Show ballot boxes were THIRD GASES sensational testimony tracing the guilt near the commission door special to feb 28 judge bartib 1 this moraine in the prohibition case that aa the evidence showed pon that the ballot lobea in the third precinct had been tampered tam pared with and contained fraudulent ballots the utah commission could not 20 to them to decide any question on ground the writ of prohibition was granted forbid iline the to make a recount of the ballots frauda and of frauds COL tinned to be in the exam before bartib yesterday joe E obdien OB tien a detective told another story of contemplated fraud obrion testified that he knew a man named joseph grenan he left salt lake however two or weeks ago met grennan in the city about nor alth last and accompanied him as far as george beairs blairs house up the canyon road on the way thence grennan said he wanted to see tom lewis in whose interest he had been working elected to the of county sheriff ore r harvey hardy and eliat be could get or for stuffing the box in the second precinct pie ju lea powers objected to this money as it had reference only to the election of sheriff and to the second precinct but the court overruled thia subject to the objection witness stated atiat they met biair and E W sloan subsequently up the canyon road and witness heard gren aan ask aloan to try and set the keys of alie utah commission room where the ballot were kept for him sloan said he would see him on the fol lowing day about 11 and fix it up with him was anything said about the providing of rickets asked attorney hiles grennan said he had the tickets all ready printed lor sheriff in answer to attorney P L william B said happened about on sunday afternoon november gloan first camhout of the houed in the canyon road and blair came up to them later grennan had told sloan that be wanted to see georee biair about getting into the utah commis sion room where the ballot bobea were but he then say what he wanted beyond that it waa when blair was with them that sloan said be would see grennan on the morrow and biair re baked all attorney williams then riddled 0 brien with questions as to his past history he came here he said ahead of the detectives detec had since run a saloon and followed vadious other occupations prior to coming to salt lake he waa a chicago detective with Pini and pinkerton discharge yon well he said I 1 draw any more salary so I 1 quit laughter he admitted he waa under in the third district court for forgery and that he had received ived 50 from mr mcmahon which money he understood came from the republican committee grennan he eaid wa now in new york obrien was then dismissed and dowey richarda Bic harda took the stand mr testified that a man named G J gordon called at the about midnight one night sub sequent to the election and stating that he bad come to see george blair a clerk of the commission and take him home went up to the commission rooms to find him mr richards enid it was not an unusual thine for laople to visit the bail diug late at night A number of witnesses who were present at the count on the night of the election as judges and spectators testified to the count being correct P H lannan the tribune testified that he knew obrien and that individuals reputation for truth and veracity was decidedly bad george L nya who arved as a member 0 the third precinct canvassing board testified that when his board counted the ballots ot poll no 2 they straight democratic ballota and straight republican ballota ballo tc sir nye stated that some of the derro cratic ballots wore of a ebado than the others and of a heavier paper and that the letter a in the name of A W mccune on a number of ballots wag imperfect as if the type had absen brohen while on the remaining ballots the letter did not show the defect the petitioners petition ers then rested and the defense called R W gioan he said he knew joe grennan and saw him several times at the D committee rooms during the last what did he want to do was aaen he proposed to add a lot of names to tha registry list of democrats we find we told him we want anything of that kind done and had no money for it mr sloan said ha waa not now on speaking epe aking with he contradicted obrien flatly aa to what was said at bis interview with grennan obrien he said was not within bearing being ten rods away mr of the affair waa that greenaa said to him that the bal lot boxes could be stuff ac for lewis for sheriff and thac blair could fix it that the witness replied that he and blair were brothers inlaw and that be did not want to disturb the good feeling between their camiliea by making such a proposition to biair that nothing was said about a montine dext day and that he told blair waft Grf had said aal that alsic hid aal the s of a b had batter not make such a proposition to me borne farther testimony follrad fol load as to OB reputation for brath and veracity which witnesses said was bad after which the case was briefly argued and cut bitted |