The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-04-03
The Legislative Investigate
ing Committee Question
ing Boarding House
Keepers.
THE SEARCH FOR BAD CLUES.
One Dead Man Voted and Regis
tration Didn't Seem to
Amount to Much,
Anyhow.
= SEARCH FoR Bad CLUES.

10 ma out who put the Joker ballots in
the boxes at the last election in this
county, reached the city shortly after
nine o'clock this morning, and went to
the Chancery Chambers. The room was
crowded with boarding keepers
from the First precinct of the First dis
trict
w. II. Corbin conducted the examina-
t10n for the committee, and eX-JudRe
William T. Hoffman appeared for Stuhr;
while ex-Judge Garretson took care of
was called first but did not appear, and
Captain Graham was called and said that
he was familiar with the First precinct Of
Jersey City, and told on which sides Of
the streets the odd numbers were.
The next witness was William Adafr Of
No. 90 Grand street. He said he knew Tom
McGuire; he lived at mis- house last cleo
tion day, and denied that he had said last
week that Mcclure moved before that
day.
HER HUSBAND WAS DEAD.
Mrs. p. H: Graham, Of No. 81 Grand
street. said that her husband, who WAS
registered and checked as having voted
last November, died two years ago.
Mrs. Mary Coffin, of No. 80 Grand
street, said that she had lived in that
house six years. George Flannigan. who
is registered and checked as vouing from
tudb ifOuoo nlOttQ away 6l4utoCu 44tI tll6
ago, and j. Stryker, whois also registered
and checked never lived there.
Judge Garretson questioned her closely
and found that her memory about her
boarders was not as clear on all points as
1t was as to those persons mentioned to
her by Mr. Corbin.
Several others gave the same kind 0f
testimony with the same kind Of
memory, among them being john
Bonnar, No. ii Grand street;
Mrs. Adelia Smith, No. 81 sGrand street;
William Sickles, No. " Grand street,
and Mrs. Maggie German.
PRINCIPAL sTIMETS NOT THERE.
The testimony of the next winess, Mrs.
John Vernon, of No. n Grand street, Gre
ated some excitement. Tt seems that
some one voted from her house on the
name Of G. G. Stimets, principal Of the
Mr.. Stimets did not live at her house
last November nor did three other men
who were registered as voting.
Two men registered from No. 4S0 Sus-
sex street did not live there in November,
according to Joseph Keenan,, who lives
there. To Mr.. Garretson he said there
was house in the rear, and he could not
tell the names of those who lived there.
NO HOUSES THERE
AT this point Captain John s-ss...:.s-ss
bobbed up serenely again and said that
Nos. II and 13 Grand street were o'Neill's
lumber yards with no dwelling houses on
them. Mr.. Corbin then called attention
to the fact that J. Murray had voted from
No. IL and E. r. Savage from No. IS.
Three persons voted from No. SO
Grand street, and Mrs. o. II. Krause
testified that they did not live there on
election day
A. S. johnson swore that there was
nothing but the ruins of building
burned two years ago at No. 20 Sussex
street, and a stable at No. 33, yet one man
is checked as voting from each place.
Captain Graham appeared again and
said there was no dwelling house at No.
81 Sussex street, yet q man appears to
said that he could not find any
| trace of the person who registered
and voted as civilian Morrisey Sussex
| place" Some one voted for James Stat
| ford. of No: ~ Sussex street, who, Mrs.
| A. H. Gavigan testified, moved to New
York out Of the apartments she moved
| into over year ago.
| FAIR EXCHANGE.
| Joseph Stanley of No. 81 Sussex street
| testified that he did not vote, although
| his name appears on the registry and poll
| list. As if to offset this, John Ferigan
cinct, although his name could not be
/ f ound on the registry poll book.
4 Miss Bertha McWilliams, Of No. 90
Sussex street, testified that her father,
James McWilliams, did not vote on elec-
tion day. although he appears twice on
the registry list. and is checked there
| the same number of times. William
| O. Flynn she said, she knew voted on
election day, although his name does not
appear on the poll book. He is, however,
on the registry list twice, and checked
as having voted both times.
NONE OF THEM LIVE THERE.
The testimony of Mrs. Mary Anne
| Breen, of No. 70 Sussex street, brought
| to light real scheme of colonization.
| She testified that H. Sullivan, Z.
McComb, M. Brannagan, f. Nc
Kenna, H. Morris. J. Hay. 4. Barry.
who are all on the registry and poll book
| as voting from her home, did not live
there, nor did J. Flynn, G. Fl. Howe,
| James Clifford, Robert Ermis, G.. Fl. SUI
teran and f. Brannagan, who are checked
on the registry list