Evening journal., 1910-12-27
STOLE THEIR
BOUGHT VOTES
Many Indicted in Adams
County, O., on a Charge
Of Selling Out
DEPUTY SHERIFFS SCOUR
COUNTY FOR ACCUSED MEN

BY United Press Leased Special Wire
WEST UNION. O., Dec. 27.-An en-
tirely new turn in the probe that Is
being made by Judge A. y. Blair. into
the wholesale t-afiick in votes in
Adams county developed today when
charges were made to him that votes
purchased by one party had been
stolen by another.
The charges We're made today when
Republican vote buyers, who had come
into court to confess, complained Bit
terly that a batch of voters who lived
in the county indrmary. and whom
they had bought to vote for their
ticket. had been feloniously stolen by
the Democrats.
The Republicans had promised 20
pay these men So a vote.
The freight was located in a wagon
and carried to the polls.
AS the newly bought voters We're
dismounting, they were kidnapped by
the Democrats and taken around tho
corner.
When they were through with them,
the infirmary were Democrats. The
price was $40 vote.
Bought Voters Indicted.
The infrmary voters stolen, are of
the batch of 124 indicted by the special
grand jury yesterday on the cha &c OF
selling their votes last election day.
They are coming I'm a body TO West
Union, the county seat, TO be disfran-
chised for five years and TO be fined
amounts equal to what they got fol
their votes. The politicians who
bought them are paying the fines.
The total number of voters who have
been indicted is 790 One hundscd in
dictments are expected today
The grand jury adjourned THURSDAY
and will meet again on January
u, BY Thursday it viii have completed
the entire county. Beginning mex
. Monday the grand jury will make
. second survey of the county. Il is es
timated that 400 voters have beel
missed so far.
=, Special deputy she-iffs are scourin
the county for indicted voters, VIII
have failed to answer summonsel
!, Extra coHts are assessed on those VIII
!. tail 70 answer voluntarily. tho o0tr
= representing the hotel and trayclin
y expenses of the deputy shoritfs. Mos
y of the travelling in this county is don
y by horsepower There Is one railroa
in the county. running through III
Z, southern portion. West Union, itse
u being in the center of the county o
y, a ridge. l6 miles from the nearcs
u railroad.
s Cheered "PrOminent Citizens
lett Nr. fH rHI
- ing the p-obe into the wholesale sci
= ing Of votes i'm Adams county resume
10 the bench today, thirty-hye of N
leading citizens of Manchester WEI
= arraigned on indictments returne
last week. The indicted men. who in
clude some of the wealthiest and MOI
- prominent citizens Of Mancheste
were given a rousing demonstrate
- when they left thee, home town yci
terday for the county seat Most
~ them had their own carriages an
automobiles and the procession va
greeted with cheers along the entil
route
They were aFraigned one at tin
and ente ed pleas of guilty and Jud'
" Blair subjected each to a crosse
n animation in order to elicit any IN
formation possible. The usual Sc
tence of disfranchisement and smG
70 fines were imposed.
" Judge Blair, late yesterday a-restl
for contempt of court Frank Sail
bury, a Franklin township reside
who is declared to have asserted tn
ne Judge Blair would disappear son
1e dark night along the -oad TO PEBBLES
,e This is the second arrest judi
'iv Blair has caused for "A similar ofiic
he the FIRST having been the editor of
mt local paper. who criticized the acti'
ed OF the court in starting in the pcot