El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-20
WITNESSES CONTINUE To TELL Of
INTIMIDATION At THE POLLS
Continued from page u

precinct No. 6. The place was at the
| fire station in East FL Paso-
Witness said: Before I voted in
precinct S, was around the polls in
! precinct No. T.. There was a young
man stopping at my place, and he told
| me he never voted in his life, but
| would like to if he had some one to
I'VE went into No. Z. I saw Joe
! Dunno and I asked him If I could help
! Dunno voted them. A lot of Mexicans
! came in and Dunno would grab their
! tickets and scratch it He never said
/ anything.
while I was sitting there a ring
/ man drove UP in an automobile. Joe
went out The ring man said: How
are you getting along. Joe? Joe said:
/ All right 1 voted about los or 106
/ of those men for the ants The ring
| man said: Well if you don't scratch
/ them right we won't leave you here.
! Joe replied; oh, I'll scratch them all
| right. If they are ants they can't vote
! here One man came along and Joe
| said: TIL scratch that -
7 was sitting on the porch I heard
all of it The man who came up in
| the automobile, I judged was a ring
man. That was a little before u. The
man in the automobile said: Well in
a joking way. If you don't scratch
them all right we won't leave you here.
Joe said: III scratch them all right
The ring man in the automobile then
left AS Joe was walking TO the door.
there was a number of men going in
Joe said: III scratch the --- all
right
Z said to myself, this is no place for
me- Tie name of my friend is Carl
Beckms.n, my phone number is 1862 L
live in East FL PasO."
Acted in Good Faith.
On cross-examination he said: I was
! in good faith when 1 went there TO
assist the young man 1 asked Joe It
! 1 could help him and ne said no 1
did not have the law and that is why
I asked him if I could help him
Il went out and stool there I be
lieVe there were three polling booths
in the place I could almost reach
Dunno. when he was handing the tickets
to the voters
vote for some OF the ants and some OF
| the ring men, but when saw that
went up to my precinct and voted
straight anti ring ticket
I saw about half dozen men and
I Dunno did not speak to them. Joe just
took the ticket and told them he would
fix the ticket.
Z am just telling you what I heard.
don't want you to get me in q jack
FaIvey-"Can you swear Joe Dunno
marked any ticket wrong%'
/ Could Not See Tickets.
Witness-'He would not let me look
at that I understand the question.
You want me 10 say put my nose
arouid there to see. l could not swear
to that I want to tell the truth"
On redirect examination he said that
Dunno took the tickets from several
and did not say a word
The witness said that he did not
hear Dunno say to anyone how ne
wanted to vote, but heard him ask sew
eral if they wanted him to scratch the
tickets for them
@Had Little whisky
Rafael Minor said: L know Montoya-
and saw him and Gonzales around the
polls most Of the day. Mr.. Brooks
marked some of the tickets. Varela
and Mr. Brooks's son were supervisors
we had a little whisky there dur
ing the election The presiding judge
and old man Brooks did not drink
The rest Of US did There were three
or four half pints and another pint.
"Brooks'ss son got about half shot
4 We were there counting There WASH
any trouble in getting whisky. l
went out and got some. Some one else
got some.
about o'clock Saturday the ink
was spilled over the table and tally
sheets. Some one grabbed up some
ballots and wiped the table off,
IN keeping the tally sometimes
they would be ahead ana sometimes 1
would be. We fixed that all right.
There was some ink spilled on the tally
sheets Yes, it hid some of the fig
ures, but we fixed that all right.
Brooks was outside vomiting. He
4 came back into the room and knocked
the table over. Yes, he was getting rid
of some Of the booze.
7 saw Montoya and Gonzales there.
They were armed. They were right in
the middle of the street
There were three or four policemen
/ there all day. They would come in
and out as often as they wanted 10.
| They were armed. They could hear
( anyone ask how a man wanted to vote
! ''Varela told me he heard one Of the
/ cops ask a fellow how he was going II
"One of the policemen had supper
I with us after the polls closed.
I did not see the policemen ask for
votes. They were in and out all day.
After we spilled the ink on the
I tally sheets me and Brooks's son went
! off 10 see if We could get more tally
| sheets
No Need for Police.
"At the tins the policemen were in
| the room, people were coming in TO
vote There was nothing that occurred
was no call for any police. If they
came in there they came without being
called for"
Cross Examined.
On ross-examination the witness
said: Il did not see the police inter-
fere with anyone in there. They did
not come in there all the time for
water. 1t was cool outside.
7 saw Aldereue there three or four
times saw him about as much as I
saw Montoya- I saw Valenzuela there
we kept some whisky all the
time We would just get up and go
and get a drink. We drank pretty