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MEDFORD irXTL TRTBUXE, MEDFORD, OREGON. SUNDAY, JUNE II, 1933.
Chicago Fair Provides
Volume of Thrills for
Applegate on Journey
Ed. Note: This li the third of a
series of letters by Dick Applegate
Med ford boy. on a iree ianca wjut
the world.
of
To the Editor:
This Installment ahould have been
sent from Kansas City, indeed
while in Kansas City I even went so
far as to go to the offices of the
fltar, where they gave me a typewriter
and paper, but I was so exnausiea
and aleepy that I couldn't, for the
life of me. see any reason for not
writing It from Chicago Instead, it
bet iix only Monday tnen. So here It
eomoa from Chicago.
Leaving Salt Lake City we went
to Pueblo, Colo., where it was Deasuy
. cold, and then headed across the
flat prairie country towards Kansas
City. This flat-as-a-flannel -cake
county was .In striking contrast to
the towering mountain ranges we nan
Just gone- through. Through the
Royal Gorge, Soldier's Summit, the
Tennessee Pass (elevation 10.400 feet)
and the Wasatch chain of the Rocky
srcus. ws had seemed almost cooped
up, the walls of the mountains ltsc
so abruptly about Is. The huge 16
drlvered locomotives had all they
could do to haul a medium-length
train at a snail's pace. Here on the
prairie, however, all was different.
Open 8pace Unbroken
We could aee, Don for the first
time in his life. In all directions
without so much as seeing a tree or
a hill. The smooth, green fields were
like the open sea, and the compara
tively small locomotives raced along
with our long train aa though It
were mere Play.
We got Into Kansas City early In
the morning and went immediately
into town to get breakfast, we nan
the cheapest and beet breakfast we've
ever had. Then to the Y. M. C. A.
where we chartered a room and went
in swimming. The swimming pool,
which was on the roof, had a algn
on one end saying "Deep." It was a
darned lie. I tried a jack-knife, ntt
tin the bottom with my handa be
fore my feet were under water.. Ouch!
I took a big hunk of ak:n off
hand on the flagstone bo I ton, and
the blood made quit a famous dis
play. 1 was quite proud l my
wound. Fortunately for my Mogra
phers, no serious complication set
in, and the handage was removed
here In Chicago a couple of days
later.
After skimping along on our mea
ger supply of pleces-of -eight (dollars
to you) all the way across tne con
tinent, we ran amok In Kr.nsaa City
and went to a talkie. It 'ss awful,
so we decided to take the taste away
with a sandwich and a glass of beer,
which was advertised at 15 oents,
and for which they charged us, over
our loud protestt, 30 cents. After
that, there semed llttte to do but
- go to bed, so to bed we went, at 4
o'clock In the afternoon,
"Take" a Train
The next morning, bright and
early, we went down to the railroad
yarda to get "our train." A cop was
chasing every one off. as It started
out, and he played hide and seek
tor two mile around oil cara with
Don, and never did catch him. -" I
got tn a boxcar while he was chas
ing Don, and the first time the train
stopped we got together.
We crossed the Mississippi for the
first time on this trip at Davenport.
Iowa. It was wry high, . and very
muddy, which seems to be a preroga
tive of that particular stream. Prom
there on In to Chicago nothing of
any interest happened.
Clothing Missing
When we got here our clothes,
which we had sent from the coast
to meet us here, had not yet ar
rived, and we didn't have the nerve
to come down, town in our hitch
hiking outfits, and the same applied
to getting into the falr'grounds on a
Mall Tribune press pass. When the
clean hankies did arrive, though, we
did both those things.
A few days before leaving, we told
Joe Naumea goodbye at Santa Clara,
assuring htm that we'd not see him
for some years but, upon our arrival,
he and Jake Von Tobel, another big
ehot from the University, wens here
waiting for us. Maybe not for us,
but they were waiting, at any rate.
Joe hadnt seen the fair yet. and
Jake had only seen it once, and
they'd been here for almost a week.
When we finally got to the fair
grounds, we didnl know whether to
try to get in on prees cards or not.
But mustering the old gall, we flash
ed tiem In front of the ticket taker
and atarted on through. He stopped
us, but only temporarily, to show us
where the pre&s entrance was, and
there we had no trouble.
