The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-08
WHICH ONE SIGNED
MORRISON BROTHERS CLAIM WARD
FORGED MORTGAGES

Says 1t Was Morrison-The Two MeI
Look Alike-In the Meantime Night Il
Out One Thousand Dollars Both WI
| Prove an Alibi.
The e. F. Ward case is bothering the
| lawyers and the jury. Thecase has
been on trial for two days and the
problem as to who signed the mortgage
On that Gypsum township farm is ap-
parently no nearer a solution now than
it was when the trial commenced.
The knight Investment company
negotiated the loan of $1,000 on the
southeast quarter of section is. Gypsum
| township and received a mortgage
duly signed by David A. Morrison and
Glasco Morrison, the owners of the
land
! The Morrison brothers claim that
/ they did not sign the mortgage nor did
( they ever receive cent of knight S
money. The knight Investment COM
pany are trying to prove that E. F,
Ward forged the mortgage.
| In the spring of 1871 Glasco Morrison
came to Sedgwick county and settled
on the land above described. He had
! been formerly acquainted with John
Mccoy and Charley Caldwell and they
! helped to locate him in Gypsum town
ship. He proved up his claim and sold
half interest in tito his brother David
+ The two brothers are both bach elors
and David lived in Illinois and Glasco
after proving up his land went to
Pennsylvania where he now lives.
The two brothers kept their Kansas
land and there had never been a
scratch Of pen against IL until the
mortgage now in dispute was put on
the records Of Sedgwick county two
years ago.
Glasco Morrison was nearly six feet
tall, of fair or sandy complexion, and
those who have seen both men declare
that there is a marked resem blance
between Glasco Morrison and E. F.
Ward
1t is this resemblance of the two men
that makes this case SO interesting.
The prosecution claim to be able TO
prove by six witnesses who knew E. F.
Ward slightly that he signed this mort
gage and Ward has the dispositions of
six men who are just as certain that
Ward was in Texas at that time and
would not have signed a mortgage in
Kansas.
David D. Morrison Of Illinois sits In
the court house apparently an uninter-
eSteu spectator, Wnlle MS DrOtner re-
mains in Pennsylvania. David says
that he does not know who signed the
mortgage. He only knows that he
never signed il.
Now the question is. did Glasco Nor
, riSon come TO Kansas and sign the
mortgage, and did the men who claim
to have seen Ward sign it make the
mistake of supposing that Glasco Nor
rison was +. f. Ward.
Both Ward and Morrison claim that
they were not in Kansas when the
mortgage was signed and acknowleds,-
cd From present appearances Ward
will be able TO prove an aIibi and Nor
rison does not need TO do that because
he is not on trial, but his brother is
certain that Glasco was not in Kansas
at that time.
This evidence will evidently have to
be finally determined by the hand writ
ing Of Ward and Morrison.
Arthur Falkner gave expert testi-
mony which the prosecution claims will
tend to show that Ward signed the
deed. but the defense claim TO have
documents signed by Morrison and that
the signature to the mortgage looks as
much like Morrison's hand writing as
it does like Wards.