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Proofs that a5o or More Votes wer
Illegally Cast.


Proofs that a50 or More Votes Were
Illegally Cast.
The hearing in the contest over the
election Of Assemblyman in the Seventh
District between Terence J. Mcdonald and
James J. Clarke was continued all day
yesterday and far into last night before
Master in ChancerY Edward Gilmore in the
latter's Office, No. As Montgomery street.
The counsel for both the contestants.
Messrs. A. @ Garretson and John Nc
Grath, representing Mcdonald, and Cor
nelius 5. See representing Clarke as
well as themselves sat in the cosy little
Office where the testimony was being taken
all through the day, but about $50 last
evening Garretson and Clarke buttoned
their great coats and left for home. The
others remained till the hearing was adj
journed. Chief of Police Murphy and
Captain Farrier were summoned TO appear
before the Committee at the afternoon
session, and they sat for hours waiting to
give their testimony. Clarke is seeking to
unseat Terry Med Donald on the ground that
certain fraudulent votes were cast for Nc
Donald In the Second Precinct bounded
by Railroad avenue, Henderson and
Fourth streets and the River, because out
OF 576 votes cast in the Precinct Clarke
received but l65. The testimony is to be
presented to the House Committee on
Contested Elections, the House being the
final judge of the election and return of
its members. Detective Dea was on the
stand all day yesterday and up to ten
o'clock last night. During the course
of his examinations he gave the fol-
lowing as having appeared on the poll
lists. Enquiry as to Michael Sullivan
and John Sullivan, of 324 and 378 Hem
derson street, showed that both had voted
from both places; that John Mccormack
had voted twice from 346 Henderson
street that Thomas Murphy, of 345 Hen
derson street, had stopped there but one
day, and left with an overcoat belonging
to the landlord. As to the following he
had learned that they had never lived at
the number from which the poll list showed
some one who gave their names had voted.
or that they were dead or had moved
away James Barker, 212 Henderson
street; Michael Fallon. 316 Henderson
street; Thomas Forlan, 800 Henderson
street; John Nolan, 324 Henderson street;
James Corlies, 324 Henderson street; Jas.
Hams, 324 Henderson street; Denis Cody.
326 Henderson street; Thomas Mccain,
1856 Henderson street Thomas Gordon,
3l2 Henderson street; Patrick Rodell, 1888
Henderson street; Thomas Hamilton, $40
Henderson street; Bernard Clark. 346
Henderson street; Joseph Butler. 348
Henderson street; Bernard Farley, S48
Henderson street; Michael Whalen, 352
Henderson street; Michael Monahan. S52
Henderson street; VIM. Moore, 352 Hen
derson street; John Tuomey, 352 Hender-
son street; John Lovelock, 352 Henderson
street; Peter Smith, 354 Henderson street;
Thomas Murphy, 345 Henderson street !:
John Hemphill, 1858 Henderson street !;
John McGovern, 376 Henderson street; ].
Burns, $50 Henderson street John Null
rooney, S7S Henderson street Michael and
John Sullivan, S78 Henderson street John
McGovern, 1872 Henderson street jan es
Hughes, l54 Henderson street: James
Dcnelan, 227 Steuben street Patrick Pat
erson, S58 Steuben street; James Lawlor.
1856 Steuben street Christian Roesing, 176
Steuben street; Michael Mangin. l72
Steuben street Pierre Cordeau, 100 Steu-
ben street; John Comisky, 100 Steuben
street, resided there two years ago:
another party named Joseph Comisky,
voted under the name of John Comlsky.
and he came from Poland only five months
prior to Nov. 30, 1885 q. Fisher, 155 Steu-
ben street: Pat. Rourke, 155 Steuben street;
Patrick Bolen, 152 Steuben street; James
Mcbride, l42 Steuben street; John Reilly,
ia Steuben street; Herbert Ames, 1874
Steuben street; Peter Kenna, 1876 Steuben
street; Thomas Connolly, 134 Steuben
street; John Barry, 1872 Steuben street;
John Boriski, 1856 Steuben street; John
Henry, 81 Steuben street; Henry Reiden,
foot of Steuben street; Hugh Reilly, "a
Morgan street; John Headorfs, ia Morgan
street: john Donskie, 10 Morgan street;
William Pierson, 1872 Morgan street; James
Collins, 166 Morgan street; Reed Robes
shell, 164 Morgan street; James Cavanagh,
ST., and James Cavanlgh, DR., ia Bay
street; David Ancower, 172 Bay street;
thomas BYrne, 172 Bay street; John Cliff.
ford, 40 Bay street; Michael O'Keefe, 1852
Bay street; Louis Stalkenecht, 1862 Bay
street; Robert Crawdes, Owen Brennan
and Thomas McCallon, foot of Third street.
| These with names given by Detective
Thornhill and others given by the present
witness, Dea, at previous hearings of the
case, make from $50 to $50 names on
which fraudulent and Illegal votes seem to
have been cast. There is no proof in the
case as to whom the votes cast their bal
lots for; but Clarke will agree that as he
had only 165 votes of the 576 cast in the
Precinct, they must haye been counted
! for Mcdonald.
| Counsellor McGrath cross-examined the
detective at great length yesterday after
noon and evening. Dea testified, in answer
! to the questions Of counsel, that he is a
married man, his family being in Cork,
Ireland that before coming to this coun-
| try he was connected with the Irish con-
stabulary; that after arriving in this coun-
| try he was first employed by Pinkerton's
detective agency on the Sheepshead Bay
race track, and since by him in various
other capacities that he commenced on
the pending investigation November 9th
last, beginning work at No. 312 Henderson
/ street, and that he could not say who had
| directed him to where No. liz Henderson
street lay !; that he investigated names
upon list furnished him by his superiors
| in New York that his method was not to
| enquire for the person whose name was
suspected to have got fraudulently on the
the poll list, but to enquire about him of
others in the house from which he was reg
| istered.
The witness generally got his information
from women and never sought to verify
such information as he did receive. He
never left any place he visited until he
found some one from whom he received in
| formation. The witness showed one of the
slips from which he made his reports. CON
tanning the name Thos. Moffat, $50 Hender-
son street, on which he had noted the words,
mo person of this name has lived here
inside of year" That was memoran-
dunn of the conclusion he had reached
| from the answers made to hisinquiries. He
did not recollect having noted exactly a
| single reply made to his inquiries. He met
many persons who said they knew nothing
about the subject of his inquiry. He visited
stores as well as houses grocery, dry
goods, and liquor stores.
Chief of Police Murphy was the next
| witness. He testified that on election
afternoon he received a telegram to the eff
| feet that some crooked work was going on
| in No. engine house by the election
1 officers Officer Kilbourn was sent to the
place and returned within an hour and
| reported that they would not allow him to
| stay there. He was ordered to return and
look after it and after the polls were closed
| TO go inside, as he had right to by law,
and witness the canvass. Some time during