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Show MORE FRAUDULENT BALLOTS. Handwriting Experts Testify to Con- tents of Moro Opened Ballot Boxes. DENVER. Jan. 31. Five precincts out-sldo out-sldo of Denver were reported on by the handwriting experts In the Adams-Pea-body gubernatorial contest this afternoon. Tho experts testified that out of 1211 ballots, bal-lots, OCO of which were marked for Adams and IMS for Peabody. they found 270 Democratic and '1 Republican ballots written writ-ten ln fourteen handwritings. Seven of these ballots, cast In Adams county ln a precinct forty miles from Denver, were ln tho same handwriting as that which was most prevalent In the Denver boxes, according to a statement of one of tho experts After tho commlttco took a recess. State Senator William II. Adams, brother of Gov Adams and a resident of Alamosa, whero the experts testified there wero 210 fraudulent ballots out of a total of Sl cast In two precincts, declared that In these precincts there aro between 120 and 130 Mexican voters, most of whom wero assisted by. an Interpreter to preparo their ballots This point will be brought out whon the Democratic sldo Is heard according to Senator Adams. |