The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-04-04
HH COULD NOT TELL.
A Witness Did Not Know
How Long a Man Had
Been Dead.
LOOKING FOR ELECTION FRAUDS.
Boarding House Keepers Continue
10 Give testimony About
Irregular and Illegal
Registration.
LOOKING FOR ELECTION FRAUDS.


Senators Gardner and Roe continued
their weary search for fraud yesterday
afternoon. Senator Adrain became ex-
hausted before the end of the morning
session and returned to Brunswick.
Mrs. Margaret Metz swore that G.
Honeau and Charles Miller, who are on
the poll book as having voted from her
house, died more than q year ago, while
Thomas McCarty and M. Wolf. who are
checked as having voted from there,
moved away about the same time.
VOLTS moved to No. 81 Morris street and
appears to have voted from both houses.
Mrs. Larkin, No. "a Green street; G.
Lillis, No. % Green street; John White :
No. 81 Grand street; Mrs. Nora Hanson,
No. SO Morris street; Fred Meicke, No.
81 Green street; William Hoppman, cor
ner of morris ands Green streets; Mrs.
NJ. Mullins, No. s. York street, and VIII
liam Rdwell, No. "a Hudson street, gave
the same kind of testimony, and then
James Walsh, the clerk of Rich's Hotel,
on Exchange place, was called. He pro-
duced the hotel register, and it appeared
that one man who voted from there ap-
peared on the register only on November
4 and 5.
The names of other men who had voted
from the hotel could not be found on the
book. This little discrepancy Mr.. Walsh
explained by saying that ''prominent
citizens often put up at the hotel and
gave fake names. as they don't want
people to know where they stay all night.
The committee adjourned after sitting
seven hours and examining eighty-nine
witnesses, who brought to light one
hundred and fifty instances of false regis
tratiou.
Mrs. Mullins said that six men regis
tered from her house had no right to be
unless perhaps they boarded with p J.
Mahoney an election officer, who lived
there Senator Gardner said he had no
doubt that they did
The rain this morning did not appear
to dampen the enthusiasm of the Investi-
cation Committee although Counsellor
Corbin was six minutes late. Senator
Gardner and Doctor Roe arrived in Jer-
sey City shortly after nine O'Clock, but
Senator Adrain did not appear. Mr.
Hufty, who represents General Grubb,
was also on hand early.
The Third precinct of the First district
was taken up and Mr.. Corbin had the
stenographer note that there was no poll
book in the ballot box of this precinct, and
none has been found since.
Mrs Rachel Horwitz, No. 40 Gregory
street, testified that one man checked as
voting from her house moved away be-
fore election. Mrs. Horwitz is evidently
impregnable to bribery. She dlsdain-
fully handed back the fifty-cent.
piece which flad been < on iier s;- -nsit IT
of DIR. Roe that assured her that it was
proper for her to keep the money.
Albert Il. Slockbrower, milkman at
No. 256 Warren street, who lives in
another part Of the city. said that he did
not register or vote, while the list shows
that some one did for him from No. 256
Warren street.
At this stage of the proceedings there
was discovery, which, taken with sew
eral like occurrences yesterday, throws
doubt upon the accuracy of the copies or
the poll books and registry lists made in
on Mr. Corbin's slips as voting from No.
252 Warren street. Captain Graham testi-
fed that there was no house there. Judge
GarretSon discovered that Ellington was
registered on his list from No. 282 Warren
street, and subsequent testimony proved
this to be correct.
Mrs. Kate Keegan said that one man
registered from there who did not live
there on election day, and Mrs. A. Alex
ander, of No. 202 Warren street, said the
same thing for two men voted from that
house.
Miss Annie Collins, of No 276 Warren
street, said that James Collins, her father,
died two years ago. and that her two
brothers, John and James, are only
twenty-one and twenty years old respec-
LlV6ly. Ou bu6 EeSlSUry DUOk JOuu du0
James Collins were checked as voting.
Two persons voted from No. 27S War;
rem street who, Mrs. Catherine Forbes
testified did not live there, and Judge
John M. O'Brien testified that John
Barry. James Pagan, Robert Walsh, who
are checked as voting from No. 200 War
rem street did not live there on election
day He also said that he saw James
Feeley register from No. 232 Warren
street, aud he knew he voted, although
there was not such name on the regis
try.
testified that John Kent, Samuel Kent
Patrick Fitzpatrick, and Joseph Fallon,
who are checked as voting from there,
did not live in the house. w. H. Ford
ham of No. A Newark avenue, not know
William Kelly, David Grune, and J. Kerr,
who are registered as voted from that
number.
The monotony of the proceedings w&&
relieved considerably by Charles j. Car
roll, OF No. 46 Newark avenue. He evi-
IDENTIFY did not intend TO tell anything he
did not have to.
SEIe was asked if he knew man named
I. Lofts. He replied that the man was
dead.
"How long has he been deadsn asked
Mr. Corbin
II can't remember replied the man
and notwithsta nding MIR. Corbin's ques
committee could get from him. Finally
Senator Gardner asked him if he could
say whether the man had been dead three
days or five years.
II can't tell.n
lie was finally permitted to go.
Mrs. Pauline Bechtel, of No. 4S Newark
avenue, who has lived there some years,
did not know Joshua Harvey, John Hars
vey and James Lamb, who are checked as
having voted from that house
According to Ella S. Wolf, of No. 10
Newark avenue, Joseph Carpenter. who
is marked as voting from there, had been
| in Scotland year or more, and she did
not know Frank Dixon and Joseph
Hanna, who are also checked as voting
| from that house.
| William Longham swore he voted from
No. "a Mercer street, and the books have
| him marked as voting from that house,
and also from his old residence, No. 10
| Montgomery street.
Fair Tomorrow.
! WASHINGTON, April 4, 1890 Weather