Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-12-12
WHO IS THE THKFP
Tho Famous Chicago Election Fraud
Again.
COUNTIES cHAaaEs MADE.
The Cook coua'y Officials Came to tis
Front With Serious
Allegations
"oM LoRD! now Lone"

CHfez6o, Deseuiber ll.-Arrhur Gleason
Chief Deputy in County Clerk Rysns oeiee
makes . public ssatsnent this morning
over his swn signature, charging Henry
Bish, one Of the employees in ths County
Cle,ks Office, with having taken the envel-'
ope contaiuisg the ballots q the Second
precsact, EigAssenih ward, and hereby a.
lowing . substitution tf the forged ballots
found m the envelope, when ,hs came was
opened by the Federal Grand Jury. Mr..
Gleason relates that the envelope in quss-
ton was placed with others in large box
in the c. ,anty Clerks vsus and nailed up.
On the day the County Couvassing Board
closed it In bors, and when the first impress
sion had been created that fraud had
been pertetrated, Mr. Ryan sent
word to Gie, ,son to take coed care Of tho
returns. On receipt Of this message Glea'
son rayc he Jailed to his assistance Henry
Biehl, William }. Sweeney and VIM. Hayer,
clerks in the Office A search was made
for,tlis returns. Biehl finding them in .
nailed chest, ,yiereupoa the two other
,esrche.s were directed not 10 look
any longer. G eason then went to
attend TO other datiek Biehl soon
afterward informed Gleason that he hsd
placed then in one Of ten drawers in the
vault uunLered 2tG The only persons
knowin, the exact ,tAwer il which these
ballots had been pla,ed were B.ehl and
Gleason. Gleason says he diCnot person.
ally makean examination Of drawer 2ii to
ascertain whether Biehl informed him cor.
rectly or not bot took ID forgrantsd he did,
He did net.go, 70 the drSver until Novem'
Der 25, when he
Pou~A Them TAers.
Previous to that time he declares Ae never
had the envelope in his hands. The vault
in which these ballots were kept wss locked
with combination, the combination
being known only to-. four per
,ons; Henry Biehl, John Shelds,
John O1apxhlu and Gleason. The
ballots were placed in the vault, whsrr the
CON binaton wasknown only to the tour per
sons, and their location to but two (Biehl and
Glesson). Gleason then says the evidence
sho~r, beyond o doubt, that the chasge in
ballots was maae while in the vault ot the
County Clerks office. The evidence slso
shows that neither Shields nor 0'Laaghlin
knew where the bnllo,s were placed and II
would have been exceedingly diflicnh for
aryone not knowing their exact location to
find them. The Jallots having been taken
from the vault oD the afternoon Of Novcm-
bcr u, either Bie,sl or bimselfis guilty. As
he declared he dAi not commit tho crime
il could have been committed BY
no other person than Biehl and he thcveiore
charges him with its perpetraiion. Tho two
ps.sons now copnset dwith theerimo az Jo-
seyh G. Mackn. secretary Of tho Cook
Cosnty Democratic Central COMMITTEES. who
ordered the hogus.tickets priated. and Biehl
with the abstraction of the envelope costain.
ing the original bati lots 70 ALLOW the subs,i.
tuition Of the bogus ones.
By Isnplisstisn.
CHICAGO, Decenber ll.-Clerk Bishlpub-
lishes card this afternoon in which by i'm.
pIieatiou be charges that First Assistant
County Clerk Arthur Gleason committed
the Leman Brand ballot fraud The excite