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It Is Nearing The End

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Day
19
Month
June
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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Masón, June 18.- It is not probable ihat the Ellis case will go to the jury before Thnrsday, though the case is now near ics conclusión asregards testimony. The defense hasbut three more wituesses to cali. The last witness will be Ellis hirnself lid bis testimony aiid cross-examina:ion will probably oocupy the greater portion of a day. The prosecution esthnates that balf a ,lay will be taken up with testimony Cor the rebnttal. Inclnded in this will be a -couple of experts on writing, to offset the experts who have testified for the defense and asserted that all the writing in the returns was inade by Healy. The attorneys are trying to arrange to have but two arguinents on a side, instead of three. r General Star.ley Turner, Frank P,;ttr C. W. jSicho'g, Ellis' clerk, .ais.s rJtnel Soper and Daniel ü'Reilly, tne latter the clerk who rnade the canv-Rss sheet, all testified Saturday, and H. ij. Henderson and H. A. Hall, bankers, were put on as experts in regard to the haudwriting on the returns. ün the opening of the session Sfiturday niorning the reading of the Soper deposition was coucluded, the reuirect examination heilig read by Mr. Barkworth ani the recross by Mr. Montgornery. Then Auditor General Stanley Turner was called. He stated that he had held nis official position since Jan. 1, 1893. "Did you ever have any conversation with Mr. Wood about soiue reform school money deposited by him in the Central Michigan bank?" asked Mr. Kirchner. Mr. Turner testified that in August Mr. Wood carne to him and offered a certifícate of deposit as a settlement with the state for the thousandandodd dollars of reform school inoney lost by the failure of the bank. Mr. Turner refused to accept the certifícate, on the advice of Attorney General Ellis, and so inforuied Wood. The defense called to the stand H. L. Henderson. a Masón banker, at whose home Mr. Ellis is stopping during the trial. Mr. Henderson was asked to examine three exhibits and like the experts who bad preceded him, gave his opinión that all of the total lines and changes were in the same handwriting. Shown Wood's letter and asked if any of the writing in the exhibits was in the hand of the writer of the letter, he gave the opinión that they were not. Frank Potter was called and asked by Mr. Kirchner if Ellis ever got any returns f rom hiin. Potter said Ellis received no returns from him. Mr. Montgomery asked Potter if he told Rudolph Lutz to write in red ink across the Gratiot county returns that they were thrown out. Potter didn't member it. Charles W. Kichols, clerk in the attorney general's office, was sworn. He is a brother-in-iaw of jVlr. Ellis. Asked where Ellis was on April 20, Nichols said he was at Grand Rapids and Detroit. On April 22 he was at Congressman Ford's funeral. Witness had no recollection of the 23d inst. He could not remember where Ellis was on April 23, but Ellis came in from Ionia on the morning of April 24. Ethel Soper, daughter of Daniel E. Soper, was called, but her testimony was unimportant. Daniel U'Riley was then called to the stand. Said that in April, 1891, he was set to work to compile the election returns in the secretary of state's office; knew Ellis only by sight at that time and that the attorney general never borrowed any of the returns from him. Was asked how it happened that the Gratiot returns were not placed on the regular tally sheet. "They were not on the regular blank and I asked Potter about it and Potter asked Soper, and Soper said to leave it to the board."

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Ann Arbor Argus
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