The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-02-16
THESTOLEN RECORDS
MANY Suspicious ARE RIFE IN
LANSING.

phaticaliy Denies Being In Room GO sc
the Hudson House.
LANSING. Feb. 10.-Many suspicious
are rife in the city as TO who and BY
what means the election returns sheet
from Wayne county were cut from the
book Thursday evening. and presum-
ably destroyed. Newspaper men and
others have followed up clews in all
directions, but it is hard to find any
thing tangible.
County Clerk May returned from
Mason on the 6 p. IN. train and went
Immediately to the Hudson House,
having with him the Wayne county
record book, containing valuable evil
dence in the salary amendments of
1891 and 1892.
May at once asked to be assigned to q
room, and was given No 60. He went
upstairs, prepared for supper. and soon
came down again, depositing the key
of his room with the clerk. and went TO
the diningroom.
While Mr.. May was at supper some
thing peculiar happened. A young
woman, an employee of the Capitol, who
boards at the Hudson House, came out
of the diningroom. When she reached
the passageway which leads from the
barber shop. q side entrance to the
hotel she met Attorney General Ellis,
who had apparently entered the hotel
from the barber shop She noticed that
Mr.. Ellis kept rather close to the wall,
and instead of going into the Office or
dinlngroom, as customary, went up.
stairs. She noticed nothing more.
"A few minutes later, not more than 10
Ellis came down again. While Ellis
was upstairs a young lady, connected
with the house, not rs a domestic, hap
pened to pass along the corridor on
which is room No. 50, the one assigned
come out of the room and go down
stairs. Mr.. Ellis does not room at the
Hudson House, but merely boards
there.
Attorney General Ellis left the city
Thursday night at $50 for Ionia, and
did not return until yesterday morning.
He said the first he knew of the robbery
was when he read the morning paper.
He emphatically denies having been
in room 66 Thursday night. He says
that Mr.. May left the hotel without his
knowledge and that he (Ellis) went up
to the room, knocked, but finding no
one there, came away, but did not
enter. He says: Il called one of the
bell boys and asked him where room GO
was. and he told me. No one saw me
coming out of the room, for / was not
sn it,"
LANSING, Feb. 12.--Deputy Sheriff
Wright says he will produce evidence
before the grand jury. when the in
vestigation of the election record steal
is made, to prove that Attorney Gen
eral Ellis and County Clerk May were
closeted together for five minutes in
the watchman's little house at the depot
platform between the time the Detroit
train arrived on Thursday afternoon
and the time that the Mason train left
the same depot
LANSING, Feb. 13.--Prosecutor Gard
ner has come out with sensation. He
believes the robbery of election records
occurred at the Hudson House and says
he is almost in position to prove that
two men went into Mays room at the
hotel some time prior to Mr.. Ellis visit
there and remained in the room until
after Mr.. Ellis is said to have left it,
He no longer questions the fact that
the robbery took place at the Hudson
House.
LANSING, Feb. 14.--Little business
was transacted by the grand jury at
Mason Tuesday. as Judge Person was
snowbound at Howell and did not reach
the scene of action until $3.50 O'Clock in
the afternoon. Only two witnesses
were examined Miss Anna Wetterland.
ster-in-law of Secretary Jochini. and
Wesley j. Miller, chairman of the Ora
tiot county board of canvassers for
1891. The prosecuting attorney says
the testimony received was not unim-
portant,
Prosecuting Attorney Gardner still
keeps Postmaster, Frank A. Healey of
Ironwood here. He has not finished
with him. and may place him upon the
stand today. Conrad Carlson, the Go
gebic county clerk, is still here and
may also testify today.