The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-11-06
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COMMITTED As WARRANTS.
FOURTEEN OF GArNOR'S MIN LOCYED
CP RI JoHy L. M'kiNI.

i.trntion Lists-lIalcd on Their 4Arri,ni
TO Cells In the iowa Hall, from, which,
nt8 a. NJ. Yesterday, They w.r. Drtyrp
In tho Rincik Mnr,a TO Con.y Island
Police Hendaurrt-rs--Ar,er Five tiourr'
Incarceration There, Committed to Ray.
mond street Jnti h" Justice sSu,hrrImnd-
Hail Refused by Justice New ON TO Be
brought Before Judge Gull ~ o. IInbras
Corpus To-day - Mchanr'. Explanation.
Fourteen men werc sent down to Gravasnnd
on Saturday night by Willam !. Gaynor tho
Republican and Independent rominec Tor JUS.
tice OF the Supreme Court IN tho Second Ju-
dicial district. TO servo papers or tho election
inspectors OF that town. They were met on
the railroad station platform by thirty or moro
men. armed with clubs. AMI escorted to the
lock UP. where they spent the nish' Yea'er-
day morning they were nrlaiGncd efor. JUS
tce OF tho Peace Kenneth i. Sutherland ard
committed, without hearing. and without
bail. to Raymond street Jail. in Brooklyn, as
common Migrants. 1t was impossible to OBJ
tain the relenso OF these men yesterday but
they will lie brought before Justice Cullen in
tho Supreme Court in Brooklyn at 8 o'clock
this morning on haheas corpus proceedings,
instituted by Mr.. l. NJ. Grout. law partner and
legnl representative OF Mr.. Gaynor.
The trouble which ended in the arrest Of
these fourteen men has arisen from the polti.
cal fight which Mr. Gaynor has been CARRYING
on for the last few days against Chief John Y.
McKune OF Gravesend. and his election In.
spectors.
The law specifies that there shall be at every
polling place four lists Of the voters entitled to
cast their ballots in that place The original
list shall be In the custody Of the Chairman OF
the Registration Board; two other lists shall
In tnaH nd Ent In sla TOD <xf
the two other inspectors. and fourth
list shall be posted. Mr.. Gaynor and
his friends, who aliege that there has
been fraudulent registration in tho
town OF Gravesend. havo been trying to
get a copy OF the registration lists in tho six
election districts Of Gravesend.
At first NIL the lists seemed to he in use
by other copyists. and Mr.. Gaynor's men
were told that they must wait. But a,
time wore on and there did not seem to
be much likelihood OF these copyists ever
ending their task. Mr.. Gaynor sought
redress in the courts. averrng that the
inspectors OF Gravesend were refusing him
access to the lists. Tho legal proceedings
were held before Judge Cullen in the Supreme
Court They lasted all Of Saturday. and when
court closed the record Of the day included
the admission to $1,000 bail OF Chairman
johnson OF the Sixth district OF Gravesend
and the issuance of warrants for the arrest Of
seven other inspectors. namely, Conrad STU
benbord BENJAMIN Cohen. Harlan Crandall.
Frederick Bader. Michael L. Ryan. James II.
Cropsey. and John II. Brownhill. These war;
rants were handed over TO the Sheriff for
service
While these legal proceedings were going on
In the Supreme Court q nun Der of m on IN Mr..
Gaynor's employ were searching high and low
in Gravesend for all the election inspectors
These men were armed with papers reading
to this effect:
70 Ii, Inspectors Of E'.o'i"r in tie r'n Gy"o.""l
The bearer has been employed by TO copy the Lat
Of voters in the election districts of Graveseu. as
eeetor and candidate for Justice of the Supreme c"Hrs
In your town request and demand that they have u
and immediate facilities for such copying.
WILLIAM j. GArNoR.
Nov g. 1903.
The bearers OF these papers were instructed
to find the election inspectors and to serve
those notices. After this If possible. they
were to copy tho registration lists. There
were eighteen Of these mon, and they were In
charge Of John P. Mcnamara. a law student In
Mr.. Gaynor's Office Mr. Mcnamara Is about
26 years OF age, wears glasses. and has an in-
offensive and studious expression Of counte-
nance.
He went down to Gravesend at 81 O'Clock
Saturday with his eighteen men. and they
started In to search for the inspectors. Tho
men they wanted are J. W. Murphy. Morton
Morris. J. H. Brownhill. NJ T. Ryan. William
Lyons Conrad Stubenbord. +. L. Bader. Ben
jamin Cohen. Victor Bauaewen. q. Norris i.
II. Tighe. W. 7. Little. j. NJ. Cunlif. w. II.
Stewart. T. T. Clark, W. d. johnson. Harlan
Crandall and J. II. Cropsey.
Every one in Gravesend knew. OF course.
just what these men wanted and so they had
much difficulty in finding their men. Accord
ing to McNsmara's story they found II few OF
the inspectors others were not In town. and
several had not been residents OF the place for
year or more. They searched all day and re-
turned to Brooklyn on tho O:30 train iu
the evening" They had boon unsuccess-
full by day but they decided to make
another attempt at night and TO
wait In front OF each inspectors house
until he came out In the morning.
With this object in view Mr.. Mcnamara and
Mr. Thomas Gardner. a detective in Dir. Gay
nor's employ. left Brooklyn at midnight with
twenty men. Twelve OF these were to watch
Coney Island for the same purpose. Every
man had one Of the documents whose language
each one had orders to station himself at a GER
tain SPOT and to DO nothing else out present
the paper to the inspector as soon as ne saw
When the party arrived at Grayesend short.
ly after midnight the rain was falling softly on
t aaif s'a as ntSh All left the esosps
eight mon who Mere gSg on to Eo9e Ss
stepped on to the, Platform they were snr-
Not m ore than three OF these men wore brass
buttons or wore any other insGnia OF police
self was in charge OF the force and
Two mon with clubs seized each Gaynor man
without giving any explanation and the en-
tire crowd started out into tho darkness. NC
Kane himself seized Mr.. Gardner
The prisoners were TOE much ast22n ndsne 10
gether with the rough treatment thor received.
Ompletely oyercame may mrsIr" Trey ,mIGht
ha 70 had for resistance. Those who did not
walk fast enough through IL" mEd were Ioked
from behind and pNerJ body wGs cursed ana
sworn Mt SO the lrisOEers say,
The procession moved as far as the Town
Hall. whore tho prisoners were all look cd up
In a small room On the ground floor. One gas
Jet burned In the room. and after the door had
buen locked the Gaynor mon wore left to won
der what had happened
Gardner and Mcnamara talked over tho sit
uRtion and came to the conclusion that tho
people Of Grnyescnd were resorting to dcsp'r.