The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-04-03

A. NJ L. Jenries, 35, Cherokee.
O Mr. Ienries. do you hola any
official p siti0n IN this county?
A. No. sir.
q Are yoa acquainted with the
county clerkg
A. Not personally; l have met him
but don't know whether would know
him ST met him on the street.
@ What is your politics?
a Pretty badly mixed up. II
wanted to vote for a Democrat 1
wo Ia vste Tor him-if a Republit an.
Would vote lor htm. It's the man
and not the party
@ You don't know where Kinche
low is at the present time,
A. No sir
g Did YOU serve on the grand jury
in this cOunty?
A. Yes, sir
e. What day and month?
a. II was last term Of court but
just wha, days ! don't recollect
@ Did you-did the grand jury Of
which you are a member so into and
( investigate the ballots?
A. AT two boxes.
q In what condition were those
ballots whom yoa opened them-was
here any changes male in the bal
lots?
A. couldn't say There was no
changc made in the condition OF the
ballts In the jury room. No mutila-
tions or hanges
@ ~ YOU know whether there
was an order from the Judge?
A. ! suppose there was Thcy
said amongst them, the foreman, that
the boxes we're ordered uD for ingesti-
cation and took il for granted there
was
c. You say there was only two
precincts counted?
a. That's all we went into.
@ Then, so far as you know there
was nothing irregular about the pro
ceedings Of that grand jury with ref.
erence to the ballots
A. ] don't think there was
Q Did Mr. Kincheioe bring the
ballots to the grand jury room?
A. | think he did the first time he
was ordered up
o. Were the ballots brought IN
the boxes?
A. Yes, sir; they were brought in
the boxes.
Q. Ill you say there was only
wo box
A. / think that was all there was
only two boxes. AS near as ] can
re rollecs
@. You say you counted two pre-
circts or townships and you say there
To- mr. oil haf nNinnmpg
In those boxes that they had been tam
pered with?
A. No, I didn't want 10 leave thai
I impression. wanted to say there
was nothing done by the jury to mu-
tilate these ballots
@. Would it have bssn possible for
'be ballots have been mutilated or
changed In grand jury without you
moving anything about it?
A. ] don't think there hardly could
have been. paid pretty close atten-
I ltion to hat work
Q. At the time you opened those
( boxes what was the condition OF
/ them2
A. I believe Spring township was
I the first we opened and it was In
good shape-everything mp as though
they lett it. except they thought there
may have been one mutilated ballot
/ which they counted. 1t was ques
ton with the board whether they
should have counted that ballot.
think Beard township is the other, and
we looked over these ballots and ac
corning to the election board they
} wasn't al all like they turned then
IN. We also fonnd about AZ or q
what we would call mutilated ballots
in The brx.
Q. On how many different oceas
ions were the ballots brought in am
by whom brought?
A. I believe we had those ballot
before as possibly three times
Kimcheloe brought them the FIRST tim'
IN think Couch, think fetched then
once or some one helped him, bat
don't fecollect who helped fetch th'
boxes mp
Q. That's an you know about tho5'
ballots and the condition of the same
A. / believe II Is.
| G. Why were those ballots heini
inyestigatci for "a purpose of al
election contest or for what purpose
a. AS ! unders ood they was ir
Investigated for the purpose Of as,ei
teining whether they had been mu
tilated 10 correspond with the pol
book which had been mutilated.
@ Did the ballots and poll bool
correspond
5 a. No. they didn't ut the wa
lWo counta3 them
@ Yon can make any statemen
SOn wish to make
A AS understand. the reaso
they had those ballot boxes ordere
up ihere was to see whether Or no