El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-23

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than that"
says DeIgado Was ARMED.
[ On redirect examination he testified:
. Yes, Delgado was armed. He took
off his pistol about o'clock that after
noon and had a fight with Ascarte,
! Ed Bryants soninlaw. Tt occurred in
front Of the polling place. All po-
licemen at the station came to pre-
vent trouble. The chief of police came
to prevent trouble.
"Delgado was about there all day.
I don't know how the difficulty came
up. went to talk to Candelario.
I knew of the difficulty when the
police ran up. Ascarate, I don't know
his other name, told me the difficulty
came up because Delgado wanted to
run him away.
i told Francisco Ruiz to tell the
chief of police about the conduct of
| Delgado which was uncalled for. The
man saw the chief, and the chief said
he was going TO prevent it. That was
little after 5, and there was not much
time left Even when they closed Del
gado was acting very ugly When Ike
Alderete was there and could not vote
Delgado was making fun of him; sing
ing songs and calling him an aban-
doned child of politics
Lea-"That language used by Delga-
do to you-was it in loud voice?"
Witness-"Yes. it could be heard 80
feet away"
The witness stated that he had not
heard of any threats that Delgado
had made to others.
CobOs Cross-examined.
Lorenzo Cobos on cross examina-
tion Thursday afternoon testified:
Joe Dunno made out and folded up
the ticket. 1 said. let me look at it
Joe Dunno said it was all right I
can't read or write English much less
Spanish. 1 told him I wanted to vote
for Alderete and all the anti ring tick
ct I don't know how he marked it.
1 could not have told him how he
marked il if I had seen it. I just
wanted to see it. He said I could not.
Dune offered me 81 a day to work
for the ring. I did not work for the
anti ring was in favor OF it, !
worked for nothing I was in favor of
the anti ring ticket
''Sambrano, the man who is little
cripple in one foot took the voters to
the poll"
The witness said that he stated
Thursday morning the voters went up
and there was some trouble and they
came out.
The men remained at their own
quarters, not by the ropes" the wit
ness said. I did not know what the
trouble was. because they only talked
to Sambrano. I heard him say: Come
with me. there will be no difficulty
They went in and came out and told
him they were not able to vote. 1
don't know why. Sambrano then took
voted or not when they went in the
second time.
The rings headquarters were very
near, from one street corner to an
other 1 did not see any anti ring
headquarters. If they had one. I did
not see it.
The ring had a room, and they
took them from it to the polling places.
My intention was to vote for the
anti-ring. I voted for the anti-ring"
Could Not See Ticket
On redirect examination he said; IL
don't know how Joe Dunno made my
ticket. I told him to make it for the
anti ring. 1 don't know how he voted.
There were people there I could have
shown the ticket to if Dunno would
have given it to me. Dunno folded it
and Immediately put it into the box"
Thurmond asked: What do YOU 1
know about a distribution of poll taxes :
out there before election day."
Witness-'I know this: police
man said to Varela,, I have an order I
for your arrest because you took a
said: I know 1 did, because the poll 1
tax was false The police said, /
then you did all right The policeman /
also said he had a warrant for Amelio /
Lucero. He did not arrest him.
do you know. of any poll tax !
receipts being issued to persons who I
were not citizens?".
A-"No. sir"
On a recross examination the wit
ness said: The way I found this out |
was what Rafael told me He was an
anti ring man.
Il think that the poll tax receipt
belonged to a ring man. because they
were claiming that vote.
When the man told him the receipt
was not valid. the policeman did not
arrest him.
Joe Dunno pointed out Raefel Va
rela to the policeman"
Ta1
isn't he?"
witness-''I don't know. He is
white"
II found out the policeman wanted Lu.
eero because Rafael told me, and had
had heard it,
The witness stated that tie transac-
ton which he had testified to relative
10 Varela and the policeman occurred
on election day at the time of the vot-
ing He stated that the remark made
by Dunno to the policeman could have
been heard by a number of Mexicans
who were standing around there.
Abel Alridrey, a witness Thursday
morning was placed on the stand He
testified that the man who addressed
Narela he understood was a deputy
sheriff
Could Not Find Poll Tax Receipt
Eusibio Gonzales, who was ordered
TO bring his poll tax receipt to the
court room Thursday afternoon stated
that he was unable to find it.
7 think it has been lost" said the
witness. Il paid for my poll tax, and
1 can swear under oath that I have
not voted
On cross examination the witness
said thar on election day he did not
go back To his home to look for his
receipt.
Disturbance Occurs.
A disturbance in the corridor inter-
rupted the proceedings, and chairman
Lea went TO investigate.
Leaf don't know anything about
the facts connected with the disturb
ance outside, but I want the witnesses