It proves that you spend too much effort on attempting to fit people who have no direct connection to the time periods in the Beale Papers narrative text, or to those involved in the copyright, publishing, printing, advertising and sale of the pamphlet.
If information has nothing to do with the 1885 Beale Papers, the original and the ONLY source of the Beale perilous adventure treasure story, why post it on these Beale threads?
The only account of the meeting between Morriss and the "unknown author" is found in the 1885 Beale Papers, where this "unknown author" made himself a "first person" character in the story, and it has never been established if he was a real person, or if this was just a literary device usage to further the story.
HA! I was "alerted" that YOU mentioned ME, in YOUR attack, above; I have NEVER told you that "nothing gets past the locals"... NEVER! PROVE IT! NOW, both YOU, "SCOOP" & ECS, are BULLYING us, with YOUR obsession with PROVENANCE.Franklin, consider this......you and Reb have told me more then once that "nothing gets past the locals".....and yet, here is a tale rooted right in the heart of this same region and nobody took notice? Nobody knew or recognized these alleged thirty men and their extended absence? Nobody knew the universally known Thomas J. Beale and his activities? And the best part, nobody missed them or recognized their failed return, not even family, friends, business associates, etc.? Adventures out west were HUGE news during the period, yet not a single newspaper story or inquiry? Not a single family member making mention of their missing relative or of his grand adventures? I could see this if we were talking one man, but thirty! Thirty men from the region go missing and nobody cares enough to even make mention of it? Does any of this sound like the south that you know? Oh sure, you can start in with all of that super secret KGC crap, etc., but I seriously doubt that these family members, friends, business associates, would let that stand in the way of their making public inquiry into their absent and missing loved ones. And if Thomas J. Beale was universally known then somebody would have noticed and made public that he had suddenly disappeared from the face of the earth.
....Post number 3 & number 6, you openly and eagerly engaged in this thread, perhaps you need to read them again and ask yourself who between us attacked first? Wasn't me.....
But in any point, yes, you have made many references to the local eyes in the past and as to how they don't miss much, I'm sure you can do your own research and find some of those post as well. Apparently you think it's ok for you to jump into a thread and launch personal attack out of the blue without concern and yet you don't think others should be allowed to return fire....typical bully, I'd say.
I believe you'll discover that post 31 wasn't even addressed to you. Are you sure someone isn't simply tweaking you from the shadows to think as they need or want you to? It is interesting to note that Anzoletta Warwick Saunders died November 27, 1877, at the age of 71.
...and that rational discussion has brought forth time and again the TOTAL absence of direct evidence or provenance to anything in the Beale narrative story except for the use of plausible names as characters to enhance the believability of the presented tale.
