Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-10
"A BALLOT BOX STOLEN.
CHICAGO'S POLITICAL MIDDLE
FURTHER COMPLICATED.


Arrest Of an Unsavory Saloon -Keepor
on suspiciOn-COitege Students said to
Have Perpetra6ed Grave Frauds in
Republican Ineeresta-T The COMMITTEES
OF Pubic Safety Thoroughly Aroused.
CHICAGO, Aprll 0.-The situation grow.
ing out of the close municipal election
contest in this city has been complicated
by the theft oftbe ballot-box of the Third
precinct OF the Third ward. The box was
stored in livery stable on Twenty-sec.
ond street, where the balloting occurred,
but the storeroom was broken into and
the box carried of. The precinct re-
turned go fOrSmith and 2G6 for Harrison,
and the theftis.supposed o-have been for
the purpose of concealing some irregulari%
ties. The matter is In the hands of detec-
tives, and IL is rumored that some OF the
guilty partiesare known. The Republi-
cans have decided TO contest Mr.. Harri-
sons election, and Mr.. Harrison declares
that he himself wishes a recountand says
that he believes that a recount
viii increase his majority. The robbery
naturally occasioned great excitement in
political circles in view of the recent
exposures. of the Eighteenth ward frauds!
DETECTIVES FIND.
A detective has been at work onthe
case ali day, and the following facts ap-
pear To have been dIsclosed A coupe
was engaged by saloon keeper named
Connolly about o'clock this morning,
the driver being ordered to 90 TO the
corner OF State and Twenty dstreets
and wait for a passenger. Shortly after
ward a man bringing what was undoubt-
edly the ballDt-box appeared and entered
the coupe. He was driven to the corner
Of Halstead and FOrty-frst streets, where
he entered the saloon and disappeared.
No arrests have yet been made. The loss
of the ballots seriously affects the result
on the Mayoralty and South Chicago
Assessor.
THE sALOoN-KEEPER ARRESTED.
CHICAGO, April 10, 3 A. M.-The police
last night arrested stockyard saloon
keeper and rough character, known as
'Duchy" keefe, and he has been identi-
fed by the hack driver as the man who
carried away the ballot boxes. The driver
says that Keefe rode in his hack tO Forty
second street, near Halstead, where he
gOt out with the boxes, telling him to
drive on TO Halstead, and that Keefe re-
turned in about ten minutes without the
boxes. Warrants are also ont for the az
rest of Patrick Condor, a West Side sa-
lOOn-keeper, and for an unnamed person
whose description answers 20 that OF
"Bob'' Sheridan, who has been implicated
in various criminal cases.
THE COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY.
The Committee Of Public Safety met
this afternoon and decided 10 increase its
numbers TO $50, and devote itself TO the
permanent work Of prosecuting election
| frauds, regardless Of party. Three mem-
bers subscribed 81 800 for that work, and
other members smaller sums. An agent
was employed for year,
The Times win publish tomorrow the.
results of Investigations by one OF its
stat, in which it is charged that many
students Of the Chicago University in the
Fourth ward, Of the medical colleges I'M
the Twelfth, and the inmates OF the w ash-
ingtonian in the Eleventh. fraudulently
voted the Republican ticket Tuesday.