Show shiow eliat fraud was aued IS some sensational discoveries m the hearing of the election oases the arguments in the sanpete raunda ans suits closed yesterday afternoon and judge bartch took the case under pending the hearing of the prohibition cabes instituted to prevent the recount of the county ballots to determine the result of the election ama a aldach a democrat and the if election in mount precinct wag called a wit for the republicans he was aked to detate what was done with the balot boxes after the count was completed the question waa objected to ai not applicable to a prohibition pro beeding eding ce anis objection questioned the right to introduce any testimony relative to the ballet boxes mr zane argued in s of the of the proposed evidence that the petitioners petition ers contended that the ballots counted by the commission as ballots were not the identical votes cast and that a the bobea and not been preserved according to law the functions of the boxes aa evidence had ceased mr williams replied that the question of fraud raised could not be made an begue in a prohibition proceeding but could only be gone into in a contest case it mattered not whether the boxes had been over and over again he claimed BO far as the pending proceeding wea concerned the court decided to admit the eyia denes subject to a later ruline on the objection mr aldrich accordingly stated that being postmaster eter he took the boxes to the postoffice post office on election night and to his residence next day placing them in his parlor which was not occupied where they remained until they were to the poet office from hie house by his two associate judges he was amazed to find that the constitutional convention box was open the lock of the box he said was defective and the withdrawal of the key from it limes unlocked it while the boxes were at bis house he had the keys to them in his possession posses aion on cross examination by judge powers mr aldrich said that be did not change any ballots while the boxes were at his house and that no one else had to the boat of his knowledge witness stated on redirect examination that he had read that the delegate box was unlocked when it reached the commission but ha said il must have become unlocked in transit as is bad be n locked and sealed when shipped abner crane the republican election judge ff mount pleasant precinct was the next witness he testified to the taking of tb ballot bobea by mr aidrich and stated that be was sent by the latter after abe boxes when the ordered their shipment to bait lake ciar he took the third judge 0 W andersen a democrat with him when he entered sir baldrichs Ald richs parlor to prevent any EIS acion he eaid that might be aroused oy a republic can having t 0 ballot boxes in his pos beeston alone he ed condition as one of intense excitement and fear when it was on taking the boxes to the e that the delegate one was open crane said that aid rich suggested a recount then and there but the witness decided that it would not do to abs tbs baliola and 0 o they were careful bot to put their augers on ithem the boll li ie and ahe registry book of hia precinct he said agreed when they were coin pared on the of election the letcher statement shows a difference of nine between tue two W D a member of the pleasant city testified that he watched the count of the dee gate vote on election night and that it was properly counted two or three of the scratched ballots contained lesa than seven william luke a manti democrat was called nest he testified abat he served as abs tbs presiding judge nt elec tion in his precinct at the november election and that be took possession of the ballot boxes after the count was completed and kept them hotl the of november Nov embar when ho scat them to chairman letcher by express mr luke eaid he did act compare the registry book and poll list on election night but other judges had and bad reported that they agreed he testified abat he kept the tally theota in one of the ballot bhea until the dav after election when he sent the sheets to salt lake in response rep to a question by judge howera mr lube said that the judges kept a tally on places of paper and then put figures instead of tallies on the tally sheets etien you did not return the original tally sheet remarked the judge that waa always the way it WAR done 8 I 1 have acted as a judge of election three limes mr lake informed his brother democrat further that the pou list showed en election naghi abat five men who had voted lor county officers had not voted for convention delegates judge howera showed t na witness the manti list with all the voters marked as voting for delegates whereupon mr luke said he thought be could name men among those on the aliat liat who had not voted delegates jadee howera did not pursue this line of testimony but J adge hiles followed it up mr luke said be wag sure jacob not voted for constitutional delegates as hia nanu was not on the convention registration keller waa marked on the poll list as havi voted for delegates though the registry book showed that he waa not registered this testimony indicated that the poll list had been tampered with since the election and this suspicion was rendered a certainty by the testimony of the next wit nasa james H lowry the Ke publican judge of election of manti precinct mr lowry stated that the manti poll list showed on the night of election that balota had been cast for constitutional delegates while the number shown to have voted abo other ballot was the same poll list now represented by its marking that every man voted had voted constitutional delegate ballot aa well as the other mr lowry had performed the duty of keeping the poll ast on election day and mr zane handing him the list now asked him if be bad made all the crosses that appeared on it after exam the list mr lowry replied 1 I dont think I 1 made them all I 1 dont think I 1 made that cross opposite jacob keller on the poll list were two columns opposite the names ef tha one being provided for indicating the men who had voted the general ticket and the other enow who had voted the con ticket it was a crosa in the latter column the witness referred to after examining the croc further he exclaimed 1 I make it no air I 1 did not did you not make it by mistake asked judae powers 1 I make it I 1 feel tiva of it the witness reiterated the ink aeed in making the mark was anch darber than that with which moat of the other marks on the list bad been made and the witness said that was one reason why he was sure he bad not made it mr lowry then stated that two kinds of ink were used in making the two crosses opposite the name of T N bleat the cross in the constitutional convention column was much blacker than tha other mr bleat could not haye voted for constitutional delegates aa his name was not on the convention registry rei stry list R uben Christian sun one of the judges of election of gunnison precinct testified that men voted in hia precinct constitutional delegates and for other officers and that the registry beok and tho poll list as to these figures on election night he was shown the reaia try book which had been kept bv niels C Sore neon on the day of election it now represented that men had voted tre witness said that the word voted opposite the name of haas haneen sr was not in tle handwriting of but wai written in a better hand than tle batters lat mr hansen he flolid wag in the southern part of the territory on election day and therefore could not behave voted in gunnison Gunn precinct the case is detill on |