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Show Ballot Boxes Turned ' ' ' Over to Experts Democrats in Colorado Are Now Willing Will-ing to Have Experts on Handwriting. ; ; DENVER, Colo., Feb, 7. The Democratic Demo-cratic attorneys ln tho Peabody-Adama gubernatorial contest arc socurlng depositions depo-sitions of voters ln several counties outside out-side of Denver. Before tho Joint commlttco commlt-tco today threo ballot boxes from Las Animas county, whero tho Democrats al-logo al-logo flagrant fraudu woro committed by tho Republicans, wcro turned over to experts ex-perts selected by tho Democrats. Thico boxes from Las Animas county will bo opened and possibly others from Huerfano Huer-fano county While tho Democrats discredit all expert ex-pert testimony on handwriting, they assort as-sort that ln these two counties over ono thousand ballote wore written by ono or two persons, and if the commlttco accepts ac-cepts the reports of exports regarding Denver votes they should also accept similar roports concerning Las Animas and Huerfano votes. If this be done, they dcclaro, Gov. Adams will retain his seat. Two ballot boxce opened today wero In bad condition, and tho Republicans may ask that tho testimony which tho Democrats Demo-crats expect to secure from these boxes shall bo thrown out on this account. Eleven witnesses Identified their ballots today, and all but ono picked out their ballots from a number of others. The ballots Identified today wero solccted from soveral preclncta and had been declared fraudulent by three different oxperts. More ballots alleged by the exports to have boon fraudulently cast ln the Interests In-terests of Adams wero Identified as genuine gen-uine by tho voters themselves at the night session of the committee. An entire list classified by Expert Spencer as spurious ln one precinct was identified by ono of the Judges bv the names appearing ln the polling list. "He testified that he was personally per-sonally acquainted with all the persons whqac names were on the ll3t. Three ballot boxes from Hastings, So-gundo So-gundo and Gray Creek, towns ln Lae Animas Ani-mas county, were opened at the request of Gov. Adams' attorneys and tho contents con-tents turned over to the Democratic experts ex-perts for examination and report. |