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THE ELECTION COMMITTEES* %## • ? • • * «A greater amount of interest seems to at*tend tbe Colchester Election Committee thu any of the others now trying disputed seat*. So far as progress has been made in tbe can, tho petitioners have entirely failed •to'; «ub-lisli their case. On Friday a'unmbcr of wit-nesses wore examined, from, whom the petitioners expected to provo serious cases o/ bribery; but it appenrcd that, while Wiliiab McLeod, of Salmon River, and others could tell tho prosecuting Attornies1 Tetj wonderful stories, privately, tending-to' criminate Mr. Archibald and Mr. Parker, when they, fcir* brought on tbe witness stand and had to swear to their story, they had a very different one to tell. The result was that nil the witness** examined on Friday vrero given up one after another by tbe petitioners, as utterly faillaj to make out a case ngninst the ncoused. TV committee met.again’ this forenoon. Tit counsel for tho proseoution called to the witness stand Robert McCallum, residioj '* North .Riror, Colchester. TJhej objoct. show that Mr. Archibald had unduly in! enccd the witness to vote for Mr. Park?, instead of Mr. KeUie, by-, threatening ho would notTundertalce to', arrange, ft,ftlt;9* mcnt which certain parties lield agninst hi* if ho did not vote for Parker. . On cro# cxnminationj '^IcCallutn admitted that Mr-Archibald had acted as agent for his property for ten or fifteen years, tbnt. he .could »# remember .when lie had paid in.’oretl .to bi* that Mr. ' -Archibald had f- always'-trew* him leniently;. arid that he had heoo^J vexed with Mr. Archibald bcoauec the UN® had not “fixed up” some^road money ness;'part of his testimony [appear^.confused and contradictory—especially Wassertions with Reference' Ufj rumors that H could injure Mr. Archibald, as also with W* spect to conversations held with Mr. Aror bald-and others on the subjects ‘Mr: a'student in'Mr. Archibald’s office, coypj; dieted McCollum’s^ testimony wilh rt*p#J to tbe conversation between the lMtw W. Mr. Arohibald and J. M. Longworth* Ejh-who acted for tho estate which held thehWji on McCallum’s property, tas'ified to'fWiJr in tho transactions which McCallurh ed not to remember. Both witnesses, wfclR cross-examino-i by Mr. Ritohie, they know of no committees for conWffl ho cleotion struggle in Mr. Archibaldlalf, nor of any disbursements madejaor/ forenoon.luce parties tq vote for Archibald »nft A ;cr. The committee adjourned till*asSerious Acci|deut«—\Yc regret^ ,vhila the Rev.* Mr/ Woods was QPJMJsl lossom’s Cornor in’ohe of tho'uppcV -norning; his horse took fright at the sighi loys coasting down the hill, and started uff.Jy uch violence as to tl^xow the reverend geo »ut on the pavement when'his forehead ^ leavilv. and he,received a severe,-ash. * He’' was promptly lifWd**^ Josses untij proper: medical asiiJ^I#®Something really ought to be done, to ractice of coaslingn i the streets, which -he lives of our citizens, and leads to inch.
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Halifax Citizen
Halifax, Nova Scotia, CA
Tue, Mar 01, 1864
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