Arts Building Intermit
The first thing to hold our atten
tion was the Pine Arts building. In
this one collection of famous paint
ings are gathered some of the best
works of American and foreign art
ists. Whistler's "Mother" Is there. I
aw It once before In the Louvre In
Paris. There are Rodin originals and
innumerable other masterpieces,
which, with our limited knowledge
of art, could not be wholly appre
ciated. Then through the Field museum
and the aquarium as a matter of
course. All thn-o of these buildings
are located off the fair grounds
proper. Aa we went into the real
exposition grounds, we looked down
a quarter of a mile of the Avenue
of Flags. On the left Is the Admin
istration building, of yellow and
blue. At first this combination of
color teems to strike a weird note,
but w.1 en you get used to it. It Is
rather attractive. The Administra
tion building Is not open to the pub
lic except on business.
Klwtrlc Kie fountain
Being unable to think up any bus
iness wh'ch could possibly gain us
admittance, we pained on, Into the
Sears Roebuck bulldlnga. This Is
where our first real Intimation of a
century of progress came. In the
lobby le a carved onyx fountain. A
very nice looking fountain, to be sure,
but nothing outstanding about it, at
first sight. Eicept that It had no
visible means of turning on or off.
But immediately one put his head
down to drink the water was turned
on. Aftr drinking, as your Jicad
came :ut of the line of the electric'
SSflaSaUM U, t&
snapped off. The "Electric Eye," they
called It. They bad something of
the same nature in the Copco win
dow last winter, where a light went
on or off as you Interrupted the rays
of light outside the window with
your hand.
Tfro next building la the Hall of
Science. Mr. Hussong and Miss Wal
dr.n from the high school would
have a real picnic here. And I know
that Mr. Cope would never get out.
There are acres and acres of new de
velopments In phy flics, chemistry and
the allied sciences. In one place la a
glass transparent man, eight feet
high, and costing 10.000, with all
th organs Ut internally by tiny
electric lamps. This exhibit was
loaned by the Mayo clinic.
Many Exhibits
In the same buildings are huge
dioramas, showing the progress of
medicine, dentistry, nursing, mathe
matics, and a thousand other things
of the same nature.
The general exhibits group con
tains so many diversified displays
that It would '.ake a thousand pages
to eoer theru all. In this building
la the origiual Gutenberg reas. A
man in attendance tells you 1& story,
and printings made on the press from
original Outenberg type may oe pur
chased. Here, also, is the Outenberg
Bible, the first book ever to be print
ed from movable type. Next the old
press Is a hugle multiple roller press,
auch as now used In the modern
newspaper. The Mall Tribune. I
think, owns one of only a few such
presses In Oregon.
This same general exhibit group
Ass a miniature diamond mine, 16
tons of diamond bearing dirt having
been transplanted bodily from the
Klmberly mines In South Africa. And
we also saw the great Nassak dla
mond, valued at a half million dol
lars.
Shirt Factory Operates
Have you ever been In a shirt fac
tory? There Is one here, the whole
process of shirt manufacture going
on before your eyes. There Is a ma
chine in that group which sews 34
button-holes a minute.
While dashing about the fair we
became obsessed with the desire to
smoke,, and bought a package of Of
ficial Century of Progress cigarettes.
In payment, Don gave the fellow a
sliver dollar, thereby nearly wreck
ing the smooth progress of the whole
show. The guy gaped at It a while.
finally picked it up and looked at It
with a blank look, dropped It on the
marble counter, shouted for help,
and then asked us what It was.
The kid In the hamburger stand
next door rushed over when he heard
about It, and shook our hands, and
said be was from the coast, too
from Portland and that that was
the first silver dollar he'd seen In
Chicago. The guy In the atand had
never seen one, but a pasaerby, at
tracted by the throng, voluntered
the Information that he'd seen sev
eral on a trip west. He'd probably
been to Kansas City. They finally
decided , that it had a real commer
cial value, and was genuine coin of
the realm, and derided to accept It.
Phooey.
Sky-Ride a Washout
The aky-rlde, which was built to
supersede the giant Ferris wheels of
former world fairs, looks like a wash
out to us. There are two steel tow
ers about 1600 feet apart, and 600
feet high. The ride consists of rock
et cara running on cables about 360
feet above the ground. Why they
are called rocket cara I can't Imag
ine, since they are run by electricity.
