Kansas, Lutrell of
California, and others ;on..the Chinese bill, and
from the testimony of Henry George and
others before the house committee on Chinese
immigration, and in no sense are the extract,
from Garfield's writing.
A copy Of the account of Garfield is with
the stationary clerk Of the house for the ses.
sion from March 2lst to December 23d, 1879;
shows that Garfield never used paper with the
peculiar heading Of the sheet on which the
forged letter was written, and that the style
of paper was never issued except during the
time indicated.