Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-28
THE ARRESTS MADE.

MIR. Bracken Proceeds Against Members of
the Election Bonrd-ReIensed on $1,000
BaiI-They Feel Very Indignant Over
Their Treatment-Not Afraid of Trial.
Warrants were issued yesterday by Squire
Leslie for the arrest of Mike Mulvaney,
Mike Murray, Neil Crane and Joe Eli,
members of the Election Board of the Eigh-
teenth ward, upon a charge of fraud pre-
ferred by Frank Bracken, candidate for
Select Council at the recent primary cleo
tion. The above named officers, constituting
the election board, were all together when
the warrants were served last night, and, at
their request, were locked up in the Seven
teenth ward police station. The keys were
scarcely turned on them, however, when Mr..
P. c. Byrne, OF Byrne & McCabe, put in an
appearance, and went surety for them in the
sum ofS1 200 each for their appearance be-
fore Squire Leslie on Saturday next at $3.50
P. NJ, the hour fixed for the investigation.
As before stated in THE DISPATCH Mr..
Bracken claims that he and Mr.. Lydon re-
ceived 35 votes in a precinct where the
official returns only credited them with II
votes. The members of the board are all
young men, and this was their first expert
eDce behind the bars. In an interview
with a DISPATCH reporter, who was at the
station house when they were released, they
expressed great indignation at the treatment
received, and Individually asserted most
positively that there were no just grounds
for such procedure. Mr.. Mulvaney got out
of bed to meet the anticipated charge against
II hov fN for
a week past with severe illness.
He said: "We feel that our characters
have been stained, and we intend to seek
redress. We have nothing to fear IN the
result, because we have committed no crime.
The election was fair and square, and the
votes were honestly counted; this We pro-
pose to prove when the time comes. I was
not judge and inspector, too, as Bracken
alleges. 1 was the inspector and deposited
the votes in the box faithfully, as my duty
required"
His remarks were Endorsed most un-
equivocally by the other three members of
tirely confident of being acquitted of any
attempt at wrong doing or connivance with
fraud
A prominent business man in that ward,
when speaking of the arrest, said: mo one
thought that matters would be carried so far
as to lead to an arrest. There has been no
such "howl" raised as has been represented.
I have known every member of this election
board for years, and they all stand well in
the community. They are regarded as hon.
orable and upright citizens. Bracken and
Lydon threatened to put the board in the
penitentiary, where they belonged heard
them make the threat"
Mr.. Crane, in referring to the remark of
Mr.. Lydon quoted some days since in The
DISPATCH, that he, Lydon, 'sympathized
with Crane said: "I do not care for or
need Mr.. Lydon's sympathy. My brother
and L are well able to take care of those who
are left to our care"
Que of the accused persons said: "Mr.
Bracken has only been a resident of this
ward for two years, and when he was a
candidate last time for the same position he
seeks now received only one vote in the Sec
ond precinct"
A very general interest ceDters around the
trial, and no doubt Saturday afternoon will
witness large gathering of the clans at
Squire LeslIe's office.