For this thrilling experience you are
taxed AO cents. If you want that
experience, you'd better bring 60 cents
too, because press cards won't work.
Press day was held one time when
we were there, but we missed it, be
cause we were down in the automo
bile section, watching them put Chev-
rolets together. It would have been
free, too.
Homes of Future Shown
Of interest to Med ford people would
be the dlsplsy of "homes of the fu
ture.' There are homes made of
glass, lit with neon. , There are homes
made of brick, with brick floors and
ceilings. There la one house made
of glass, which has an airplane han
gar in the cellar and a small landing
field on the roof. In the garage la
a Silver Arrow car, fully streamlined,
which Is made by Pierce Arrow, and
sella for 410 000. There was a pic
ture of this same car In the Oregon
Ian aome time ago.
The Trawl and Transport building
has a i oof supported entirely by steel
cable, and adjusts Itself to tempera
ture changes. Inside the building
are housed all the exhibits having to
do with the last century of progress
In transportation. On one railroad
track la an old Pullman, the first
ever built. In which the body of
Lincoln waa carried to It last rest
ing place. Next It a huge new all
aluminum one of streamlined design,
capable of Jhlgh speed.
Speedboat Kxhihlted
The speedboat of Gar Wood, the
Miss America 9. is shown alongside
an old locomotive capable of eight
miles an hour, if pushed. And on
the other side of the building la a
new Boeing Transport, the SAME
ONE that John Patton and Charley
Reum and I saw at the alrporv in
Medford about six weeks ago. It Vis
same model numbers that the model
of Al QUausen's In the Copco win
dow carried.
Outside the main building are the
railroad exhibits. One Is an entire
train, the "Royal Scot," the crack
train between London and Edin
burgh. We wei watxtng through
this train when It atarted to rain
outside, so we picked out a com
fortable lounge car and made our
selves at home till the storm blew
over. Radio tmislc could be had In
(he lounge of the American train on
the next track, but that was crowd
ed by people who had the same idea
we had.
Casino well Plare
pAbst Dlue Ribbon Casino offers a
swell place to dance, with Ben Ber
nie. Tom Gerun. Buddy Rogers and
Ouy Lcmbardo furnishing the music.
But the music was wasted on us, !
since we hsd no girt friends to dance
with. Chicago ha the damdeat col
lection of fumy looking women we
have ever seen. We've twn looking
we got here, and hare yet to see. that
one. Of course, we're probably just
polled by the beautiful women
around Medford. and Don's slater.
Margaret in Oakland I Even the "Miss
America," who is on display at the
fair, doesn't took so hot to us.
At the electric group there. Is a
huge long distance telephone plant,
where we could call Ban Francisco
for nothing by merely letting 76 peo
ple with ear phones listen In. We
may yet.
Another feature In this same build
ing is a place where they scramble
sound waves to make an ordinary
conversation sound like someone eat
ing soup. There ia also a television
display, which is rather Interesting.
No Oregon Exhibit
At the Hr.ll of States, where the
federal building of three towers dom
inates a ring of state buildings, Ore
gon has no display. California has.
however, and It Is the most beautiful
of the group. The entrance la through
a giant redwood, like those near
Crescent City, and the whole group
of rooms Is lined with redwood. Two
waterfalls cool the rooms, and soft
chairs are offered In w.hich to reat.
Washington has a nice exhibit, too.
One of the nicest. But poor old
Ofegun is out In the rain. I wonder
what'a the matter. I even offered
to take a room and ne the Oregon
exhibit, thereby copping first place
for the old home state, but Califor
nia cot wind of it and boycotted It.
I'll bet they were afraid I'd let the
cat out of the bag about where ra
ter Lake really is located! I'm a
sort cz traveling information bureau
about Oregon, anyway.
In one of the buildings is the
aluminum ball In which Heard went
up Into the stratosphere, and a div
ing bell of steel, Jn which William
Bee be went a half mile Into the aea.
I've been reading all this stuff In
the Tribune for years- but hardly
ever expected tq aee any of It In the
fleah.
