Mr. Ellis Looks Sick

Masón, June 19. - Attcrney General i E1Ü6 appeared in eourt Monday afternoou whiter and inore haggard than he has looked since the triál began. He is ■ feeling the effects of an attack of i cholera inorbus. Mrs. Ellis, wife of the respondent, i was the íirst witness called, and she i gaid she went to Lansing froin Ionia on April 18, 1891. On the 19th she did not j see him. Mr. Ellis being at Ionia. She I saw him on the 21st. going to his office ; in the afternoon. She said she went to ! supper with hira, and in the evening of j that day went with him to his office and reniained until he left in the evening. On the 22d he left for Grand Rapids to attend the Ford funeral, returning in the evening, and going to Ionia on April 28. Mrs. Lazelle, kseper of a Lansing boardinghouse, and sister-in-law of Mr. Ellis, testified that Mr. Ellis attended the Ford funeral. The attorney general then took the witness stand and on his own behalf denied any complicity in the fraud of 1891 or any knowledge of it. Not only that, he denied ever having any conversation with Riley or Cooper or Stevens of Gogebic county, or with Healy, ] or anyone else in Lansing with referI ence to or in any way changing the returns to make them different f rom what they were returned by the county can! vassers. The tenor of the testimony is to coutradict all other that in the most remóte, manner connects him with the fraud.