New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-22
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PIeorT MATTER.
Under the caption Of Forging an irisn gu,
there was published In The NeW-io,A Ia .r,D,eA
saav dispatch from Chicago, furnished ana prln.eo
s,ro,tansonsly BIZ aThe Chicago Tines denouncins
A. hoo,,s tbe London cable message OF February 20
,rh,eh uas sent out by the Associated Press ana
prsnted in full by the leading newspapers Vi ~
eountry embodying a complete recital Of tne me.nou'
nprsued by Pfgott,' the forger OF the Parnen eVos
The charge is made that the cable dspatch roIereu
had mot been written in or sent from Lonoon OF ah'
othor European point that 1t was written IN Onic1so
svss sent 10 Nsw.York, received o London date ana
was scattered broadcast over the country ana lhA
Alexander Sullivan Of Chicago, was the prime loC.o'
IN its construction and PRONUNCIATION. aided Dy rat
rick Egan, OF Lincoln, Neo.
Tha cable account recIted that early IN jury St to
nav Maurice j. Dorney, young 1rish-Amercan
nr,ast and the Rev Herbert Dunn Oh Chicsso,
called upon M Psrnell in the House OF commons, Suu
rather Dorney presented TO the great Irish eader
pac)xaee which he said had been given 70 MN Vy @
yack Eean the night before he Ieib new
York and that It contained evidence 's'
would reveal the forgeres and ioenuy INC Iofs.t
Of the letters pnnted by Tho london Timee IN I'S
series Of articles on aParnollism and crime.' Inc
package contained letters from Pgott round Oy Etu
IN his personal correspondence He submitted these
N experts who discovered that there was aeclueu
similarity between the handwriting Of the forser ana
that shown IN the fac-simes published by " me Lon
don Times Then Mr.. Egan discovered mat one U
the fac-simfes signed by his own nAme was Wrteu
avowsdly from certain address in Paris ~nch oni'
pipott knew This was the key TO the foreerieS
HThe Chicago Times" according to the WSP@eH
prnted Yesterday asserts that this story was manu-
f,otured in this country by sullivan and Esan 10
further their own ends, and that the AssoCau
was n marty 10 tho wholesale deception. The New
York Tines quotes the manager OF an AssOciS'eu
Press Newspaper 10 tho effect that he nad learne A'
the alleged oabls dispatch had been written Dy sh
epploye OF the Associated Press in Chicago AZ inc
dictation of Alexander Sullivan. 1t also purpors 70
rive the substance of an interview with one OIL the
Associated Press managers In New-York, who ep-
neared 10 admit that The London dispatch was not
genuine.
william Henry Smith, general manager Of The Asso-
dated Press, told Tribune reporter yesterday Hi1'
the London dispatch Of February 26 was genaine
He declared that The New-York Times account was
hit of seusattonasm the part Of the Chicago COT
respondent OF that paper He denied thai any one
connected With hts Office had had an interview WIN
a aTlmes1 reporter, that portion Of tho puohshea
neoount being therefore, complete faeno1uon;
Eran and Sullivan AIR. Smsh said han ohtoh iuIn'sn
valuable news to the Associated Pressi anu " Eso
through their influence and that OF uelI Lonuoh
friends that the Associated Press haa peen eolo ~
YTiaSv ga o.. course, The New-York Times" ana
aThe Chicago Tines might be Jealous ana MS misht
account for their attempt to throw Qola Water upon
a splendid piece Of newspaper work