Show THAT nOSEY LETTER Philip Did Not Write It or oIL o-IL Appears And Now the Republicans are Squealing New York 30 Judge Davi again took his seat on the bench at 2 oclock Pnilp was present A lady attracted much attention Some delay ensued after the opening of the court Mr Bell for the prosecution asked as the delay was not of tneir seeking that bo bo permitted to call Joseph i Payee as a witness Tho court consented and Payne testified that the Morey letter and envelope were in the came handwriting as that of the manuscript of tho editorial Lying Ly-ing and clicking to it published pub-lished I in the Truth The editorial it is admittoJ was written by Philp the defense called Anderw McLean lie tetilied that bu was manager of the Brooklyn Eagle and had known Philp for twelve years I know bis handwriting hand-writing well us during ihes3ye be and I hate btcn working in the same office I have seen him write almost daily 1 have seen theac inmitie tf the original Morey letter and envelope and from my knowledge of Mr Philps handwriting hive no doubt whatever thnt it is not in tbe handwriting ot Philp Ua has n t been in tile habit of spelling companies ia the way it u i spelled flora 1 must have edited nearly 10000 columns of Air Pnilps matter and have never known him to spell such words in tbat way 1 Lave been editor of the Logic eight year md during thai timo James McDermott wa never on the paper 1 know his reputation and would not behave be-have him under oath if there was any temptation for him to testify untruthfully untruth-fully James Good a memler of tbe Brooklyn logic Etaff and engaged with Ptiilp in tho compoition of the dramatic columns tmtihtd I am poai live the Moray letter li not in Philps handwriting I nover knew Mr Pnilp to spell the plural of Ibe word ending in a ItS yt as companies is spelled James McDermotts character for veracity vera-city is not good rcaencK U Hudson atp of the Brooklyn Eagle gives similar teti money moneym S Harvey a grduate of Oxford Umve ity England and for fourteen yean the associate of Mr Philp in editorial edi-torial fiork testified tht the Moray I letter and envelope aro not in Philpr handwriting I know Jamos McUur tnott and while I have been on the Eagle I have not known him to be a reporter re-porter on it 1 would not believe him under oath if there were roc one way and 1 the other Several proof readers and the city edi tooftho Brooklyn Eagle testified that the Morey letter was not in the writing of fhilp John 1 Davenport teititled that Mr liinegan private detective first gave iiim the editorial manuscript of Lying and Sticking to IL5 He did not say where he got it nor did tho wiUeS pay him for it Crossexamined never attempted at-tempted to steal or get possession ot theM the-M rey letter in any way i had only been in the Truth office once in a montH and then at the request fit Mr Pat Ruled out TwO Lynn workmen testified that they knew ot she organization named the Employers Em-ployers Union or something like thai but knew little or nothing abjut it The defense attempted to shuw by a KitrCit that General Garfieldg vouchfri for p yin y-in Washington were in tbo came band as the Morey letters Kuled out as incompetent incom-petent testimony The testimony of W C Colton was first ruled out but finally received when it should be shown tht it contradicted Mr Gaylors testimony Cotton showed envelopes which be had received and vhich bad stamps on in spite of Mr Gaylors claim that such letters wore not so stamped No crossexamination Toe prosecution claimed that this evidence contradicted nothing because Gaylors testimony only related to letters from Washington to the cast George Timson testified that he considered Uarfields signnturo and the Morey letters in identically the slime hand Judge Dittenhoffer jays that ho was counsel fur tho Truth because of the long standing friendinip with Louis f Pott who bag been rssitant district attorney at-torney but was now its menacing editor Whet ho saw the Chinese letter ne tried to ptirsuido Post not to pubish it because be-cause it was a forgery Hurt sent for him after it was published and voluntarily volun-tarily told him twice tbat he hail been imposed im-posed on IS the loter was a fraud that toe leading democrats were beginning too to-o back on it and Garfields denial proved it a forgery The following is from Di to tj hot tiers ctatcrnent Hart requested me to see Jewell at onco and intorm him of this I asKed what for he said It will be mora to our credit if they are informed before hand that ware w-are going to do it voluntarily hut said he We want it understood that wo want nci money or any ether consdera lion but want it known that you as our counsel and friend should receive the credit It is a grea service and if anybody gets any benefit from it it cught come to you I became more convinced than ever that they were getting frightened and wanted it undei tocd that thy were doing it in the hope thus to drop the thing quietly I went up at once to Governor Jewell and reported substantially what was said I tod him they were doing it without any hope of consideration but would be plcand If they knew 1 would receive the credit for having brought about the publication of Irdiaction The governor said Thllt ii i fair and decent and I will be glad to assure them that you will bo regarded re-garded as the per m who was instrumen tal in having them publicly acknowledge hat they were convinced of the spuriousness spurious-ness of the letter Ho then wrote the letter which has been published and aid You may show them the letter I gut divn about oclock Post was present sod when I asked for him Hart aid he was very bufy and I could not s o him Halt said Did you se Jewell I said Yes and showed the letter to him Mr Hurl after red ing it said Are yeu satisfied I said Yes completely He said But it peciBes nothing I wish nothing J said I am completely satiafiedThIf you ioN satisfied lam he said and I was on tho point of leaving when he said Cant you leave the letter and let me show it to Iost l I said I was only instructed to show it and not to leave it Ho said Cant you trust us Have we ever done anything to hurt you and what harm can come of it consented and now acknowledge that this was an error but I considered the warm personal rela ions between Post and myself and the thought did not cro = 1I my mind tbat he ws capable capa-ble of acting treacherously After having hav-ing left the letter I began to feel a liltla uneasy without beingHoe occurs n gratolul break EDS |