New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-10-26
GETTING NEAR DRY DOLLAR
HIS LIEUTENANT ARRESTED.
BARTHOLOMEW BUCKLEY UNDER TWENTY
INDICTMENTS.
ACCUSED og ABETTING THE ILLEGAL REGIsTRA-
TIoN IN AssEMBLYMAN sULIIvAN'S HEAD
QUARTERS. NO co3 BowERY-HE PUT
COTS IN THE EMPTY ROOMS sun
DAY NIGHT-MANY OTHER
WARRANTS ISSUED.

COTS IN THE EMPTY ROOMS sun
DAY NIGHT-MANY OTHER
WARRANTS ISSUED.
The Grand Jury is going into its investiga-
ton Of the registration frauds disclosed In the
lid Assembly District in whole-soueo way
In addition to the four indictments found on
Tuesday a number were handed in yesterday
Twenty were against one man. Bfrtho'omew
Buckley who is lieutenant OF DRY Doliar
Sullivan the Tammany candidate for the sen
ate. Buckley was arrested. and admitted to
bail.
II was shown in "The New-York Herald on
SUNDAY morning that twenty men reg
istered from No 2O3 Bowery DRY Dollars
headouarters although there wasn't bed In
the place On the ground floor Is par
room which is osensiby owned by the ASSEM-
blymans cousin. who Is known as Young
Tim" or Boston Tm," Sullivan Dry Doi-
lar is however. generally recognized as 'he
kingpin of the establishment The tweh'! men
registered in the Seventeenth Eiecuoh DiSh'0'
Of the lid Assembly District, 'he poilns-p'"ce
being in the barber shop at NO. l'2 r''ii's'on'"
Tho Tammany people became uneasy when
they saw how absolute was the PROOF OF "hoie-
Gale fraud and how directly it was brought
bona 10 the candidate for Senator. The nat
,,ro, scbera WIS adopted of putting cots into
,b. hu,,dine so that the charges could be met
with bold denials. These cots were moved 1hto
the place Sunday night under the drecuoh oi
gucklev who was installed proprietor OF the
so-called lodging. house.
BuCKIEY GOT INTO TROUBLE.
"Dry Dollar Sullivan has run af1a!rs IN Ms
a,strct in so high-handed fashion for years
THAT he and his cOnfederates thought this pare
faced eApedient would prevent criminal acton
The Grand Jury. however. took action whlch
made Buckley feel that the trick was not such
brilliant idea after all. Twenty indictments
were found against him for aiding and abettihs
the illegal registration. 1t was palpable tha'
his efforts 10 shield tn: WI ongdoers made hin'
Marty to their crimes. Buckley. OF course
&c only the catspaw of Assemblyman pry
Dollar Sullivan, Tammany leader OF the liza
Assembly District who is eajly the gnilty
man.
The twenty men who registered Illegally are:
Patrick Muens John Vail, Edward Schheh'
wil,am Ernst James St John, Louis Ham
NELL William Herbert, Charles Biermann' VIII
lam Jones' David Casey, Michael kehoe' Ihomas
Wilson, George Nelson, Patrick Murphy, Ihomas
II, Coffey Archibald Thompson Joseph Boyle
Charles Kelly John Cronn and Michaei stanton.
II NAV be taken for granted that they have
been indicted or will be indicted at once, Tor
the Grand Jury based it's charges against
Detective-Sergeant Titus found Buckley In
front of No. 203 Bowery yesterday at p. m and
arrested him. In General Sessions the prisoner
was represented by James ]. Walsh He gave
No. 165 Mott-st. as his address, and admitted
being proprietor of what he called the lodging
house No 203 Bowery. Bail was fixed at
5000, being given by Frederick Rabbe. liquor
seller at Nos. 120 Centre and lIS Hester sts,'
who owns the house No. 81 East One-hundred
and-fourth-st., in which he has an equity of
$4,000.
INDIGNANT AT JUDGE MARITIME.
Buckley is about forty-hve years old, and
wears spectacles He taken to Part l. of
General Sessions, where he pleaded not guilty
to all the indictments. While the bail bond
was being prepared Sergeant Titus put Buckley
into the "pen,' in the rear of the courtroom
among the common prisoners. When the for
malities had been gone through with Buckley
was released He was violently indignant that
he Bartholomew Buckley "heeler'' Of DRY
Dollar Sullivan and a martyr in the cause OF
Tammany, should be forced to spend several
minutes with the common herd Of criminals.
IT'S an imposition and an outrage, thun-
dered this representative Of the leader who Is to
be promoted from the Assembly to the Senate
for rolling up illegal Tammany majorities; II
am a free born American citizen, and good
as bank director. Judge MARITIME had no
right to send me to the pen among the rifraff
there" If justice is done, Buckley will be
forced to spend considerable time with such
criminals as those whose presence contaminated
him yesterday.
THE LAWYERS PHILIPPIC.
Walsh made a statement for the accused man.
"This is all done by his political enemies"
said the lawyer and then he waxed exceed
ingly wroth" I'VE have been indicted" he
declared eoquently, without knowing the
names of accusers. The names of the
witnesses should have been written on the
hack of the indictments. They not there.
pp he nal
to them. and we shall do it,
But" suggested some one, the names are
on this Indictment And so they were.
They had not been copied on all merely to save
clerical labor. The omission does not AFFECT
the validity of the documents Jot or uttle
Walsh cooled down good deal and had moth
ing more 10 say about his rights having been
trampled on. The witnesses who testified be-
fore the Grand Jury were Alexander n Moses,
Republican inspector in the election district in
which the men registered. and Winfield NJ.
Thompson and Henry L. Rood. reporters.
DRY Dollar" Sullivan gave an ingenious in
tcrview to "A reporter on Sunday when asked
about the barefaced crime in Sullivans head
quarters. At first this pride of the Wigwam
pretended that he knew nothing about any IL
legal registration. Finally he said;
"Oh, you see, it's a job the Republicans put
up on me- ,n,v MON will NOT he allowed
Look here. young feller. you're dead wrong
An twenty Is going TO M vote benn and by H,s Election
day" And the great leader, conscious OF 'he
approval OF his superiors. smiled knowingly
Other cases Of false registration have been eN,
posed in DRY Dollars district and the Grand
Jury is said TO have found other indictments
. The enterprising colonZers with Tainnahy
Hall affiliations who try TO vote ON Eiecuoh
Day will receive surprisingly warm WEI WEI
come just as they put their heads INSIDE the
polling booths. On the office table OF Superin,,
tendent Bvrncs yesterday there lay pile OF
warrants all ready for service. and IL Is under
stood that another batch win be prepared To-
day Since the first day Of registration the
C,p boS officers
partment In the work Of investigation into the
registry lists in certain districts. The war
rants now awaiting execution represent the re-
sults Of his jabors Mr. Ryrnes had con-
ference with District Attorney Nicoll regarding
the illegal registration In the lid Assembly
District.