The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-03-02
THAYER VS.. GREENBAyK.


This morning, at 10 o'clock, the Legislative
Committee on the election contest petwe IN
Judges Thayer and Green bank, met, pursu an I
10 s0J Journ ment, in Select Council Chamber, and
resumed the taxing OF testimony.
window inspector the 20 Is in the fhird division,
hlgh,een1n ward. last October; 1 challenged oGs
ticket was taken and pu. Into me box; he was 40.
stanton on TAX receip he pr, cured me from the
Seventeenth WARD; his vote w.s received n. asset
S;d in Bodine sieet; ene j. w Ke bsush lviSg ie
z. ne ware x9sed 10 S .ae
IL residences; he lived In the Thi eteeaLh Wal
cSsensed Jono Kse oa fni his iSrs sSon
papers; be produced them, but did no; prov
Bsp sSS Ssa aso On sTs SssT
voteo t. ere haa no sid nce a the di9isoa; kSoS
u he old not live in the division eight days before
the ell cnon they all voted ticAet with she ReIu0l
David stanton sworn-Have lived in Crease street
Green Tavern: In Octob,r last slep, In pdine
house; paid beard 10 her; voted The Union ticket
=, Robert Manning swort@Am an eector in the
window book at the October election; Henry MSwiI
ensed o9 he Ss s ySe
was taken; Robert Smith also voted: he was ch aI-
ps
v9std ,,cs e's Nth Republican 15esSogs
election In the styen,h diyislon Nineteen.h ward;
deImsn Neiii have been in this country about nine
James o. Hara sworn.-voted last October In the
Ninth precinct, Fifteenth ward had the window
%S1d he he nsa
ttOp: Alexander q. Brysou voted there; he moved
oftbem produced a voucher when challenged; James
": johnson % also yoisd there he swore that he
WAS In the division; another man ivei in the house
voted tickets with head ngs; William H9H nns E
Lsnnpg ako vo ed tb ere heswore II he SILT slept
Voted sRS scSet with hssdSs hSS m0ved ne
City Commissioner w eayer, who had already been
bcSi Second and Tenth divisions Of the Fist
James stewart sWorn. HVoted In the Sixth pre-
cinct, Nineteenth ward. last October; was BORN In
since 1885, ys,ed on Minors psPers
deca, ed ny Intentions to naturalize; voted the fun
a. W sutton sworn-was to have been the clerk of
eentS ward last oeio6er aidnt act because we were
elected from the pclls.
INCONVENIENCE Of ths w e his pacs: rnr-.S al,
so0 list
on naturalization papers; have been in this country
Ss es sGe
see bis ticket; dIe nj sive 4 - him: =,
Wiiiism P. MessIck: one Of the Examiners IN the
mupicra al election cont ests then appeared and pro-
dnoed two sets OF tally papers of the Eighth DIVISION
william Stewart sworn-voted at the October elee.
on in The Elgh,h division Of the Ni1eteen'h wsIa:
m abnu. forty Ave years OF sge have 6ssa raa IN t@s ms
country about twe enty ve years; never uecaIeu N
inentions didn't swear to anythl Ing wnen 1 got my
papers.
Joseph Swift sworn-Voted I'm the Tenth division
OfIhe First wsrd last OCTOBER was an ohcer OF elec
tioD certain parties wanted to vote there but they
were not SLOWED to vote; know of three men being
thus r. jected: attention paid to challenges
there's the tick cts put rigot In the box; don't
know how many challenges were disregarded that
osy; think that some four challenges were
there trying to dischsTge my duty during the
day large crowd was present; oommunlcations I o.,
majority officers inside was not stopped from
challenging IN the discha' ge OF my duty but was not
per mit ed Time to nine ha assessment book and
ascertain the qualifications OF persons Offering "a
vote; the voting was very rapil; there was no vio
bnt they wonldp'tles him; they took him away; took
paper" H. was their rule 10 reject all new Supreme
Court papers.