Ferry Tains Get Boost
In a last week a copy of the Chi
cago Tribune, which la an exhibit
showing every copy for many yeara
back, I saw where the Ferry twins,
of Medford were both chosen as sal
utatarian of their class. The world
Is a small place.
Since coming to Chicago we haven't
seen a single gangster, and it rather
has disappointed us, although one
individual offered to get us a brand
new Plymouth sedan, with the mo
tor and body numbers obliterated,
for C26.
G. M. Building Impresses
To us the General Motors building
seems the most striking. You've no
doubt all seen pictures of It by this
time, so I won't try to describe It,
but the orange neon tubes which
light it at night make it lovely. In
side the building la a complete as
sembly plant for Chevrolet. One
may pick out a bolt from the box
for bolts, and order a car to go with
It, and then watch the whole process
of construction.
There Is a 15.000 Cadillac V-16
sedan, built especially for this ex
hibit which Is supposed to be the
forerunner of motor car design. All
stream-lined and everything. But
If st so big that I think I won't
buy it.
When you get to the fair you can,
for the mere pittance of a dollar an
hour, be hauled about In a rick
shaw, by college student In coolie
pants. College students have also
been chosen to act as guides and
cashiers, about 3000 of them being
employed at the present time.
But until you do get there, don't
take this as an accurate picture of
the works, because, as said before.
It can't be painted In anything short
of a book. . The grounds are about
two and a half miles long, and a
half mile wide, with a lagoon In the
center upon which gondolas float.
Everything from pink lemonade
atanda to Belgian villages and exact
reproductions of the Latin quarter
of Paris, on an Enchanted Island, In
which huge giants greet the kids,
and they can be left alone to play In
houses made of marbles, or on slides
and teeters and coasters and boats
and ride on ponies or anything else
they might like to do.
See Puppet Show
Last night we saw a marionette
show put on by Tony Sarge. while
a 65-mile-an-hour gale waa howling
outside. Windy city la right. A
storm like that would pull every
tree out of the Rogue River valley,
I'll bet.
Now that we've seen the world's
fair and taken all the pictures we
can afford to, we leave shortly to
give Don his first glimpse of New
York. That Is, If we can find some
way to get our awful looking bed
roll out of town without the police
grabbing us for Impersonating an
African camel caravan. That darned
bed ioll Mil e our Achillea .heel
yet, I know. When we got to town,
we didn't want to carry It through
the business section, so we 'stopped
about IB milee out and tried to send
it by express. The express office
was closed, however, so we decided
to leave It at the local police station
and send for It later. The police
statlo.1 waa closed until further no
tice. Then we went to the post of flee,
where they told us that the rubber
ised poncho covering It waa not to
be termed as a wrapper, and that we
would have to wrap It In paper, but
t,hat they were closing In two and a
half minutes. Poor Innocent souls.
They dtdnt have a chance of closing
with us on their trail.
.Mall Package
Don dashed out and grabbed some
wrapping paper right out from un
der the nose of a grocery clerk, while
I went in the pack for a piece of
rope. By the time Don got back
with the paper I was ready and we
atuck one end of the package through
Vie package window, roping the oth- i
er end In the meantime. The clerk ;
started to wrest the end he had
away from us before we could get It
wrapped, tell us it was not wrapped
properly, close the window and go
home. We were not to be thus easily !
forestalled, however, and at the end
of the tussle we at least had paper:
wrapped around It. It looked like the
but It got by. Now the prob
lem la to get it back out. Why we
didn't have sense enough to send It
18 miles on the other aide of town
and then pick It up on our way out,
we don't know. I
That about concludes today's in
stallment, I think, and to anyone
who has had perseverance to wade
through this far, so long, and lore j
from I
DICK APPLEOATB.
STEALERS HELD
CONFERENCE AT
HOW BANKS
(Continued from Page One.)
burned the ballots. Mrs. Elsie Mc
Kltrlck testified tbst she waa in
and out of the room and was in
troduced to La Dleu. She was busy
most of the time caring for a then
five-months old bsby.
Three state policemen attached to
the game department Ed Walker,
Rodney Roach ' and Clarence Mal
colm. Identified ballot bags they
had recovered from Rogue rtvernear
Galls creek, and the By bee bridge.
Bryant Testifies .
