, 1840-11-14

letters OF the 14th and 10th of October inst.
marked K. II. NJ, but nothing has grown
out of it. JAMES YOUNG.
Sworn this Goth of October,
1910, before me-,
RoBr. II. MoRkIs, Recorder
Of the city of New York.
City and County Of Philadelphia, SIS.
jonathan ID. Stevenson, of the city of New
York, being duly sworn and examined in the
presence Of James B. Glentworth, says that
he knows James B. G~lentworth. now pres
ent; that he knows James Young, of Phila-
delphia. | have seen a receipt, said to be
an original, purporting to lie signed by said
| Young. on the fourth day of November, 1888,
for eight hundred and sixty-eight dollars. 1t
was in the possession of said Glentworth
when | last saw it to whom | gave it. Mr..
Glentworth told me what that money was
paid to Young for; he said it was paid TO him
to engage men to come on 10 the CITY of New
York 10 vote. He told me that he had paid
Robert Miller. of Philadelphia, money to
send men to New York TO vote; the sum he
paid him. rs he said. was five hundred or five
hundred and sixty dollars. That men came
Ol w pursuance w "a ~
stated that the men that came on under this
arrangement had. with these two men and
others. pnlled about sixteen hundred illegal
votes in this city at the fll! election OF 1888:
That said GleItworth showed deponent
MilIer'S receipt. also dated 1T the same time
there Mr.. Glentworth said he did show Mr..
Stevenson the reccIpt.)
Some time in September last. said Client
worth gave this depnnent 4 history of his
operations. and stated til 1T the instance of
X. ii. Bla,chfnrd. Simeon Draper. james
Bowen, X. c. We,more. and Moses II.
Grinnel, he went from this city TO Phi!adel-
phia in the month OF October. 1888. lust pre-
vious to the fall election. To procure persons
TO come on 10 this city To vote nj sad cleo
ton: he continued M king his arrangements
and employing persons to procure voters &"
be sent on until the Friday preceding the
election. Draper gave him " sight drafts
on Charles Gill of Philadelphia for one thou
sand dollars each. or drafts for two thousand
dollars.
As soon rs he reached Philadelphia he saw
Mr.. Gill, who ut oncc gave HIM checks on
the US Bank for the amour Of the drafts.
one of which checks WIS cashed for him.
GIentworlh. by Mr.. Bridges or Dorrancc OF
the L. S. Hotel, and the other by George
itiston. a broker of Philadelphia. That he
G~Ientworth. on the same day met by ap-
poitmcni at tie house Of George liiSton Cat
which Riston caShcd the check before spoken
of James Young Il police officer. Robert
Miller then Il captain of the watch, and Mr..
Swift the mayor of Philadelphia. That he.
Glentworth. then in the presence OF Mayor
Swift and RiSton. paid Miller five hundred
and sixty dollars and Young The sum Of eight
hundred and sixty eight dollars. IN consldcra-
ton of which they were TO bIInI or send on
TO New York voters at twenty-five or 30
dollars a head, Il list of which they each fur
nished. That this payment was made on
Sunday, the 4th day of November, 1885, and
he took from them each a receipt for the a.
mount so paid-the originals of which he eX-
hibited to deponent. He further stated that
the same kind of scheme was arranged for
the spring elections of 1889, in New York.
and that he went on to Philadelphia to make
the arrangements. That in the spring OF
1889, Henry w. Havens, Of the city of n.
Y. was sent OH from New York TO him at
Philadelphia with two thousand dollars from
Bowen-that Ravens reached Philadelphia
at 10 o'clock on the night of the 9th ofAprll;
that he, Glentworth, met f1avens at the
railroad depot, from which place Havens &C
companled him and Charles Swint, ina hack
to Sauderson's hotel, al which place he, Ha-
vens, entered 4 fictitious name upon the
books-that ~IIavens saw him pay Swnt tive
hundred dollars of the money Havens brought
on TO him, for which money he stated he
took Swint's receipt, which he showed to me
deponent: he also stated that Havens wei!
knew the object for which that money was
paid TO Swint; that Ravens the next morn
ing returned TO New York; GIentworth also
stated that Noah Cook, of the City OF New
York, brought men down from Albany, and
changed their clothing TO enable them to vote
and that they did go to different Wards &c
vote. and that Noah Cook was at that time q
member of Assembly-that this was IN the
wear 1889; and he also said that Noah Cooh
aided in changing the dresses OF men, tina
they might vote in different wards, and tina
Noah Cook took an active part IN the arrange
ments thus made for the November election
of 1888.
He said Colonel Swift (the Mayor o