Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-10-20
ia FosGEo DEED.

This prospectus is a deceitful, lying
/ document The Standard Coal and Tim
| Der Company does not own ar
| inch of the land whose richness
/ it Rlorifes The Commonwealth Title
/ and Trust Company, of Phil&del.
/ phia, 8 most respectable and conserva-
tive concern, found that out, and
/ promptly refused TO act longer as the
/ timber cOmDGny's trustee. The Stand
ard Coal and Timber Company has not
a hut nor hole on any part of ali this
land. This land In West Virginia has
long been playground for litigation.
Up 20 very little time ago 10 was q
wild, UniBhabited country. Nowadays
its prospective value is becoming appa-
rent, for railroads are beginning 10
penetrate it. IL is a prize worth steal
ing.
The 2O4, 900 acres OF land claimed by
the timber company is part OF 4 tract
OF $4,000 acres. The title to these
500, eco acres is clear enough from
March /, 1895, TO February 81, 1866.
There is recorded in Tazewell County
Court 4 deed dated February q, 1866,
which conveys this tract from Michael
Bowler 20 Henry L. Morris This deed
is also recorded in the Mcdowell County
Court on The same date.
ERNsT's AFFIDAVIT.
This deed is a forgery and the Stan
dard Coal and Timber Company knows
that It Is a forgery. There is also re-
corded In the Circuit Court OF Mcdowell
county 10 suit touching this tract of
land, I'm which Samue. q. b. Cook is
the plaintiff and Mary L. Sacia and
others are defendants, deposition Oy
Ferdinand a. L. Ernst, taken In New
York. liz was taken before Walon c.
Duplgnec Ernst swears that the deed
to the $50, 900 acres OF land IN West Nr-
giDia, purpOrtinE 90 be signed by henry
l.. Morris, was made In New York, and
was signed by a young man whose name
was not Henry L. Morris. This affidavit
OF Ernst is extremely interesting read
Ing.
"Tho young man who signed the name
OF Henry l.. Morris, TO the deed Ernst
swearS, "told me that Major Chadwick
had paid him to sign that deed, aud he
had signed the name of Henry l.. Nor
ris, although that was not his name,
and that he did not care damn what
the consequences might be; that he
would hold Charlie o. Richardson and
Chadwick.
OPERATORS N WILD LAND.
ale had received only a few dollars
for the Job. Richardson is an operator
in wild land; Chadwick is a sharp opera
tor in anything in which there is any
money aud has been two or three times
in state prison. Richardson went by
the name Of Morgan II. HaskinS, aud
the deed was made by Morris TO Morgan
III. HaskinS. which was the fictitious
name OF Richardson. The man who
uersonated Henry L. Morris told me
that on the same day he had signed the
name OF henry L. Morris TO the deed
Richardson had laid the deed in blank
before him and filed ia the blank deed
the name Of Henry l.. Morris. This was
the deed from Bowler to Morris"
FROM MORRIS" TO SWIFT.
The progress Of this immense and
valuable tract from the hands OF the
imaginarv'Heurv L.MCrris to tho hands
of the visionary Standard Coal and Tim
Der Com my GA easily be traced in the
records of tho Office OF the COunpty
Clerk Of Mcdowell county. Henry L..
Morris, who, by ana By, was paid s. in
saloon at the corner Of Dey and
/ Church stretes, in this city, for commit
| tinE the fOrgery, and who was con-
veuiently made widower so that an
I other forgery would not be necessary
I 20 obtain the name OF his saiHted wife,
conveyed the property 70 Morgan 81.
/ Has kins. who IN turn conveyed it TO
/ Harris Hoyt. From Harris Hoyt the
/ land passed 20 L. d. Lansing, and from
/ Lansing to J. f Cakes. Then Cakes
conveyed il 20 David VardergSw, aud
/ David VanderEaw and his wife mort
\ gagged il 10 the Scotch Coal, Iron and
\ Railroad Company. This Scotch CON-
/ psny is now resting peacefully 10 It's
/ grave. Its monument is pile OF bonds
/ on which people are vainly trying TO
/ realize. The Scotch cOmpany's troubled
career was on the same lines as that OF
1 the Standard Coal and Timber Com
pany. The Scotch Coal and Iron Com
| uany conveyed the land to the Central
Loan and Trust Company, shSdOwy
concern. This trust company, which
could not be trusted passed along the
tract 10 Joseph h. Swift, who in turn
passed il on 20 the Standard Coal and
Timber Company,
SOME TRUE FOUNDATION FACTS"
Here are some Foundation facts
that are not stated in the company;
/ prospectus;
Ernst sTeaTs the forged deed va,
signed IN 1875. II was antedated t
1866, and 50 appears on the Virgins
court records. Bosvier, to have signed
it, must have returned in spirit. ID