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want Twigg, all to vote who are registered, I don't care
how they vote: If you or any other man challenge another
vote to-day, I'll knock him down or make him knock me
down. This was early in the morning, just after the polls
opened. There was no other disturbance at the polls during
the day, while I remained there, and this would not have oc-
curred had it not been for Griffin Twigg. It was his chal-
lenging the vote that caused the disturbance I might have
been as much in fault as he: He has had disturbances there
previously on election days,

3d Interrogatory. Were there not rumors, previous to the
election, that the Conservatives that were registered in 1866,
should not vote ?

Answer. I was told by one of my neighbors that there was
talk of a party being organized for such a purpose, and I
thought Griffin Twigg's challenge of Wagoner's vote was the
commencement of it

CHRISTOPHER KELLY.

OFFICE MR. J. BROWN,
December 29, '66.

JOHN M. ARMSTRONG, being sworn, and examined by inter-
rogatories, deposes and says:

1st Interrog. What is your age, occupation and residence ?

Answer. I am over 50 years of age, a surveyor, and claim
residence in Maryland.

2d Interrog. Were you an officer in the Federal Army; if
so, what rank did you hold, and to what organization did
you belong ?

Answer. I Was an officer in the Federal Army, 1st Lieu-
tenant of Company "D," 3d Regiment P. H. B., Md. Vol.
Inf.

3d Interrog. Was there, or not, belonging to that Com-
pany and Regiment, a man oy the name of William Savage;
and was, or was he not, a deserter—state fully.

Answer. There was a man named William Savage in said
Company and Regiment. He did desert the command a few
days after he enlisted, and never returned. I saw him at one
time in Cumberland, in charge of an officer who was taking
him to the regiment, then lying at Buchannan, W. Va. I
reached the regiment, bui he did not. There was no other
man named Savage in the company.

Cross-examined for the Contestants.
1st Interrog. Do- yoo know whether this man was ever