The New York herald., 1876-11-08

ARRESTED OK VARIOUS cRARoEs.
At the various headquarters for hearing and dispos.
ing OF clccto complaints The several officials were In
scssion yesterday
United States Commissioner Ducil was at the Lincoln
Club rooms in University place. whcre thirty mine
prisoners nrraigncd, twelve OF whom he COM
mi,icd, tie others being discharged Internationally
or their own recognizancc TO appear before
h,m to-day for further examination. Bail was
gwen by two OF those committed, onc OF whom
was John ". Taylor, who claimed No $50 East Thir-
teenth street his residence but wledged that
he slept elsewhere Tor several nights past As he
had left his 'things there howcver, and his absence
was only temporary. hts counsel considered bis ba
$1,000 John cokcicy, whose baor after say
ing possessed personal property, only sharing
. undivided estate when asked II he was worth more
than SIS 1000 double the amount OF tho required ball.
answered. -i'l swear I'm worth $l50,000.' Poverty
was the cause of John IA. Dxnns arrest He had been
quarters in an upper story al No ~ street
inc past week that he himself obliged 10 lodge
elsewhere and accordingly was deemed guilty Of ille
gal voting On proving th3 truth OF his story he was
discharged One prisoner deaf mute, wrote that he
had no intention Of VOTING Illegally and that no
member OF ST. AIMS Episcopal church for deal mutcs,
whose pastor would bear nut what he said.
United States Commissioner Shields sat at tho re-
pubcan headquarters at Thirythrd street and Broad
way 10 recoivv complaints against Illegal voters. Hugh
L. Cole representing the Tammany organization in the
Fifteenth Assembly district and the Tden and Hen
Eleventh district. appeared IN the hall before
clock the morning counsel for ali the democratic
orisopers About dity-vc arrests made, but the
charges against most OF prisoners frivolous
that the Commissioner discharged them without
even taking their Richard Wright, who had
been confnad Tor three or iour months IN Bellevue
Hospital offered the election district whore
he formerly lived. He Was arrested, and the Commits
soner being unable 10 decide whether the length OF
time in the hospital deprived him OF the right TO
vote FROM HIS old homo held him for examination
Christopher Messcrick, who said he lived in the hrs
story at 25S wcst Twenty seventh street, was arrested
for giving fal-a residence. He was held IN $500 ball.
but was down with the marshal ~ the polls to
offer his vote and leave iurther responsibility with tho
supervisors
United States deputy mnrshas ed the corridors aud
oyernowed into The United States district room
where Commissioner Davenport sat IN judgment upon
prtsoners had been arrested under the warrants
that he sent forth Monday night. From early in the
morn ng until alter the polls had closed the bar was
crow deu with prisoners Three four cUunseilors
who had been employed BY Tsmmany Hall TO look
alter the interests OF voters illegally arrested sat out
side the railing III
The warranls made to order were chiefly for
illegal registration. Every registration book had
becn carefully compared with the reports OF
deoctvcs. and the slightest discrepancy was
made the pretcxt Tor warrant. Ut moro than
o0n prisoners, only four we're hold, namely John
Murray NO 20 LtIe Twelfth street, false registrations
charles Mcintec, No ~ Third avenue, same charge
Adam Mccormick, for personsting Daniel Crochet,
and Theodore Walkenshaw, for repenting
william L. Homings deputy marshall on rendering