The San Francisco call., 1898-01-22
WORK OF SPIES AND
 TELEPHONES H. H. Boyce w atched at a Cincinnati
 Hotel. Tab Closely Kept on All LOng-Distance Con-
 verSatiOn. Interesting Testimony in the Senatorial Bribery
 Charges. THREATS MADE BY WIRE. Those Listening at the Phone Claimed to Have Heard Boyce Say He
 Would Kill Otis.
Interesting Testimony in the Senatorial Bribery
 Charges.
THREATS MADE BY WIRE.
Those Listening at the Phone Claimed to Have Heard BOyce Say He
 Would Kill Otis.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

CINCINNATI, Jan. 21-The legiSla- tive committee Investigating the charges of bribery in the recent cleo ton of a United States Senator at Co., lumbus held a session here tonight and will continue it's sittings here to- morrow. All members of the committee were present, together with quite del | egation from Columbus and others from different parts of the State. Three members of the House committee on | the Otis investigation were present. Rutan, Spellmyer and Kenny. Spell myer and Kenny are Democrats, and Rutan. chairman of the House commit tee, is one of the Republicans who voted against Hanna. The other two members of the House committee. Box we'll and Rankin, of Fayette. who voted for Hanna were not present.
 The committee was given quite a tel | ephone exhibition before 1t assembled. | The Great Southern Hotel at Colum- bus. which was the headquarters of the anti-Hanna men during the recent con- test, was called up, and while the com mittee was talking in the private office | of the Gibson House with parties in | Columbus. Jerry Bliss and his steno- | grapher were at the telephone down. ! | that was said. This was done to show | how all of the conversations of Boyce | with certain parties in Columbus was | taken down while Boyce was here and | the Senatorial contest was going on at | the State capital. It is alleged that all | of the conversations were taken down | and are a matter of record without any | wire-tapping, as the different tele- | phones in the Gibson House are all on l the same circuit.
 Horace B. Dunbar, proprietor and ! manager of the Gibson House, was the only witness examined tonight. The clerks and others at the hotel will be | examined tomorrow. MT. Dunbar pro- duced his hotel register, showing that 1 Henry H. Boyce of New York occupied | room 226 from January to January 10. MT. Dunbar testified to having his sus- picions aroused and set the clerks to l watching Boyce.
 Allen O. Meyers Jr., one of the day l clerks, arranged for a stenographer's report of the conversations Boyce had over the telephone during the day. Russell Pryor. the night clerk, ] took down the conversations at night | Boyce was given the key to the pri- vate office on the second floor when ever he wanted 1t, and the arrange l ments down stairs were always com plete for reports of whatever went over the telephone wires when Boyce was using the private office. The stenographer, who has a desk in the office, was called into reQuisition whenever Boyce called any one up.
 MT. Dunbar recited many of these conversations over the long distance phone. In one of them the major was called up at Columbus and said: Shane and the President will ar range things on Saturday." Boyce re- piled: Have seen one of the party Wants money. How can I handle him?''
 The reply from Columbus was: Suppose O betravs you, what then ?"
 MT. Dunbar said that Boyce repli- ed: NO danger. I would kill him. Dead men tell no tales.'
 MT. Dunbar testified that Allen O. ! Meyers Jr., who was in Columbus as one of the managers against Hanna, was called upon Friday, January ', by Jerry Bliss, and told of the situation here and what Boyce was doing Mey- CTS 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 January s. H. H. Hollenbeck of Char don. Ohio. registered at the Gibson first. He had a room assigned to him, but was seen to communicate with Boyce. The next name on the regis ter to that of Hollenbeck was E. H. Archer. Columbus. Ohio. Deputy Rail- road Commissioner.
 Mir Dunbar showed the registers to the committee with all those names and stated that MT. T. J. Mulvihill, one of the leading Democratic mana gers of this city, pointed Hollenbeck out to the detectives. They watched all the movements of Hollenbeck and traced him to the Union Trust and Savings Bank, of which J. G. Schmidt lapp was president. He was then traced to the different places of meet ing 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. MT Dunbar had the housekeeper and chambermaids watch the movements around room 226 On Sunday night Boyce told Dunbar he had been here representing the Presi- dent and complained about detectives being put onto him and about others watching him. and especially about the parties in room 215. After paying his bill on Monday and before departing. Mir Boyce told Dunbar that if he want ed to win some money to bet on Hanna After Senator Long had examined Dunbar at length, Q short cross-exan- ination was conducted by Senator Gar field. MT. Dunbar said he was a Dem ocrat, that he was intimately acquaint- ed with Allen O. Meyers, Charles L.. Kurtz, Jared P. Bliss and others who were recently engaged in the opposi- tion at Columbus to Senator Hanna
 He testified that he had been with them at the Great Southern Hotel be- fOre the Legislature ballOted for ITuit ed