The record-union., 1892-11-18
A FREE BALLOT,
And How Some Men Are Said to Have
Abused 1t.
John welch and Dan Sullivan Hold to
Answer-Another Charge Against
w. A. Busey.

Eight or nine of the men arrested on
election day, some charged with voting
and others with attempting to vote ille-
gally. were arraigned for examination
before Judge Cravens in the Police Court
yesterday.
John Welch was the first to be exam
ined during the morning session, and
after the testimony of several witnesses
and the arresting officers was heard he
was held to answer to the Superior Court
with bail fixed at 81 900.
Welch had no defense to offer, further
than the statement that he believed he
was entitled to vote.
Dan Sullivan was next examined, and
Officer Ahern testified that he had dis
covered that Sullivan was on the Great
Register as residing at the Brown House,
on the corner of Fourth and X streets.
Ahern roomed at the Brown House him.
self and ascertained that Sullivan had not
for some time roomed there. After Sulli-
van voted at the First Precinct OF the
Second Ward Ahern attempted to arrest
him, when Robert Goods, acting as
Deputy United States Marshal, claimed
the prisoner and took him away.
FREQUENT CHANGES OF LODGINGS.
Sullivan made statement to the effect
that he had formerly roomed at the
Brown House, and then gave the further
information that he had been i'll J3ll most
of the time lately. He had, he said, been
sent up for ninety days by Judge Cravens
for beating lady" and later for fifteen
days for disturbing the peace.
He then gave a list OF the temporary
residences he had adopted, such as in the
alley between M and n, Second and
Third efranfS and Of IA f.orrar of tsSac-
ond and L."
Besides these places, he had lived nearly
all over town in various other places.
He has been in Sacramento for six or
seven years, he said, and thought he had
a right to vote. When he went to the
polls he stood around four or five hours,
and then went in and asked for ticket
No one challenged his vote, but after he
cast il Officer Ahern and Deputy Marshal
Goods arrested him.
Goods took him up Fourth street to
find the nited States Commissioner, but
the latter could not be found. He then
took him around to look for Justice De-
vine, and did not find him. Goods then
released him on his own recognizance
and told him to come around the next
morning. Before this Captain Bradley
had tried to get him from the custody of
Goods, to put him in the County Jail.
THE SOUL OF HONOR.
II went back, SAID Sullivan, like
man, to Goods the next day, and he told
me to go to Justice Devine myself, but I
didn't find him, and went oil to work
l was busy saving wood when the oifi-
GERS arrested me and told me L was
wanted for voting Illegally"
Sullivan acknowledged having regis
tered from the Brown House, and that
he was on the Great Register as mo.
9,095, Oct. Il, 1892"
He said one John Ambrigo, friend of
his, went with him to register, and that
he did so voluntarily.
Judge Cravens decided that Sullivan
was certainly not entitled to vote in the
precinct where he did vote, and held him
70 answer to the Superior Court, fixing
his bail at 81 GOO.
OTHER CASES CONTINUED.
The cases of S. H. Miller. T. NJ. Man
n.ng ana j. y. Nash were set for hearing
IL the afternoon, but when the court was
convened their counsel, c. n. Post, ex-
pained why it was impossible for him TO
proceed with the examination, owing to
his absence from the city. Judge GRAY
ems and the counsel for the prosecution
then consented to let the cases 90 over
until this morning at 10 o'clock.
KEEPING BUsEY BUSY.
William A. Busey, who was tried on
Tuesday, for attempting to vote illegally,
but escaped conviction, was yesterday
charged with felony in having registered
illegally.