New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-14
THE SILVER COIN COUNTERFETERs.
| CONDITION OF OFFICER sLATFR-wBY RoGUEs DO
s1rI ruEIE PICIIrRES

coxnIT,ov oF OFFICER sLATFR-wBY RoGUEs DO
NOT LIKE To FOR THEIR PICTURES.
John Slater an officer of the United States Secret
Service who was stabbed in a Brooklyn photograph
cutlery by Andrea Y atcs, counterlelter ana eA-
convict who did not wish 90 have ms pc'uI taken'
was pronounced out of danger Yesterday by ht phy-
scians in the Long Island College Hospital. rates
will he arrairned before Police Justice Walsh Tor
felonious assault. He Will doubtless attempt TO
Justify il as Self-deience.
II is denied that officers have any
legal right to insist that a man who Is
under arrest shall sit for his photograph.
The practice OF the Brooklyn police IS to take man
to a photograph gallery tO secure has picture Most
prisoners make no resistance. supPOsinE tnat inc
must submit but many assume distorted POSITIONS
or twist their cOuntenGnces out of shape, BI IL u
prisoner makes objection, under the INSTRUCTIONS OF
SUPERINTENDENT Campbell no force Is allowed TO be
used. although the officers frequently attempt 20
persuade prisoners to have a picture taken. vi
several notorious BROOKLYN criminals no pictures
exist. When the United States officers
attempted to force Yates to SIT i or
innocent man and would not submit. As ne mas
been we'll known rs criminal his reason lor thlS
strenuous objection is not known, unless he fears 70
be recognized for some crime OF more magnitude
than the re Is under arrest for.
Yates and joseph ScinsOth, alias Parker VINO
wcr. arrested in BROOKLYN, viii be examined in re-
gard 20 their cOnuec ION with the counterfciting
scheme before United States Commissioner Alien III
Brooklyn. this morning. 10 Is claimed thai poSlllyr
evidence exists against them, az we'll as against the
Their members of the gang arrested III this cltN.
Barent h. :. Barnard and William Rnnyon, two
countereteIs Of silver coin, arrested last week pS
United States secret Service officers. were before
Commissioner Shields, of this city, yesterday, ior
examlnatIon They pleaded not guilty, ana their
examination was postponed ninth to-day.
VOTING REGULARLY. But NOT ClIiIENS.
The operation OF ne Registry In " in some towns
of Westminster County al the last election brought
TO light some remarkable facts. Frederick Acorn
German has been a resident of the Town oi Green
borough for about twenty wears, ana mas N0ttd reg
ulrly He mas also held Office as Inspector oi Ecc-
non. On March 2 he elected Receiver OF
Taxes for tbs Gown and duly quaiined n such, al
though he was not then citizen and did not pc
come zen until October. when lie took OUt ms
naturalization papers IN Yonkers. When he applied
to be registered voter and MS natuTalla ION
papers we're called for. tue fact that he had been
sailing under fdfse cOlOrs for abOui twenty years
was brought out. The town authorizes are taxing
advice 10 the proper course 10 Ue pursued 10 Tue
matter. Charles Adams ~ the present {. lVrr
lis term OF office will expire January !, 1881. hut
1t is prpbahie Gat be viii be permitted 90 nod over
spTug election.
JOHN Lee, Il native of Ireland, has been ortweniy-
three years 4 resident Of the Village of Hastings
upoh- Hudson, where he keeps feed store and car
res on cuisines florist. lie has voted regularly.
ii Is alleged at very election, ana al the last char
Ter election hc was elcc,ed of the Trust cs OF
the VILLAGE although he did not become citizen
until October, wheu he Obtained ms naturalization
paDeIs This fact also brought To HghJ Wneh
lac applied 10 be registered as q voter.