Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-03-08

o year ago last November es, SIT;
| did. With your family? Yes, sir;
I would have had vote a year ago.
But for what? There wasn't any
body l wanted to vote for. Where
would you have had vote year
ago? We would have voted at Los
pez only the train was late and we
couldn't 90 there. A year ago
Yes, sir. Have you lived at that
place ever since you came into that
township, that precinct? Have l
what !? Have you lived in the same
house you moved into first? No,
sir; changed houses, but in the
same place. Your family had only
lived there 25 days before election
last? Last fall 2 Yes, sir? Yes,
sir; and year and 25 days. Had
you lived at that mill and worked at
that mill ever since you came there !
Yes, sir; only l changed houses; |
don't live in the house now where l
moved. You had lived there a year
and 25 days! Yes, sir; 1 moved
there in the following November.
WILLIAM COLT, sworn for contes-
tants; direct examination.
MIR. Colt, what IS your business
Well, I am manager of store, also
book-keeper. What place? Ricketts,.
What county is that in? That is in
Wyoming county. How long have
you been managing that store F! Since
March 1898. For whom? TreXelI
& Terrell Lumber Co. Did you
vote at the late election at Lopez in
November 1894? 1 did. You are
a single man? Yes, sir. Where
was you boarding, where did you
board last November and prior to
that time ? Part of the time at Lo-
pez and part of the time at the Hotel
ricketts,. The Hotel Ricketts, in
Wyoming county? Yes. sir. Where
did you board when at Lopez? |
boarded with Mr.. j. II. Terrell.
Mr., J. H. Terrell prior to November
9th had moved away, had he not
Shortly before, I couldn't say the
exact date, but it was WITHIN week
or ten days. Moved his family
down into Luzerne county, near
Pittston? Yes, sir. After that you
continued your boarding place, it
was exclusively at the hotel was it
not? I was down in Lopez several
times afterwards. But you had no
boarding place there ? No par'ic-
ular one; I had logings there, rooms
OF my own.
By TIE COURT: Had logings
where !? AT Lopez. Did you have
your lodgings there right up to elec-
tion day? Yes, sir; I had a iurnish-
ed room of my own there.
Where did you have lodgings
there? In the store of 'Ircxell &
Terrell Co. Where did you stay
the night before election? At Rick
etts. Well, really your boarding
place at Lopez had been abandoned
several days, a week or ten days be
fore clection? l couldn't really say
it was abandoned, because I kept the
room and was there after election
even. Well. you had no boarding
place there. the family with which
YOU boarded had moved away about
= week or ten days before election
Yes. sir. Where did you sleep the
night before election I slept at
Ricketts,. At the hotel? No, sir;
/ have rooms in the store also
Slept in the store did you? Yes,
sir. Have lodgings there have you
Yes. sir. How long have you had
lodgings there? Since March '93
Done business there? Yes, sir
And none elsewhere ? Yes, sir; at
Lopez also; ] might state that
have lodgings in both places in as
much as my business requires my
presence at both Lopez and Ricketts,.
Spent the greater portion Of your
time at Ricketts,, didn't you !? Yes
sir. Where did you stay the night
OF election (? | stayed at Ricketts,.
At the hotel or at your lodgings in
the store? At my lodging IN the
store. Well, there is where you
lodge altogether when you are at
Ricketts, Yes, sir. And get your
meals at the hotel !? Yes. sir. And
have spent nine-tenths of your time
since last March at Ricketts,, have
you mott No, I don't think | have
spent that much time; wouldn't be
able to state what proportion, but l
spent share OF each and every
month at Lopez. part of the time.
What was you doing therey | was
auditing the monthly accounts OF
the Company ut Lopez.
Auditing accounts ! Making month
ly statements, aud looking after the
business there same as ! was a,
Kicketsts.
Cross Examination: DO l UNDER
stand that you had place in Lopez
that you considered your home
Yes, sir. Aud that continued mp to
the time Of The election! Why,
had this room there that l always
came TO; the family Of Mr.. Terrell
whov | considered my home had
moved just prior To election. You
made your home with them, con 4,
sidcred tnat YOUR homey tes, sir,
They moved away before election
Yes, sir. Aud after the, moved away
YOU still had room that yoii oeeH-
pied there. kept for your use! Nrs