Show TELEGRAPHIC TROTH Which Garfield SOTS is a Liar That Nonsensical Letter Ha I Caused the Arrest of nil Editor Making a Big Thing Oat ol a Verj Small One New York ZlA this hour 4 6 ra the paper whkh originally published the the Garfield forgery is not yet out thOugh an hoar behind its usual time Both the counting office and press roam which are in dillerent tt eels arc in cus tody of United States marshals and the public is not admitted Tho marshals J3 reticent Kennard Philp editorial writer on Truth was arrest d todny in Brooklyn on the charge of forgery in connection with the socalled Garfield Chinese letter lie will be arraigned ia the supreme court this afternoon His counsel has ready applied fur his discharge on a habeas copes Brooklyn 27The arrest of Ke ward lhitp was made on the charge counterfeiting coun-terfeiting Doslofficd die uoon a warrant granted in a federal court New York 27Phllp was arrested in the lobby of Park Theatre Brooklyn while in conversation with cxShorriff Doggelt republican leader in Brooklyn and other gentlemen The arrest was made upon a warrant issued by Judge Noah Davie presidiog justioi of the supreme court It charges Pbilp with maliciously composing and publishing the alleged forged letter Philp and the officer accompanied by Wm Veediir lawyer came over to the police headquarters head-quarters this city After a brief detention deten-tion Philp was taken to the supreme court Judge Davis being temporarily absent be was detained m the district attorneys office Ho will be arraigned before Judge Davis later ia the day 2 30 pm t is now stated that Philp was arrested for malicious libel not for publishing the alleged forged letter 3 oclockA long consultition took place in the district attorneys office between be-tween Assilanr District Attnrnnv RAIL United States Commissioner John I Davenport and George Bliss who it h thought will represent the prosecution and General Roger A Prjor ex burro gate Veeder and Howe and Hummel retained I re-tained by ihe defense The nature of the consultation is not known A few minutes before 3 Pbilp was taken to the general term room supicme court where the arrival Judge Davis is now awaited E ibu Root and Henry E Knox alo appear ap-pear for the prosecution John I Diven port was also in court to watch the proceeding pro-ceeding Jugo Davis opened the court at 3 oclock and Mr Bell stated that he desired de-sired to make return to the warrant is cued for the arrest of one Kennard Philps who was charged with having published a criminal 1 bel on James A Garfield Mr Bell was proceeding to read the affidavits on which the warrant was obtained but Mr lryor objected and the judge decided to allow ihem to be read Jhe first wa made by Colonel Georgo lilies and Mr Bell hsd hardly commenced when ho was again interrupted inter-rupted by General Pryor who stated that his client waived examination and desired to have the matter presented I speedily to the grand jury so that an early tral could be had He was ready to try the case tomorrow and un der thee circumstances it was not proper to read the affidavits The affidavit of George Bliss l sets forth that the publication had been made in a paper called Truth of an alleged letter of Gen Garfield to Morey also of an I editorial headed Lying and Sticking to It in which Garfield was repeatedly called a liar Bliss swenr that be is acquainted ac-quainted with GarCelds writing and that be believes the Mercy letter was written and forged by Kennard Philp Bell then sid I hold in my hand the original manuscript of the editorial referred to headed Lying and Sticking to It1 The affidavit went on to say that he believed be-lieved l that the publisher and manager of Truth arranged with the democratc national committee to circulate a large number of copies of the forged letter Mr Bell then said he hud affidavits of gentlemen who were acknowledged to be experts in handwriting He read the affidavit of B E Payne and A F Southwark setting forth that the Morey letter l was not iu their belief written by Garfield and that that letter was written by Philp who wrote the editorial article I referred to They had also in forming I their opinion seen his handwriting on bills and other pper From the Evening Fbsl The charge of criminal libel Mr titoughton explained ex-plained WES in order to guard against any possible difficulty in sustaining the simple charge of forgery Philp appeared ap-peared very nonchalant when arrested and when a friend asked him what was the matter he replied I believe I am arrested for forgin c Beautiful Snow The evidence against Philp consists in part of expert testimony as to thu forced Utter but It is understood that papers containing writing oi the same character charac-ter as that of the forged letter have been secured Chicsgo 27A New York special states that two men have been run down who are conceded with the Garfield letter forgry Thero seems to bi some dicupsion between the republican committee com-mittee and detectives as to who shall hive the credit and this is working to the advantage of the culprits who are gaining time The Tribunes Boston tays The Lynn Item gives the following as discrediting the already four times exploded Chinese letter The letter was never received at the Lynn office for the envelopes at that place are stamped there and this envelope enve-lope was not stamped on the back as it must have been had it been delivered Furtherm it is ft custom at the Lynn p stoffice to stamp all letters that go into the general delivery witn the information that if the full address is furnished to the postmaster all trail to that address will be delivered by carrier free of charge Carriers say they never delivered anyletters addressed to H L Morey and there is no street and number num-ber in the lac simile shown The letter if received at all tent into the general I delivery The Tribune editorially reviewing Garfield B letter of acceptance on the Chinese question and noticing that Hancock Han-cock wrote nothing whatever on that point and calling attention to the clear statement of his views on that point of prime importance to the Pacific Coast says In spite of this record democratic mnnugers have had the barefaced impudence im-pudence to publish a forged letter putting into Garfield mouth words which are flatly contradicted by his letter of acceptance accept-ance and by his speeches and votes in Congress The infamy of this forgery is all the more conspicuous because of the notorious silence of Hancock on this subject sub-ject |