The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-23
sitting Of the canvassing board following the No
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tween II and l o'clock in the morning saw Coy aud
John Huegele up stairs, and the conversation
had with Hucgele week previous induced me to
watch him closely. ! communications and whis-
perng between Coy and Ayres the candidate fos crin
| inal Judge They in the watercloset /
| Gov come out and whig per with Dan Lemon. tried
to catch some of the conversation. then saw Coy
with Mr.. Span Coy then went out in the hail. whis
pered to some one, and motloned Tor Span
| to follow him. He walked out tiptoe
They walked along the corridor, and ! saw
| them so into room-the first room west
room--fsoom 80. think the number is. Every step
| on the tiles could ne heard. | saw the room was
| lighted. and heard whispering inside / passed tbs
door and saw crack in the curtain hanging down.
Without stopping. walked along and slipped of my
shoes. looked through the crack and saw Coy and
| Spaan in there. Their backs were turned to me-
| There table in the center of the room. saw
| the edge and turned up corners OF paper on tue
| table Span was leaning over it with little green
IN s lie had Il IN 1 bey s d
| ing. of course, could not say, butt concluded
| Mr. Dunean-Never mind what you concluded.
The Witness-I concluded to return to the room
| Laughter and apparent discontinue of MIR. Duncan.
Captain Ritter resuming-Iou say you paper
on the table What did that paper look like!
with his hands upon the table could see the edge
of it, 1t about two feet in length. saw but one
edge of it-that on the left.
Q.-Had you the tally-sheets that day. the size
Al did not pay any attention to them-but did
| after that
Q.-Having seen the taly-sheets used at the elec
ton you may state whether it did or did not resem.
bic tally-sheet.
Alt did, to my mind seem to be that. I wish to
further state after returned to the went inn
mediaely and called the attention of several Repub
licans to those being in that room. Mr.. wilkins,
of the Journal one, Mr.. Potts, and think MIR.
Dennis, of the Journal, but not positive, and
several others aud told them to watch the room.
had several other things to watch.
Q.-When you those men in the room. was il
before after the returns made by Counselman to
the boardk
Automatically previous
Odd did not Coy and Spaan return to the can
vassing room!
Al returned and saw Mr. Coy after that and also
Q.-When Counselman presented his tally.sheet and
pollbook you may state whether any controversy
A-Yes, sir; called the attention of every one to
watch-that the tally sheet would be presented When
the sheet opened called upon several of them to
look at the sheet. Mr. Bernhamer began to turn tho
leaves I said: Don't turn the leaves He said:
"You need not make any fuss about this. We ara
only giving you what You have been giving us for
twenty years" then jumped on table and asked
if there were any honest Democrats there, to
Gov said. You oughtrlt to sgueal we are giving
you of your medicine; you know how it is
from the clerks Office, but don't know who it was.
AT lDast. do not recolect it. think 1T was Mr..
Elan. Bernhamer said they had nothing to do with
that and could only go by what they had done before
that. Counseman was asked what alterations had
been made and who had had the tally sheets. didn't
hear anything else.
Odd you hear Coy or Span say anything ia
Counseman at that time!
Al don't remember. 1t was so exciting it would
be difficult to attend to everything going didn't
hear any answer made by Counseman.
Q-What was his condition as to being drunk or
soberl
Ale looked little off as ie he hadn't washed
himself for time; his hair unkempt if he
had been in corner sleeping. | wasn't close enough
to smell his breath.
Q.-Have you had any conversation with any Of
these defendants since the canvassing board adj
iournedl
A-Cov stonned mo on +ba STRAIT ono dav and aekad
me if had said he bad altered the talysheets said
Ihad not, but that had seen him going into
He said that right-he had been i'll the
Q-When he spoke of being in the room he meant
room SO!
A.-Yes sir. think that is the number of the
room.
Mr.. Duncan-You said Doctor that after you had
seen Span and Coy in this you called the at
tenton of Mr. Wilkins and Mr.. Dennis to it. and you
saw them go down?
Axes SIR
William H. Nickerson, bailiff In Judge Walk
er's court. was che next witness. He testified
that he was present at the canvassng board on
| Thursday night and saw various consultations
between the defendants. He saw Span talking
to Coy and Coy to Bernhamer
QUESTIONABLE you acquainted with John H. Coun-
selmanl
1t Delaware street, between the two sidewalks,
at the west end of the courthouse, at the crossing
where it goes to Court street. Counselman,
Bradley, Cook and myself were there; his name is
William Cook and the other is Austin L. Bradley. 1t
was between 10 and IL o'clock Thursday night
Odd Counselman have his tally sheet and poll
book?
Ale had roll of papers which he said was his
taly-sheet and polbook. | saw the roll After we
went across the street, the sidewalk in
front of saloon the third saloon south of Court
street on the west side of Delaware Bradley said to
Counselman, John what is that you have in your
pocket2" He said, My taliy-sheet" He asked.
What are YOU doing with it nowa Your ward was
called long time agol" He said twasnt ixed-some.
thing was wrong. Cook spoke up. NO it wasn't
fixed John and are going to fix itup and whack
with each other" Cook said, Come and go into
Jim Shearer's or the other place | said, No; let's
Counselman and Cook went one way and we another
They. went into the second saloon south Of Court
street. didn't see them in, but they started in
that direction. didn't 60 up stairs Unto the court
house any more that night.
Q.-What Counselman's condition at that time2
Al thought he was sober.
Chris F. Meyer, of No 60, Massachusetts
avenue, inspector of the first precinct, Tenth
ward, testified that he had given bis poll book
and tally-sheet to James II. Robefts6h who had
returned them to him. When he came before
the canvassing board he asked that the bag con-
tanning the duplicate papers De produced to verify
the vote In his ward. and this was done.
Charles Dennis, q reporter for the lndianapo-
lis Journal took the witness stand.
Qucston.-Were you present during the session Of
the canvassing boardE
Answer was; little OF the time.
Q-State whether DR.. Wagner called your attention
to meeting that was going something he wanted
you TO iook olter--ll tne case OF Coy ana Cpaau
Al am not positive that it DR.. Wagner that
called my attention. | think the first person who
spoke to me about it was Mr.. Wilkins
Go on and tell what You saw.
Al went to the courthouse about twenty
minutes before O'Clock Friday morning. Soon
after got there. Mr. Wilkins said come along here
into the hall and will show you something"
walked with him along corridor from tho Circuit
court east When got in front of door
twothirds OF the way to the east end of the court
house in that corridor he pointed his thumb and said
tha.'s the door"
Q-Who's thatl Wilkins the Doctorl
A-That was Mr.. Wilkins. Our feet made great
noise Gathering over the tiles stopped at the door.
hesitated second or so. Mr.. Wilkins either said
come on indicated for to move and we
passed on, going further east We were little way
from the door, standing III the shadow in the cast
when the door opened and Mr. Coy put his head cut.
He looked first to the east and then to tho west and
then took his head in again l said to Mr.. Wilkins,
"let rs 90 back past that door again.