St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-16
THE M0REY LETTER.
Its Origin Claimed to have been Dis
covered in the Person of III.
III. Hadley.

New YORK, Aug. 15.-The long delayed
expose by United States Commissioner John
l. Davenport of the Morey letter will be pub
lished tomorrow morning. 1t makes book
of $50 pages. 1t is largely made up of fac
SMILES of documents, showing forgery in its
various forms. The narrative is only brief
part of the whole volume. The book
sets forth that the person who actually
penned the forged letter was a lawyer of
describes him as manipulation of insurance
companies of doubtful character, and of other
matters equally precarous, with an innate
love of intrigue, and with a craving for noto-
riety and an unconquerable desire to dip into
politics and to correspond with public men.
He quotes from his letters to show he was
always 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
was committed on or about October 2, $780,
The forgery, according to Hadley's adms-
sions and confrmatory evidence, collected
by Davenport, was originally in the form of
an extract from supposed interview with
Gen. Garfield. Davenport possessed himself of
about 1000 letters written by Hadley between
1878 and 1879, and finds all the distinguish
ing marks of photography and caligraphy
alike in them and the forged letter. Hadley
always misspelled the word ''religiously' as
it was msspelled in the forged letter, and
all nouns ending ''ies" such as "com-
panies, :" ''copies,' "enemies," he spelled
the final ''ys' as the word 'com-
panys" appears in the forged
letters. In his genuine correspondence
Hadley invariably dotted the letter ''ei''
when it occurred in word containing an
ops as in the signature to the forged letter
Hundreds of fac-simile reproductions proves
this conclusively. 1t was on display of this
evidence of guilt that Hadley confessed his
part in the crime. Hadley admits he wrote
H. L. Morey in the register at the Kirkland
house, at Lynn, and substituted it for the
name of Geo. E. C. Morey in the affidavit of
Mrs Clara Morey. declaring he was her son.
These forgeres were made to sustain the Or
iginal forgery There was no such man as
II. L. Morey, to whom the forged letter was
supposed to have been written. Nor was
there even any such person as Jno. w.
Goodall, who claims TO have been
Jnc executor Oh H. Il. MOTely anu VINO trans
ntted the forged letter to Truth. Hadley
wrote the Goodral letters, also Davenport
also says that 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 existance, and,
on his expressing doubt thereof, his in
formant assured him such was the case, and
that he believed he could obtain it and show
it to him, Dana. To this Mr.. Dana
replied that he did not care to see 1t, for the
reason that he believed If any such letter was
in existence ii was forgery, and he asked to
have nothing 10 do with it. Lindsey, like
Morey, was fictitious person, and the man
O'Brien, who personated him on the Philip
examination, was arrested for forgery and
confessed and is now serving term in
prison for that offense. The language Of the
Morey letter is shown to have been culled
from speeches of Cutter Of New jersey,
Williams of Wisconsin, Phillips of Kan sas,
Luttrell Of California, and others.
On the Chinese bill, and from the testimony Of
Henry George and others, before the house COM
mittee on Chinese immigration; and in sense
are extracts from Gsrfeld's writing. A copy OF
the account OF Garfield with the stationery clerk
of the house, for the session Of March to De-
cember %, 1879, shows 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.