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C. Woodruff, being duly sworn, doth depose and say: That on the night of November first, preceding the last general election as aforesaid, to the best of his recollection, one Samuel Wright, known to the deponent, of the township of Superior, applied to this deponent to print certain ballots as directed by him, alleging that the Republican County Committee, or some persons at Ann Arbor, as understood by this deponent, had unfairly dealt by said Wright and sundry other Republicans in said township of Superior, in the distribution or custody of the ballots of the Republican party, and that they were determined not to use the ballots thus sent by said committee or other persons, but to procure others printed according to their own wishes; that in consequence of the lateness of the hour, said deponent strongly objected to printing said ballots, or opening his office for that purpose; that by the

urging of said Wright, the deponent finally consented to print said ballots, and in company with said Wright did print certain ballots, with such alterations as he directed, and none other; that the first name of the Republican candidate for Senator in the 7th Senatorial District, being unknown to said Wright or this deponent, it was printed "Reuben," according to their mutual impressions, said Wright consenting thereto, knowing that it was a matter of uncertainty, and expressing indifference as to its correctness; that said ballots were all printed under the immediate inspection of said Wright, and that this deponent followed the custom, so far as he knows, universal among printers, of printing in accordance with the directions of persons employing them, without the least deception or intent to deceive.

And this deponent further saith: that some time subsequently, while passing the office of Joslin & Blodget, in the city of Ypsilanti, he was called in and introduced to a man called "Carlisle," with whose christian name he is unacquainted, who presented him with a paper, drawn up in the form of an affidavit, the purport of which the deponent understood, and still believes to be, that he (the deponent) had printed certain ballots, intended to be regular Republican ballots, in which the name of Edmund B. Tyler, (or Edwin B. Hyler, the deponent is now uncertain which,) had been by mistake printed "Reuben;" that this deponent peremptorily refused to make such affidavit, for the reason that it was not true; that he declined making any explanation to said Carlisle, for the reasons that he (the deponent) recognized no right in said Carlisle to make such inquiries; and, further, that such explanation could only be given in violation of the confidence understood to exist between printers and those to whom such services are rendered; that this deponent has always held himself in readiness to testify to the facts of this case, when called upon by a proper tribunal, but has never been willing to sub

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