The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-03-12
OTHER PROOFS OF FRAUD.
Comparing Official Tallies
with Election Night
Figures.
CHIEF MURPHY's TESTIMONY.
The Evidence Taken by the Senate
Elections Committee Last
Evening and Today.
CHIEF MURPHY's TESTIMONY.
Special to The Jersey ctr Neros.

ballot box frauds. After Sheriff Davis
had left the stand, James T. Lillis,
Deputy Surrogate in Hudson county and
Secretary of the Hudson County Demo
cratic Committee, was called He was
detained only long enough to produce
list of members and other records of the
Committee
Michael j. O'Donnell, chairman of the
Hudson County Democratic Committee
and a member of the Jersey City Tax
Commissioners, next took the stand, He
is studious looking man, of spare build,
with sandy must ache and blue eyes.
which beam with rare intelligence He
is as nearly opposite in general appear
ance to the popular conception of a Hud-
son county politician as it is possible that
he should be. He testified that he was
present at the meeting of the Hudson
County Democratic Committee the night
before election. and assisted in the
general work on that occasion.
Three hundred Thousand ballots had
been printed but no jokers had been
ordered. Some OF the so-called jokers
were in the com mittee room, however,
but he had no idea where they came from.
AT that time the bac ks were unmarked
He saw none with marked backs in circu-
lation. He took bunch of them for his
precinct (the Third and the Seventh dis
trict) Some of the jokers taken from the
ballot box were then shown to him. They
differed somewhat from what he had seen
in the committee room. He worked all
day in his OVID precinct and had several
helpers. He was asked for their names.
HE REMEMBERED ONE MAN
stThe only one can recall this minute,n
said he s.fS man named Maaharl rn
whom paid So. and who worked all day
against us. have reason to remember
him.
Mr.. O'Donnell was asked about the
copying of registry lists. He said they
were copied at the City Clerks office by
the first registry day. Before the first
registry day, by his orders, the books
were copied at the Democratic County
Committees room. The copies were
made SO as to conform with the new lines
of the Assembly Districts. The copies
were made on legal cap pages.
James E. Connolly, clerk at the Tax
Commission office and member of the
General County Committee, saw the jok-
ers at Headquarters the night before cleo
tion. but didn't know where they came
from. Everything, he said, was regular on
election day in his precinct, the Seventh,
of the First district.
Street and Water Commissioner Ed
ward A. Dugan, of Jersey City, stood the
ordeal like man aud did not finch
once. He testified that he is treasurer of
the. County Committee, and has been
such for four or five years. Some por-
ton of the funds of the committee passed
through his hands this last year. 1t was
only that derived from assessments. The
bills which he paid were for advertisin e,
postal cards and repairs to the commit
tees rooms. He did not handle any
money for election purposes; the Execu
tive Committee took charge of that.
This year was the first time the Execu-
tive Committee had done that.
He represents the Fourteenth precinct
of the Third distrit in the County Com
mittee. He was present at the meeting
on the night before election, and took
away 400 or 500 ballots. They were only
the rooms in coach, but he could not
say who brought them.
SAW THE SMALL TICKETS.
Mr.. Dugan saw the small tickets lying
on the table with the others. They were
in bundles, of which, he should have said,
there were seven or eight. He did not
take any of the small ballots nor did he
see any one working them in his precinct
the next day. He was around the district
during the day. He did not know
whether the small tickets were used at
the last spring election or not.
Ilt w do AOb pItStuO dG tuG COuAb III HIS
precinct because he knew that it was
Democratic precinct and was all right
AT this stage of the proceedings Mr..
Corbin asked il Mr.. Byrne was present.
"He's iii State Prison, sir,' exclaimed
Captain Graham, and then noticing the
sensation his announcement caused, con-
tinued, making an official VISIT
Continuing Mr.. Dugan said he was a
member of the Street and Water Bard.
s'Your Board appointed Stringhana--"
"No, sir"
Saint he in the employ of your Boards"
asked Mr. Corbin in astonishment.
CONWAY'S APPOINTMENT.
Yes, sir,'' was the young commits
sioner's reply, "he's surveyor. but he
was in office when we came into office.
You have him mixed with some one else.
You mean Conway-Charles Conway.
He was janitor and we removed him
when we went in"
"But he is employed by your Board,
isn't he?'
Yes sir, Van Keuren, the Republican
member of the Board, appointed him and
Somers conGurred."
sYou did not concurW
NO, sir; had a Democrat for the
place"
This finished Mr.. Dugan's examination.
James f., Norton was sworn. He said
that he was clerk TO the Police Court
and chairman of the Printing Committee
of the County Committe. AT this an
nouncement the faces of the committees
frightened perceptably. They thought.
that at last they were getting near some
thing tangible. But the next answer of
Mr.. Norton dashed all their high hopes.
"Did your committee attend to the
printing of the General Committee at the
last election?" asked Mr. Corbin eager
'No, sir" was Mr.. Norton's emphatic
reply.
AN ORNAMENTAL COMMITTEE.
The committee looked grieyed and Mr.
Corbin continued
Didn't you order any printing or audit
any bills for printing!"
mo, sir.
'Did the Executive Committee attend
to the printing!"
Il don't know"
Mr.. Norton then went on to say that his
committee had done nothing as COM
mittee for year or two, and was prac-
tically an ornamental one. He also at
tended the meeting IN the County Com
mittee rooms the night before election
and received the tickets and money for
his precinct He received both large and
small tickets. He took a number of
small tickets and placed some of them
upon the board shelf at the polling place
and gave some of them to the workers,
and none of the small tickets were marked
on the back. heWas sure.
If there were any small tickets In the
box stamped with stamp different from
that Of the box they did not come from