The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1894-08-18
NIPPED In SWEDEN
Llndholm. the Absconding
Deputy, Nabbed.
Extradltlon Papers Will be Issued
and Lindholm Returned 10
Michigan for Trial.


following telegram from Secretary oil
State Gresham:
"The department is just in receipt oil a
telegram from Ferguson, United States
minister at Stockholm. reading as iol-
lows: "Lindholm, fugitive secretary,
srate OF Michigan, arrested at Gothen-
berg. Will hisextradition be askedY'
After consulting with Secretary OF fState
Gardner and Prosecutor Gardner, Gov
ernor Rich wired Secretarty Gresham
that extradition papers would be asked
for at once.
The capture Of Lindholm Is due to the
efforts OF Chief oi Police Sanford and
Deputy Sheriff Wright, oi Lansing, who,
| on July last ascertained that "a letter
was posted Mt Kicl, Of Holstein, by Lind |
holm TO his wife in Lansing. The officers
at once got out circulars giving IA adescrip-
ton and excellent pictures Of Lindholm,
and Offering reward OF 500 in gold Tor
his arrest These circulars were sent all
over Sweden, aud were first heard from
today
IL has always been believed here that
Lindholm knows much more about the
amendment frauds than he ever told,
and that this was one reason why he
fled. His testimony in the case VIII
doubtless be very important, the prose
cutor believing that he has fullknowledge
OF the frauds Prosecutor Gardner says
that the embezzlement case will be yigor-
ously pushed.
A determined effort has been made to
apprehend Lindholm ever since he disap-
peared and the officials have been aided
: in their efforts by the postofiice author
tiles.
The strongest intimation that August
W. Lindholm, the dofaulting deputy
:. secretary Of state, had any connection
with the election frauds Of 1898, came
out during the trial oi Secretary oil State
John w. Jochim at Lansing, during the
second week Of April last.
p Lindholm's name WINS indorsed on the
information as one OF the witnesses iol
the prosecution and the iact was partic
ularly called attention to as signiican
that Lindholm fled from his position, hi
family and friends only short time be
4 fore the Jochim trial was TO be taken up
II was argued that there we're other rea
sons for his fight than the shortage oil {
: lew hundred dollars which he could, !
was claimed, easily have borrowed Iron
his friends and have made good tn
= deficit.
In the Jochim trial, Lindholm's nam
!. was almost byword. On several occf
~ sions the questions Of the prosecutir
officers brought them up against a stor
wall in the shape Of Lindholm's nam
- II seemed that whenever the evidence le
IN into some important passage whei
discoveries were likely TO be made, u
~ name OF the absent Lindholm va
brought upas the only person who cou
explain.
Lindholm was the deputy OF Jochlr
M Tho latter himself testified and Shove
d by his testimony that ho left almo
everything connected with the Office
3. Lindholm. Then there were the lette
M' carried by the messengers, Havens al
- Jackson, who were sent out into I
counties To look up the returns. Tho
letters we're signed John w. Jochi
r But Jochim swore IL was not his slgr
ture and was substantiated by Mare
~ Peterson. Peterson furnished thelett'
OF introduction and authority To
messengers. lie got them from LII
holm. The inference was that Lindho
. was the author and signer OF the lette
though nobody would testify to the
ay thorship OF the signature.
LK Then when Jochim related how
= r. signed the fraudulent election sheets
stated that he was informed that u
were ready for signature and he afii'
. % lhis name without examining them.
sheets were shifted before him one
one Asked who shifted the sheets
.s,c he sipned them the answer was tha
was Lindholm.
There was also that mysterious
Iournment on April 20, when the canN
(. p. should have been made. Jochim u
fed that he came 70 Lansing 10 [
.os, part In the canvass, but lindholm
X. O. him the returns we're not all In and
- there must be an adjournment.
Finally there were the clerks, Po
N and Warren. They we're certain
the tabulations and compilations N
lays by them we're correct and true. "
o.s their work was completed they tu
X G. the sheets over TO Lindholm, who
- came the custodian OF them. In Tact
whole tenor Of the testimony
toward insinuating that whatever
ehne. done was while Lindholm had the 81
lays and that he was the author oi every
which could not be explained ava,
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