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was an unusual number of guns at the polls that day, and
they were carried by both parties; there were rumors of
threats used by the Conservative party, that they would have
their votes or break the ballot-box over the judges heads, and
that men from West Va., would aid them in this work, and
to resist the attack from men in West Va.; men carried their
arms to the election.

Intrrrogatpry 4, as, 6, in schedule B. I heard the discharge
of fire-arms in or about two hundred yards from the polls; the
men that belonged to the Conservative party went away
from the polls in a body (at least a majority did) and after
leaving the polls some 15 to 40 phots were fired; they were
fired by the men of the Conservative party, I suppose to show
us that they had fire-arms; there was one or two men with
them who had served in the rebel army, and who was said to
have been in McNeil's guerilla company.

1st Cross Interrogatory, by A Spates. Do you know any
thing of your own knowledge as to the truth of the rumors
you have spoken of; and if so, state what it is.

Answer. I know nothing of my own knowledge of the truth
of these rumors.

2d Cross interrogatory. Give the names of the persons who
fired the shots about two hundred yards from the polls; and
stata how you know them to be Conservatives.

Answer. Don't know their names. I knew it by their talk
and the company they keep; because they were in company
with Wallace Chisholm, and John Phillips, and I heard them
talking that day, saying that the judges of election wanted to
crush the Democratic party. Wallace Chisholm lives in
Virginia.

3d Cross-interrogatory. Did you attend the election that
day;, were you armed and how; how many were there armed,
and to what party did they belong ?

Answer. I attended the election and was armed with a
double barrelled shot-gun, having only tsvocharges; there was
8 of us went to the polls together, and all armed but one,
and we belong to the Radical party; besides these, we found
when we got there some 10 more; I don't know how many
Conservatives were there armed; three or four I know were
armed with guns that I suppose belonged to the Conservative
party.

4th Cross-interrogatory. Were you in any manner recog-
nized as an officer of an armed body or party, for the purpose
of attending the polls November 6, 1866, the day of election ?

Answer. I decline to answer that question.

6th Cross-interrogatory. Were you appointed or elected
as Lieutenant of an armed party to attend the polls on elec-
ion day, November 6th, 1866 ?
Answer. I believe I was elected as such.