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THE ELECTION COMMITTEES• %• • • fe |A greater amount of interest seems to attend the Colchester Election Committee tfau any of the others now trying disputed ssitf So far as progress has been made in the cut, the petitioners have entirely failed 'toj,establish their case. On Friday a'unmbcr of witnesses wore examined, from, whom the petitioners expected to provo serious case* ot bribery ; but it appenrcd that; while WillUb McLeod, of Salmon River, and others coold tell the prosecuting AttorniesTeiy wonderful stories, privately, tending-to' criminate Mr. Archibald and Mr. Parker, when they low brought on tho witness stand and had tonrea? to their story, they bad a very different one to tell. The result was that all the wilBfise* examined on Friday vrero given up one after nuothcrby the petitioners, as utterly failing to make out a case ngninst the accused- Ik committee met.again’ this forenoon. Tie counsel for tho prosecution oalled to the witness stand Robert McCollum, residio, North ,RiTor,: Colchester, ^be | objoct. yM show that Mr. Archibald had unduly in! enccd the witness to vote for Mr. Park?, instead of Mr. Rettie, by-, threatening ho would notTundertake to. arrange, mcnt which certaiu parties held against flie, if ho did not vole for Parker. . On, cron-examination! •'^IcCftllu'm admitted thalArchibald had acted as agent for his property for ten or fifteen years, that, h® .could »# remember .when .he had paid lo.S-jreit .to bjfc that Mr. ' Archibald had f always -Irew* him leniently;. aiid that he had becos* vexed with Mr. Archibald becauec thejUhj hod not “ fixed up” some^road money 3p ness j^ part of his testimonyJOppeared. confused and contradictory.—especially Wassertions witli,reference' to^pbmors that H could injure Mr. Archibald, as also whk-Tt-spect to conversations held with Mr. Art* bald-and others on the subject; -- Mrr arstudent in‘Mr. Archibald’s office, wBpj-dicted McCallum’s^ testimony ' wilh resp#*to the conversation between the latter W, Mr. Arohibald nnd J. M. Locgwortb, IStfj-t who acted for tho estate which heldtbejHjj** on McCallum’s property, taa'ified to’WPJ in tho transactions which mcCallum ed not to remember. Both witnesses, wbecdMUre^.any dlduce parties to vote for Archjbald kcr. Tho committee udjourbod ti* rov/ forenoon. .
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Halifax Citizen
Halifax, Nova Scotia, CA
Tue, Mar 01, 1864
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