Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-09-09
Government Uses y Wit
nesses; II of Them
Foreigners,
VOTED FOR PRESENTS
Several Have Voted for
Many Years, Although
Not Citizens.

~ORPUs CHRISTI Sept s.
~ Twelve witnesses, eleven MeM-
cans and one American, testified for
the government today in federal court
i'm the blanket trial Of County judge
walter f.. Timon and forty other resi-
dents of NueCcs county, ChaIBeu NY
indictment with conspiracy to detIaud
the United States in alleged trrcSuIarl-
ties in the general election in NoNein-
Der, 1914. Three congressman were
elected at this election
Nine of the Mexican witnesses tes-
titled they were born in Mexico, ana
Cnlv one of the number admitted nav
inc secured American naturalization
rapers. Each testified they had yoted
at previous elections. one, PEDRO
| FLORES testified that before coming
/ to Corpus Christi he had lived ana
/ cast his ballot in Uvalde and Gonzales
| counties Texas. Another Mexican
| Antonio Perez, aged G2, sworc that
! for forty years he had been voting III
/ Texas elections, although ne hau hoI
/ become a naturaliZcd citizen OF lHe
! United states, and had never uieu pa
! pers declaring his intention OF becohi-
| ing a naturalized citizen.
Let McNicans Vote.
The only American witness hear9
today was G.. A. Bennett, VINO acleu
as an Independent precinct super
visor i'm the 1914 election. WllIlaIh
! ! Cody, an employe Of Nueces county,
! ncted as presiding election Judge,
! Reunett testified he had challenged
! mo right TO vote Of a Mexican, VINO,
nnon his own statement admitted
bn vas a native of Mexico and was
not naturaized American cltizen'
| The Mexican, witness SAID. was per
u,itted to vote This Mexican name
according to Bennett, was Jose RIOS
Benuctt also testified another MeAi
can. named Jesus Moreno, WoS al
lowed to vote under similar clrcuh-
stances. ~,
The first witness today was Mex
loan Ramoudo Gonzales, who tesn-
fled ne was not a naturalized Ameri-
cau citizen although he had hNed IN
the United states for the past "a
wears He was born in Mexico III
IiS77 ne testified. Gonzales swore ne
had been given a present OF -
to vote for I'D Castlebcrry, candldale
for constable in the 1914 elecu0h
witness recognized CastleberrE, Wh,
is a defendant in the present triaI' az
one among the number or men pre-.
ent when ne was presented with the
voted So Worth.
Pedro Flores. the second witness
, native of Coahuila, Mexico, an un.
| naturalized resident of the OnitcI
states for 26 years, testified he prom
| ised Martin Kelly, another defendant
| that ne would vote the Timon (countA
| Iudge Walter f.. TimOn, Democratic
| ticket. After he had cast his Dalio
he testified Castleberry paid him 50
| The defense scored a point in th'
| Testimony Of two Mexicans, Jual
| I Garcia and Juan De Dios Flores ih'
latter testified that after voting las
| November he was given two or thfe'
| dollars, he did not remember Wnlch
by James Kelly, another detendant
and that he had voted for all OF TN
II Democratic county ticket eXcep
Sheriff NJ. b. Wright. "A defendant II
the present case. lie admitted that hi
enmitv against the sheriff started seN
! eral wears ago when the sheriff place.
= him under arrest under a charge o
7 gtealiug a trunk from local depot.
Didn't Remember.
II "Is il not a fact asked counsel 70
/ the defense. that several days ago yO
lItold Arturo Lcmos and Carmel Tame
| that YOU were coming into this cour
no testify against several Of the me
| who are on trial here and that
necessary you would swear to lie I
send them to the pen?'
81 do not remember the "ltnes
replied.