The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-10-24
A Sab-Oflce Of Tammany DemOcracy
New York COu-f and COumtr
ON claIs Am pIicaGea.
Any District Made D mocratio fJr
= Consideration.


Especial Dispatch to the Gin. GaEette.1
New YoRK. October 2I.
The courts of this city have beer
running night and day, for som
weeks, to natural ze foreign born Der
sons aud enable them to vore at tl,.
ensuing el ctIons. By this mean,
many thousands of new votes bay
been created this Fall. S great ba
been the number of new'y Great
citizens that the vote of New Ynrk
1t Is now estimated, will be 100 OOU
or AZ 600 greater than ever ~befor,
polled.
From facts which came to the
knowledge of X bert Murry, TT. )
Marshal, he was satisfied that Ia ad
dltIon to the legitimate natura lizatioD
now in progress, many forged C, riff
Gates OF citizenship were being issusd.
ana through his agents no discovered
that one Benz min B. Rusepberp.
clHIming to be Chairman OF the Tam
many Naturalization COMMITTEES, was
procuring blank papers from the Sa
preme Court, stamped with the officia
seal and signed by Chas. Il Len.
County Clerk. To put his detective,
at work to get some of these spurious
papers, would have been useless. a,
they, were all too we'll known, but hy
employing Some.shreWd outsiders. h.
obtained indubitable evidence of the
sraud. lie drew up a great man,
fictitious names of men who never ex.
listed, at residences which had no SUP
stantIal toun iation. For these i'm
aglnary aliens his agents were enabled
70 obtain, at two do lars each, larg
numbe OF certificates OF naruraIizt
tlon. duly attested as above described
from Rosenherg. The ag ut called
upon R. vi b a romiscuous list O
twenty thirty n m % some of VIII cl
were complefe, some without inltla
and residences f II such If lie
names. as were comrl ste, r., il i
alleged, was la the habit of sending
runner over to the Supreme Cou
at once, .enjoining upon the applicant
TO comDleCe the list as soon as DIS
sible, when the Others should be pro
cured $50.
The runner, entering by a privlfe
door the Supreme Court Clamber,
would come cut in few minut,
with the documenrs stamped an |
NIgned Tor the non existing voters
and 5000 after they were transferred |
to the Marsha's agt nts, on pAym n
OF the requisite cash. The 3Ih ue
was tOlloged up until the Marshaf
had got haf a ream or so of these
papers s-
10 the confidence Of bis heart. R
senberg showed one of Murra,'s
agents his book, on VIII On 5 900 names
Of persons paturaliz d lhroug his Of
hce were in>cr bed, aud STA ed that he
had sold seven Thousand such papers
to applicants this Fulk Furthermore,
he off red TO deliver any number OF
such documents FIR the cash to any
one who could be tlusted that wanted
them. -
Mlrshal Murray, thinking the evil
dence sufficiently clear, vest, rdIy |
dropped into the Office of the Tam
many Naturalization : Committee,
aforesaid in the basement OF NJ. 6 |
Center Street, and arrested Rosenbers |
in the name of the United States.
Ass slant District Attorney Allsn |
Appealed for the Government, who
stated that defendant was accused of |
most hcin1ns crime under the stat
utes Of the United States, the penalty
for the com mission OF whlch vas
So 900 fne and five years imprison-
ment at hard labor The defenI lam |
had, in violation of a statute of the |
U9ted States, which defines as .
f lony the making Of false, frau1uent |
or forged natural zation papers, or
the selling or utrering of the same
sold hundreds and thousands of 81 b
false, fraudulent and forged natural
Za'ion papers, the papers being iuily /
made out and having the seal OF
competent Court attached to them,
only blank space being left for the
insertion of any name any party chose
to insert. The deIeddant had het n /
engaged for number of days at ;hiS |
business at No. 6 Center Streei aud |
mad sent out vast quantities, filing |
numerous orders, both up the river
and into the interior OF the State. |
/ These certificates we're sold 10 all |
corners at one dollar to two dollars |
per head.
The Commissioner told the defend |
ant he was not obliged to y anything
to commit himself.
Allen said the Govern nent was
ready to proceed at once with the ex
aminatiod. .-
The defendant sad he was not
ready for an examination and the ex
animation was then fixed Tor to-mOr-
row az 2 P N and def ndent was held
in. default of ten til, u.and d9llars
hail, and committed to Ludlow Street
Jail.
fhe defendant was subsequently,
haiIed by Charlfs Donohue. OF the
firm of Beebe, Dea q Donohur,Wh n
h was arrested on a new warrant,
with the understanding that as fa, ss
hail was offered he would BE- re ar [
rested on a new charge, uHtll ali the {
oas.s against him were exhausted.
The arrest of this person ha created
immense excitement amjng the
Democracy. The evidence ~ inst
MIN would seem to be amp whils /
there is every reason TO believe that
the Marshal has al-o proof o. the
cDmphcitg of Court AMI coun sub
ordinates in his misdeeds
1t will be seen from the above that
th+ certificate of naturalization Specl--
fed that the person named IN i hid
personally appeared 10 court and ma 70
pr. of and oath of his right to be "aiu
ralized The evidence hows that ia
the instances cited by Marshal a ur-
ray, the persons so purportlI 70 nave
appeared we're barely creations OF the
imag nation. rlt. h...t
c-a,,5s ,ynon the NATURALIZATION laws
bave keer very larpely effec'ed In
deed there is evidence TO sloV that
nsrfies stood ready to euarani e., for a
Sufficient considerable, n. aDy mi RI y
for any Office in any district that might
be required.