Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-05-18
NO 118.
here nov to be Isaac T. Hobson, you have
examined this before. have you:
I saw it the other day when WAS in here,

that name by you!
No, sir, never.
call your attention to the word sixty"
opposite his name was the st v" there at the
word ''sixty" made by you? 10 il youuwrit-
ing?
The 'six" is mine, but say the st y"was
not there; I must have made an error in not
putting the - v" on; that has been put on
since it left my hands; the 'six' wrote, but
the st y" is not my writing; made mistake
probably in not putting that on.
What did you do with the Senatorial and
Representative returns which you made up,
which bore the name of Andrew X. G.
Smith?
brought them all together and delivered
them to the Secretary of State.
Did you deliver them to the Secretary of
State with your own hands?
l don't know whether il was the Secretary
Of State or not; but it was the man that was
in the possession there, and they were count
ing votes.
In the Office?
In The Office, yes sir; don't know the man,
don't know the Secretary of State.
Was it here in the Secretary Of States Of
fee; in the State House here in Augusta?
Yes, right in the other reOm; there were
four men there.
Can you describe the man to whom you
delivered these returns?
don't know as could; could not say
that could.
BY Mr.. Hale:
| They were men who were there TO receive
them?
They did receive them, and opened my
clerks return in my presence, and looked it
over before left; I stopped but q very few
moments.
! BY Mr.. Strout:
| Wheu was thatS
| The ninth of September last; have stat
ed the ninth, and am positive it was, for
made out the records the next morning, and
partly made my record upon my own town
book, and came off in the afternoon.
call your attention to the Senatorial re-
turn marked exhibit A." and to to the name
of Andrew A. II. Smith?
| Yes, I see lt-Andrew A. X. Smith.
According to your best knowledge is THAT
the return that you say that you made upon
the dav of the election and brought here to
the Office of Secretary Of State on the ninth
day Of September?
If It is, it is a mistake in having put
No, sir; answer my question; look at that
paper. and tell me whether or not that 10 the
return that you made up and brought to the
Secretary of States Office on the ninth day
of September
| If it is in my power and ability, I want to
answer that correctly just as it is.
call your attention to name that you
see there?
Yes, "A. X. Smith,"
And l ask You if that is the return that
you made up in the presence of Morrill, Gid
den and alluded to in your affidavit: is that
| the return you made up and brought here on
the ninth day of September?
Allow me to speak before answer il.
want direct answer to my question.
It should be
Will you answer my question? II il sim.
pie and plain one; look At that return and at
the name in it, and then tell me whether that
return that you hold in your hand is the same
return that you made up and returned to the
Secretary Of States Office on the ninth day
Of September, eighteen hundred and seventy
nine?
| don't know how to answer that; il may
be, and it may not; but you want me 10 say
whether it is or not,--I might answer it and
answer correctly, and might wrongly.
Will you answer fhe question?
should say that it was not; because that
should be "Andrcw r. G. Smith" instead Of
"a. r. Smith"
Mr.. Bowler, did you hear, about the time
that they were counting out, about the count
ing out?
As near as can recollect, heard about
the middle of December.
At that time didn't you receive duplicate
blanks. or blanks Of Senatorial returns and
Representative returns?
! received il from some source.
How did you receive them?
1t came to me by mail think.
Where did it come to you by mail!
SomervilIe. think; that is where all my
mail comes to; my boy usually brings II
home.
Where was the letter post marked that
came to you?
/ didn't notice II; think from Augusta.
What did you receive at that time, accord
ing to your best recollection, beside these
blank returns!
l received something similar to what there
is in my book there.
Did you receive letter?
think not a written letter, but II might
have been; I could not say, for ] merely
opened it, took it out, made copy
What was that you received? Was II di.
rection in relation to making up the returns?
Merely a request to send . return, think,
for Senator.
A request to send back returns for Sens
tor?
Yes, sir.
You had already made up one set Of returns
and brought them here, had you!
Yes, had.
And after that, about the middle Of Decem-
ber-
About that, / think.
About that time you received another set Of
blanks, with request TO fill them up, and
send them here to Augusta:
One blank.
One blank!
Yes sir.
With request to gil it up and send It here
to Augusta?
Yes, sir; there might have been two. but
think there was but one.
What has become Of that letter!
cannot tell you.
Have you destroyed it?
No, not that 1 know Of.
Have you lost-it.
Not that know of. / know the wsy it
came, and took it and sat down in my din
ing room, took out this blank and filled it up
in hurry. and probably LEFT the envelope
on the table. 81
Into what did you put that blank7
put it, think, into plain envelope.
To whom did you direct it
That il another question that cannot -
loWef.