Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-05-18

Can YOU discover, or 90 you say, tH"t ths
name Andrew A. r. Smith has been scrapet
or tempered with or changed from what j
was when you wrote it?
If it has l cannot see any change. II
looks as though there had been little some
thing there.
Whether or not in connection with the ct
or the middle initial letter Of the name Of
Isaac T. Hobson there appears to be IN
erasure?
That is the way generally make ST.
ask YOU if there appears to be an erasure
It seems as though there has been some
thing, but it is too far away.
You made no erasure upon 1t!
never made any alterations.
Whether or not the names of all the select.
men were signed by you to the return that
YOU made up when the blank was sent you in
the middle of December and returned!
Yes, sir; you mean the original?
mean the one that you made up in De-
cember.
Yes: signed the selectmen's names.
Did you fill up the return!
The return sent in December!
Yes!
Yes, every word of it.
You filled up every word Of it:
Yes, sir.
And that was in your handwriting?
Yes, sir.
Is this return that you hold in your hand
marked exhibit A." all in your hand
writing?
Yes, every word Of it. If there is any al
teratiOn made in any letter, never made
any.
With the exception of the middle initial
letter of Isaac +. HObsOn's name, and the
word ssty'' on the ''sixty," do you see any
word there that is not your handwriting7
No, sir; nothing except that.
Now, have you any reason to doubt that
the return which you hold in your hand
(nlarked Exhibit Az is the return which
you saw you made up and sent here by mail
about the middle of December last?
Now, want to answer that properly;
should say that in my first return it was can.
drew h. G. Smith"
Have you any reason to doubt that that re.
turn that you hold in your hand marked lex.
hibit A., is the return that you made out and
SEM to the Secretary Of States Office in the
middle of December-have you any doubt ir
your mind?
Mr.. Bowler-But that this is the identical
paper?
Yes. upon your oath?
wish to answer that question a. though
never was going to speak but one word Of
truth in my life; that is pretty hard ques
ton for me to answer.
Mr.. Hale-tO the best of your judgment.
l kind of have Thought is in my mind
tina. this may be my first return; but still j
would not say that it is.
Have you not said that within three day,
that you had no doubt that that was the re
turn that you sent in the middle of Decem
Der?
don't know as have any doubt that il il
but still, it may not he 80.
Mr.. Hale-You don't know that you hav,
any doubt but that it is, but it may not b,
so.
What is there about that return BY which
have described, and which you have de
scribed?
This would have been r. G. Smith, instea,
of "a. X. Smith,
Now my question Is, what was there abou
that return that you hold in your ham
marked Exhibit A." that you can identify j
as being the return, or leads you TO think tina
| it is the return, that you say you made up .
the tOwu meeting, and which contained tn
name Of Andrew r. G.. Smith, instead of tn
name Of "Andrew A. R. Smith,
This don't identify my return.
| What return doesn't it identity?
This don't identify the true record, and i
don't identity the statement that made there
By Mr.. Hale:
You mean that it doesn't agree with it?
| Doesn't agree with it.
| Does the return which you hold in you
hand marked Exhibit 4" agree with the re
turn which you say you made MP in tow
meeting, and which you saw contained tn
name Of Andrew r. G. Smith?
No, sir,
Mr.. Hale-You want to be careful sbou
this thing.
| Is there any reason in looking It that re-
turn, that makes you think it 10 the first re
turn?
No; it ought to be r. G. Smith instead o
"a. r.
Mr.. Hale-Precisely; that il the reaso
Why it is not the irst return.
Is there any reason in that paper that make
you think it is the first return?
Mr.. Hale-You are giving reasons all tn
time why it is NOT the 6rst return.
Isn't it your belief and Judgment that tha
is the second return:
Yes; should say that il must be: I van
to speak just right, and answer you correctly
whether it il for or against me; Il An MOI %
ing to tell anything falsely if know Il.
You think it cannot be the first return. b.
cause it doesn't have the letters correctly
and you wrote it all aud signed il, and there
fore It must be the second re4srn must
not?
| Well, it looks 20.
Have you any doubt aboat il il you
mind:
might have doubt and that doabe mieh
be wrong, but do have dosbts about TIA
being The first paper TIT signed.
lou don't think Il y The Arst paper do yeu
| could not have ua6e that misteke.
Then Il It y mot TIE Arst paper il il p
| per signed BY you, isa't it2
Yes, cir.
Then il must Be he sseeaa psp~. n.ssa'
Yes, cir.