THE COURT: It is not competent.
By MR. VAN VOORHIS:
Q. Were you present on the day of election?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Did you receive the votes of these persons?
A. I did.
Q. How many ballot boxes were there there?
A. Six.
Q. What position did you occupy during the day?
A. Chairman of the Board.
Q. Did you stand at the window and receive the votes?
A. Most of the time I did.
Q. Were those ballots which you received from them folded?
A. They were.
Q. Did you or any of the inspectors see or know the contents of any of
the ballots?
MR. CROWLEY: If your Honor please, I submit it is entirely immaterial
whether these inspectors saw the names upon the ballots.
THE COURT: I have excluded that already. It is not competent. It is
proved that they put in votes, and it is proved by one of the ladies
that she did vote for a candidate for Congress.
MR. VAN VOORHIS: I propose to show by the witness that he didn't know
the contents of any ballot, and didn't see it.
THE COURT: That will be assumed. He could not do it with any propriety.
By MR. VAN VOORHIS:
Q. Did either one of the inspectors object to receiving the votes of the
women at the polls?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Which one?
A. William B. Hall.
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