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e We n se n mt 2 CE C ti] on the fourteenth of September, and remained two weeks. I saw Lewis two or three times and said I would go out on the street and take the chances un-- less they paid up what they owed me and made arrangements for the future. He put me off, said he would see them. Lafer he said they would give me fifty dollars a month. <I refused the fifty-- dollar offer. He told me I had threat-- ened O'Gorman, who said I might go to hell. Lewis s&#id he did not think it was a square deal towards me, but he could not help it. Again, he said he had one hundréd dollars for me, but he had not cashed the check, that he would have to go to the Bank of To-- ronto in the morning and get it cashe4d. On. the evening of September 28 he gave me that one hundred dollars, and he said they would send me fifty dol-- lars a month. I did not agree to take fifty dollars --a month instead of the one hundred. I came to Detroit. They have been sending me fifty dollars at the beginning of each month by Am-- erican Express' I suppose it _ comes through Lewis' hands. 'When I spoke to Lewis about this matter he said he would have to write or go to Toronto about it--he would have to see them about it. 14 R*CHA T o+. d The affidavit was signed by Pritchett and Circuit Judge William L. Carpen-- ter of the Third Judicial Cireuit, Michi-- gan, before whom the declarations were purported to be made on December 29, In a second afidavit, dated February 7Tth--last, Pritchett made the following declaration :--*"On the day next after the said election day Robert Reid of Reid Bros., Clarence street, London, paper box and bag manufacturers, call-- ed me up at my residence by telephone between 9 and 10 a.m., and asked if 1 could come up town to his office, that he wanted to see me. I said yes, and immediately went to his office and met the said Mr. Robert Reid, who was alone in his office. He said to me : 'Did you fix your box up ?" I said I did not, and that I had left it exactly as it was when it leftthe house-- meaning the polling booth. I asked him why, and said that thene was no danger, as the majority was too large tor a re--count. If they wanted it done I could go over and do it in a very short time. He then said that Mr. Grant of Toronto was up and would see about it. I told him I had slipped about twenty ballots. Some other person came to the door of the office, and I left, and heard no more about it." The Brockville Case. In a third affidavit Pritchett says that on September 26 or 27, 1899, he met Thomas Lewis by .appointment with him at his residence in London, where Lewis produced an aflidavit al-- ready prepared, and told him that they wanted him to sign, it. He asked what it was, and was told that !t was to the (#) In the early part of June Tom Lewis sent me another one hundred d@ollars, and in July he sent me three sums of twenty--five dollars each. Pay-- ments then stopped. I wroté to Lewis that unless they made the agreed pay-- ments I would go home. He did not reply. I wrote twice. I went hnmg A Second AMdavit. effect that he had m do with the Brockville se .'.'fi,,u-l ing, Pritchett says :--"I %t T could not make any such affi and would not sign anything to that effect, Thomas Lewis thien urged me to si the affidavit, and offered _ me '1&: which, he said, he would pay me as soon as I would sign it, which I refus-- ed to do. -- The Thomas Lewis who re--| quested me to make the aftidavit is the , 'same Thomas Lewis with whom I went \from Toronto to: Brockville on April| 10 to take paurt in the election there, and with whom and in company with John -- O'Gorman I-- returned -- from Brockville _ to Toronto on . the night _ of _ the election. Lewis, O'Gorman -- and Alex. 'Smith, the orvzvanizer 'of the Liberal party in On-- tario, all ku..w« that I was in Brock-- ville at the time atorcztoid for asoud!t} twelve days for purposes 'connected with the election. On February i8 '1900, Thomas Lewis called me up by telephone at Detroit, and requested me to meet him at Corolan's saioon in that city. I went immediately to meet him at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. In this interview Lewis told me that the com-- mission to investigate the West Elgin| election -- would commence at St. | Thomas on the next day, and that no| doubt I would be examined the last | of that week or the beginning of the | tnext, and that if I would give evi--| 'dence the commissioners would come ; to Detroit to take it. He did not say whether the commissioners bhad said |they would come to Detroit, but as-- serted that they would come if 1 would | testify, and that all 1 would have to 'say was that so far as my division was concerned everything was regular. I said to him that I did not want to be investigated. I further said to him that if I were investigated I would tell the whole thing. Lewis argued with me that I would be wise to do what he asked of me, and promised that if I did so everything would be fixed up shortly. He wished and offer-- ed to pay me all arrears under the agreement made with me when I was obliged to leave London ten months ago to avoid arrest, and said he would guarantee all future payments prompt-- ly until the whole matter should be fix-- ed up. I replied that 1 did not want his money. He persisted in urging me to give the testimony he wanted, but as I refused to do so he finally said it would be necessary for the com-- missioners to come to Detroit. * Cannot See the End. What he had adduced, said Mr. Whit-- ney, was a smaill portion of the great accumulation of evidence showing what had been going on for aJong time past. What it would end in he would not un-- dertake to say. They might search the records 'of the country for 200 years past for a parallel to the Government's proceeding--the _ guide, philogsopher, friend and associate of these malefac-- tors appointed to the place of prose-- cutor, and the virtuous people of the community, who desired to make good their charges, told.to lay these charges through the solicitor and the friend, if nothing more, of the men who had com-- mitted these crimes. He appealed to the members surrounding the Govern-- ment to consider the shame and indig-- nity of it. 7 9 + R 109