Esrl Bryant, and his brother-ln-lsw,
James D. Oaddy, testified that
with E. A. Fleming of Jacksonville,
they had taken five of the ballot
bags after the meeting of the "Good
Government congress" In the ev.:rt
bouse. In a delivery ante, and burn
ed part of ths -ballots In Bryant's
home aud the remainder In the woods
near Jacksonville. They also burned
up the ballot containers, both test
ified. Later they went to the ashes
of the bonfire, built for the purpose,
and found "eyelets" of the destroyed
containers. -
Philip Lowd. deputy sheriff, testi
fied that shortly after midnight on
February 30, last, La Dleu and Mc
Ki trick came to 'his house at 1611
West Main street and asked to bor
row his large auto "to stage a party."
Lowd Invited them into the house,
and La Dleu said: "We want to get
your car to get some whiskey, and
we might get a load of ballots at
the court house." Lowd said he dis
missed it as "Idle talk, aa I didn't
think anything like that would hap
pen," Lowd ..Car Lent
Lowd aatd: "I told LaDieu this
waa not my habit, but he could tase
the car if he wanted It.'
The next morning, the witness
said, his auto was parrked sear his
house and was muddy, and had straw
and chaff In the rear compartment.
Lowd testified that he went to the
office of Attorney Porter J. Naff that
day and dictated a statement about
the condition of his car, which he
later gave to the state police.
"I checked upon the gasoline and
found they had gone about 75 miles,"
Lowd said.
-Under cross examination, which
was brief, Lowd did not change bis
testimony. '
Chief of Police Clatous McCredte
Identified 18 tops of ballot baga aa
those found In the court nouse base
ment the day following the ballot
theft.
' Trial Kept Moving
Judge Skip worth, though both sides
agreed, declined to recess the trial
until Tuesday morning, because of
the "great expense to Jackson coun
ty and It would not be right to keep
the Jury locked up for two days."
It was explained to the court that
a "number of witnesses desired to
attend the University of Oregon
graduation exercises Monday at Eu
gene." Judge Skipworth replied:
"I have a daiightei and my only
daughter graduating Monday from
the university, and I have just brok
en fae news to my wife by long
distance that I will not be there. I
feel as sorry about It as anybody,
and would love to attend, but It Just
can't be done."
Attorney Hough proposed that the
Jury bo excused and "allowed to re
turn to their homes."
The court declined the proffer be
cause "since they have been kept
together thus far, it would be fool
ish to allow them to separate now."
The court granted the Jury per
mission to attend church today. In
charge of bailiffs, but all must go to
the same church, and "It la under
stood that the minister will make
no reference to this trial, or any
thing connected with tt."
Judge Skipworth left Saturday to
spend Sunday with his family in Eu
gene. He will return here Monday
on the 8:40 train.
R. C. Cummlnga of Rogue River, a
county truck driver when Walter
Jones, mayor of the north county
town, waa its mayor as well as county
road supervisor, and whose "Model
T Ford coupe" provided a hub-bub
with the cheers of "congressmen" to
drown the sound of falling glass,
when the court house vault window
waa bioken, testified at the LaDieu
ballot theft trial Saturday morning
he did not want his father-ln-?aw
to know "1 had been mixed up In
this," so he hurried back from a
ballot-destroying auto trip to By bee,
bridge over Rogue river.
Told to Start Truck
Cummings said he drove kin to the
"confrress'' and met Mayor Jonea in
the hallway ahortly after the doors
were opened, and Jonea Instructed
him to "go and atart a truck with a
key In It." Cummings said he left
but did not start the truck, telling
Jones there waa "no key, though
there was one."
The witness then said that Jone
Instructed him to drive his own car
to the west entrance of the court
.house, keep his engine running and
"race it when they get the signal
to smash ths window, and you hear
the cheering." Cummlnga testified
he did, and once when the engine
"died ' Jones came to him and told
him to keep It racing."
At a signal and the cheering. Cum
mlnga testified, he raced the motor
and made noise to drown the sound
of falling glass. Later four ballot
bags were placed in the car. and
Cummlnga said : Let a get out of
here." Walter Mtth Burley Sexton he
left, and on the street heard Sexton
say:
There's Shimmy", (nickname for
; Schenntrhornj.
cummings then corroborated the
testimony of the Sexton brothers
about driving by a roundabout way
to By bee bridge, weighting down the
ballot bags and throwing them into
tbe middle of Rogue river.
