The times., 1901-06-24

tors had omitted a considerable number
of people whom they ought to have enum-
| Grated and said that there was complaint
| in the county to that effect. Mr.. Rollins
expressed a doubt as to whether he COuld
| do anything, since the limit of thirty days
| prescribed by the Census act for the com
! pletion Of the census had expired. Mr..
| Ching being stll urgent. Mr.. Rollins, ac-
| companied by Representative Mudd, went
| to see the Director of the Census who
| referred them to William G. Hunt, Chiet
| Stotisticiau for Population. Mir. Mudu
| asked Mir. Hunt whether the supervisor
| could serd out additional schedules where
| he believed the people entitled To euum-
! Grafton lad been overlooked. Mr. Hunt
| answered that 1t was his duty TO do 50.
| Whcreupon, Supervisor Rollirs wrote to
| each enumerator in Charge IN ST. Mary
| County a letter suggesting that perhaps
! they had made ofnissions and that if So,
| they should enumerate the omitted names
and return the blank re him.
-Four OF the onuneTators in 81. Mary
| County, viz, Absil. Bewles. Guyther, and
| Graves, sent in supplementary schedules,
including in all LIS additional names,
sufficient to raise the total of population
| to 136 above Is. .0G0s1As
"Guyther, whaAETeaded guilty to the
| Indictment for Conspiracy and who tcs-
! titled for the Government in the recent
trial swore that Ching saw him and told
| him to act on Supervisor Rollins letter
and that he ought to get from l5O to 29
| additional names Guyther answered
| that he did not know where to get them.
CllnG answered lDaI II ne tOuItl l'I = 'N
! them anywhere else he could so to the
summer hotels in the district ana
enumerate their guests, adding the SIG
nificant enquiry, Are there no grave
| yards in the districts? Guyther then put
on his additional schedules the names OF
thirty or forty people n;tO had once liVeq
in the district, but who had removed
from il, and made UP the balance OF MS
19S either out of his imagination or by
obtaining the names of summer boarderS
and nurse girls at the hotels. filling up
the ages, occupations, etc, at Will.
''Enumerator Graves wrote to super
visor Rollins that he did not think he
had made any omissions and that II he
had made any he had no way OF nndinS
out what they were. and he asked VINO
would pay for doing the work of getting
up these supplemental schedules. lie re-
ceived no answer from Rollins nut ChlhS
told him that he must do as he had peeh
directed anyway, and that he must have
the names in by the 1St of Ar,0ust; so he
sent exactly 100 additional names. None
of these were fictitious. \ dozen OF them
were duplicates of names already sent
in which Graves explains by saying that
he did not have his original schedules
before him and did not know he had al
ready included them. Some of the names
returned by him on the supplementary
schedule were names of persons whom
he had really omitted in his first enumer-
alton, and the remainder were made up
of people whose cases he had considered
when he made up his first schedule but
who he had then decided We're not en-
titled to enumeration. The Government
in his case consented to verdict OF not
guilty ,,-l.
''Of the 52S names returned by Abel, on
his supplementary list, seventy-three
were in Ching's handwriting. Among
these 52S are some twenty-nine dead peo-
nle who had been dead any length of
time. from q few months to twenty years
or more Many of these were well known
people, of whose deaths Abel was per-
fectly well aware. He took the witness
stand in his own behalf and, in one case,
admitted that he knew these people We're
dead, explaining his returning dead
man by saying, We'll, he had not been
dead very long, anyhow VI the 90, more
than III had never lived in the district
at ALL Most but not all, of these people
had at one time or another lived in other
portions of the county. but had moved
why he had enumerated some of these
people in his district. said, We'll. they
lived in my district now as much as
they did in any other part of the coun-
ty' which was, of course, entirely true.
The balance of the names, with a very
few exceptions not more than twenty
were either entirely fictitious or were
those of people who had once lived IN the
district but who had left it at periods
varying from six months to thirty-two
years before the date OF the census
bOWlGS returned OIL dA2ulNiDlAaL iniiAIo
in his supplementary schedules. OF these
fifty-fYe were those of dead people, and
the balance were those OF people VINO
had never lived in the district. or had
left it. or We're entirely fictitious. Many
of the statements made by Bowles in his
schedules are extremely amusing. In one
instance EcclestOn 5 Graves appears as
a school teacher, six years old InOmaS
]. Graves, aged two years IS described
as d farm laborer wno was employed
during the entire census year and VINO
could read, write and speak English.
Joshua Niles, colored, two years old. Is
said to be a carpenter. He was no less
industrious and fortunate than Thomas
Graves, and was not out Of employment
at any time during the census year. He
also could read, write, and speak Eng
lish.
Abel, or rather Ching Cfor those par
ucUlar entries are in Ching'S hanGWTit-
ing), not only enumerated dead woman,
but also the Washington undertaken who
had come down TO LeonardtOwn to bury
her.
For some reason. probably as a COM
promise, the jury in the recent trial in
the United States Court, which lasted two
weeks, and in the course Of which some
200 witnesses were examined, acquitted
Bowles and Abcll Of the charge Of con-
Spiracy, but convicted Ching of cOnSDir-
ing with Guyther. who had pleaded guilty.
No attempt was made in the trial 10
deny the absolutely fraudulent character
Of these supplemental schedules.
"Other indictments for making false re-
turns are pending against Abel and
Bowles.
Representative Mudd wrote directly
to most of his enumeratOrs in Charles
County asking them 10 be very careful
not to omit anybody, since they might get
an additional Representative. He said in
these letters that they had q right to
enumerate those who had resided in the
county, and who still claimed a residence
there, intending to return, although they
had been away for some time.
The enumeration in Charles County
also contains many names which ought
not to be there although in nearly every
case there is some sort Of attenuated the
ory, or some possible mistake accounting
for the enumeration, and no one there
has yet been indicted. The Director of
the Census estimates the difference in
this county between the true enumera-
ton and that actually made, as between
500 and 600.
TWO DIFFERENT METHODS.
In Anne Arundel County. between 3. 900
and 1000 berry-pickers, who were in the
county from two TO six weeks temporar-
lily, were included IN the enumeration. The
theories Of the enumerators in St Mary
and Anne Arundel Counties appear to |
have been antagOnistic; in the one case
absentees who intended to return were |
counted, and in the other case an emu |
meration was made Of those temporarily |
present. In each case, however the re- |
suit was the same-tO increase the emu |
meration. Most of these berry-pickers |
cannot now be Identified, or found at all |
About 400 have been traced to Baltimore
1t is hard TO tell how many of them were |
actually In the county at the time of tax |
ing the census
Whatever may be the cause of the ex-
cessiye enumeration in this county. there