New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-04-02
Id " INTELLIGENCE.
THE CONTESTED CONrROLLERSHlP
SUPREME COvRT-Befors Juiss EsoTr.
TKIAL OF TIE CASE OF IOHN & GILYl a.


A large number Of spectators were present, and all
Of The sss With. and without the bar occupied.
The plaintiff only of the parties at preseni.
His counsel were Judge Edmosds, James T. Brady
and Ambrose l.. Jordan. and Ais attorney, Louis N.
Glover. The defendant was represented by Charles
O'Conor, William NJ Rvart, and Tilden & Green.
The panel Of twenty-Dur juryme. summoned ior
this trial then called by the Clerk, and fifteen Of
the number answered. The following gentlemen.
then impanneied as a Jury TO Try the cause
Edmund Hurry Rfhsrd A O.ily.
Hugh AaehnciOss, HsOry Ghnaeu.
James Csl..in Henry u Eliot
Aqsni. @. Stout, Arson D. =. Randolph
Judge EdmOnds thea proceeded to state
1HE cAsE FOR The PLAIsrUP.
He said: This Il an action brought by one Of the
candidates for City Controller for the purpose Of eontssn tho
Office around which much interest has been felt Of late
The 'SssSs 1S r. s.ss s as two . Bs
gentlemen high resPecisbity and both h,d large
tho eleetoa a, declared By the County that
MI FLAG had majority Of 7e We esin that Mr. Ode.
that Nj Fis.s defo.ed You nmm.ned with sre.i
Cotday to decide this question We shall 1esvor sPred
our ee . sy be- dec., BOT tn 2 are Sofa.
gu, they represent ed to we will show that Mr. Giles
The fr.t svermen made that Mr. rss; g.urped ths Office,
and b, Dir Gle: entitled to ,s Tb' y fsns w n ',I NJ,
Flag candidates This admitted We aver taea that &C
fse9sa e hs yo md i G.. % os a
tire returned MI tssg was declared elected THIS
election sNrcts SIG votes were cast for Giles cG for
Fass which returned with the two amounts Isvsrssd
was elected by majority Th. is denied III, defendant
making issue upon ia, POINT We then that owing
ecI ~'o cath Of Office and Prepared b. oci.i boni
either. The defendant reply 10 THE says he has no knovl
q new ana
elected received the certificate OF 'unty Cnvassr and
ton narrowed down TO the simple question TO what TIE
sctus nun Der Of votes given o the respective candidates in
upon point the whole question depends Our city gene
divided into Election Districts each Of wh.ch has ,Areo
policemen election DAY This with i, District OF
the Nineeonth Ward hee seven pe.soai W. sa pat On
shall DO made seI the polls are closed But
no, nsS sns S ia until late hour the next evening
though the WORK continued snnteuupedy except when ons
There were others Interested for parties were there
ing the making in all eleven parties There wsre
was held in sm. room which had been used b.,roou
The mode Of csnvang the: There were good May diff
were printed tickets called the whole ticte Tb,s. Of one
kind by themselves Then there an''hsr pile OF
fasgs These all counted Then the tickets split
counted up y de have here s dds 90 a
straight tickets and Sj split tcketS making ali 30
on plit tickets making 1896 The figure. this list gentle
men we will show to have time aud the doc
itself will be introduced Ia evidence After the canvass
will show that Of tho inspectors announced the vote
publicly sud that SIG Tor Giles and 100 for rssg and
that tLese figure. taken down by persons pre-
to announce to oheu The transportation Of thes.
amounts we believe ws prreiy accidental ana occ"r,ei
second DAY after the election the inspectors hal bssn
nearly SO hours without sleep when the cehcaes wse Giis
TOR the County Csnvasse In making the OUT one clerk
result while the other inserted in blauk what The
result wa. During he time This wa going on row Occurred
uped the call for moment and the eets asked hun 70 read
asics they Ges in iS papct and d. CLERK so.
down in that order the bu bsPpeled that on
:. s: . A IT,. s ;:,s,: Ell
% ia. ssSs. ne 's s the
But the, Io, ,ISSs they bed no right TO 80
and that THE dbun;i was the proper place to GET DE-
Tie district will be -bie sho that so of the voters
voted for Mr. Giles, or intended to do So
The following evidence cici.e for the plaintiff:
The oath of office sworn to before Judge Whiting,
of the Supreme Court and also The official bond for 5000
by plaintiff Offered by M BIadJ ia evidence Tho
documents admitted by the 6efeendants counsel go
The iirst witnes. was Mr. Jason Mills who testified
a. follows: In the month Of November last resided in ftieh
Fourth avenue. in the hine'ee'h ward FMs,
Election District; OF that oloeuOn wa a. the
Election tie inspsetors were Cranda Rich ehn.n John $
Keiehun and John Burke the Clsrks were Hugh NJ rtneA
Loue Forty second street Third avenue there WIS
ticket called The Hard Shell Democs!o kst The So Shell
thin RefOnI ticket, ami believe one called toe Liquor
Dealers Ticket. but do mo-, know was separate IcAs
these five regular tickets hsrs also Repu
lean ticket separate officers but cannot ssJ :. 10
the city there addition 70 theee In the neisnoDT
hood hundred rp, tickets city aud county was
present. when the polls closed on that day. the eayi was
commeoced the POLLS closed tho canvas, was
part by Mr.. Rich Of the time By
MI Ketehuin; Mr.. Ketehuni acted a. Chairman when Mr
Rich was away the otr Inspectors assisted MI Bpifs
went out for few moments, and then came back
they continued the work OF the canvass nn h7 he
evening Wednessy; there no nerHdsson m the .of,
at all tho both thereone NAV have stepped out
few monents and thsn back the canvass was con
dIced the where the election was held; the da
The re!a i've Vo.tons OF the tables Sc. thai day
during the whole canvass with the exception OF INC
>. commenced 10 be cauvsssed u o'clock Tuesday
night three INSPECTOR. around the tables they com
tailed with the Clerks poll list they then opened them the
sigh tckeis put IN piles by themseVes srsis
each straight tickets and put the number oOre,
poudLK with tho straight tickets opposite the name OF esch
c; ,hs time, these three paper, are the ones;
had the regular tickets tue osrk put
he st 10 fets was conmenced allied the
eeIk pos in this tally list until =. the spts were
Of the result hs put the figures this lust
sd added them up aud csred them out 81 the ends was
STANDING behind Mr. Hsrnck ST the time MI burke was BE-
hind Mr. Kechum looking his shoulder kept tally Of
Parts of the osnvss-pretty much eli Of the city ani
rles and street Commissioner; drew mine OF ino BOX
hry were called of have the book with the result ~s'
ke.de ysef there were present than ten or
dozen the cOLtrots vote e4nvsst early Ia the morn
rE Kept tally Of the votes for Giles Fass AID Enz ihe
thee highest candidates for Controller was Tia t4ae
coEld the tickets saw each heket a. ga aa on
Ay list by saes them they called OF sore the hnsl
vote snEoUIeed saw esh vote noIe the haHls On
and the rest entered upon the poll bc' pat
l- result my book. A.
@ How many votes were for Flass and ho~ H'ny TOT NJ
Mr. OConor objected. Objection oveuuled. TX