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as before that the challenge must stand

as before that the challenge must stand
for all Juror was excused.
William Utz, Hoboken, next called, had
rcad OF the frauds; he thought he would
be prejudiced against the defendants,
was not personally acquainted with the
defendants; he conld render verdict ac-
cording to the evidence, but he believed
he would be prejudiced- lie could not
90 in the Jury box an impartial juror.
The Court sustained the challenge and
Mr.. Utz was excused.
AN EXEMPT FIREMAN.
Ex-Director George =. Schinzei. the
next Juror. was excused under the fire
mems exempt law
George W. Travers, of No. 3s4 Garden
street. was next called. He was chal-
lenged. The Sheriff's return set forth
that George f. Tiavers, of No. 32 Hudson
street, had been summoned. Mr. Travers
said he was not that man. The Court
held that the service was good, for the
law does not recognize a middle name or
the locality where the juror lives The
challenge on this ground was overruled
and the juror was accepted.
Albert III. Alexander, called and not
appearing. was find $3.50.
George l.. Heath. Jersey City. ice busi-
ness, had read of the frauds. could try the
case without prejudice, although he had
formed an opinion based on newspaper
reports. The challenge was not scs-
tanned, and he became the ninth juror.
John Wills. the next Juror to answer,
went through the routine questions sue
cessfully. and was accepted by the
Court.
Frederick Winter. varick street. Jersey
City. the eleventh juror. read the news
paper reports Of the frauds and the Sen
ate investigation, and had formed an
opinion. but he could render fair yer
dict. He was accepted.
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last Juror, was drawn and accepted.
Then Mr.. DAILY made a peremptory
challenge against Juror Beach, the
fourth juror, which was allowed, and
Dickinson NJ. Van Worst was called te
fill his place.
WINFIELD STATES THE CASE.
Prosecutor Winfield opened the case
for the State after the jury were sworn.
He said the precinct was too small TO pol
the vote alleged to have been polled, and
that he would prove the dial of the bal
lot box had been tamDered with. There
were 387 votes on the poll book. 1896 votes
were found in the box, and on the regis
try 495 votes were checked. Some
of these names were checked twice
why is something to be found out
IL may be that the election officers
voted that name, and then when the voter
himself came to vote the formality oi
again checking the names was gone
through with. On the poll book are q
names not on registry book, and on reg
istry 107 names not on poll book. There
are 2S names on the poll book not checked
on the registry; all these make 2l2 votes
put in the box that had no right TO be
there. Deduct this number from the
number of ballots counted and you have
1S4 votes, about the number this precinct
should produce
On this poll book are thirty names Of
men believed to have voted more than
once and two names of men who voted
more than twice. In addition TO this you
will find 130 joker ballots all Democratic
tickets except one which had on 1t Q
paster of General Grubb for Governor and
we will show that this was voted in pur-
suance to an agreement to vote twenty
five or fifty of these votes.
The Prosecutor then dismissed the
jokers and asked what midnight conspir
acy produced them. The frauds on the
poll book list were made TO tally with the
Jokers and repeaters voted.