Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1917-03-23

morning Hart took the stand for fur
Their cross examination. DO you want
to make any correction of your testi-
mony as you usually do?" asked Judge
Campbell. Hart replied that he wanted
to state that he had misunderstood
question the Gay before as to the
marking OF ballots. He said that he
thought that question related to eras--
ures and the making of crosses and
not to the marking of ballots void"
Then, why" asked Judge Campbell.
did you deny yesterday when l
showed you a ballot so marked that
you did not mark it?" The reply of
Hart was halting and indefinite
With whom have you talked about
this since yesterday" asked Judge
Campbell.
With nobody" replied the Witness.
mot even with my Attorney
WHO is your attorney snapped
Judge Campbell Even Hart must have
come to view himself in the light of
a defendant
The cross examination led him back
over the meetings with the detectives
in Douglas and answers were brought
out more or less at variance with
those made the day before. His state
ment of his visit to Stephenson be-
L
the polls where he had acted as judge,
and inspector he said that some of the
voters had been allowed to vote Va.
registration certificates though their
names were not on the great register.
Those certificates he said, had been
given back to the voters; at any rate
he did not know what had become Of
them.
The day before, in his testimony as
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service for a violation of Rule G, he
had said that that rule prohibited
getting drunk while on duty. He had
learned in the meantime that it had
prohibited being in places where
drinks are sold His offense was TAX
ing a soft drink at the ElSs club in
Silver City.
Several unimportant witnesses of
the day were Messrs. W. 3. Fonda,
Murphy, Irby and Anles who only tes-
titled as to the conduct of the election
in Douglas precinct No. 1. None of
them had seen anything out of the or
binary; none of them had noticed a
short pencil in the hands of Art Pear =
son and all OF them under cross exam
ination by Mr.. Billiard admitted that
they had noticed what anv of the at
t0rneys or officials about the court
room had in their hands during their
stay Oh TIE Iuey duIilllleu ludl
they did not know whether Pearson
had had such a pencil; they had not
looked TO see: had not thought of
looking.
John D. Mills, Junior, came back on
the stand to correct a statement which
, appeared in the advertisement in The
Republican yesterday, prepared by
the trustee of Governor Hunts con-
test. The error was not essential but
doubtless it seemed SO to the witness.
Anyhow the record was Strengthened.
The Snowflake Precinct
Though in the course of the day no
further mention was made OF the mo-
ton of the contestant to reopen the
case so as to bring in the Snowflake
precinct for investigation for fraud
Will probably automatically dispose
of that motion. That was that the
Navajo county shrievalty contest in
stituted by Woods. democrat. against
Newman, republican, had been aban-
doned as hopeless. In that contest,
Woods had been represented by Mr..
Curley, one OF counsel for former Gov
ernor Hunt and the contestee, by Mr..
Clark, one of counsel for Governor
Campbell. The contest of Woods
could not succeed without the elimina-
ton of Snowflake precinct where
Newman had received a majority Of
IA. With that stricken out, Woods
would have had majority of about so.
There could be no more hope of elm
mating the precinct in gubernatorial