Bisbee daily review., 1917-03-18
Queer Procedure

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 Queer Procedure
 When asked if he was present dur ing the evening when the election board was counting the votes boiled during the day and whether he not iced any irregularities, Stevenson re- piled that he had seen Art Pearson, who was taking the ballots from the box. holding a short pencil in his hand carefully concealed in the palm. Sev- eral times he saw Pearson make a motion as if marking cross on the ballot just before handing it to the member Of the board who was calling the names off to the tallymen, the witness stated. Stevenson stated he the room to the actions of Pearson nd then went in search of Deputy Sheriff Cross.
 In the cross-eXamination Senator Ives asked stevenson if he was aware that he could be made party to the crime by not ordering Pearson's ar rest when he discovered him tamper- ing with the ballots. Stevenson re- piled that there were two reasons why he did not interfere; first, because he was not certain Pearson had marked the ballot and secondly. because he was not certain whether a civilian of ficer could arrest an election official. He stated further that since the cleo ton he had investigated quietly and when the ballots now in custody Of the court could be obtained as evi- fence he intended to prosecute every member of the board.
 Just before the Campbell attorneys were ready to turn the witness over to Senator Ives, they asked him if he had ever held any conversation with Inrt since the November election. Probably realizing that the Campbell
 -0-neys were attempting to divulge Senator Ives raised strenuous objec. ions to allowing the witness to an swer and after long and heated ar guTent on law questions pertaining to testimony at conspiracy trial, Judge Stanford overruled the objec- in and the alleged confession of Hurt to Stevenson was related in de oil
 Hart came to the office of Steven
 " n March F and asked for a few minutes private conversation. The quest was granted and when they were alone Hart told how he had changed one ballot from Hunt to Campbell because the erasure after Campbell's name was too apparent. He admitted. the witness said, that he new of at least AS ballots that Pear son had changed from Campbell to Hunt by erasing the cross after the republicans name and voting the bal lot for Hunt. This part of the testi- mony was stricken from the records because it was mere hearsay.
 At the conclusion of Stevenson's testimony. Senator Ives made a mo- tion to dismiss the action to have
 
 Douglas No. l thrown out on the ground that no testimony was intro duced that was sufficient to warrant throwing the entire precinct out. The court refused to sustain the motion without waiting to hear argument by the Campbell attorneys.
 Sensational Testimony
 Deputy Sheriff C. E. Cross was called and corroborated the testimony of Stevenson relative to the intoxica- tion of Pearson and added that Hart during early part of the evening ap- peared to be in the same condition He told of hearing about irregulari- ties going on in the polling place and said that when he asked to see some of the ballots Pearson led him to table to a pile two or three inches high which were not yet counted. Glancing over the names of the can didates for justice of the peace in that precinct, Cross said that he noticed aruslIrpc after inc nama of nunIop