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Correspondence exists and was found not long from a mate of a great-granddaughter of William Morgan. The dispatch tells a unreservedly divers anecdote of what happened to William Morgan. According to a few post found, William Morgan lived peacefully until age 89 in Honduras.

But, what happened that past due time period in September 1826 once he was released from jail into the guardianship of his enemies? We will probably ne'er cognize for firm. It is a dilemma that principally feasible will ne'er be solved. Several of the sheriffs up to his neck in contradictory county jurisdictions travel boundaries where the capture was said to have interpreted stick were freemasons - scarcely object officials.

Some stories say he was trussed up in wires and drowned in the Niagara River. Other stories say he was fixed a assessment involving moving to Canada or reception $500 in gold, and a equus caballus and relocating somewhere in the United States. All the stories hold on one point and that one article was that Captain William Morgan was wished-for by the Masons for scary to publish a book, which defined the group's formal rites and top secret practices.

The generic theory which is believed furthermost widely is that Captain Morgan died that nighttime. But, the organic structure was ne'er recovered . . . or was it? What happened to him, if anything, previously he submerged in the Niagara River? Let's test quite a few possibilities that have caused supposition in the legal proceeding.

According to Thurlow Weed's "On the Morgan Abduction" (Mr. Weed was a conspicuous researcher in the case), a thing water-washed up on the shores of Lake Ontario in the Autumn of 1827. The Coroner advisable it was the natural object of William Morgan. Mrs. Morgan was titled away to identify the body, plus the peculiarities of a treble row of teeth, a deformity on one foot, and the colour of his fleece. The body found had the oddities Mrs. Morgan described, however, she ruined to endorse the clothes on the article.

A momentary juncture after that introductory inquest, however, a speech was released that the unit was brainchild not to be that of , but to be that of one Timothy Monroe, who had sunken in the Niagara River individual weeks back the organic structure deliberation to be Captain Morgan was found on the shore. At the ordinal inquest, Mrs. Monroe represented a completely differing natural object caste than that of the one found, but . . . the wear on the physical structure she represented in definite and ad hoc point.

The physical structure saved was proclaimed to be that of Timothy Monroe. How could this be? While the garments were his, the natural object saved was 3 to cardinal inches shorter in height than Timothy Monroe's stature, reported to Monroe's own married woman. The hackle on the body found was delineate as "long, silky, and of a formula color" while Mrs. Monroe aforementioned her husband's coat was black, short, and cut surrounding to his principal. Both men were same to all have had a lookalike row of set.