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

I eb8kc0cuk.
Charles Kohlman. deputy sher
i'll, was called to testify that whel
Ching and Guyther we're brough
to Baltimore they went into room
in the Marshsls Office to do som,
writing at time when the paper i
supposed to have been written.
baltimore sum
TUESDAY.
All the testimony in the trial o.
the Sc. Mary's conaty endmeratorl
was concluded to-day.
Eight days have been consumes
in the hearing Of evidence, in which
time more than 200 witnesses hav,
been examined.
Stephen A. Abell, the Leonard
town enumerator and one Of the &C
cused. was the star witness of tn,
day for the defense. In genera
denials he was explicit enough, but
when closely questioned upon def
mite points he became con- fused and
gave unsatisfactory answers, Will,
at times he was so hard pressed tha,
I
ne admitted deliberately putting
down people who were dead or who
had moved away years ago.
Philip L. Graves, another Of the
accused, was put on the stand and
made an excellent impression. Hi;
answers were clear and frank, ex.
planning that he had acted on
Ching's advice as a lawyer in put.
ting on the supplemental sheet the
names OF the people who were regis
tered in the county but reside else
where, also the names of the young
er members Of families who had
gone away to make their way in the
world but still consider st. Mary's
their home. His entries are al
said to be consistent with this
explanation, containing none oi
the ridiculous incongruities which
marked the sheets of some Of the
other enumerators, and when Mr..
w. 4. Smith, his attorney. finished
examiufng him the prosecution sai5
that he did not desire to cross-e -ex
anime.
Abell 90 0 witness.
When Abell went on the stanG
he was examined by Attorne,
Lynch. He said that he sent in hil
original returns July 6, but finished
his work June 80. He did not heaI
from Supervisor Rollins until Jul,
15. Then he got a letter askin,
him to 60 over the district again
but said he did not get any supple
mental sheets and had to use fou
that were left over from his origin a
supply. When he got the letter b,
went to Robert A. Abell and ask OF
him what he should do with th,
sheets, and Robert Abell told hin
that he had better wait while. s,
witness threw them down on tabl
in the courtroom, where they wer
talking, and never saw them again
He said he did not remembe
whether or not there was any writ
ing on them at the time, and de
MED that he had ever mailed then
to the Census Office. He ais,
strongly denied that he ever con
suited Ching in the matter.
He denied that he ever made
statement to reporter to the effec
that he had consulted Congressmal al
Mudd, Enoch Abell and Ching il
making mp the supplemental
schedules. He also denied that h,
made q statement to the detectiv
who arrested him. He said he tol,
the reporter that Abell aud Chin,
recon mended him for q position q
policeman in Washington and tina
he sent for Mr.. Mudd when arreste,
because Mr.. Mudd was his politica
friend and the man he would natur
ally call upon under the circum
stances. He declared he neve
spoke to Mr.. Mudd personally unit
after his arrest.
Abel was asked where hs got th
names Of the people on his list VII
have been dead for years or move,
away. He replied that they wer
given to him BY two people who ar
STAYING at his house. He deLie'
that much Of the handwriting ths
is on his supplemental sheet is his
though . number Of previous Wit
nesses declared that it was. On
sheet-that containing Chiag's en-
tries-he denied having had any
thing to do with. He was asked b
1 0o r,nra into slesasi ahont ffliaU m,