you presented
yourself at the polls on election day? _A._ Mr. Hall decidedly
objected--

Mr. CROWLEY: I submit to the Court that unless the counsel
expects to change the version given by the other witnesses, it is
not necessary to take up time.

The COURT: As a matter of discretion, I don't see how it will be
any benefit. It was fully related by the others, and doubtless
correctly.

Mr. CROWLEY: It is not disputed.

The WITNESS: I would like to say, if I might be allowed by the
Court, that the general impression that I swore I was a male
citizen, is an erroneous one.

Mr. VAN VOORHIS: You took the two oaths there, did you? _A._ Yes,
sir.

The COURT: You presented yourself as a female, claiming that you
had a right to vote? _A._ I presented myself not as a female at
all, sir; I presented myself as a citizen of the United States. I
was called to the United States ballot-box by the XIV. Amendment,
not as a female, but as a citizen, and I went there.

Miss Anthony's emphatic reply and intimation that, although a
condemned criminal for having voted, she still believed in her
citizenship as securing that right to her, closed the lips of the
Court, and she was summarily dismissed from the witness-box, and the
case rested.

Mr. Van Voorhis addressed the Court at some length, submitting that
there was no ground whatever to charge these defendants (the
Inspectors) with any criminal offense,

1. Because the women who voted were legal voters. 2. Because they
were challenged and took the oaths which the statute requires of
Electors, and the Inspectors had no right, after such oath, to
reject their votes. 3. Because no malice is shown. Whether the
women were entitled to have their names registered and to vote,
or not, the defendants believed they had such right, and acted in
good faith, according to their best judgment, in allowing the
registry of their names--and in receiving their votes--and
whether they decided right or wrong in point of law, they are not
guilty of any criminal offense.

These points were amplified by the counsel at some length, who closed
by saying, "The defendants should be discharged by the Court." Mr.
Crowley then rose to make his argument, when the Court said:

The COURT: I don't think it is necessary for you to spend time in
argument, Mr.