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transposed and misspelled names have
been found.
They were all written into the books by
persons higher up" according to the
township assessors who have so far tes-
titled. In many instances the names were
lraudulently placed in the books after
the assessors had made their returns TO
the County Commissioners. Others were
written In by the assessors themselves,
copied from lists furnished by the town
ship assessors. Still others, the district
assessors have testified, were written in
by the township assessors over night.
200 NAMES INSERTED OVERNIGHT.
In Precinct No g. Redstone township,
5ls names were stricken from the lis,.
The total vote polled in that district in
1872 was 22l When the May registration
was completed this year. the assessor in
his return showed 4l6 voters. The Sep
tcmbe" registration, which was returned
to the County Commissioners office about
September ., showed a total of 794 voters.
The Democratic organization in Fayette
County, suspicious Of the large May reg
istration, which they had discovered
while investigating school tax receipts,
was prepared TO make complete check
ing OF Redstone township as soon as the
books were returned in September IL
was discovered that us names were in
cluded in the return of Harry Gribble,
assistant assessor OF Redstone g. by some
person whose handwriting did not cor
respond with that of Gribble.
Gribble, when questioned, said that the
names had been written in by Tony
Lynch the Penrose-Crow candidate fo,
the Legislature in the First Legislative
District of Fayctte County.
Gnbble testihes further that Solomon
G, Krepps assessor OF the entire voting
township of Redstone. and a Crow lieu
tenant had taken possession Of the book
overnight and had written 900 names
into il.
When Gribble was put on the witness
stand while the registration book of Red
stone was being investigated, he test-
fed that In addition to the other pad
ding, II pages of names had been pasted
into the book after he had returned it
To the County Commissioners office.
In Precinct No. !, RedstOne township,
an entire registration book of "a pages,
containing 80 names, was roughly tied
with a cord inside the regular book,
which was also filled with names fur
nished by Krepps, and made a part OF
the regular return In this district 32O
names were struck on the list, the in
serted book being thrown out bodily by
Judge Umbel.
JUDGE RULES OUT ALIENS.
II was when the registration book OF
Precinct Number ., Jefferson Township,
was investigated that the first State high
way employees were found to have been
registered. The men whose names were
in that book were not even working in
the county, but were employed on a new
road In the adjoining county of Washing
ton. across the Monongshela River The
firm of Todd & Baker has this contract,
and the men working for them were eX-
pected TO be brought over the river into
Fayette County and voted for Penrose
and Grow.
Baker was formerly engineer OF the
borough OF UniontOwn. ana 4. Springer
Todd, the other member Of the frm, Is
said to be already slated as Crows can
didate for sheriff Of Fayette County al
the general election In 1918. In Jefferson
Judge Umbel struck 90 names OF phantoms
and alien foreigners from the list.
More State highway laborcrs were
found registered In the 4th Precinct Of
assistant assessor In that district, testi-
fed in court that after krepps had added
IS names he himself had added another
lot Of names on September / and 2 He
secured them. he said. from the assistant
mine foreman OF the Brier Hill Coke
Works and from a Mr.. Higginbotham
who had brought him a list Of names OF
nen employed on a State highway road
contract In the vicinity of Brier Hin
Judge Umbel ruled that men emplolsd
on State highway work outside Of thelr