Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1901-06-13

Ching happened 20 b there at the
time and 0u5thsr aske5 ehat be
must do With the ausplementsl
sheets. Ching toId hin to pui
down all those temporarily absent
and those registered lhsre living
elsewhere. Witness identified 4
letter written b. Ching 4 GuysheI
warning him that the censas experts
sere coming.
| On cross -examinationE By Mr..
Cans the witness said he'knew the
special enumerators ae4 ia town
the night they arrived. bst did moi
remember nuch more than the fact
that they we're there. He said
Ching wrote fhe lessceao Guythes
the day Of their arrival. bit would
not fix the date. The census ex-
perts testified they reached Leon.
ardtown on February 27,l the letter
10 dated February 26. int witness
could not explain the discrepancy.
He explained his inability to re.
member writing four names on
AbelPs list by saying ne does SO
much writing for people that he
might write something that would
hang him and not remember that
he did it.
james III. Sewall. a I4eonardtown
negro. said he saw Robert and Ste-
phen Abell in the courtroom al
Leonsrdtown the last Sunday in
July, that Stephen had some pa.
pers in his hand, that Stephen asked
q question Of Robert and then
threw the papers down with an oath.
The witness created laugh by say
ing that the day the special exami.
ners came to town their srrival was
heralded by negro who came in
q couple Of miles ahead Of them.
Attorney ID. A. Lynch, for the
defense, went on the stand and tes-
tilted TO seeing Ching and she emu.
merators in conversation 1t the no.
tel.
Benjamin Love testified that
Guyther and Ching stopped at his
house on the way back from Balti.
more after being bailea. He said
he "kiddedv them about being
iailbirds and Guyther replied tha.
they had done nothing wrong and
that his confession to DIR. Wines
was not the truth, but that state.
ment he had made to Ching was
the truth. Guyther, said the wit.
ness, denied at that time that Ching
told him to take the names of peo.
pie of the gravestones.
Oscar Joues testified that while
driving one day with Guyther the
latter sald he was all right and
would not have been in trouble ex
cept for the letter Ching wrote te
Bean. They met Ching at Bean'i
store and MIR. Jones said that Guy
ther in answer to question agair
denied that he took the names of
gravestones on Ching's advice. Mr.,
Cans insinuated that Mr.. Jones ar
ranged the meeting with Ching %
that he could overhear the testimo
ny and testify to it, but witness
said the meeting was accidental
Mr.. Cans inquired into witnesses
politics and asked him whom ssh,
trained with" in the Republican
factional fights, but did not get {
definite reply.
| James II. Gordan, coIofed, testi
fed that he had q short converse
ton with Guyther. who told hin
he had done nothing wrong and
would be all right.
Joseph i. Cough. assistant pur
ser on the steamer Northumber
land, testified that hesheard Guy
ther say on the boat that he had
done nothing wrong and that hil
instructions came from the census
headquarters.
| w. j. Bean identified letter b.
wrote to Ching telling him that th'
Democrats were "kicking" over the
census returns and that he had bet
ter advise Guyther what to do. Mr.
Cans showed that the date on th,
letter was in different hand writin,
than the rest of it. He asked wit
ness to write Q few lines as o speci
men of his chirography, bat witnes,
refused. He could not explain wha
he wanted Ching to advise Guythel
abont. He first denied that b,
knew Mr.. Van Emon, the census
expert, but when Mr.. Van Emor
stood up recognized him. He ther