The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-06-27
DISASTROUS.
Continued from first page.

Jnem ana go Wnere L was KNOWN.
"Where did Mr. Kennedy beIong?"-
"At the First of the First"
why did you volunteer to take his
placeP'
81 don't know"
us it customary"
81 have known it to be done"
Don't you know your name was in the
resolution OF the Board of Aldermen and
you were appointed"
mo, sir.'
sDid you act all through the registra-
ton days at the Second district?'a
Not that l know"
Shown an affidavit on the registry book
! of the Fifth precinct, Second district wit
ness said his name was signed to it,"
who was the clerk that acted in that
precinctpn
"Ican't say"
ibid You leave this precinct and go
home to vOte?"
Between one and two o'clock, yes, SIR
"Did you ever before hear of a man
acting as an election officer in a precinct
where he did not live?"
"Yes, SIR"
"Who?n
81 can't say.n
VERY A MEMORY
Explain why yours is the only name
as CLERK OF the registry in the Fifth OF
the Secondpn
II can't"
the Firsts''
II don't know
ITO whom did you volunteers"
Il don't know. Twas in Grove street,
near the Committee room; not sure but |
volunteered in the room.
"'And you lave no idea to whom you
volunteered?"
II have a fair idea that it was to P. II.
ONeu and some others.'
'l'hln Won want down in hfe r,rorino NJ ~
Yes, sir; | had been an election officer
there before"
you must have been a general mis-
sionary then all over the city?'
NO sir | never acted in two districts
In my life: the change of the precincts
now put part of the Second of the First
district in the First precinct | did not
stay in the Fifth because on the first
registry day they over ruled me-"
You were working for the purity of
the ballot?"
Eyes sir"
How long after you saw O'Nein were
you a~ppointed?"
About n and a half hours; I met
him and ne told me there was a vacancy
IN uhe First of the First district. Elec-
ton day told the Board / was there to
I'LL q vacancy and they swore me in.
DID you swear in the judge?"
We'll, you see there was one man shy
there" daughter,
aOne man shy, what do you mean?"
Il mean there was one man shy.o
"That applies to poker, doesn't it ?"
Naughter.)
Officer
What was the first thing you did after
being sworn in ~
I sat there at the table with my pens,
ink and pencils"
did you write that day with a pencil?'
Not as | know of; l may have done
Shown poll book:-"Whose handwrit-
ing is this?n
1T is mine"
Is that ink filing in on the returns in
your handwritings"
Yes, SIR"
viii you tell me why You didn't
WriIe IN the poll book in a palmer hand?''
Because ! was burned.''
"That IN the register is in a plain round
hand, isn't it?"
Yes, sir.n
why didn't you number the voterss"
~ didn't think it necessary"
You have served before2n
mot as a clerk
"But as an oficersn
"Yes.n
DOES HE KNOW ANYTHING?
SHOWN the certificate that showed the
number OF votes polled he was asked
WnaL IL was.
"a certificate to show the number Of
votes 70 pc polled-I mean the number
polled, +" he quickly corrected himself.
why didn't you put the number of
votes polled up to the time you went to
dinnerg"
II didn't think 1t necessary"
when the polls first opened, what did
The box wouldn't work, and I went to
the corner for a little box. and then be-
gan recording the votes until the Mar
shall came; l think it was
between ten or eleven o'clock. There
was about 1893 or 200 votes polled VIII en-
the marshal came. When it was
liked we attempted to run them through
the dial, they asked me then how many
names were on the book, and I told them
and q member of the Board told Mr.. Long
the number, and he marked it on the
dial"
The Court:-Mr. Long testified yester-
fixed the dial or box.r
did Mr.. Long fix the boxgn asked the
Prosecutor.
eyes, SIR"
"Did you see any joker ballots dumped
from the cigar box to the ballot box?'i
them"
How many were put through the
.sTen or twelve.'
And the rest of the ballots in the
cigar box were put in the box without
stamping or milling?''
II don't know; I suppose sou
'The Board all consented to the dump
ing of the ballots from one box into
a~nOther?''
They made no protest.
Shown the return, Fallon said that he
had filed it in with a pencil because he
had a pencil in his hand at the time.
How many names are on the pol
pook?n
II don't know"
why didn't you stop counting ballots
when you had reached the number on
the poll book?"
II didn't think it right when 1 had seer
people voting while was sick, whose
names | had not put on the poll books
Didn't You know it was your duty TO
write the names in the book? that you
had sworn to dc it?n
Yes, sir, to the best of my ability. ]
know the bounds of the precinct. ldon't
know how it is that votes We're received
from houses in other districts"
who voted the Sethmanns family In
your precinct when they lived Out of fts''
II don't know"
WHO announced the dead men2"
II can't say that"
rNot likely No sir"
This is to show concert of action be
tween Fallon and the man who did thu
checking