Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-05-12
Nav York p.uarI,,

Mr.. Brooks, Of New York, has Just been
unseated because Of the Illegally of the
election proceedings and returns in "Mack.
erelville," which is a we'll known quartz,
in New York. Among other witnesses
the contestant, Mr.. Dodge, put on the
stand a man named Geoghegan, who was
one Of Mr.. Brooks efficient supporters u,
the polls, as will be seen. The man said
he had long lived in the district and had
been implicated in the election every
year :"
Question. Do you always take a great
interest in the elections;
Answer. do.
Q. Attend the polls all day
A. / do. l wouldn't take time to eat
my meals, for fear I would lose the voting.
Q. Did you have a list of those voters
who were dead and who were awaya
A. I know them to be dead but we
substitute a man to vote their names, and
keep them on. We've got to do that, you
know, to help q friend.
@. This time did you render this eff
cient aid to Mr.. Dodge. Mr.. Barr. or Mr..
Brooks?
A. I done it for Mr.. Brooks.
@. And you feel pretty confident that
you got these thirty votes for him that you
say voted Mr.. Brooks ticketa
A. Yes, sir /; l am sure Of it.
@. Do I understand you to say that
you gave tickets to men to vote whom you
knew were illegal voters in that district:
A. I did. sir.
Q. And that you took these men in
and had them deposit their votei
A. Yes, sir ; I always do that.
q. l understand you to also say that
you gave tickets to men who were repre-
sen,ing dead voters
A. Yes, sir.
Q. And that you induced them to de-
posite those votes.
y. Yes, sir; I done so, and always
does that.
@. Aud you knew in doing that, and
you know now, you were guilty of a fell
ony:
4. Generally we take that as a risk.
The counsel pressed him a little hard as
TO his history.
Q. How many times have you been
arrested:
A. Well, about, I guess, three times in
my life; but then never kept in, only the
one ,ime-just appeared. that's all.
Q. Were you ever arrested at the com.
plant Of John Mahon?
A. Yes.
Q. What was that for;
A. For shooting.
Q. Were you ever arrested at the COM
plant Of a man named Jaeger?
A. I was, but I wasn't retained.
Q. What was the charge against you J
A. Assault and battery.
Q. Did you count this in the arrests
you mentioned:
A. No, sir; l don't call it On arrest
when a man appears merely and is dis
charged.
Q. How many other criminal COM
plants have you had made against yous
A. None that I know Of.
Further examination showed that the
man, after coming to this country, had
lived in several of the Southern cities, had
peddled and been at work on plantations,
but had finally become the prosperous
proprietor of two stores Grocery shops?)
in Mackerelville.
Q. How many fights do you suppose
you have been in IN the course Of your
A. 4 grea, many ; in the course of the
I'm the whole time fighting gen.
,raily Z; l fight with my nails election day.
Q. How many times did you vote at
he election?
A. Only once; l was too well known.
Q. How many persons did you induce
o vote illegally?
A. I guess in the ~neighborhood OF
or thirty.
q. How many do you generally induce
% vote illegally?
A. All that ever I can get; I could
give you any regular statement. for
everybody I al get to vote I make them
vote it's a business l practice.
@. Asa general thing at elections, how
many do you put in: -
A. I don't keep any memorandum
Of il,