The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-06-24
Frauds Disclosed by Com
parison of the Poll and
Registry Lists.
a Host Of Witnesses Prove that
Votes We're Recorded Which
Voters Never Cast.

A two-seat surrey drove rapidly to the
hill top this morning. Sergeant-at-Arms
Sharpe and the irrepressible Altemus sat
on the rear bench. The driver and half
dozen monster salt sacks packed to their
mouths were on the front seat. The
sacks contained the ballots taken from
the several election boxes by the Senates
Investigating Committee several months
ago, and Mr.. Sharpe was with them to
keep sharp eye on them-to see In other
words that none of them get away and
to put himself in position to trace their
whereabouts up to the moment of their de-
livery to the court. Altemus was along to
look after Sharpe. He read a note book
as he rode. He had spent nearly the
whole night in preparing it. and he was
coming it over that he might make a
reader witness in court this morning
Prosecutor had introduced him as wit
ness to prove that the election officers. in
pursuance of their crime of conspiracy,
had committed the other crime of "vot-
ing" names that had not been registered.
When Altemus was requested yes
terday to find the names on
the poll book he had to hunt and
hunt. The Court grew impatient while
he did it, and finally adjourned the hear
ing for the day while Altenus was turn
ing over the pages. The little witness
spent the whole night in hunting up the
names about which he testifies today,
and he made less exasperating witness
when he appeared on the stand this
morning.
THE JURYMEN.
The jurymen came in one by one and
took their places in the chairs. Juryman
Throckmorton was the first to arrive.
There was some doubt as to Foreman
Hulshizer's coming. He is suffering
from rheumatic gout, and fully expected,
when he presented DIR. Varick's certifi-
cate to Judge Lippincott yesterday, to be
excused from service lon the panel. He
was quite chopfallen when he heard the
Judge say that the certificate would
not release him. He was doubtful
when he left court last evening whether
he would be able to be on hand this
holder Crandall, the last of the jury to
make his appearance, the box was full
in a legal sense, of course.
When the Court House bell rang soon
after ten o'clock, there was general
hustling for seats. Little black-eyed
LAWYER Gordon trlpped in with a red
grip in one hand and his white straw hat
in the other. Then came the stalwart
form of Lawyer DAILY, gathered in at the
neck with a white tie, as yesterday Ex-
Judge Garretson, the chief of the defen-
dants' counsel, and Corporation Attorney
Hudspeth followed in speedy order.
SERGEANT sHARPE's BABIES.
Then the blonde head Of District Attor-
Winfield bobbed through the crowd, and
Assistant Prosecutor Noonan aided by a
cane, wabbled feebly to seat with him,
at the green tables. Sergeant-at-Arms
Sharpe staggered up the aisle beneath the
weight of one of the white sacks--looking
for all the world as if he was carrying q
big baby with long white dress-and
dropped 1t down behind the witness chair
Godfrey Dilloway lugged in a second
sack by the ears and put it by the side of
the one that Sharpe had delivered. All
was in readiness now for the commence
mept Of the trial: but before it proceeded
Judge Lippincott's curiosity was aroused
as to whom the array of defendants law
yers specially represented. In an
swer to his enquiry. exJudge
Garretson. Charles 9. Black, and Mr..
DAILY said that they represented all the
defendants. Young Lawyer Bowen was
on hand for De Rancey, General John
Ramsey's clerk, and Corporation Attor-
ney Hudspeth especially for Tom Fallon,
the Street and Water Board janitor.
The witnesses sworn yesterday. whose
testimony is given below. were intro
duced to lay the foundation of the State Is
case. The ballots had been taken from
the hands of City Clerk Scott by the Sem
ate Committee. and had been lugged to
Trenton for the Senator's inspection, back
again to Hudson for the Bruggeman con-
test, then to Trenton again, and again
back to Hudson for the Grand Jury. and
the testimony of yesterday was to trace
their whereabouts in their travelling o
that it could be said that the ballots pro-
duced in court were those which had
been received by Mr.. Scott from the cleo
tion officers on election night. There
was one time recently little sensation
about the grand jurors having tampered
with some of the ballots. That sensation
petered out in the light of yesterday $
evidence, and the counsel of the defenc Q
found small comfort in. 1t.
THE WAY THE EVIDENCE POINTS.
Altemus was the first essential witness
Cor the State. He was first examined as
% the non-registered voters, TO whom
Names on the poll book were very hard
70 read. Purposely so Mr. Winfield sug-
tested. The election officers designed to
mRke them as blind as possible