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Show niUBY'H STOKY. Federal OlllrcrM luNilgaLcd tbe Krtlsu Attack 011 di rover. 0. t. Morion' A viae to IliKby. Sun Fraucirico, 25. A Portland prfss dispatch Bays: W. B. Higby, who is undi;r indictment for nuborua tion of pi'rjury, and in jail in default of bonds, Las j uat made the following affidavit in regard to the Grover investigation: in-vestigation: 1, W. B. Higby, being duly sworn, would state that A. W. Waters, United estates marshal, and John Kelly, collector col-lector of customs of Oregon, hired and induced W. H. Stiles to make the affidavit that be did; that I was present at the Cosmopolitan hotel in Portland and heard and saw the above done; that John-Kelly paid Stiles' way horn the junction to Port-laud, Port-laud, and that be paid his way at the St. Charles hotel while be was there, and that John Kelly induced me, W. R. Higby, to procure the affidavit ol E. A. Laite; that Morison C. Athey wrote tbe affidavit of E. A. Lake; that he knows all about the transac- 1 tion; that it wa done in David Good , sell's office in Holmes block; that I ever induced or tried to ioduce any one to swear to anything that I knew tobc false, but that John Kelly told me to sret Lake to awear to what be me to gei iaiie to awear to wnai oe did; that in payment to Lake for the above I gave an order on Waters in accordance with John Kully'a ordors. The object of the whole thing was to destroy any infiuen :e that Grover night have in the Uailed States sen ato, and also to aflect the next June election. I interviewed Morton al Ben Holladay'p, in Portland, and informed in-formed bim ot these facts, and that if I was put on the stand my testimony testi-mony would be in accordance therewith. there-with. He said for me not to come before the investigating committee in Oregon but to come to Washington, thai my mileage and fees would be paid, and that I kept out of the way under Morton's instructions. |