Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-05-08

of being stopped by three masked men
who told him of the papers. He detail
ed his experience with Allen. How he
told him whore the jar OF papers were
and how he dug them up with his lands.
The narrative of his visits 10 Mason
were also given. All these statements
were substantially as those given by
the witness heretofore and already pub
lished. Robert E. Frazer told of his
stated that he knew nothing of IL until
after tho finding of the papers; said
those who buried the papers should be
arrested. He prepared the complaint
and advised that the officers be not in
formed of the factsaa
Officer Murray related his connection
with the case. What he had done had
been entirely under instructions from
Frazer and Wilson, attorneys for Dan
Holcomb and Jud Crouch.
The woods where the jar was found
was not dense but full of underbrush.
He didn't believe he could have gone
into the woods with the verbal des1rip-
tion claimed to have been given by Har-
rington TO Allen and by Allen to Hol-
comb and found the jar and papers.
Gilbert Wilson, farmer of Summit
and brother of Thomas A., one of the
Crouch attorneys, testified that he went
with Detective Gum and Henry Hol-
comb where the jar and papers we're
found. They called for him at 2 o'clock
in the morning. They went down the
railroad to the crossing and stopped at
the point between two sections whe 70
the section men took of the hand cars;
Holcomb led the way and pointed out
stumps and said the man had indicated
large oak tree with a crotch, and
then another oak tree with limb
run straight out, then few
rods away an elm which he said the
man Allen had described; Holcomb said
the man said that on line between the
oak and the elm the papers were buried
under big root; we found the root, and
after trying several places finally Hol-
comb said: "By God, there's something
here" and soon pulled out the jar; Mr..
Gum had passed beyond to look for an
other tree, bot returned and was highly
pleased and said: by God, Henry,
we've got it," Mr.. Gum asked me to
watch the place, so as to see if this man
Allen came around there after the pa
pers; Holcomb said he thought Allen
had more papers in his possession. as
he had seen him dig up something al
Mason and he thought he was going to
the Jail to give them to Harrington,
but that he did not because he saw "Old
Gum" Witness did not believe he
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description given TO him by q man 40
miles away.
The defense put on the stand Andy
Stewart, the master mechanic of the
Michigan Central railroad at Jackson,
and James Belamy, both of whom tes-
tilted that Allen had applied for job
as mechanic at the railroad shops
several times without success, although
he came well recommended from Ham
ilton. When he came the last time, on
the 10th of April, he said he was en-
ployed on the Crouch case TO recover
the missing papers; ne was working
with Il man who called himself Jones
(Henry Holcomb) who took him for a
"chump," and he was willing he should;
while Jones thought he was working
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pected to get the papers from him, as
he had agreed to give them to him at
Mason and wanted him TO 90
10 the jail at Mason and put
them on 10 Harrington. He said he
didn't propose to do that, but to gain
possession of the papers, 60 to the jail
and make pretense of leaving them.
and then skip home to Hamilton, Ont
report to the prosecuting attorney OF
Jackson county, bring the papers back
here and claim the reward. This is
about the course he seems to have pur-
sued. He wanted the witness Bellamy
to go with him to Mason, fol
lowing him at distance, and wit
ness the transaction of receiving the
papers from the man Jones, and offered
him 81 900 il he got the $1,000 reward
offered, but Bellamy refused to have
anything to do with it.
The investigation was at this point
continued until Monday morning, when
it is thought Allen will make his own
statement and that the examination
will be concluded by noon of that day.