Daily Kennebec journal., 1917-11-23

| would like to give you the fullest
/ possible opportunity TO go over all the
petitions.
! Mr.. Brown: / understand from that
and / want TO understand, because l
! have put in several days labor. and |
! wish TO put in more because | find
/ things this morning that satisfies me
| that a great number of these names
! that brother Crockett is asking to have
rejected. there is serious doubt
whether they should be rejected or not
on the face Of the petitions. l want
| TO raise the question of these four
clerks. whether the Governor of this
State comedies these four clerks as
material witnesses that should be
| summoned
( The Governor: We Will have it un-
/ derstood that witnesses to be agreed
upon will be summoned
/ Darius o. Kelley, Jonesport.
I Darius d. Kelley. town clerk Of
JonespOrt made one of the most in
teresting witnesses of the hearing
( Mr.. Kelley. although he is a strong Re
! publican and lives in an overwhelm-
ingly Democratic town. has been town
clerk for the past "A years and prob
ably knows every man. woman and
child in the community. He was ex-
pected by the friends OF the petition
I Crs to show that the figures in the
( certificatiOn Of one petition had been
changed. but did not entirely satisfy
the audience with his final statements
on that point. Then. when confronted
with more names on other petitions
than had been there when he certified
the lists, he said they had been added
after he had made the certifcation and
stuck to it.
/ BY Crockett: | show YOU a petition
/ from the town of Jonesport. asking for
referendum upon the act to abolish
II" Office Of Commissioner OF Fish
cries and Game, which was certified to
I by YOU apparently as town clerk of the
town q Jonesport. and upon which
petition there is a blot upon the mum
ber which might be 100 or might be 80,
and ask yoll if you certified to that
petition? 1 did. yes
Whether YOU certified to that Deti-
tion-yOu will examine ibid Won
certify that from to 100? one to 100.
You didn't make the figure 80" ?
Why. no.
( tSaid petition marked Exhibit No 1O3
When YOU signed this certificate.
when You sent this petition to Angus Ia
ii then bore the letters 100" did it not
in that certificate? should say YES.
| didn't send the petition.
When it left your office? When il
left my office
Cross Examination by Mr. Crockett.
Whom did YOU give it to? The man
who got il, Fl. NJ Woodard.
What is his full name? Haskell NJ.
Woodard
You gave the petition to himc l did
the petition, he brought that in to me,
and certified it,
DO Nou have any independent recol-
lection of that particular petition? No.
L don't.
You don't know whether that was
90 or "l0V' when it left your office =?
! do know it was not 80"
What makes you think so? BY
looking over the petition. was ac-
quainted with every person on the
petition.
Look al that again. Take the glass.
and see il You can see any sign of a
change there other than a blot? Wen,
1t looks as though there was a change
there. don't know.
Let the Governor look at it. II
seems as though | should remember if
had scraped that; but | never
Isn't il true that YOU are not sure >
You see where that was scraped. r
always ues a fountain pen. a gold non.
iook now that is spread there and
scratched. Now YOU see how that is
made II IS sclapcd each side; that
was made with a steel pen.
Did YOU see any figure Il" there be-
fore" Why. / don't see anything but
what You see right there. why was this
one right here scratched? What has
that been scratched?
am asking YOU. You don't see anv
hSure one before the 1t looks as if
there was a little more ink there Ir
has been scraped
You testify. not from absolute recall
lection. but from your idea Of what
the probabilities were? Yes; that
would make that from one TO 100 in
looking over the petition.
You cannot testify positively that
A''''iN' II IIoHi L TO 1UU'
could testify positively that never
! did make those figures when | gave the
petition to Mr.. Woodard
And ne brought it over horeo Mr.
Noodard--l know every. one of those
and ! looked over the petition every
person on that petition when | count !
ed it to 100
You are testifying from the nroha :
blllties. not from absolute recollection
are you not?
Mr. Brown: He is not testifyine TO
anything of the kind.
can't recolIect of changing or
scrapinS any figures.
Can YOU remember postiye,, ,here
were originally 100 there: Not on tbis
particular petition
That is what | mean? 10. / cannot
positively because | don't remember
any particular petition took the
whole or il.
Re-direct-You would say positively.
would YOU not. Mr.. Kelly. that Won
I never made that figure - there? |
should say not, Of course.
Inc Governor: | want to ask the vii.
hess about one of the Lewiston Police
Commission petitions at the same time
1f there is no objection | viii ia il ri,h, T,