Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1880-03-04
The Great Fraud.
Further gns~.sigasion

The Great fraud.
Further Gss~.stgssicn.
THr RnowNFVID FoRGEGlES.
kUoUsrN. Feb 2j.-Mr nale's in,es.:-
eating Committee had meeting Wetlass.la,
evening in Representative Han. The c,i-
dence in the Brownfcld case vas completed.
Eli Bean, first Solec,man % Brownfeli cx-
amined the return of the vote fnr Culn.y
officers thrown in that town IN Sepiemii,f
lie testified that he had written the body %
the return aud il had been sealed up in open
town meeting. but he had not Mrit,ea the
words "liruwnfeld" and Oxford" in the
beginning of the return indicating where !;
was from. lie had no doubt these names
had been added since the return had leli his
hands. lie had put 1t in the post-oiicc.
This return vas from a heavy Greenhack
town and was ccan;cd notwithstanding the
omission on his part which had proved fatal
in Republican returns. In regard to Alfred
5. kimball instead Of Afford be might have
made the correction himself
T1IE WASHINGTON COUNTY CA~E>.
The Washington County case Of Addison
was taken up. Edward \. Austin. Town
Clerk of Addison, testified 10 being prcscn,
at the September meeting and assisted in
making up the returns. He examined the
returns for Senators. The body was written
hy himself: knew the hand-W ritinE Of the
Ne.ectmcn and the return was signed bv
them. lie made oJt the return giving the
whole number Of votes At 10. when il
should have been 3H9 The mistake was
made by adding the votes of two can.lli'c.
on each ticket. Ga November Sih. Talbot.
Grernhacker. o3 the Hnari al; NcIccim.n
came 10 him aul said that "a mistake hli
been ma,ir in the r,tsn ana be- wanted "a
amended lic brought nov lr:urn u.,-
ci>cl, ike the one sent. ouN in blau'.
which be- said had c,nl, from the N,etcisr,
at State, office He had receives. ]; f-..i
Geo. " nrisko. editor 81 the Marhias fs.
'nH. r Democratic paper. tie Told Talbo;
be- knew of no law whereby Ne hal . r.. Ia
- make neS iciurn ami viines, r,fa~cd 90
do -. On Noudav following Talbot came
again and threatened II the return va. aot
mlde out witness would lose his office us1i
wear The ba-e4--...f rrai4ri', ,n 'evr a-s.
~ tad too ..f45l v-- ralm-.. s.s. ..... ..
tt' 'ahuia,ion notv.'h>i lnding the iirr-a-
.aut.e-.
I'M toNt~UnEp' s,~i
IA \ Tnokcy, q Ggccuhaeker auG fura
ClcIk Of J0ncsnoro'. testified that b. VA.
present AZ the town meeting in September
and made up the return at tina, town af the
hail where the meeting va, held \ fc;au.
Va. shown him and be Identified Il. he
Eita I'D 81 e
signed bY the Sclvctairn AND himself. al.
dressed 10 the Secretary oi State aud depu,-
tied ~ the pOsi-otiiuc. ibuu. the i.tb VI
No'cmler lothian Merrill. came with auo,h
cr blank and envelope SIMILAR 10 the onc be-
had filled out vhch hc said DE- had 20, from
Geo ". Dr.sko. and said tl.tr, Wa> an crruf
il the Senatorial return ~c had san. and
bs..Ap had said that vc had tacnt, dA,, b,
las 10 maze oGi ncN return TrirAc,
asAet L It va, legal 90 DO tn AMI Merrill
sa'd i Was. Ia the first return ihrrr vrrr
-Isi0' marks instead OF vote spelled oul .e
vurls, 80 N.;ae,, made urg rrt,.ru. ,Js J..
ing ont ali the votes thrown. instead Of pu,-
ting ditto a. ia the nr,: r,tgEH. lar second
return va, then ,kJau him shisl he ld,-l-
titled heia. h., hand writing in ih, ease
ni tins town of junt ,bara'. ] blank return
Vas substituted b, the Counei. AND neither
Of tie written returns So used aud ihr re-
turn Of the io~n was not counted ia tie tab
u.a,lon.
ctEoELoN FEoytp 10 HAVE NAB kowL-
fD"E ct THL FRAUD.
hr reason for this appeared fruIn the
testimony Of y. J. Gallagher whu had ascur-
tanned tina; the second return had been re-
ceiyed by the Governor aud Council and they
darcd not coaui il because the fraud had
been detected
II. VI Heath. counsel for Washington
county candidates. testified that after max
lag several unsuccessful attempts Ia exam
inc returns from iA-t COUNTY. be was At la,
admitted To Governor (iaroei0n. Room ana
the returns shown him. When they came
to lOnesbDro'. the Governor took the blank
return and held il up facing Heath and with
out looking at it himself. asked III We
have TIVE return. from a town which shall
We count. Although two other returns had
been sent in from Jonesb1ro'. III. blank re-
turn was the only one exhibited. This vas
pronounced fatally defective" and the town
was thrown out entirely The evidence was
conclusive that two returns had been sent
from Jonesboro' and that tho blank must
have been substituted.
HOW 'DEFECTlYE" FUSION MAJORITY RI
Turns WERE COUNTED.
The return from Addison gave an errone-
Gus statement of the y hole number of votes
and Vet this vas counted. The return from
kossuth was pronounced poor" by Garce-
Ion who said it should be thrown ont. bat
this gave Fusion majority and was counted.
though tins Number of votes was recorded
between the names OF candidates with no
indication for which candidates they were
intended. The Governor seid afterw ards
that the intentions of the voters should gov
ern in the case, The name Of the Fusion
candidate for Senator, James Il. Talbot va.
put James II. Talbort, vet the return Was
counted. The return fiom Talmadge wGs
defective, but ii gave a Fusion majority and
was counted.