New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-02
THE CORRECTED Returns TRACED.
COLONEL BLISS POINTS OUT THE IMPORTANCE
OF THE DEVELOPMENTS.

COLONEL BLISS POINTS OUT THE IMPORTANCE
OF THE DEVELOPMENTS.
Colonel Bliss returned from Albany last evening anu
was seen by Tribune reporter mt his nome III Yves.
Tbirty-ninth.st lie said We have to-day Drought
out the most important facts in the whole hhs'uoh'
We have shown that all three OF the copies Oh TIE 'oi
reced returns of Duchess County reached the proper
offices To be filed. Secretary Of state Rice ad-
mtted before Justice Cullen In Brooklyn that he re-
turned his copy to Enans. Yesterday We sho"eu
where the other two went. william j. lamboIh aOout
the Youngest messenger in the Governors Office. ad
mtted that he gave up the returns there to E'nahs ana
was afterwaId commended by Governor Hill for so
doing IL is impossible to believe that he. boy
without any authority over the mall would have gwen
I'D "A letter to stranger without consulting some one
He is taking the blame now so as not to connect "O'
eror Hin with the theft. and at the same time to Try
to relieve Emans OF contempt by showing that he de-
llvered the returns in Albany as ordered by Justice
Cullen.
Joseph Aleu- the messenger in the Controllers
Office cleared up the disposition of the third copy.
lie handed il to Isaac II. Maynard who now slts Oh
the bench OF the Court OF Appeals, and he says that
he told Controller Wemple of his having done So IN
Brooklyn Mr. Wemple swore that he had no knowledge
whatever Of those returns ever having reached Ills
Office. After that statement had been read 10 Mr..
Allen he notwithstanding his chiefs denial sin in
sisted that he told him about giving up the returns
We proved that the corrected returns wee more
certainly in the hands of The state CanvasseI' Nah
the Myod returns. The latter we've delivered 10 the
Controllers Office by messenger and that j, the Only
way that they were delivered. The corrected returns
went BY mail and after reaching the Controllers Office,
were stolen. Eesde that certified copies Of the cor
reced returns delivered to the secretary of state
and the Controller. which in every way as authen
tic as the MyOd returns but the state CanvaSserS re
fused 10 recognize them. the ground that they ala
moi come by mail. Yet the returns they canva,e did
not come BY mail.
Emans has been cOntendng that he mailed the re-
turns under misappehensiOn, and that, after consult
Ing his lawyer, he advised that he had dom
what had right do, in sending the eturis away
after Office hours. We have discovered thing how
IL out at the hearing February 10, before Justice
Cullen, in Brooklyn. That Is that, before mailing the
corrected returns, in Obedience the order Of Deem
Der 10 Emans consulted Frank d. Towns, Of POUCH
k.epsle. who appears his counsel aud then
cbeyed the order
~ sent word to Governor Hill that willing to
examine him in Albany before Judge Leaned, he
suggested, and him from appearing in Brook
yn and tod him Of tOday's hearing. but he did not
appear. | told that he Will appear February
10 In Brooklyn.
!" said in Albanv that did not think another hear
ing before referee necessary. The day fixed
Judge MaynaIds request. but aferward lie sent worl
that IL consultation day in the Court Of Appeals
and 50 he did not appear. have no desire to exam
inc him now, for have found what became OF all
the returDs.'