The Portland daily press., 1890-11-18
the BIDpEFoRp ALDERMEN.
The Evidence Closed Yesterday and
the Arguments To Re Made Today

""o %'$unents To &c Made Today.
Court came In at O'Clock. Mr.. Over adj
dressed the court. stating that he had neO-
lected to prove the posting of the voting
i'sts' as alleged by some of the counts of the
Indictment. and asked permission To intro
auce IL then. He was allowed to do so.
Herbert E. Brooks, deputy CITY clerk of
Biddeford, testified that he posted the yot.
ing lists OF the city in the postofice before
the 10th day of August.
On cross-examination Mr.. Brooks testified
that MIR. Yates gave him one of the lists
served on the BOARD by Mr.. Goldthwaite to
compare with the check list, so that they
would be able to work more rapidly at the
four days session BE found Ill names on
the printed slip of persons who were natur
allied In other courts than in Bddefor6,
but who were there given as Biddeford citl
zens. Mr.. Strnut attempted to put in the list
with these Al corrections marked, but Mr..
Dyer objected to it and the objection was
sustained.
Defendant Rose then resumed the stand
aud his direct examination was continued.
He said that it was the intention of the
board at its four days session in September
to strike off the names of every one who had
been naturalized in the Biddeford and Saco
courts unless they had new papers, and he
believed they did so. In his ward, Ward 8.
there were Is whose names were not stricken
on. They all produced new papers. Sixty
eight names were stricken off in that ward
On cross-examination Mr. Rose thought he
had never heard of the case of Brunswick
Gregory. but he had heard great deal about
the naturalization question generally. His
cross-examination was long, but nothing new
was developed.
Howard Hussey, one Of the defendants,
was the next witness. He testified in regard
to the opinion which he obtained from City
Solicitor Stone, and corroborated testimony
of the other witnesses. He emphatically de-
MED that he had any idea of wrong do
log in connection with the preparation of
the voting lists.
On cross. examination Mr.. Hussey de-
clared that he had never heard of the Greg
DRY case, but he had heard of the general ex
element caused by the agitation of the ques-
tion.
Edward M. Lord was the next witness.
he was born In st. Thomas, W. l., and was
naturalized In the Biddeford court. He was
subsequently, on August %, 1890. naturalized
in the United States District Court. He
took out the papers at the request of David
Garnache. who was one ofhis witnesses.
David Garnache was next put upon the
stand. He was first naturalized in the Bid
deford Court, and later in the United States
Court. He testified in great detail the pro-
ceedings of the United States Court and the
board of aldermen, particularly that part of
1t in which Judge Webb gave his opinion in
regard to the competency of the Biddeford
and Saco courts TO naturalize, and his advice
to the aliens not to vote on Biddeford pa
pers. He corroborated the testimony of 9TH
er witnesses. Mr.. Garnache was very in
telligent witness, but he confessed upon
cross-examination that he had never heard
of the Gregory case. He first heard of the
Dean case when the rescript was served on
him. He voted to certify to the correctness
of the lists upon which ne knew there were
many illegal names, with the understanding
that they were to be stricken off before cleo
tion. The board appointed large number
| of special policemen for the March election
day. He voted to appoint them. This, he
thought, was before he came to Portland to
| be renaturalized. No further new facts
were brought out in Mr.. Garnache's cross
examination.
Samuel F. Parcher, the last of the defend
ants, was the next witness following Mr..
Garnache. His testimony did not differ
from that of the Others, and there was moth
lug new in it.
Alderman North NJ. West was the next
witness. Mr.. West was chairman of the
board at some times during the four days
session and described the method of the al
dermen in purging the lists from alien
names. There was nothing new in the testi
mony.
Alderman Eben Simpson was the next and
last witness for the defence. His testimony
was similar to Mr.. Vests, and other wit
| nesses. Mr.. Simpson knew of the decisions
In the Gregory and Dean cases before Au-
gust IA.
The defence then rested their case at the
conclusion of Mr.. Simpsons testimony, ask
ing to be allowed to introduce the new nat
uralization papers of the nine men named in
the Indictment Mr.. Dyer objected on the
ground of irrelevancy, but after consultation
the court allowed their introduction.
In rebuttal, Mr.. Dyer called Radcliffe 81.
Ford, VINO testified that he secured the
names that appeared on the printed lists
from both the naturalization lists and the
voting lists used In former years. They
were not all on that year, but had been
there at some time or other. The name of
William FL. McKeown appeared as Henry W.
McKeown on one of the lists. The name of
Timothy O'Connor was also on the list.
Joseph Dion's name appeared, but not the
name of Joseph P. Dion.
Recorder Cram was recalled. He testified
that naturalization papers were issued to
Timothy O'Connor on February "a, 1875.
Mr.. Dyer addressed the court, saying that
he had one more witness who would be pres
ent in the morning. This will close the evil
dence and the arguments will be made today
Court was adjourned to 10 o'clock this morn
ing.