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Show IANTEDT0 CALL I MANY VOTERS I Request to Summon I . Thousands. I Colorado Democrats Hoped H to Prolong Inquiry In- H to Frauds. H Desired, to Take Testimony, of - Siz Thousand Persons, but Re-. Re-. quest Is Denied. DENVER, Feb. 3. At tho session of tho Joint legislative committee considering tho lf Peabody-Adams gubernatorial contest to-day. to-day. Attorney John A. Rush announced thnt tho Democrats expected to take tho evidence of 5000 or C0O0 persons cither be-fore be-fore tho committee or before notaries. Ho asked to have tho ballots taken beforo notaries when witnesses wero to be heard. LL Thlrt request was denied by Chairman William H Griffith. Advised by Lawyer. James H. Pershing, a Republican law-yer, law-yer, who acted as Supreme court watcher In precinct C, ward 1A, testified that legal ballots wero cast in that precinct by put-ting put-ting them ln tho outside box when tho glass box was 111 led He said before this was dono the election officials consulted with him, and the action was taken with his consent. In his opinion, tho election in thnt precinct .was conducted with abso-"lute abso-"lute honesty, although one expert had tcstlllcd thnt there wero over sixty ballots written by one or two persons. Ballots Are Identified. Ten witnesses were examined this afternoon, each of whom ldcntllleQ ns his ballot one of thoso which tho Pcabody IH experts had declared lo have been writ-ten writ-ten by onc or two persons. From ono pre- IH clnct where an expert hnd testified that seventeen Democratic and six Republican ballots wcro written by ono person, tho Democratic attorneys produced six men, each of whom Identified one of the Ropub-llcnn Ropub-llcnn ballots as the ono ho wrote. This IH completely demolished tho export's- report on this group of ballots. All of these wit- IH ncsses were business men residing in Val- jH verdc, a suburb of Denver. Ono of them IH had once been Mayor of Valverde and twice Treasurer of that town. In another case a Republican election Judge Identified tho Republican ballots which the experts had declared fraudu-lent fraudu-lent ns being his own ballot and two which he had written for Illiterate voters. To Photograph Ballots. When Attorney Rush, representing Gov. Adams, asked to havo photographed cer-tain cer-tain ballots reported as fraudulent by ex-ports ex-ports along with the handwritings of wit-ncsses wit-ncsses who had ldcntlncd tho ballots as their own, legally nnd regularly prepared and cast, Attorney Ward, for Pcabody, requested that other ballots Included In tho number alleged to be fraudulent, atao bo photographed. He explained that ho desired this done to show that hnndwrit-ingn hnndwrit-ingn could bo so much alike us to be con- H fusing The request was granted. Tho 1 committee accldr-d to hold a morning scs- 1 slon tomorrow, beginning at 10 o'clock. H Guilty of Illegal Voting. William C. Lyons was found guilty of Illegal voting by a Jury ln tho Criminal court today He will ask for a now trial 1 and. pending a decision, must remain In 1 Jail, bond being donled him by Judgo IH Johnson. H William Kelly and Charles Mueller pleaded guilty to charges of being acccs- H sories to Illegal voting, and wero given ninety days each In Jail. Tho lnforma- H tlons accused them of taking a number of women employed ns restaurant waitresses H to the polls and having them voto without IH having legally qualified. At the night meeting of tho committee H a number of other witnesses from Val- H verdc were called. In addition to Identify- H lng their ballots, each of the witnesses tcstlllcd to the regularity of tho election 1 In their precincts. |
