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Show democrats are to ! Open ballot boxes DENVER, Colo., Feb. t-The Democratic Demo-cratic attorneys In the Peabody-Adams gubernatorial contest are securing depo- -sltlons of Voters In several counties outside out-side of Denver. Before the Joint committee commit-tee today three ballot boxes from Las Animas county, where the Democrats allege al-lege flagrant fraud were committed by the Republicans, were turned over to experts ex-perts selected by the Democrats. Three boxes from Las Animas county will be opened and possibly others from Huerfano Huer-fano county. While the Democrats discredit ail expert ex-pert testimony on handwriting, they assert as-sert that in these two counties over one thousand ballots were written by one or two persons, and if the committee accepts ac-cepts the reports of experts regarding Denver votes they should also accept similar reports concerning Las Animas and Huerfano votes. If this be done, they declare. Gov. Adams will retain his seat. Two ballot boxes opened today were in bad condition, and the Republicans may ask that the testimony which the Democrats Demo-crats expect to secure from these boxes shall be thrown out on this account. Eleven witnesses Identified their ballots today, and all but one picked out their ballots from s number of others. The ballots identified today were selected from several precincts and hzi ben dwlared fraudulent by three different experts. More ballots slleged by the experts to have teen fraudulently cast In the interests in-terests of Adams were identified as genuine gen-uine by the voters themselves at the night session of the committee. An entire list classilled by Expert 8peneer as spurious In one prcclnrt was Identified by one of the Judges by the'names appealing In the polling list. He testified that he was personally per-sonally acquainted with all the persons whose names were on the list. Three ballot boxes from Hastings, 8e-gundo 8e-gundo and Gray Creek, towns In Las Animas Ani-mas county, were opened at the request of Gov. Adams' attorneys and the contents con-tents turned over to the Democratic experts ex-perts for examination and report. |