Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-12-27

mOYed 10 Burlington, W., Ill 1910, L
parted with the colt and he went into
the hands of DR.. w. p. Russell of Mid
dlebury, and | bought him back in the
fall of AS. During this season DIR. Rus
sci drove the horse to Ticonderoga,
n. Y, where he sired Ethan Allen,
as is now established" This way of
finishing up statement by begging
the question he learned of Thomson,
but the capacity to make the statement
must have been born with him. Read
the quotation and see if he is not try
ing to carry the idea that he sold or
traded the horse to DIR. Russell in 1876
yet everybody knows that he left the
horse on his farm in Bristol, in the
hands of his tenant, John Daniels, who,
years later than 1915, sold him to DR..
Russell. Now, Adams knows when this
sale to Russell was made, but suppresses
the fact, and for the purpose of sup
porting this fraud, carries the idea that
Russell got him in 1915. He follows
this with misrepresentation of the date
when he bought the horse back; for
Thomson finally gives us a part of
Adams's first advertisement, with the
date, April II, 1850, in which Adams
says: "Flying Morgan has stood for
the last two years in Addison County"
Moreover Thomson says: "Mr. Adams
says he drove from Bristol in Deem
Der, 1919, to Middlebury on snow and
traded for Flying Morgan Yet Mr..
Adams, in a carefully written maya
zine article written to bolster up the
Wetherbee-Smith statement, sets it down
that he bought him back in the fall of
As. The object of this will more fully
appear when | show that DR.. Russell
did not own and was not interested in
Flying Morgan in any part of the year
lS4S, but only from the spring of 1919,
to December of the same year.
AS to when DR.. Russell got the horse,
a date doubtless well known to Adams,
Mr.. Thomson says: "When we gave
the facts as to Flying Morgan we were
not sure as to how long DR.. Russell
owned him, from the conflicting state.
ments.' This, as far as | remember
is the first time Mr.. Thomson has ever
intimated that there were ''conflicting
statements" on this point. Perhaps
there are. Adams's statement conflicts
with the fact. But if there is or ha:
ever been furnished one particle of ties
timony that DR.. Russell had Flying
Morgan in 1913, | have not seen it.
lay out of the case the alleged letter OF
DIR. Russell for two reasons: 1t is no
shown that he knew when he wrote i
what year Ethan was begotten, and the
letter itself is suppressed and an alleg
ed part of its contents is made public
by the same Adams who deliberately
falsfes other material facts IN the same
controversy. There is no other evi
dence. Mr.. Thomson would prove i
by a memorandum made by Adams il
the spring of 1852 of "the names o
persons owning colts by Flying Nor
gam" and it states that "they will b,
in the spring of 1852. In th
list there were several that were owned
at Mddlebury that would be three il
the spring, which shows that they wer
sired in 1913, the season DIR. Russo
= kept Flying Morgan" Now this doe
not tend to prove the point, but it doe
suggest a question. Where have yo'
been keeping this list all these years
Mr.. Thomson? And how does it hap
pen that with this list in your posses
sion you could so often assure the pub
, lie that in the season of 1913 FLYNN,
Morgan was not kept for stock purpos
es but was used by DR.. Russell as driv
ing horse? | know that he was used a
a stock horse that season and two sea
, sons before by John Daniels on tn
, Riley NJ. Adams farm in Bristol, seve
miles from Middlebury, and that h
never was kept elsewhere till kept b.
, Harvey Yale in Middlebury in 1915
, have suspicion that you have know
this for long time and have suppress
sed the fact, and the fact that he 60
, any colt before Russell had him, becaus
, you were afraid they would max
) against the Flying Morgan theory. Blu
E you can easily test the matter. Pub
: fish the list. Give us the names an
, addresses of all the people contained i
q it. We can then exercise the same pri,
r ilege you haye for many years enjoye
of learning where and in whose hand
f the breeders found the horse.
d. In proof that Russell did not have tn
q horse till the spring of 1919, l quote a
t interview taken by me in the presence G
: Joseph Battell in the fall of 1885 wit
e Harvey Yale, then SO years old, and the
y and now living in Middlebury. This wa
= taken with other sketches of the horse
a Mr.. Yale had had, and was published
a the Middlebury REGISTER, Dec. 4, 1885,
Y before | was familiar with the facts
a this controversy. Mr.. Yale said: