, 1880-05-02
FOURTEENTH WARD.
The Irregularities in the Election Re.
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4Ao AIIesulaT1t1es IN the Election Re
turns
! from the Seventh Precinct of the Fou rteent,
Ward were the topic of discussion yesterday
An examination of the returns showed
that Michael Walsh, c. L. Shilling, ant
John Gibbs had acted as judges, and that Theo
dore Schulze and Michael Barrett had acted a.
! clerks but none Of them came around excep
Shilling, who said, substantially, that: the re-
turns had been changed since he signed them
He had no Information, however, as to who haG
made the changes, and his story generally va.
decidedly mixed, and his explanations anything
ont clear or satisfactory. For instance, he
could not say who had made the alterations ID
the tnlly-sheet that he charged had been made
and about all he could Or did say Was in self
The Mayor and several Aldermen looked over
the returns in the afternoon, and were parttcu-
af hgy mt gx n the situaoa THY found
tally-shect- but the envelope containing the re-
turns had been opened before reaching the City
out that be had maze de r ana a.
judges,-Michael Walsh.-with view to getting
az explanation, but had been unable to find
that he had left town or was secretng himself.
This conclusion, however, wus lust evening
found to be uniounded. for reporter had the
misfortune TO meet him at his home. He
was uproariously drunk, and in the argu-
ment OF the question at issue the scribe
narrowly escaped being chcwcd up. He was
ana was having what would be called a :good
time" and the most that could be gotten from
him was that he was an honest Irishmun, and
full exhibit Of the vote of the Seventh Precinct
for Alderman. He said that the vote had been
canvassed regularly, and tried to explain the
discovered the mistake made by a drunken
clerk, elerk,-the ,e credittng to stauber of more
votes tSa ,,an1 than he feceived,@and caused s;
Shilling, A' bis mind d was s'e not 1u'' cear Har
as to who made the erasures, and who the
drunken clerk WIS he could not distinctly re-
The reporter also looked for Mr. Gibbs, but he
could not be found. knock at his door
brought the Information from the head of a
.85 augusta street any more. and that be had
moved about. week ago to some unknown
plnce. 1t was learned, however, through an
as that Of Walsh, and that they had decided to
hang together to the end.
a look for the clerks was fruitless. but 1t was
learned that one OF them-Schulze-ha coz
cluded to leave the city to-day for another
state, and it was also learned that the Com
munists had been around getting the atadayits
voted. with view to making it warm for every
body connected with making the returns who
could be found. They were openly asserting
that they had the prtof of the alleged fraud,
and knew the individuals who we're guilty of It,
and an individual who was taking considerable
interest in the case said he would have warrants
out for the arrest OF all concerned tomorrow
morning
What the Council will do with tho returns In
question remains to be seen. Some of the MEM
bers hold that they cannot go back Of the re-
turns, and that McGrath must be counted in:
and thon again others contend that the evidence
Ut fraud is SO palpable That the thing to do is
to refer the whole matter to committee for
investigation. and leave Aid Stauber to hold
over until the. bottom facts can be gntten at.
The Mayor takes the latter view Of the situa-
hon and thinks it would be unwise to take any
other course. and the probabilities are that this