The evening world., 1893-12-27
LALLY IS TAKEN, TOO.
He Is Charged with Interference
at the Polls.
Forty-nine Of the Indicted Men
Plead To-Day.
They VIII Probably he Called to
Trial Next Week.

Two additional arrests In the election
fraud cases were made this afternoon.
Michael Lally. ex bridge policeman and
at present under Indictment for assault,
was arrested by Detective Phil Reilly
at 12.30 o'clock at the corner OF Park
Row and Pearl street. He was taken to
the District-Attorney's Office, where he
was held to await a bondsman.
The Indictment charges Lally with
committing a misdemeanor in interfering
at the polls of the Eighteenth Election
District of the Second Assembly Dis
trict.
Lally gives his residence as G Dover
street, and his occupation as that Of a
carman.
Peter Neville. of 81 Market street, was
also arrested this afternoon. He was an
election inspector in the Twenty-eighth
Election District Of the Fourth Assembly
District, and Is charged with neglect Of
duty, which is a felony.
arrested on indictments brought by
the Extraordinary Grand Jury for
violation Of the Election laws;
Oyer and Terminer this forenoon await
ing arraignment before Justice Barrett.
only two Of the men had been unable
W SECURE Al, uIlu lIlC tIltlE dIItSl lhty
nave fingered IN the Tombs. They were
ing street, and Patrick Roche. OF 80 Car
mine street.
Deputy Sheriff Brown took Joseph and
Roche from the Tombs to the oyer and
Terminer Court about 1890, at which
hour 1t was expected Justice Barrett
would call the cases for pleading.
Assistant District-Attorney Francis l..
Wellman visited the judicial chamber
early to inquire as to the truth Of the
rA~1rt chat Ittotina M rrnff NuntIl6 mot
reach court until IL O'Clock or later. He
was informed that such was the fact.
Clerk Walsh had a bundle Of Geeu-
dictments egainst the forty-nine prison.
ers. Their names were:
Edward j. scanlon, Morris Weiss.
dictments; Dennis ]. Buckley, six indict-
ments; Joseph F.. Anderson, two indict-
GTousa, Charles Cross. william II. Ku-
{an, f q ;i,u f iesa : o5.s Mssronsyi
S MsFar hiaSd'nf Ea 1Snn ; 1e a , F Fnq%as
Bernard !. kenney, Louis p; Roth, Ed
ward j. Murphy Ser WtliiaR R,r II; f Sba r 1eseP p
~Berlinghoff, Chas. Michael, Myer Marks,
| Woodruff, Thomas F. Marion. Harry
Peyton, Peter Marron, James e z DooleEy'
Francis F: Lynch. Edward Kafferburgh
md John Murphy.
Justice Barrett took his seat at 122.15 P;
were told by Clerk Walsh that they had
been indicted for perjury;
Both prisoners pleaded not guilty;
pleaded, with the privilege Of changing
his plea. He moved for a reduction of
Roche's bail of $500, and Justice Barrett
In speaking for his client Attorney
Schampain referred to the offense as a
light matter, and Justice Barrett sharply
the olFense Charged is by no means a
light affair. 1t Is a most grave affair.
You might, as well destroy the entire
ballot law"
All the prisoners. as they were called
in patches Of four and five. pleaded not
guilty. Some were represented by law
yers, and others were not. The privilege
of withdrawing the plea of not guilty
and demurring to the Indictment was
claimed in every case.
Justice Barrett instructed the prisoners
and awyers that such demurrers must
be made within ? week. He instructed
| them that he would not permit any ex-
animation Of the minutes OF the Grand
When William H. Rooney, of 90 East
| Houston street, was called. he was sur
rendered by his bondsmen, and after
pleading Roone" was handed over to the
custody Of Deputy Sheriff Brown
Rooney was an election inspector in
the Fifty-flrst Election District of the
Seventh Assembly District.
The same bondsmen held good on the
bail bond of the trials next week.
Justice Barrett then adjourned the
court until to-morr9w morning
-aigned in oyer and Terminer on
Wednesday next.