The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1877-12-19

| finally agreed JnaJ tlOWerS was WIOnS aiiN
made his agree with Carson's as he had 1t.
John b. Wyant sworn:
@ Where do you reside2 Tionesta
| township.
@ Were you one of the election board at
the last election held in TionestaR A
| was.
q What capacityH A Inspector, highest
inspector.
their tally at all times did your clerks at
all times agree i'm their tally counting that
vote? A No, sir; they did not.
@ Would either of the clerks get more
marks than the Other7 A Yes, sir.
q In what way did you dispose of thatH
A Well, we took one clerk, Mr.. Carson,
and the others tailed up with him.
q Marked up with himP A Yes, sir.
| q Did you or did you not count the
votes over againH A No, sir; we did not;
corrected the one by the other.
q Do you remember whether at each
time you corrected Mr.. Flowers from Mr..
Carson's7 A Yes, sir.
@ Mr.. Flowers and Carson were your
| clerks? A Yes, sir.
@ Did you look at the tickets A 1 did,
1 did, sir, look at the tickets.
| @ May there not be an error in the
count; may there or may there not be an
error in the count of that voter A That
/ | could not say from the best of my
knowledge. There was an error some
three or four times that we tailed up, the
Flowers count being back; there was
! from one TO two tallies in several instances
that Carson had more than what Flowers
| had that is, they were not correct, that is,
| they did not correspond with one another;
several times there was one or two; Flow
| ers had made mistake and set down the
| wrong number, Carson's we took for
granted to be with the ticket; we took
that for granted to be correct.
| q Did you or did you not, in these or
rors, correct anything by the ballotsP a
No, sir; just that when took notice that
when FlOwors got behind we would check
him on that, and then count up.
Cross-exaInined-Q That error rs far as
you could judge, was always of Mr.. Flow
ers, not of the counts? A Yes, sir. not of
the count, as far as l could judge to the
best of my knowledge, on Mr.. Flowers
on his part, not in the count, for l was
very particular with these tickets to watch
putting them down; there were some
three or four times we had to tally up on
his count because he was so slow that he
got behind, and there were several times
that he put the marks to the wrong place.
@ Was not Mr.. Flowers poor scholar?
A lie is none of the best scholars.
@ Did he not show incompetency in tai
lying the votes by making these mistakes?
A Yes, he did.
Do you pretend to say that Mr.. Flowers
was every time mistaken? A Yes, he
was mistaken every Time bOhJ Is Wnen
he tailed up four times.
q think you mean to say-A Every
time, to the best of my knowledge, he
was behind.
@ Might he not have been correct some
of these times? A He might, as far as
? know of, that is more than can say, be-
cause the best is liable to err, as far as Mr..
Flowers is concerned he tried to do the
best he could, sometimes he would make
a stroke twice; l saw myself he marked
the wrong place, and had to straighten it
up there was times-there was as much
i as four times that he was wrong.
i @ That you supposed he was wrong? A
Yes, sir; we did as near our duty rs We
e could, the best is liable to mistakes;
q know there were mistakes IN tallyinl
these four times, If not oftener, that w,
Y stopped and Tailed up.
r ON PART OF DEFENDANT.
# James Carson, sworn:
4 q Where do you reside, Mr.. Carson? ]
: In Tionesta township.
s @ Are you one of the clerks of the cleo
ton last iall 4? A was.
@ State, sir, whether there was any ell
3. rors in the count of the returns of tn
votes? A There were not; not what
'r counted, to my knowledge, but there wa
,f on the part of the other clerk, but we col
rected that.
L. @ Do you know how they occurred wit
~ him2 A Failing to mark to the right one
+ @ How was it corrected? A Correcte
)r by the tally sheet l was marking on.
@ State whether all the officers wer
re paying attention or not to these matters
N correctionH A There was one inspectC
and the Judge, and the constable was pay
ns ing attention to it.
@ Do understand you to say that L
y counted too many for Hasletf A Ye
g. sir; when thsy were read off for Agnev
Dan. Black read them off a little too fast
W Flowers wasn't very good scholar and
e. would go ahead; he counted; he wou
not pay much attention where he WI
a counting. He marked what was callC
ro out for Agnew to Haslet l think it w
~ five votes when it was discovered, al
u then it was corrected by his emitting
- count any for Haslet.
III @ Which clerk was correct, your tai
ia or the tally of Flowers? Is that what W
say yourself that if his would have be,
he correct he would have had five votes f
m Agnew? A He marked these five votes
=" Agnew right along; and then held OFF
0t- Haslet till mine came even.
@ When they were read for Haslet
marked five for Agnew, that were read I
as. Haslet2 a No, he marked five for Has
that were read for Agnew.
ed @ Then there were five votes read I
m. Agnew, Flowers marked for Haslet?
" Yes, sir.
eg- Q Now you have explained one til
=. JneY nau Ifldue Il mistake, now were
iaI mistakes make the other two times Y
in speak OFF A The same way, his failing
count.
&C. @ And corrected in the same way?
nd Corrected the same way.
''N @ You have no knowledge of the coU
IN further than what you marked it?
=. don't know anything about the CALI
CIT out of the votes; 1 don't know about
as calling out of the vote; 1 do not.
@ Might there not have been error
not the count? A l could not say, of cou
ne. l had nothing to do with the reading
"' the votes all had to do was to ma
them down to the right man as they w,
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