The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-07-19
THE NEWPORT NEWS MAYORS
Counsel for Post Getting Close After
ROuntCaStle.
The MARKED BALLOTS CLASSIFIED.
Upon the Peculiarly of These Ballots Mr..
Posts Counsel Rest Their Case for
Proof of Fraud Against
Their Client.

clal-Thc proceedings in the contested
election case of vs.. A. Post against a. a.
Moss. involving tho mayoraity Of Newport
News. have now reached point whore
the finger of suspicion seems TO point
60 one man. Mr R. T. Mountcastle. judge
OF election. ana az whose door counsel
for Mr.. Post are straiuing every nerve
10 lay the frauds charged i'm the election
held May 2,th last.
THE MARKED BALLOTS.
Judge Harnam. assisted by the court
officers. ana counsel on either side. has
labor0u-y gone through tho ballots
cast in the Second Ward twice over. and
they have been divided into classes. Some
OF these ballots were marked either with
pen or pencil. one line only being run
through the names of rejected candidates.
In another class. scvcnty-siE in number
double marks of blue and black pencils
are usol and all of them are apparently
the work of the same person.
DO is upon this pcculiauty that counsel
for SIR. Post principally rest their case.
Mr Bickord claiming that Mr. Mount
castle marked these ballots, in many
cases unsolicited hy voters. and always
90 tho detrimcnt of Mr.. Post Whether
judge Barham will hold this 90 Doe suiii-
cfent proof OF fraud. or what the result
of the case VIII be- no man can say
TIE DAYS PROCEEDINGS
When court convened at $3.50 this morn
inr Judge Barham announced that he
had decided 90 allow the prosecution one
lour in which 20 make further cxamina-
tlon of the ballots After the specified
time had been consumed, Wyatt koahe
lc0iorell was recalled 10 the stahd 10y
judge Barham. in accordance with
rrorni-c hc bad made counsel ON hoth
'Ir.s and cross-qucstionod by the Judge
Roare told in effect the same story
as m his examination in chief The wit
ness said 10 was true that ne had been
hroueht there. ana the officials in charge
had drunk probably five or SIX nollI,S
anIlse during the day. 40 one was drunh'
however. t0 Dis knowledge.
Ie confirmed the testimony that Mount
castle had gone in very frequently WIN
witnesses. and that several persons mad
demonstrated with him, and that ne aald
I'm reply that he never went unless Io-
quested .-,..,ra n,.
ln regard 10 th0 remark overheard by
Warren Smith. made hy one of the cleo
zion ofic-@ls TO another, you nave n''n
aefeep am nicht. and now we nave bVl
80 go am over this thing again. l'"a"o
t4 chat tho clerks had been Johlhs
v-.fh oach other and the judges "ll "'-i',,
and that this particular ieilaiN 49,
called iortn "E .,a ,sndi5atos. ne did
to ten t-.n
"o' Ism roR WHISKY.
,,...4oostio send out frV
whisky during the day:' asKea MI DIM
ford. ,,, o,. reniied the
'l tmnN he ,,.,o,, certainly who
witness "' "'
brought ll- ,,. ballots there
"Did You ues'0s any
that day .-... .n-. ,,,tn night.
Ne NIN' 49,. nero enoilcd
when fifteen u ,"'"''
wcr" destroyed. ......o4 that he had
Ihe "line ."' ,.''' i.nl+. enotld he
cont 0nied t.'l u'' 80. tne cornt
a.'l.' "f .' d.. t,e bauot-hox. but
.. ,r...,.,,.tio objected. claiming that
& f..tl,.... .,f ..aln, of the banot-boN
... .li. ..'t--.,rt
~. e,ll that he did not remember
..t..ro~. tr. iY6res and clerks I'm that
,.., r.l agreed 10 tell each other
.t... ,...4 trf they had done so.
o.,l ro- NOW, swear how each one
.....1
-.i.. ,..., rer,onbor Mr.. Mountcastle
,..-. .l..',t drri,r the canvass OF the
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