The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-22
INVESTIGATING BRIBERY.
The Mysterious Boyce Said He Would
Kill n Man II He should Prove
n Traitor

h1li n man II He Should fTose
Traitor.
Cincinnati. Ohio, Jan 21.-The legisla-
tive committee investigating the Otis
charge of bribery in the recent election
of a United States senator al Columbus.
had sensation here tonight. The ex-
animation was held in the assembly
room of the Gibson house. 1t is charged
in the resolutions adopted separately by
both branches of the Ohio legislature
that II. II. Boyce of New York came
to the Gibson house In this city few
days before the ballotlng for United
States senator began and made propo-
sition of bribery to Representative Otis
Boyce stopped at the Gibson house. 1t
is charged by members of the commit
tee that Boyce fled from this city on
Monday, Jan. 10, and that he cannot
now be located, although the commit
tee has exhausted its resources in try
ing TO secure his attendance as a wit
ness.
Horace b. Dunbar. proprietor and
manager of the Gibson house, was the
only witness examined tonight Mr.
Dunbar produced his hotel resister
showing that Henry Boyce of New
York occupied room 226 from Jan. to
Jan. 10. Mr.. Dunbar testified to having
his suspicious aroused and set the
clerks to watching Boyce. Allen o.
Myers, Jr, one of the day clerks, ar
ranged for stenographers report of
telephone during the day. Russell
Prior, the night clerk, took down the
conversations at night. Boyce was
given the key to the private office on the
second floor whenever he wanted 1t,
and the arrangements downstairs were
always kept for records, for whatever
went on over the wires when Boyce
was in the private office. The stenog-
rapEer who has desk in the office
was called into requisition whenever
Boyce called any one up. Mr.. Dunbar
recited many of these conversations
over the long-distance telephone. In
one of them the major was called up at
Columbus and said:
shane and the president will ar
range things on Saturday"
Boyce replied: Have seen one OF
the parties. Wants money. How can 1
handle him?'
The reply from Columbus was:
Suppose Q. betrays you, what them"
Mr.. Dunbar said that Boyce replied:
No danger, l will kill him. Dead
men tell no tales
Mr.. Dunbar testified that Allen O.
Myers Jr., who was in Columbus as
one of the managers against Hanna,
was CALLED upon Friday night. Jan. 7,
by Jerry Bliss, and told of the situa-
ton here, and what Boyce was doing.
Myers advised Bliss that a man named
Hollenbeck would leave Columbus for
| Cincinnati that night with money and
| to have him watched. The next morn
ing the Miller Detective agency was
employed to watch Boyce and keep
track of Hollenbeck on his arrival.
On Jan. s, Hollenbeck of Chardon. o.,
| registered at the Gibson for breakfast.
| He had no room assigned to him, but
| was seen to communicate with Boyce.
| The next name on the register to that
! of Boyce was T.. H. Archer Columbus,
| o., deputy railroad commissioner. Mr..
! Dunbar showed the register to the
committee with all those names and
stated that Mr.. T. J. Mulvhill. one of
| the leading democratic managers of the
| city pointed Hollenbeck out to the de-
| tcetiyes. They watched all the move
| ments of Hollenbeck and traced him to
! the Union Trust 81 Savings bank, of
Which J. G. Schmidtlapp was presi-
dent. He was then traced to the diff
| ferent places of meeting as charged by
! Representative Otis.
While Hollenbeck did not remain in
! Cincinnati Boyce was here on Friday,
Saturday, Sunday and Monday At the
| suggestion of Jerry Bliss, MIR. Dunbar
had the housekeeper and chamber
maids watch the movements around
Room 226. On Sunday night Boyce
told Dunbar that he had been here rep
| resenting the president, and COM
planned about detectives being put onto
him and about others watching him,
and especially about the parties in
|
| Monday and before departing, Mr.
| Boyce told Dunbar that If he wanted
to win some money to bet on Hanna.
After Senator Long mad examined
Dunbar at length, a short cross-exami-
nation was conducted by Senator Gar
field. Mr.. Dunbar said he was demo-
GRAFT and that he was Intimately &C.
quainted with Allen O. Myers, Charles
| l.. Kurtz, Jared =. Bliss and others
| who were recently engaged in the oppo-
sition at Columbus to Senator Hanna.
He testified that he had been with them
at the Great Southern hotel before the
| legislature balloted for United States
| senator. When the testimony of Mi
Dunbar was concluded the committee
| adjourned until 9 a. m tomorrow.
1t is announced by the committee that
Colonel T. c. Campbell will be called as
soon as he can be reached, and that Rep
resen alive Otis will probably be exam
| ined in Columbus.
| Pending the negotiations and move
| ments of Boyce and Hollenbeck in this
city. Colonel Campbell was active as the
| attorney of Boyce. In lengthy state
ment Colonel Campbell alleges that Boyce
offered him $1,000 as a fee TO act as the
| middle man with Otis.