St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-02
IT Was PERJURY
The Registration Frauds to
Feel the Heavy Hand Of
the Law.
Warrants Issued for Five Of
the Alleged Fraudulent
Affiants
On a Charge of Perjury by
Voters Who We're Threat
ened.
C. o. Dix Tells How He Was
Beguiled Into Doing the
Work.
What the Penal Code Has to
Say Of the Crime of Per-
jury.
Other Arrests May Follow
Based on Subopnation Of
Perjury.

"The Rise and Fall of the Kiefer
Gang'' will afford an interesting chap
ter in the nun icipal history of st. Pau
when the honest Republican voters of
the city shall have supplanted the dis
reputable contingent of their city COM
mittee by one composed of men of
honor and integrity.
The signing of an affidavit which has
for its object the disfranchisement of
free American citizen and legal voter
is very serious thing in Minnesota. as
a number of Republican committeeman
and their dupes and accomplices are
finding out. The man who signs
such an affidavit is. by the
laws of Minnesota, committing
perjury, and the same laws make
the man who persuades one to make
such an oath guilty Of the crime of
''subornation of perjury" Both are
serious offenses. the penalty being con-
finement in the states prison for term
ranging from one to ten years, both
crimes being equally heinous in the
eyes of the law.
And these are the crimes committed
by the Republican city committees di-
rection on last Tuesday when its mem-
bers, aided by various dupeS and accom-
pIices, attempted the wholesale dis
reimbursement of voters in the Third,
Fourth, ana Sixth wards of the city.
Ofenses of such magnitude call for
punishment swift. speedy and ''titted to
the crime," and at least five OF the men
who placed their names to these in
famous affidavitS will be arraigned be-
fore the bar of justice this morning to
answer to the charge of perjury. COM
pIaints having been duly filed with the
clerk of the municipal court yesterday
afternoon by voters whose disfrauchise-
ment was attempted, and warrants we're
at once issued for their arrest. Perjury
is the charge in each ease, and the five
men whose arrests were ordered are: T..
o. Dix, of the Fourth ward; f. A.
Leyde, John Sandrofsky, d. q. Ryan
and William NJ. Leyde, of the Sixth
ward. Jasper Harris. of the Third pre-
cInct of the Fourth ward, whose name
was on the list prepared 10y member
of the Republican gang, entered the
complaint against DIX; Peter Barry,
long a resident and legal voter of the
Fourth precinct of the Sixth ward. per-
forms the same service for f: A Leyde
and John Sandrofsky, while John Rici-
same ward. demands that ID. G.. Ryan
and William NJ. Leyde be arrested and
dealt withaccording to law"
The form of complaint is the same in
all the cases; the one in the ease of
Peter Barry against f. A. Leyde being
as follows:
The Complaint OF Perjury.
State of Minnesota. county of Ramsey,
municipal court, city of ST Paul Peter
Barry being duly sworn, makes com plant 10
the above named court and says that on the
29th day of April. A D. 1899, at the city of
ST. Paul. and within the corporate limits OF
the SAID city of st. Paul. in the county of
Ramsey and state of Minnesota. one E. a.
Leyde. then and there being. did Wrongfully,
unlawfully and willfully, after being duly
sworn on oath, on an occasion in which an
oath is and was required by law, to-W1h on
the occasion of the said defendant coming
before the duly authorized judges of election
of the Fourth district of the Sixth ward, Of
and in the city of st. Paul, in the
county of Ramsey and state of
Minnesota, and which said judges were then
and there acting and duly qualified to act as
said judges of election. under and pursuant
IAN act relating to elections in cities OF
10000 inhabitants and over" and the SAID
city of ST. Paul being city of more than
10000 inhabitants, he the said defendant,
then and there as aforesaid. came before
said Judges, who were then and there acting
as q board of registration in and for said
election district, as provided by law and
then and there presented an affidavit. under
oath made and subscribed by said defend
ant before one W. B. Bourne, in the words
and figures following, to wit:
State of Minnesota, County OF RAMSEY. IS:
John Sandrofsky and E. A. Leyde being
severally duly sworn, each for himself says
that he is duly qualified electOr OF the
Fourth district of the Sixth ward, in the city
of ST. Paul. in said county. That the follow
ing persons. whose names have been inserted
in the register of qualified electors by the
board of registry i'll and for the district
aforesaid, are not qualified electors of said
district and that their names are unlawfully
upon said registers:
There follow the names of the electors
asked TO be disfranchised. among them the
name Of Peter Barry, the complainant, who
JOHN sANDRoFsKY.
+. A. LEYDE.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
29th day of April, A. ID. 1890.
W. B. BOURNE.
[Seal1 Notary Public, Minnesota.
That the said W. B. Bourne then and
there was notary public within and for said
Ramsey county, Minnesota, duly commits
stoned and acting as such, and then and
there duly authorized to administer all oath,
and which said oath the said defendant
did make and take before said w. B. Bourne
as aforesaid. That said defendant falsely,
knowingly, willfully and feloniously and
eorruptly took and made said oath. we'll
knowing the same to be false
and untrue, as hereinafter stated.
That said affidavit, so made aud
said oath so taken was, as said defendant
well knew false and untrue.
That this complainant is now and for more
than one year last past has been resident
and duly qualified voter of the fourth district
of the Sixth ward of said city of ST. Paul and
has during all of said time resided at No. 206
State street. That each and every statement
and averment in said oath or affidavit con-
tanned setting forth that complainant was
not duly qualified voter or elector of said
fourth district of said Sixth ward were
falsely, unlawfully and willfully, corruptly
and feloniouslY made in a ma
terial matter then pending before
said board of registration contrary to the
statute i'll such case made and provided and
against the peace and dignity OF the state of
Minnesota.
Wherefore the complainant prays that said
defendant may be arrested and dealt with ac-
cording to law. PETER BARRY.
Sworn to and subscribed and complained
of before me at the city Of St Paul, Ramsey