The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-06-09

Pn<s-rnt 1T ls-ers-e~ ~ ms ga-~r@nt OF
facts and fnzt Jvsge Langley had
stricken the sane. All tnen | ask@1 sl@sa
20 look and see - ,sis was Dot an exact
copy. Only tyToz.S r1tEen- he looked al y
an6 sasi s. was. / fzs>n told him that y
be would examine again he would Sc
etzz. e. was ty-ea-v~@-sau Dy th@ safe type
vTste- that Rad prepared tns statement
Of facts, ana that ne statement o. facts
was prepared o1 the TyTss-Fr1ie~ n Use u
RS offce He Issaeets AMI said ne thought
A. was ard said X looked az Z Il had been
done IN sgis effice. a. least. he sad X had
tseer done on a Smith Premier typewriter.
vh1ca Is 81 use IN hts Office. Out ne said
he had not Done 80 lTs-Eseff, ard csdn
know vFa0 s2td.
ord. and let's stipuIsts that the same be
Withdrawn and cut out
This he refused 20 do. ] then told
him that under the circumstances We had
concluded that We did not wish the rec
ord examined, especially the ballots or
ozner EXHIBITS. except tnsthe presence OF
some attorney representing Snerfh Van
De Vanser. she. IL Van de Vauter felt
that IL was necessary for some such gre
caution 20 be taken. and he employed
Judge Milo A. Root, of Olympia, as local
attorney 10 act for him. / went before
Chiss Justice Hoyt ana stated that there
were go ballots. exhibits In the case; that
II
I~xSIy or wilfuiIy mutilats or marx the
same our interest might be Jeopar6iZed,
ard asked that the court grant an order
that the ballots or other exhibits in the
case be not inspected except In the pres
snce OF attorneys representing both ap-
p-sIant and respondent, and for that pur-
pose see that no injury sho1ld be done
any other person: also. THAI we had asso-
cfased Judge Root, who could be easily
called into the clerks Office in the event
that any attorney representing Mr.. Moy-
81 wished to look a the ballots. This
order was made by the court, and IL IS
as much protection for one side as the
other simply fnsuring the safety OF the
ballots.
OF the purported decision OF the IT al judge.
even though IL be CARRIED and simply a
newspaper report. would be fatally pTeju-
dtctal because the supreme court would
try the case anyway upon It's merits.
However il has no place in the records
and might be somewhat prejudieial. There
fore I desire TO have this stricken from
the records or course. the supreme court
would not do so except on proof that II
has no place in the records. and for that
purpose I saw County Clerk Gordon i'm
rnediately upon my arrival In Seattle
from Olympia last night and arranged
that he should go over 10 Olympia and eX-
anime the record and see Il these eight
pages were in there when he certified 10
the same. The appearance OF the pages
indicated that they were surreptitiously
entered. They were not indexed. which in
dieated that they were not in there when
Clerk Gordon made his certificate. but OF
course he could not testify TO that with
out a personal inspection, and that is
how it happened that he went over to
Olympia
'Of course I have no means of know
ing how these pages came to he in the re-
cord. They may have got in there by &C
cident. / am slow TO believe that any at
torney in the case should have put them
there purposely. In all the trial of the
case / found the attorneys on the other
side TO be most cordial. honorable and
fair I'm everything that pertained TO the
case. and never saw any indication of any
unfairness or wrong doing. II would be
hard for me TO believe that any different
tactics have been resorted to by any or
the counsel for Mr. Meyer. Therefore l
refuse 10 express any opinion as 10 how
this matter came TO be in the records.