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Show TESTIMONY OF EXPERTS IS PROVED WORTHLESS Witnesses In Denver Election Fraud Cases Positively ' ' Identify the Ballots Cast by Them. .' DENVER. Feb. 4. At the session of the , j Joint legislative committee considering the ' 2'eabody-Adams gubernatorial contest Fri- - day. Attorney John A. Rush announced that the Democrats expected to take the i evidence of 6000 or 6000 persons either be fore the committee or before notaries. He asked to have the ballots taken before 1 ' notaries when witnesses were to be heard. This request was denied by Chairman William H. Griffith. James H. Pershing, a Republican lawyer, law-yer, who acted as Supreme court watcher In precinct 6,- ward 14, testified that legal ballots were cast In that precinct by put- ' ting them in the outside box when the glass box was filled. He said before this was done the election officials consulted with him, and the action was taken plth his consent. In his opinion, the election In that precinct was conducted with absolute abso-lute honesty, although one expert had testified that there were over sixty ballots written by one or two persons. Ten witnesses were examined Friday afternoon, each of whom Identified as his ballot one of those which the Peabody experts had declared to have been written writ-ten by one or two persons. From one precinct pre-cinct where an expert had testified that seventeen Democratic and six Republican ballots were written by one person, the Democratic attorneys produced six men, each of whom identified one of the Republican Repub-lican ballots as the one he wrote. This completely demolished the expert's report on this group of ballots. All of these witnesses wit-nesses were business men residing in Val-verde, Val-verde, a suburb of Denver. One of them had once been Mayor of Valverde and twice Treasurer of that town. In another case a Republican election judge identified the Republican ballots which the experts had declared fraudulent fraudu-lent as being his own ballot and two which he had written for illiterate voters. When Attorney Rush, representing Gov. Adams, asked to have photographed certain cer-tain ballots reported as fraudulent by experts ex-perts along with the handwritings of witnesses wit-nesses who had identified the ballots as their own, legally and regularly prepared and cast. Attorney Ward, for Peabody. requested that other ballot included in tha number alleged to be fraudulent, alao be photographed. He explained that he desired this ctrne to show that handwritings handwrit-ings could ba so much alike as to be confusing. con-fusing. The request was granted. The committee oeclded to hold a morning session ses-sion today, beginning at 10 o'clock. William C. Lyons was found guilty of Illegal voting by a Jury In the Criminal court today. He will ask for a new trial and, pending a declblon, must remain in jail, bond being denied him by Judge Johnson. William Kelly and Charles Mueller pleaded guilty to charges of being accessories acces-sories to Illegal voting, and were given ninety days each In Jail. The Informations Informa-tions accused them of taking a number cf women employed as restaurant waitresses to the polls and having them vote without having legally qualified. At the night meeting of the committee a number of other witnesses from Valverde Val-verde were called. In addition to identifying identify-ing their ballots, each of the witnesses testified to the regularity of the election In their precincts. |
