Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-01-07
onld not have known him from Adams

would not have known him from Adams
! OF OK.
! @. who did you tell about 1T? \, I
! spoke to his brothcr-in-aw about it-Mr
/ Dave Whitley. don't know whether he
| told him about IL or not
| O. bid you notify his attorneys? y.
| No, sir; 1 never saw MIR. Small until last
| Sunday.
e. hid YOU see any OF his attorneys? A.
/ Yes, sir. Why. | told Judge Field after
| my return from Jefferson city. ] saw
| him and told him that | had been at Jemer-
! son city and laid the matter before the
| governor, and he abused me for IT, Judge
| Field abused me for telling the governor,
| and said had taken the matter into the
| enemN's camp, and ! said Governor stone
! was an honest man, ana thought anu
| believed then. rs | DO now. that he IS an
| honest man, ami will do what Is tight.
| .. Did you make these signatures, Mf.
| Canny designating signature Ch poll
| books? A. This signature right her" ts
| my signature want to say now that
| the signature on the back of that poll book
never made. | want to testify TO that
fact. too. that | never wrote that sigma
! tire on the back OF that poll book certify
| ing to the number of votes cast In that
precinct. These signatures are all for
| gerics.
G. You mean these signatures here Cn-
| dicatng them)? \. | mean these sigma
| lures right here are forgcries-these sigma
| lures In the back part of the poll book.
never signed lt-anyboly with the naked
| eye can see that without a magn!ying
| glass There Is my signature In the front
| part of the poll book. The whole nanc IS
| always connected in everything sign. In
| the first place my name Is C-a~n-n-y, and
that is written Canmy.
| @. This signature In the front part is
| your signature? 4. Yes, SIR that is gem
| uinc.
| Q. And this is your genuine signature
! 0ndcating iD? A. Yes, sir. and the Who'll,
| name is connected These signatures in the
back here are forgeries. You can sec they
are forgeries. There Is another thng-i
want to testify that my voting numbcE
| SIS, is not my voting number My gcnuin, ,
| voting number Is $50" and | know tina.
| for | put it on the ballot myself with my
| own pencil, and remember that "56S" WIS
| never put in by me. That number was not
| on my own ballot for I voted my own bHi-
| lot ana put my own number on 1t myself
| with my own pencil 1t was $40. and tn
| book shows the number 5i6 credited to
| man by the name of Wilcox. and | dor
soc how 1t can be credited to Wilcox wh
| | put 1t on my own ballot. Now ] want 10
correct that-t is not Wilcox-it is George
5. Wilson. and that number was put on ny
own ballot by myself.
@. How do you remember what num' cr
you put your own ballot? n. ! have
got my number | put on my ballot. have
got the whole regstration numbers. In
precinct. The more you 20 into this ques-
tion thu more fraud you will find. | think
l can prove by that poll book, too. over l20
votes that never voted on that poll bo Ok,
If you want any other evidence.
@. What was the statement you mace
little while ago. Mr.. Canny, in regard TO
deputyshp unde. Mr.. O'Neill? \. Ed Find
ley told me II was understood that was to
be the distributing judge and that would
not have much to do; that would not see
anything, and that if the thing went
through that johnny O'Neill promised him
that ! would get a position or | would get
n place at a hundred and quarter
month. Mr.. ONell tried to get me po-
sition. He is a very good friend of mine
and want to state here that | solemnly
believe that neither MIR. ONeill or Thomas
McGee had thing to do with MIR. t'indley's
arrangement but that he just used them
for effect
c. At the time YOU made this arrange
ment with Mr.. Firdley in the parlor of his
house on the evening before the election?
A. Yes. sir SUNDAY evening.
@. Sunday evening before the election
you understood then pretty well what it
was you were expected to do? A. | under
stood that | was to be .. distributing judge
and was surprised when found out had
to string the ballots. OF course, it is a
good job, good easy job.
q. But you understood what eX-
pected of you? y, Yes. sir. to see nothing,
but | didn't understand what was going to
be done.
G. What did YOU understand was to be
done? y. ] understood that the boys We're
going 10 put up Democratic majority in
that precinct of 275, that would not see
anything-1 was to be given a place where
| would not see anything, and Owsley
would fix it finer than silk, and Moses
when he fixed this up over there. this al
lotment, he did not exactly understand
what Findlcy meant.
g. You understood you were to, hgura-
lively speaking, keep your eyes closed?
a. Yes, sir, Sec blind,
q. And you carried out your agreement?
\. No, sir,
@. And are sorry for it? a. Mr. Find
ley is sorry ] did not do it. / don't under
stand what they put me in there for. If
they put me in there for thief they sig
nally failed, and You know it, Mr. Farr.
Q. Are you a mind reader? a. No, sir,
| know you are an honest man.
.. Well, Mr. Canny, are you over your
fear? A. No, sir; l am not through my
fear yet The other day in the justice
court Mr.. Findley says over Senator Ly-
mans shoulder: when that - opens
his mouth he is my pie"
@. So you are still alarmed from it? A.
Well know | am liable to be their pie
But | know if | am their pie they will be
my crow-bat.
Q, You are willing to make an offering
of yourself anyhow?
y. / don't know whether l am going to
Q. You don't care much? A. don't
care much; ! don't think my family would
suffer much now.
Q. What kind of life insurance do yoU
carry? A. Accident insurance
Redirect examination by Mr. Small:
g. Where were you born, Mr. Canny.
y, ! was born in the city of St Louis
and my father moved to Jackson county,
landing AT Wayne City, three miles from
independence. He then moved from Jack
son county TO Platte city, Platte county
My father Joined Company Il of the Cas-
County Home Guards, and also tho FiftI
Kansas cavalry. We lived in Kansas CITY
during the war, and then my father move
to Platte city, | know Dir. HullingswortI
in the Ralto building, and have known
him for thirty years. | went TO the sama
school with stephen c. WOodson, president
of the SaNton bank at ST. Joseph. know
John Il. Mundy, deputy internal revenue
collector of the port of Kansas city. {
have known Thomas w. Park about thirty
years, and I know Colonel James l.
Chinn, chief clerk of the Missouri stat
pententiary, and have known him lo~
about thirty years, and | nave known Bud
Comfy assistant adiptant general of the
state of Missouri-we We're kids together,
boys. I worked for long time for tho
Hon, T.. A. smith, OF the Rockford Ullb
Gazette.
@, How long have you lived in Kansas
city this last time?
A, Seven years