New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-04-05
LdJ LNT'ELLIGENCE
THE CONTESTED CONrROLLERSHIP.
SUPREME CoURT-BefOre Judge EAOrr.

TRIAL OF TIE CASE OF JOHN s. GILES sgt
AZARIAH C. FLAGG.
The trial of this cause was resumed yesterday at
II o'clock. The subjoincd additional evidence was
elected:
John S. Ketchum, recslled-Tckets of these seven
,inds furnished caIyessed the election in tho First
Of the tickets referred to have the John s Giles
sAet No. John Gles not printed on sll-it wss
written some; tickets like Nos snd ., shown here were
csnNas.d but think they were mostly scratched and put
Cros. exsmned-yo is III. regular American tkst; No.
was canysssed and think unscrached cannot be
positive thai 4, wa. ean,asd as regular we ea spe u
marked Hard shel" tickets like No came out OF the
I ne rsinuG here rested his
NJ, fsen 'stet the f. the defendant ne said h1i
rS.T review Of the fesony Of the psntids witnesses he
The defendant should ,hov that those witnesses had
son 10 The Bat whit they shoud most roly
npon was demonsaton of the correctness of the
tuned for the respective parties to the Aldermen and County
CsDvssser 1t noticeable fact that while they had the
,p, tally preserved the regular tslies could not be found
These necessary arrive at the true state Of vote
to :e P s eo1 1i mad T9 S. s1 ss &
sice precision by minute analysis OF The ects they
he case which occupied more hours The process Of
Investigation this: All The candidates on the Cny and
Flag From the aggregate of each reported
Comfy CLERK the number Of received by each spill; tick
tickets by each There regular tickets IN
R . .Ia PS Shelf IF a she and German
and appeared on all Of these some on three
and only II A. therefore, was on
all these four tickets and found that after deducns
tic split he had two hruded votes these two hundred
votes weud be the regular tickets but the
strength OF each TogneT vote would be uhknowo But b.
candidate hJee tickets the Soft Shell Hard She'll
the Hard 81 ell Yarey-and IL found that he bad one
hundred and sixty Len hundIe and sixty regular
three tickets deducted hun
dred regular votes received by A.. four tickets,
aud would prove that
number of od lbe REGULAR German Democratic tick
Then II & nonnee two tickets, the Soit-Shell
ard ar1Shell and his vote regular tickets ITO, then
have divided between the Hard Shell Variety
German Democratic gr vo:es and as the latter already
shoe have been 40 this number deducted from ~ will
TO- the Hard Shell Variety regular vote Then it the
nar this would be shown be The regular
tits rarity which eiuced hom no tho regular
the Son Shell and IllTShol ticket would leave the IS
the regular vote Of tie latter Tho four results
Soft shel, 65 sd-shel -; HardsLe Variety 80; German
Democratic 20. BY process similar 10 this the counsel sail
that had been enabled TO sS at the votes which each parry
had poed in REGULAR tickets. They follows: Soft.
Democratic, q; American, S3 Wig 49, Repubcsn To-
tai $50 BIZ. Flag tho candidate the Soft and Repub
ekets, Of hch pOlled 25 and The oher sulsr
his regular vote 2} the
1856 eEusT and spt-ess by 40 than be actually
regular votes Then for votes split tickets they
had sccoIded him 49, ind admitting there more this
added 90 made Of ga ouy Is
had been hin in the The pursued
bec further prove that the egar assigned Fsgg
did they should do with tile regular
received BY other candidates the tektS This
whole tbiI he sd on9acy resulting In DELHI
forgery in the tally lists They should further confirm he
ccrccti the returns by reference 20 the ballot box
iar the ballots Of The city and county votes which had been
put away BY Burk a; the station House of the Nineteenth
Ward, All which hcy had obtained possession OF.
he then adjourned.