The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-04-19

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THURSDAY Mq9NMc, APgH 49,
The MacAinsry Of . Few York Eiss-
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Mr. Brooks, Of New York, has just been
unseated because Of the illegality Of the cleo
tion proceedings and returns in "Aackerel-
y;lle.n which il we'll known quarter In New
York. Among other Witnesses, the contes-
tsnt. Mr.. Dodge, put on the stand man
named Geoghegan, who VA ono Of Mr..
Brooks most efficient supporters at the polls,
as-vill be seen. The man said he had long
lived in the District, and had "been impli.
Gated in the election every year.
Do YOU always take great interest in
the elections?
Al do.
Q.-Attend the polls all day?
Al do, wouldn't take the time to eat
my meals, for fear would lose the voting.
Odd you have list Of these voters
who were dead and were away?
Al know them to be dead: but we SUBJ
stituted man to vote their names, and keep
them on. We've got to do that, you know,
to help q friend.
O.-This time did You render this efficient
aid to Mr. Dodge, Mr.. Barr, or Mr.. Brooks i?
Al done it for Mr.. Brooks.
Q.-And you feel pretty confident that you
got these thirty votes for him that yon say
voted Mr. Brooks ticket?
A.-Yes, sir; am sure of it.
Q.-Do l understand you to say that You
gave tickets to men to vote whom you knew
were illegal voters in that district?
Al did, sir.
Q.-And that you took these men in. and
had them deposit their vote?
A.-Yes, sir; always do that.
OIL understand you also to say that ron
gave tickets to men who were representing
dead voters2
A-Yes, sir.
Q.-And that you induced them to deposit
those votes? M
Ayes, sir; l done 50, and always do
that
Q.-And you knew in doug that, and YOU
know now, you. we're guilty of felony?
A.-Generafly we take that as risk.
The counsel pressed him little hard as to
his history:
Q.-How many times have You been ar
rested7
A.-Well, about, guess, three times in
my life; bat then never KEPT in, only the one
time-just appeared, that's all.
Q.-Were you ever arrested at the com.
plant of John Mahon?
A.-Yes.
@. What was that for
A.-.-For shooting.
Wv ere you ever arrested at the com.
plant of man named Jaeger?
Al was, but l wasn't retained.
Q.-What was the charge against YOU?
Assault and battery.
Odd you count this in the arrest that
you mentioned?
A.-Ne, sir: don't call it an arrest when
man appears merely and is discharged.
Q.-How many other criminal complaints
have you had made against your
A.-None that know of.
Further examination showed that the mar
after coming to this country had lived II
several of the Southern cities, had peddlec
and been at work on plantations, but had
finally become the prosperous proprietor oil
two stores grocery shops y in Mackerelville.
Q.--How many fights do you suppose you
have been in in the conrse Of your life?
Al great many. In the course of the
election I'm the whole time lighting gener
ally; fight with my nails election day.
Glow many times did you vote at the
election2
Ably once; was too well known.
Q-How many persons did you induce to
vote illegally?
Al guess in the neighborhood of twenty
or thirty.
Q.m-.How many do you generally induce to
vote illegally?
A,-All that ever / can get. / couldn't
give you any regular statement, for every.
body can get to vote / make them vote.
It's business practice.
Q.-As general thing at elections, how
many do you put in?
Al don't keep any memorandum of it.
CICERO, before leaving Sicily, where he
was Questor, thought he would see all the Gu.
riosities in the island, especially those in the
city of Syracuse. His first request of the
magistrates was to show him the tomb of Ar
chimedes, whose name had done so much
honor to the city. To his surprise, they
knew nothing Of it; did not believe that any
such tomb was to be found there. He was
assured of it beyond all doubt BY the concur
rent testimony of many writer's, and remem-
bered the verses inscribed on it, and that
there was cylinder engraved on some part
OF it. Whey they carried him to the part Of
the city where the greater number Of old
sepulchers stood, in spot overgrown with
brlers and shrubs, he discovered the tomb.
Thus" said he, lone Of the noblest cities
of Greece and once likewise the most learn.
ed, had known nothing of the monument OF
its most deserving and ingenious citizen, had
it not been discovered to be there By a stran.
ger"