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 different from the kind used by the law firm in 1901-2. Subsequent inquiry developed that the style of paper used in the alleged original contract, "Edinample Bond," was not manufactured at the time the document was purported to have been written.

The next day Mr. Heney called Miss Aimee C. Spencer, Miss Edith Bern, and Miss Margaret O'Brien before the Grand Jury. All were at one time stenographers of Mitchell & Tanner, the two former having been regularly employed by the firm, while Miss O'Brien performed special service for Senator Mitchell during his occasional visits to Portland from the National Capital. A. H. Tanner, Jr., was also subpoenaed before the body, as Judge Tanner had stated that his son was then the only regular stenographer in the office, having acted in that capacity during the past six months, but not prior thereto.

About 8 o'clock that evening, while Heney, Burns, Rittenhouse, Puter, McKinley, the Tarpley brothers and Marie L. Ware, were in room 211 of the Hotel Portland, discussing matters in connection with the Mitchell case, Rittenhouse suddenly remarked to Heney:

"How about those misspelled words?"

The Government prosecutor scowlingly replied, "D—n you, I'll dynamite you if you don't keep still about that!" at the same time walking into an adjoining room, and motioning for Rittenhouse to follow. They were joined almost immediately by Burns, who inquired:

"What's that you are talking about?"

"Why, 'Rit' found two misspelled words in this contract here, and I had all the stenographers before the Grand Jury, with Tanner's son," responded Heney, at the same time exhibiting a sheet of paper containing a sentence from

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