Cummings Is one of the eight In
dicted men who have entered pleas
of guilty. He was asked only a few
questions on cross examination.
Wllour Sexton, a brother of Mason
Burley Sexton corroborated bis
brother's testimony that he had help
ed burn several bags of ballots and
that with C. Jean Connors, vice
president of the "Good. Government
Congress." he had crawled Into the
vault and passed out ballot contain
ers. He testified he and Connors did
this four times during the night.
Sheriff With Them
The younger Sexton, but 17 years
old, testified to talks with Fehl, Glenn
and Brecheen, relative to the de
struction of the ballot. Glenn, then
county Jailer. In a conference In the
Jail, office, told the brothera: "The
sheriff la with us," and promised
money and Jobs. He said be was
present when Fan, said: "Id hate to
see you boys break into that vault."
in a "Joking manner."
Wilbur's testimony, in main de
tails, v-as corroborative of that of his
brother. He testified that when Joe
Daniels, a court house Janitor, show
ed up tn the rear of the court house,
Jones Instructed Chuck Davis "to get
htm out of here." Daniels and Davis
moved away together. The witness
said Jones spent considerable' time
at the southwest corner of the court
house, and the rest near the vault
window.
The rrt&ft examination of Wilbur
Sexton was short and he remained
unshaken.
Mason Burley Sexton, a dapper,
fast-thinking, six-foot youth of 30
years, was the chief witness for the
state Friday afternoon in the trial
of J. Arthur La Dleu. former news
paper business manager for L. A.
Banks, convicted slayer. La Dleu la
the first of a score of men Indicted
for the Jackson county ballot thefts
on the night of February 30 last, be
fore, during and after a meeting of
the self-styled "Good Government
Congress" held m the court house.
Under a long cross-examination of
Defense Attorney Tom Enrlght, Sex
ton failed to waver, and clung to hla
amazing atory of plotting and con
niving and conspiracy, rampant in
court house circles duing the first
two months of this year.
Sexton In his testimony declared
under cross-examination, that John
Glenn, former county Jailer, was "the
superintendent, Tom Brecheen. the
assistant euperlntendnt. and Walter
Jones, mayor of Rogue River, the
boss' of the ballot stealing.
'Implicate Fehl.
The youth also Implicated County
Judge Fehl and Suspended Sheriff
Gordon I. Schermerhorn. swearing
that Fehl knew of the plan to steal
the ballots and that Schermerhorn
had watched the theft, and wared in
return to hla own wave of the hand
when he left with R. C. Cummings
in the fetter's auto with the first
load.
Sexton described "talks' in which
Fehl, Jones, Brecheen. Charles Davis
and Glenn engaged near the clerk's
vault, in which the ballot theft was
the topic, and that Fehl had dis
patched blm to the court house au
ditorium to see If "Mrs. Henrietta
Martin and Banks had arrived" for
the meeting. The witness testified
that wben Fehl left to attend the
"Congress" he said:
"I wouldn't want to aee you boys
break Into the vault," tn a Joking
manner
Mrs. Martin, president of the "Good
Government Congress," sat In the
audience almost directly In front of
the witness stand Friday afternoon
nodding her head In dissent to most
of Sexton's testimony.
The witness also testified that
Fehl, in the presence of himself and
brother and father, and Brecheen,
Jones and Glenn, had declared "the
ballots must not be counted or we
will all be out."
Sheriff Is on Deal.
Sexton testified that, then Jailer
Glenn had proposed the ballot theft
to him. he said:
"There la too much law around
hert.
"I contacted John Glenn on the
steps. nd with 'my brother went to
hla office in the county Jail. I again
told him 'There was to much law'
and Glenn said: 'Don't worry. The
aherlff and his deputies who will be
around tonight are with us."
Sexton said he promised him and
hla brother 810 apiece and a good
Job besides, and you know the stand
in I have with Judge Fehl
Sexton testified that with Mayor
Jones of Rogue River, giving the sig
nal and standing nearby, and the
modsl T auto of R. C Cummings
clattering, and the crowd in the
"Congress" cheering, he smashed the
vault window with an ax.
"I nad trouble getting the ax loose
but the cheering and the old auto
drowned the sound of the falling
glass.'
