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would count ten ballots aud then destroy them (;
no one attempted to verify the Others count.
For Alderman, Foster (Democrat) received i4j
votes; Douglas CRcpublicanl, 19D This vote was
announced Ivy the Inspector and telegraphed to
were changed. + ster getting 5lJ votes. and
Douglas 6l, thus rlecting Foster by majority.
RErEAriNG AND FALSE CoUS1tNu.
r. " the Fiflh District Of the Twelfth ward, A..
eral times He followed them to the sixth Dis
trict, where they voted again. In one gang there
wyas about ten in mnther about gfieen PERSONS.
three men vote twoc within an % hour. '''''''" -"
In the First District of the Fourteenth ward,
blv tickets were emptled on the table to be can
Va-sed. About twenty were present. man,
Se ,Sa rSSsS st you kSy ra9 ohn 10 2nS E
yasser' replied, The Assembly" The man re-,
marked " should have been done before. -
The cry was raised, "Put him out" A sham
rcht, says William Noung, then took place. and
saw Christopher Lesvy rush over with a handful
0f tickets, and mix them with the Assembly
canyssserS then In uroreeded 5c 10 count. wbiie
counting for Flaherty and Wainwright, the DEM
ocretlc candidates. Taylor and Young. each Kept
tally. The canyassers often referred TO them
to see how the vote stood. When they COM
menced counting Morton's tickets the canvass
ers ordered the room to he cleared. The can
yess made, says Taylor a return of sixteen votes
w excess OF the poll list, but according TO his
tally there was an excess Of thirty votes
now IN THE sENbNTfENTH WARD.
In the First District Of the Seventeenth Ward.
during the canvass, John Valentine saw can
vasser marking down votes for Powell which
had been called out for kalbneisch. Valentine
was then ordered out Of the room. One OF the
cauvassers refused to proceed until John Nc
pcrmaid, Republican candidate Tor Alderman,
left. Another assured McDermaid there was a
dangerous crowd outside that he had better
leave as no one could tell what might happen.
McDernaid was obstinate and sat stlll. few
moments after supervisor Thomas Deyyr Thos.
McNaly, stephen DOhhelly, John Morrissey,
Patrick Comfy, and many others, rushed In,
maidj Then began, says walter L. Smith, a
sham Cght. The result was, McDermaid and
mob following them. In the Sixth District the
polls were held IN liquor store. John McDie-
Inond. Peter McCallum, and stephen Smith were
beaten by gang Of roughs and driven from the
polls. Deputy Sherin Keeling tried to witness
the canvass and was ordered from the room.
POLICEMAN sruFTiSG THE BALLoT-Dox.
In the Fourth District Of the Twenty first
Ward, william L. Bowel SAYS, after the ward
ballots were emptied on the table to be can
yassed, police officer threw al handful Of tickets
on the table beside them. Inspector watson
heard Bowel accuse the policeman Of throwing
the tickets on the table; he says Bowel then
picked up the tickets, and the Onicer took them
from him, and threw them on the door; the
tickets were for Alderman Browne, the Demo-
cratic candidate, Il; w. LHommedieu saw AN
officer Of the Water Board trying 20 induce nom
residents to vote. Mr.. Watson says large num-
bers Of illegal votes came from men working In
| the sewers under the Water BoardD. Many of
them wee challenged, and swUre their votes In
L'iIommedicu was threatened when he objected
| To some Of them voting. lie also noticed a po-
| liccman In uniform pcddling tickets Aaron
| Clarke, Deputy Sheriff, who challenged another,
| was seized by the neck by one or two men, aud
and threatened with violence II he came back
Clarke estimates from i5 to 100 illegal votes were
cast, watson makes Ike estimate.
REPUBLICANS DRIVEN IRON THE POLLS
In the Ffth District Of the same ward william
| T.. Chapin, while attempting to Ieddle Republic
can tickets, was seized bya police oncer aud
mitted another TO 60 there and peddle Demo-
cratic tickets In his place. stephen l.. Foyg, re-
siding at s9l De kalb avenue, challenged re-
peater who gave foggs house as his residence.
fogg, knowing the repeater did not live with
him, In presence OF William {. Earl asked onicer
fused.
In the Sixth District Of the same ward Frank
d. Marshall, one Of the regularly appointed In.
| spectors, was not allowed to act. A man
named O'Brien was appointed in his place.
large numbers OF tickets beside the ballot boxes
| IL saw O'Brien depOsitng those tickets In the
ballot boxes, instead Of the tickets given him by
voters: j. II. Briggs saw II also. Alexander n
Robb saw Garhardt, an Inspector, NJ least dozen
times, open ballots received from voters, drop
them on the foor and put Others In their place
in the ballot boxes. In one instance he remVn-
stratcd, and Garhafdt said II was too idte, a. the
gan, Robh II. Q. Conroddy, and d. II, Fowler,
each Kept tally. For Senator, Henry {. Murphy
received JU2 votes Van slcl}n, 81! Blank, >.
Yet Gafhardt declared 3l2 for murphy and ~ for
Van S.cllyn. For Alderman, Weeks, 20 Brown,
3+2 Boerum. ~. Yet Garhardt announced the
vote for Weeks at ~. GaIhardt would count
eleven, tv clve, and thirteen votes Tor Weeks "a
II they were ten. + H. Slayin says fhe passage
leading TO the polling place very narrow tn tt
he tried To get ucart the doOrto exercise therghL
Of challenge but was driven away. For three
quarters of an hour before the polls closed men
who had previously voted blocked them up. and
scarcely a Rcpublloa WAS allowed to get 10 the
polls. CulOrei voters were driven away one
was arrested by order Of Scrrt Campbell. Weeks
threatened to prosecute Campbell Tor false inn
prisonment. Campbell replied, " l viii take al
chances for my patty" SeTgt Campbell was ac-
lively engaged through the day peddl'ug tickets
and electi1neerug. Two policemen under him
were similarly engaged. Weeks saw them crowd-
Ing voters out uf the line in the Tenth u strict.
Tie says the police eXhinited an equally partisan
spirit. Heard one Of them threaten that he
would prevent every voter he could from voting
Tor the damned chuan meaning katte!schl,
\ CLASSIFICATION OF Tue rRAUps.
The committees table shows tina; the number
OF fraudulent votes tdst was 6vi,, classified as
follows:
Not TO be found ...... ic59 Poor house .........
10 such nulubets..... Iva Asnc, alaei % siI,h -
Vacant lots, &c, no Ward Fret D.str,rt. go
- residence ,..,...s.,,. fai
ppSPiSspN,s; psPSlS Ns;,. i ' Estimated tsa
hFaAu l3.l
There were l,45l voters who voted In districts
where they did not reside. Whether they voted
In Htafr bnN fIaa =.