Nearly Ready To Quit

Masón. June 13.- The case of the prosecution in the Ellis trial is subitantially closed. Soine docuinentary ívidence will be introduced this I ng and then Mr. Barkworth will aake the opening statement for che defense. Henry Ward, the sick inror, was in his place when court ;onvened Tuesday morning. Mrs. Bowen was recalled by the defense and juestioned with a view of iinpeaching the testimo::y of W. H. S. Wood. She .nsisted ttuu.notwithstanding what the j prosecuting attorney assert;. she diil I :iot have tl.e slightest recollection of iny of the dainaging things Wood swore that Ellis said and did in the jtate auditor's office in her presence. A letter trom Miss Harty to her early in May was uffered by the defense. in ivhich the former said she even couldn't remember any of the things Wood says she must have heard about Ellis when she, like Mrs. Bowen, was a clerk in the auditor's office. The redirect examination of Mrs. Bowen by ..ir. Mouteromery was in the nature of a cross-exauiinatiou, and it was so sharp that occasionally the attorney general's lawyers iuterjected remarks to aid her in making her ! inony clearer. She reiterated that she told Prosecutor Gardner, went he went to Iowa to interview her as to what she knew, that she had no remembrance of snythintc nnplicating the attoruev gensral in the fraud of 1891. Montgomery was particular together npon record as swearing that she told j the prosecutor she had no recollection. j for he apparently wanted to lay a foundation for subuiitting a proposition I to the jury in his argument as to vvhether they could conceive of any reason why the prosecution should subpo3na a persou all the way frorn Iowa svho didn't know any more of the attorney general's supposed complicity in the forgery than she professed to know, and that she told a different story j fore she carne to Masón a few weeks ago and met friends and relatives of the attorney general, with whoni she has since been iu constant association. Mrs. Bowen was on the stand over two hours, and she replied, in answer to a question by the defendant's counsel, that she was not trying to defend the attorney general. Governor Rich was called by the prosecution. because his name was on the indictment and the defense wanted him called. The only questions asked him was about his having requested the attorney general last January to investígate a coinplaint that there was something loose in the prosecution for a doublé murder in Houghton county, I and how the attorney general did vestigate. The purpose oL tuis was to sliow tnat tlie attorney general'a main business on his northern trip in January was to make this investigation, and that nis trip to Gogebic in connection with the frands was only a side issue. A question by the defendant's attorneys, as to whether the governor had uot aíways found Mr. Elhs to be a careful, honest and conscientious officer, was excluded. In the afternoon Mrs. Helen M. Fisher, who was stenographer to Daniel E. Soper wheu secretary of state, testified that during the cauvass that Ellis was constantly coming in the room and apparently was well informed of the condition of the returns at all times. The defense was unfortunate in the cross-examination in bringing out the fact that she heard a portion of the conversation between the secretary of state and Wood.in which the fornier asserted in substance that Ellis tampered witta the returns. This was corïoborative of Wood's tesciinony last ; week and was whollj' unexpected by ! the prosecution as well as detense. Mrs. Bowen and Miss Harty were both on the stand again, but their position of fai'.mg ro rememuer was adhered to. ïbe evident purpose of the prosecution in their questioniug was to show to the jury the improbability of their testimony. Witness Wood was again on the stand, but he proved quite as disappointing to the defense as last week. County Clerk Cowdrey of Q-ratiot county testified that the returns from that county were made on a sheet of paper in the absence of regular blanks and that no inquiry had been made with reference to thein after being sent to bansing.