Arizona republican., 1917-05-02
JOCKEY|NG ID GET PLACE FUR FINAL
 ARGUMENT DELAYS

The government contest case, which for the last month has been closing and opening and closing again like an ac- cordian or that flower which opens every morning and closes at night, ap- pears now to have been definitely closed. There seems to be nothing in the way for the beginning of the final argument this morning. But that was expected yesterday morning and was expected all day until late in the after noon when the joclleying for place was resumed, ending in an arrangement by which the contestants attorney would have the opening and the closing.
 When court convened in the morning the contestant put on witnesses to prove ballots in precincts where dis crepancies had been found between the official count and the poll lists. The afternoon whose session began late, was given by the attorneys for the con- testee to bringing before the court the ballots of similar precincts.
 The first witness for the contestant in the morning was w. H. Fadler. dem ! ocratic inspector in Phoenix precinct No. 19 where the count showed there was one less ballot than names on the poll list. MT. Fadler could not say how that had come about but finally he was allowed to express the belief that scme voter after having secured q ballot took , it away and did not return. He said | he had seen three voters leaving the l polling place with ballots and they were stopped.
 i On cross examination the witness was asked by Judge Sloan if he had not been at the office of Mir. Struckmeyer l the night before with the poll list of | that precinct. The witness said he had i been there. He was asked if he had | the poll list now. He replied in the af l firmative. When he was asked if he would permit it to be inspected, he replied that he would have to keep it l in his possession as he had done while | in the office of MT. Struckmeyer At l length at the request of the court he 1 turned it over to Judge Sloan for in- | vestigation.
 The witness was asked if he had not ! been very much interested in the po- | litical fortunes of former Governor | Hunt. He acknowledged that. Had he 1 bet on the result of the election? He | had not Was he interested in any bet
 on the election? Not at all
 The witness was asked if he had not
 as inspector, refused to put into the | ballot box certain ballots that were presented to him by voters. He did not I u. | Another witness was Robert Mont gomery who described himself as clerk
 of Tucson precinct No. l. He explained
 that there was a difference between the | poll list and the count. It appeared | that the election board was somewhat ] muddled there about the time of the
 closing of the polls. On the first count
 of the ballot from the box a shortage
 of more than 200 was discovered. 4 | second count reduced the discrepanc,
 to 10 and finally it was brought dowr to one.
 The witness was cross examined b,
 Judge Campbell who developed tha
 the witness though an official of thu precinct was not a resident of it: tha
 he was deputy sheriff that his nam,
 was neither on the register nor as al
 official on the certificate of the pol list. The witness insisted that every
 thing in connection with the election was proper but he could rot tell in de
 tail what had been done. Now
 Robert asked Judge Campbell, 'fsn'
 It a fact that you are testifying onl, to your confidence in lily Corbett :?
 Corbett was the election inspector.
 Other witnesses testifying to discrep
 ancies in such precincts were James A
 Chapman of Upper Lowell, a clerk: R (COntinued on Pape ThraaN