Daily Republican., 1879-09-16
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THE GaANO YARCE.

the Pfrse Chspser In the Play--
warrants Issued for Roarteen
Repesters-They Swarm Around
the Msx istrate's Once, bat the
Constables Gail 10 Find any.
The first play in the grand farce Of
making arrests for illegal voting was
enacted in Squire Coles Office on Sat.
urday evening. The Court meeting on
the following Monday at New Castle,
sue gested to the gentlemen having the
matter in hand the propriety OF arrest
ing q batch Of the persons who 1t was
known was foremost in polling illegal
votes at the recent city election.
Accordingly between two and three
o clock on Saturday afternoon, Edward
g. Bradford, Esq, the associate coun.
sci with Anthony Higgins, ESQ.,, sngs
ged to prosecute the cases, with +. A.
Taylor, proceeded to the Office Of J. G.
Cole, Esq, at Third and Market streets,
and there swors out warrants for the
arrest Of fourteen person charged with
illegal voting and voting At several Of
the polls in the city. Mr.. F. A. Taylor
making the affidavit in each case.
The following are the names Of those
for whom warrants were issued: John
Brsilly, James Darrah, Thomas Cara
ghy, alias "Brockey Tom," William
Miiler,a a compositor in the "Every Even.
ing" office, John w. McCabs, William
Ryan, Samuel D. Long, William Rey-
nolds, "Guss" O'Donnell, Charles
Alexander, David F. Findley an engi-
neer in water department under II. B.
McIntire, John T. vapdegrift, Samuel
johnson and Owen Hannum.
About three o'clock the warrants
were placed in the hands of Constables
Hickman and Brooks, with strict in
structions to have Is many Of the par
ties as they could find at the Justioe's 8
Office at seven and half o'clock, 1t was
not expected that the officers would
find all the parties, but 1t WAS expec-
ted that some OF them would Lave been
apprehended and brought forward to
answer.
Before the hour appointed for the
hearing the news became noised abroad
that a number Of the repeaters were to
bs arrested. and large crowd com
menced to gather, which soon filed the
magistrates Office and lcrowded the
pavement outside. The remarks made
in the crowd by we'll known Democratic
were various. One said at won't
amount to anything" Another said
" We have everything in our hands. +"
Others said "We have "Bill" Her
bert as foreman Of the Grand Jury, and
do you think he would allow true bills
to be returned ;" Still others said 81
guess it won't be convenient for the
constable to find them.
Thus remarks were exchanged, and
jest and jokes were banded around un-
til the Squire opened his Court and
called for report from his officers.
Constable Hickman had found none Of
the parties, Constable Brooks report
ed that all he could find was Samuel
D. Long, nursing baby while his
wife was on an errend, but he promised
faithfully to put in an appearance at
the hour appointed. Beyond this he
had found nobody. Mr.. Higgins being
present asked the Constable why he
did not bring Samuel Long to the Of
fee
"Because he had baby in his arms, Z"
said Constable Brooks.
Mr.. Higgins said it did seem a little
hard to arrest man with a baby in
his arms, but he wished the officers to
understand that it was their duty to
arrest every one of these men for whom
warrants had been issued.
About this time Samuel Long was
seen in the Squire's Office, but finding
that things were becoming more serious
than lie had bargeinsdsfor, he walked
out and went home no doubt to resume
the nursing Of his baby.
About this time man came in and
reported that he had just seen "Brcck.
ey Tom" walking around in front Of
the Iity Hall. Constable Hickman,
who up to this time had not been able
to come up even with anybody nursing
a crying baby, started out to make
"Brockey" his prisoner or die in the
attempt, but he soon returned to re-
port that Mr.,Tbomas Garraghy had
eluded his grasp. While both the off
GERS were out cruising around, word
came into the Office that Samuel John.
son was standing out on the pavement,
but while the Squire was locking for
an officer to make the arrest, Johnson,
fearing that some officer might take a
foolish notion to arrest him, flew at al
most lightning speed up Shiplsy street.
Mr.. Higgins disguised with what he
had seen and heard .saidhe was surprised
that officers of the law had failed to ar.
rest either Of the fourteen persons that
warrants had been issued for although
they had been walking around the office
and even within the. last ten minutes
one Of them was at the door. Worse
than this one OF the accused was point
ed out walking along the street wit
the officer who had the warrant for his
arrest ih his pocket, but he was not ar
rested. This kind Of conduct was mex.
cusable, and the officers were laying
themselves open to indictment before
the Grand Jury.
Mr.. Bradford said he was astonished
to know that officers Of the law were so
Indifferent about performing their duty
notwithstanding their oath of Office.
Mr.. Higgins remarked to the justice
that as the Mayor Of the city was in
the habit Of trying such cases as these,
on the Sabbath, and as court met on
Monday next he was anxious TO have