The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-12
Registry
 Count Tipoff To Fraud

starting marking up votes TOT beIlT (No answer.)
 e: Why2 A: Just because I was told to,
 e: Look at these tallies given Roosevelt and Garner. How many are your msrks2 A: All, up to 30O.
 O: Look now ct the Landon- Knox sheet. DO you remember this pager A: No.
 e: There are no marks at all on this page, are there? A: No.
 e: Did you get tired before you got this Ear? A: Nobody told me to mark :hat page.
 SAYS NAMES ADDED
 In .he same trialO Roland H. 0roff, special agent for the Fed- eral Bureau of Investigation, teSti- fled that ar. investigation of the precinct records revealed discrep- ancies not detected by the grand jury.
 The final legitimate ballot reg istered on the poll book, Croft said, was TOP. The total vote was increased to 747 with fraudulent iY1scribing of additional names to account for extra ballots, Croft testified.
 Mrs. Albright, who was indicted and had pleaded nolle contcndere, 1 then was questioned by Milligan. Several voters had testified they had voted straight Republican but their votes had been tailed as Democratic.
 e: Teil exactly what Walker said. A: Walker called me over to one side and. said, You know, we're not going to count the bal- lots" l asked him what he would do if caled the election cornmis- sioners and complained. He said, We will do to you what we did to Mrs. Rulgur."
 Tn the second trial, four Demo- cratic, end two Republican elec- ton officials and one policeman were indicted.
 Five were. convicted and sen- ! fenced as follows: Lorne E. Wells, Democratic judge, two years; Frank H. Adams, Republican judge, three years; Joe R. Wells, jr., Democratic clerk, one year and a day in a re- formatory; John A. Lutheran, Dem- ocratic precinct captain. three years; Leo ,. Roach, patrolman, six months in Platte county jail. MORE TESTIMONY
 Tn this trial, Mrs. Deliah Chan ey, a Republican judge, testified that Luteran, the Democratic pre- cinct captain, literally took over the polling place.
 O: Where were you when Lut- erarl issued orders that votes be cast for friends" who had called him, saying he had to have 150 more votes2 A: Sitting at my table crying.
 Q: Why were you crying2 A: Because I had to steal my neigh bor's rights.
 Mrs. Chaney said Luteran blus- teringly told judges and clerks: Get up! Get your books out! Check them off"
 Mrs. Chaney then testified she saw Luteran place ballots in the box.
 e: What did you say? A: I said, Luteran, you can't do that.
 O: What did he say? A: He said, "Wcu, I did 1t, didn't 1?"
 e: What was his attitude? A: He was in good humor. He smiled and said, i've got to have 15o yotes."
 The policeman, Roach, was con- victed on the premises that he should have enforced the law when he sa'y it violated.
 "But," according to the govern ment, The deserted while the elec- ton was stolen right before him. and he did not interfere when Luteran browbeat those women into participating in this crime" {. NEARLY 90' TREASURES
 In that trial the government in- troduced evidence that approxi- mately 90 unswerving Twelfth ward Republicans had been trans- formed into as many loyal Demo- crats by the use of an eraser and lead pencil.
 T found evidence" c. A. Appel, F. B. I. handwriting expert said. "that the KS at the top of the Republican column had been erased 50 vigorously and carelessly that on some ballots the paper was worn through. The K" was then placed h. the Democratic column" he said "On now many ballots were there erasures?" Judge otis in- quired.
 "on nearly so," Appel said.
 As 2 result. Kansas City still is under investigation with the grand jury searching many precincts and wards for suspected election law violations.
 Tn the trial of six more defen- daritss now under way, the govern ment has shown that ballots were stolen in Q church, the basement of which had been used as a polling place. Further revelations, expected daily, have thrown a scare into election crooks, not only in Kansas City, but in many other cities where such practices have been go- ing on.