The morning call., 1892-10-02
They are hard at 1t.

They are nara AT IL.
1t is the same crowd and the same game.
After maturing their neat little plan for
insuring the proper marking OF ballots on
election day. Kelly and Crimmins are filling
I'D the time In stuffing the register.
THE CALL has exposed the baflot-mark-
ing plan aud the people are on their guard.
but this stuffing process Is equally in
sidions.
Yesterday eight suffers were caught in
the act-W. III. Clark. w. II. Collins, VIII
lam Solomon, Burhard Bierkc. Frank II.
Lambert, John Russell, w. II. Kavanaugh
and George Waite.
How many more have falsely registered
the supervisors of registration find 1t i'm
possible to say.
But the initiated around the registration
booths smile knowingly, place dexter fin
ger at the side of their nasal prefix and
whisper in reply: THE suffers are coming
In shoals, in shoals" to the tune Of we'll
known Scotch ballad.
Not only are the suffers being arrested.
but the hands that sent them are being
shown.
w. Fl. Clark, whose real name is Waite,
and who gave his residence as the Olympic
House. 9O4 Kearny street. whereas his resi-
dence is anywhere else. was the informant.
he said Mike Dunn, q wel-known poll
tIcian, met him ON the corner of Mission and
Third streets and told him to 60 and
register.
When asked who directed him to meet
Mike there, he said: John, who keeps a
wineyault on the corner Of Drumm and
Jackson streets"
He gave his occupation as horseshoer,
but afterward said he was peddler.
Supervisors OF Registration ID. NJ. Gavi-
gan and Il. Donovan arrested him and
charged him with illegal registration Ut the
City Hall police station.
w. FL. Collins came still nearer the main
spring in indicating his instigators.
He was in company with William Solo
mon. who, he said, coached him to say that
he lived at 1874 Jessie street, under the in
ducement that he would get him room
there afterward.
When asked how he was led to enter into
the conspiracy, he said he was told to meet
Solomon at the corner Of Third and Steven
son streets.
When asked who told him he said
"Yorky," another well-known Crimmns
rounder, and afterward said "Philly" sent
him.
"Philly" promised lin he could have "all
the booze he wanted at Third street."
1t may be noted for the benefit of the un-
inflated that Phil Crimmins keep saloon at
16 Third street
Solomon and Collins were both arrested
and the same charge WAS placed against
them.
Burhard Bjerke was coached by an old
fellow named Quinn to say he resided at 53S
Howard street, whereas he afterward ad-
mitted living on scow and not to have
slept at the Howard-street house at all.
William Solomon when questioned by the
City Prison officials said he had no rest
dence.
Bernard Byerke said he was % years old.
native of Norway. and that he lived at
53S Howard street.
w. F. Kavanagh, according to his state
ment, is 20 years old, and tailor. He saws
that he lives at 675 Mission street
+. II. Lambert Is 25 years old and by
trade q printer. He says that he lives at
CTS Mission street and that he is a Native
Son.
George Waite Is also. according to his
story, Native Son. He is a hoTseshoer.
and says that he lives at the corner of Front
and Jackson streets
John Russell. who Is 81 years old and saws
that he can neither read nor write. is a
carpenter, living at the Lindell House. and
was born in San Francisco.
Attorneys Sullivan and A. Clunie were
active In inferrogatiDg the arrested men and
stated that not only will the suffers be pros
ecuted but also their instigators.
Clark admitted to them that he had re-.
ceived card from prominent Republican
politician telling him what to do
A warrant has also been applied for on
behalf Of the prominent politician" whose
name Tor obvious reasons is withheld at
present.
How many more suffers are being sent to
the City Hall Is hard question
But evidently the Crimmins- Kelly gang
Is hard at work in their old. disreputable
way.
The registration officials say that wall
known Crimmins heelers have been watched
going around taking the street-numbers Of
lodging houses, as we'll as inquirinp regard
ing the numbers of the rooms in the honses.
in order to instruct the suffers who are
coming.
They say the gentry on Third street have
boosted that they had stuffed the register to
the tune Of hundreds OF names, and would
get in hundreds more.
Are they going to do itP
Mrs. Andrew j. Coffee conducts q FASH
i0naDle clearinghouse at 1715 Polk street.
OF the city.
A few days since one Of them went to the
City Hall to register. aud while waiting his
turn heard wretched looking specimen of
humanity, apparently from Tar Flat or the
Barbary Coast. give Ills Polk street as his
Hardly had he concluded his catechism
before another. even worse loo king speci-
men, stepped up to the repisterinp clerk
and also announced 1715 Polk street as his
domicile.
Tho gentleman secured the names Of the
Kelly heelers, which they evidently were,
ana u VIII Dc hard lines for them IL they at
tempt to vote In that precinct
CIT Is SIMPLY ROTTEN"
30 Says Registrar Brown or the R.ruhli.