Threw Ballot in River.
He testified C. Jean Conners,
"parliamentarian" and vice-president
of the "Conferees" had helped pass
out the ballot pouches, and that he
helped load aome of them in the
defendants auto. Sexton also testi
fied that he and Cummings hsd
thrown four ballot sacks off Bybee
bridge into Rogue River, and Indent
ifled four recovered pouches as the ;
ones he had cut and filled with rocks. !
He admitted also that- with his
brother Wilbur he had burned the ;
contents of a number of pouches In '
Vie court house furnace. t
Sexton said that when he told '
Brecheen 18 ballot pouches were de-
stroyed Brecheen declared "That's ;
not enough. Take them all. We j
don't want them to count a single
ballot" 1
He faid he told then Jailer Glenn
where be hsd hidden a number of
wooden tops of bailot containers and
Glenn rtorted;
"Leave them there. They can t re
count them." '
Don't Rehearse the Truth
Sexton made a clear, concise and
impressive witness. Attorney Enright
asked htm a number of times, 'how
often did you rehearse thla testi
mony?" , .
Evidently nettled by the persisten
cy of the defense counsel. Sexton re
torted: "YOU DON T HAVE TO RE
HEARSE THE TRUTH "
Sexton admitted that he was ar
rested last January for fighting, and
was released ' from " the county jail,
Friday, January 13th. with no charge
against him, and the grand Jury re
turning no Indictment. He said he
and his brother were destitute and
that night they had asked Jailer
Glenn to be allowed to work for their
board and room, at the court house.
The request was granted.
. Sexton said that he had helped
pack the ballot pouches into the
courtroom the day before they were
stolen, and bad "spread" chairs In
the auditorium for the "congress"
meeting. He testified that at one
conference, on the second floor, Fehl
had praised the county commissary.
Describing the conditions after the
ballots were atokn. Sexton said:
-They gave us plenty of Instructions,
sbout how to steal the ballots, but
no instructions of what to do with
them." He testified that he and
Cummings drove first down Oakdale
to Stewart Lane, then east to the
Pacific highway, discussing "what to
do with them." They finally decided
to go to Rogue River, and at Main
and Riverside avenue saw Sergeant
James O'Brien of the state police
standing on the corner talking. They
Irst planned to throw the ballots In
Bear creek.
A Hammer Up Ills Sleeve
At one point of his testimony, Sex
ton said: "The mayor of Rogue River
had a hammer up his sleeve, and an
other man had a monkey-wrench.
When I smacked the window, they
all scattered In every direction like a
bunch of bees." He said Jones had
told his brother and Jean Connors
to throw out pouches for La Dieu's
car and that he had helped load
them therein.
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Sexton teatuted that when near
Bybee bridge, tney eaw a panelled
Ford coming, and throwing th.
pouchea tn Rogue river waa delayed
until It passed.
When Brecheen urged th. theft of
more ballots, Sexton aatd he re
marked: "We might aa well steal the
vault, too." Brecheen told him. "I'll
go to the 'News' and get the gang."
Brecheen never returned. When h.
saw Brecheen In jail waiting tot
breakfast the next morning. Sexton
said he told Brecheen, "that was a
fine one you pulled on ua," and then
left to prevent an argument. "Bre
cheen ate every other meal In th.
Jail," the witness said.
.Promised Pay for Crime
Sexton aald he met Glenn after ths
theft, and Glenn told bun, "I'm so
nervous I can't sleep." Olenn told
him. he testified, "you'll be well pud
and get a good Job besides."
The witness said ie met Bchermer.
riru the next morning, and the then
sheriff said: "Now there'll be no re
count. You keep your mouth shut."
The witness said he saw La Bleu
in Jail, and the defendant had been
chary about talking, because, he aald
"There is a dictaphone In here."
On direct examination Sexton waa
permitted to give his testimony with,
out interruption, but waa on the
stand for two hours under a gruel
ling cross examination. He was the
final witness of Friday.
The axe and crowbar used In the
thefts were Introduced as exhibits.
Former County Clerk Delilah S. Mey.
er, Deputy Clerks Nydah Nell and
Helen Dugan, testified to court rec
ords, discovery of the ballot thefts,
and other minor detail.
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