Durango semi-weekly herald., 1904-11-03

The charges We're eight in number
and accused Ellison of petty thefts
through false representations. OF a
bicycle from Geo. F. Hannah. of beat
ing the Centennial club out of board
bill, of beating DR. James NJ Blain
)ut of $25 on fake oil deal. Lieut.
Whtted out of $50 on a ping pong
scheme at Elitch's Gardens. the eDn-
yer Tent & Awing company out OF $50
IN tent which was purchased for
Ellison's private use on the represen-
alton lat il was for the state of Colo
RADIO and for the use of the guards: of
lefanlting A. G. Spaulding d Bro. out
If s24 worth of goods; Gibson g. Co.
md William Blum, tailors, out of suits
If clothes and for failure to pay in col
lections made for the former.
The list is long one.
verdeckbere Says Nobody
Even Knows Who He Is.
Col. Verdeckberg explains how ELI
son got into the guards again by say
ing: I'VE were enlisting men at Gold
field. Capt. Smith Of troop C came to
me and said. Ellison is here and
money. doing nothing. Shall let him
rome in?' Smith and everybody else
knew of the old courtmartial charges
in 1902.
''The situation rather enlisted my
sympathies and I told Gen. Bell that
so far as | was concerned he could
come in, as | guessed the fellow was
really in need Of food You know. you
can hardly turn your back on a man
in such time. even though You know
that he is all that he ought not to be.
He was never trusted with anything
lust allowed to serve as any private
The last anybody who knew him
would do, would be TO take him into
confidence. rely the least on his word
or leave anything to him. He is known
as a deadbeat soldier of fortune. an
name. The charges he makes are
silly"
While in the service Ellison. on
leave of absence, went to the Old
Homestead. a house Of ill-fame in Grip
pie Creek. took out woman called
Edna Smith They went ont horseback
riding together. got drunk, and the
horse Ellison was riding threw him
and stepped on his leg. He was sent
to the hospital and for months was
held there. After the troops were sent
home, Ellison, pretending to be Grip
Pile. in no shape for discharge. con
tinued in the hospital and during all
that time he pretends, In his affida-
Wit. to have been on duty and repre-
sents that he was acting for the mill
la in Cripple Creek. advising Sheriff
Ed Bell and that sort Of thing, He was
| nothing more than private who had
been left in the hospital until he
would consent to declare himself re
'overed from his injuries. He had no
| hing In sight, nothing to do and was
well content to stay in the hospital
at the expense of the state so long as
he might
Ii was not until he conceived the
scheme of selling this affidavit to one
political committee or another. that
he left the Red Cross hospital in Vic
tor.
He tried first to sell II to the Re.
publicans as blackmsiI. then to the
Mine Owners. and finally disposed Of
II to Milton Smith Of the Democratic
Committee. and has since been living
in clover at the Albany hotel In Den
yer. either at the expense Of the Dem.
oeratic committee or at that Of the
hotel management. after the manner
that he knows so we'll.
From the Albany he and the Smith
woman took buggy ride yesterday
afternoon. ell brought her up from
Cripple Creek to enjoy with him the
moment Of sunshine the sale Of the af
fidavit has brought, and together they
are spending some of the proceeds oI
the mendacisus lie for which the Dem
ocratic campaign committee paid hin
out of the pockets Of Its hackers. tbs
Western Federation.
While in the service at Victor, Eli
son secured two horses which h.
turned into the use Of the nationa
guard az his own He made a herol,
effort to collect from the state . bill