El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-20
Redirect Examination.

/ The man from precinct No 10 did
! not vote at our precinct
Redirect Examination.
On redirect examination heard
| the man say he wanted 10 vote Ior
> Alderete and his friends. saw the
| ticket It was on the billiard table
| Jackson and Flyers names were
! scratched. Dunn did not ask the man
/ if he wanted to vote for any other.
I The ticket was not completed l caileG
/ his attention to the fact that he had
/ marked out Jackson's and Fryers
/ names He said: Well you said the
man could not vote here. I just mark
| ed them out I don't know how he
BRYANT brought Johnson out to
/ serve as a supervisor. Dunn did not
! ask him any questions. He said ne
| did not have any authority to swear
: him in"
FaIvey-'.There were no ring super
! visors there either, were there?"
Witness-"No.'
Thurmond-@They did not need any,
/ did they?"
Witness-"No they did not"
shows Poll Tax Receipt.
! Fortino Lunas. who was ordered by
, chairman Lea Saturday morning TO
| bring his poll tax receipt was put on
the stand The receipt ne showed was
numbered 213, precinct No. /
The witness said: Since I left TINS
I morning I went to identify the place
/ where I tried to vote. 1t is on over
( land street, in the neighborhood Of
( Leon and Overland
Cross Examined.
On cross examination the witness
I stated that he went to the place by
himself, no one showed him where It
was.
silverio varela said: 7 was a voter
in the primary election. 1 voted in
! precinct No. 4.
Falvey--Precinct number four is
not in your petition"
Vitness-'I said I was employed in.
precinct No. 2. I saw Fred Delgado
and Montoya there most of the day.
I saw them talking to the voters. l
sam Manuel Gonzales. the policeman
! They were just behind the rope. They
were about the distance from you to
me. (He referred to attorney Thurmond,
who was sitting about 20 feet from
the witness) from the polls. Delgado
is a detective, Gonzales is a policeman,
and Montoya Is a constable. He was
a candidate on the ring ticket
'Delgado and Gonzales were workers
for the ring. A rope was stretched
! along the sidewalk I saw them lift
up the rope and go in among the
! voters
Mr.. Brooks and I were marking the
/ tickets AIR Schilling was the other
judge. I was supervisor. 1 think 1
marked about rs votes
I saw liquor about the polls About
I four half pints were brought in. That
drinking was going on all day. The
whisky was in the same room where
the voting was going on.
"One of the supervisors got a little
drunk He vomited. That was after
the polls were closed. I did not see
him drink, but I know when a man is
drunk.
After Nhe polls were closed We be-
gan counting. While we were count
ing. about 40 men came ii the room
I don't know any of them. The men
! belonged to the other party. They
gates The room was about as wide
as this but longer.
a bottle of ink was spilled.
don't know how it was. One of the
tally sheets was covered.
There were some ballots destroyed.
They were torn up and left around
there.
I could not hear what Delgado or
Montoya were saying to the people
outside.
There was only one entrance used
to the place. Mr.. Schilling and Mr..
Brooks would ask the voter who he
wanted to vote for Most OF them
would say: 1 want TO vote for Escajeda
and his companions or 'Alderete and
his companions Then we would
mark the ticket for the ring, or anti
ring.
The anti-ring ticket applied only 10
the county. I would not touch the
rest of the ballot The others did.
They did not ask the V9'ers about il.
We let that part Of the ticket go
On cross examination the witness
said: i got my part of the whisky.
] was an anti-ring supervisor They
did not tell me 1 was not allowed to
mark the tickets"
Falvey-"Under the law did you
know you could not mark the tickets2"
Witness-'I did not know. They did
not tell me- I don't think Mr.. Brooks
marked the tickets like I did-he
marked the whole ticket
when the men came in they held
convention to select delegates TO the
county convention I did not see any
antiring men holding a convention.
I am sure that Fred Delgado was
Q.-"Didn't you tell Delgado and
Montoya the election was held fairly?''
A--"For fear they would arrest me
I told Delgado and Montoya. They
asked me at the saloon.
Q.-"Did you not hear lot of anti
ring men say the day after the cleo
ton when they thought they had won,
that it was the fairest election ever
held2"
A.-"No. sir. Delgado said they were
going to beat us by force. Raefel
spoke and said he had not seen any
thing wrong"
A.-"Before the election, Jim Casaras
made them to me and another Casaras
used to be a deputy of Edwards"
Judge Edwards-'Was Delgado there
between 6 and ~
Witness-"Yes, he was there. I don't
know. I saw him there most of the
! whole day"
Thurmond-''This statement about
the fairness of the election, who did
you make it to2"
Witness--.I told them it was fair
because I was afraid they would put
me in Jail. Three days before the
election they tcId me if I did not work
for the ring tbey would put me in
jail as 'vag.' and give me trouble
all the tire
They pointed some others out and
said if we did not work for the ring
they would put us in jail.
After the election, they made
threats. They said I had better not
get in trouble. They said if I came
here as a witness they would send me
to tn peniIeHtiary They started to
arrest me iast Saturday night. Fred
DelgaG1 ana Montoya. They put two