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ticity demonstrated beyond a doubt. The evi- 

 dence was so conclusive that Mr. Wallace dared 

 not bring the matter before the Board of Censors 

 of the National Trotting Horse Breeders' Asso- 

 ciation, which settled all pedigrees of doubtful 

 authenticity and was the authorized tribunal of 

 Wallace's Trotting Register. Mr. Wallace made 

 frequent attacks on this pedigree in the papers, 

 but continued to register animals tracing to it, 

 thus perpetrating in the Register what he pre- 

 tended to be a fraud, when his duty as registrar 

 was to have the Board of Censors pass upon it 

 and expunge it from the Register if found in- 

 correct. These attacks were continued until 

 1893, when the matter was brought before the 

 Board of Censors and the Executive Committee 

 of the American Trotting Register Association. 

 Mr. Wallace was advised that on a certain date 

 the pedigree would be taken up, and requested 

 to be present. At the time appointed I went to 

 Chicago, hoping that Mr. Wallace would be 

 present and produce whatever evidence he might 

 have bearing on the pedigree of Sally Russell, 

 but he had no evidence and prudently stayed 

 away. In the presentation of the case I endeav- 

 ored to bring all of the evidence bearing on the 



