Evening star., 1901-07-03
DENIES ALL FRAUD.
Census EnumeratOr Anderson In His
Own Defense.

The Baltimore Sun of today says:
William Frisby Anderson. the Anne Arun-
del county census enumerator charged
with making fraudulent returns from his
district, testified in his own behalf yes
terday in his trial in the United States
district court. He was the only witness
for the defense. He declared that he wrote
on his schedules only information that was
given him and that he did not knowingly
enumerate any persons wrongfuliy. Mr..
Anderson testified at the close of the gov
ernments case and the testimony on both
sides was closed The arguments before
the jury will be made today.
An hour was taken up yesterday morning
with the closing testimony for the govern
ment. Lewis Queen. colOred, testified that
Mary Taylor. colOred. has not a daughter,
although daughter is credited to her on
Mr.. Anderson's schedules. Mrs. Mary
Lewis of EaStpOrt, testified that she has
no children. although she was credited
with a daughter.
William Taylor, a clerk in the census Of
flee, who went over Mr.. Anderson's dis
trlCt TO check off his enumeration, teSti-
fed that his examination resulted fol-
lows: Names omitted. A; fictitious names.
SO; persons enumerated, but who did not
belong in the district, AZ; persons enum-
Grated, but about whom no information
could be obtained, 16; dead persons enum-
Grated, .; names duplicated, 21.
Nj Anderson told me- the witness
have gotten his notes mixed. That is
about all / could get out of him.
The government close it's case by show
ing that Mr.. Anderson was paid 2Ja cents
for each living person he enumerated and
that his schedules had been returned to
the census Office.
Mr.. Anderson began his testimony by
saying he is thirty-seven years old and has
a family. He was then examined by Ed
ward s. kines. one of his attorneys, as to
each Of the alleged fraudulent names on
his schedules.
MIR. KINGS said during the examination
that Mr. Anderson net many densely ig-
nOrant persons of whose families he could
get better Information from outsiders than
from such persons themselves.
Mr.. Anderson said he had 40 recollec-
tion whatever of the circumstances attend
ing the enumeration of many of the al
legged fraudulent names Il had no time
TO study the printed Instructions furnished
me by the census Office he said. II was
given one month to finish the work, and l
did it in that time.
Some people, he continued, thought I
was going around getting men for the
army, some thought l was assessing their
property and some, when they saw my
badge thought l was going to arrest them
Finally l had to put my badge in my
pocket / tried to enumerate people al their
homes There was scarcely a day 1 did
not meet people who would eel me they
had failed to give me certain Information.
l would enter the information they gave
me in a memorandum book OF on slips of
paper. 1 found 1 had lot of names which
/ did not remember anything about. l
could not talk about the matter to others
and l could not refuse TO enumerate
them"
so you handed them over 10 different
families Mr.. kines asked
Yes Mr. Anderson replied.
Mr.. Anderson did not recOllect a num-
Der of government witnesses who said
they had given him information. He con-
tradiCted some of the statements made
by others whom he did remember
Il put down what was told me- he
went on "AI the names / put down were
given me. Some people gave me iDfornla-
tion of other families than their own. In
some cases l got information from nncm-
bers of family and outsiders also, and 1
may have used both"
There Will be no more census trials this
summer The case of Ferdinand II. Borne
mann. which was 10 have followed that IF
Mr.. Anderson, was postponed yesterday
until the fall
The weather will not permit the trial
of any more cases this term Judge Nor
ris said yesterday in ordering the els
charge Of the witnesses in Mr.. Borne
mann's case. THE court wants to put II
beyond the power of the district attorney
to try any more cases