The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1893-12-01

who wLGr" present when he mot the party
Everything, he saws contained in tho
! aihi9NitS of col Bacon and others lis
! ansnIut"lN ials" and untrue" In taos,
M1Nanr admits nothing claimed 10y the
prosecution.
, T." suh>tnutn'c tive stntonon. ,no,
/ 'u': i'acrus pirty had drawn rpvul,yrs
/ ah! Loaded eat. N"kau' refers tu tn,
! Iiii,inE ct revolver anu can" unNt
'!af which he says were wrc-tci from
/ one Of cot EHcnu's party.
MrNan" "mir,7 that. col Bacon ana
ms Iarty had no l"cll rirht ~ act rs
/ Watchers ut the POLLS Of GrHypsrul,
| h'IauSe watchers had already been pro-
tie doniol that COL bacon had been
thrown into a Black Maria rcoktn+ with
MN, ana drClnrcd that he was furnished
! with = new bus from one %! ~" hotels,
ana that i" mad occupied a neatly ar
! ranged cell. au not Il closet as alleged.
John V. Mckano's affidavit was roci.
liar in the fact that except where he
n amnld thG r"rs1ma' Part p'ay.l in tn"
Justice liarnarrs order. r\thing l.
/ based ON iuformatiou md belief.
c,lMw\ LAWYER i.'II,'riCk r"ni an a'ildnyi'
received from tn" republican General
| Committee Of Kings county, certificates
| for watchers at iray"s'ud, anu that
/ who acted ~ watchers.
by this 1t is claimed by the NcNnno
people that C"l. Bacon and his party.
sent by William !. Glynor. had II" right
| to act as watchers of the Gravcs.nd
| election.
MIR. Strntton had not heard of any
other watchers having been appointed.
| AiiidaNits were read from the persons
who had acted as Watchers at Graves
end. saying they had performed their
duties and there wa no Illegal voting or
| unlawful practices during the whole
| election day.
Alm"s, the entire case of Mckano will
he based ON those ailidnvits, because JUS
tticntion will he argued for the arrest
Aildavits were also read from Conrad
Stuohonhoard and other election, in
SnS"ioI WM% J'Hi@% ,m"t 'F E nm
thu privilege of copying the registry lists
| of the town
| ployrd to 20 down to Grav.scnd on the
| night of Nov T. testified in an affidavit
in favor of John \. Mckanc. He said
they left brooklyn ON the midnight train
and il WAS the general opinion among the
men that they would h" arrested The
dopOnent says he believes the men w"r"
sent to Gravesend with the object of
having them arrested for the sake of
Nicholas j. johnson ,sworc that no
| copy of Justice Barnard's order or any
other legal papers were served on him or
any of the election inspectors under
lie says that the arrest of Peter Ro-
| senbeCk one of the Republican watchers,
ing place and created a disturbance,
crying: {" | am a Republican watcher"
and attempted to get behind the rail.
When the Constable says Johnson, or
dered Rosonbock out he grabbed one of
the inspectors and kicked over several
ballet boxes lie WIS then arr%strl ~
fore Justice cullen on a writ of ha-
heas corpus election, day his clothes
We're torn in many, places, it Is claimed
roughly handled.
Edward Moran. a brakeman on the
Coney Island road, swore that the men
who went To GraNesend Nov. 4 were
noisy ana hostrruus.
Abraham +. Stllwill, an undertaken of
Gravesend. says Gaynors men cam" To
HcrIine's Hotel. ana that about fifteen
of them got intoxicated.
| Henry Rymer swore that he was hired
by Mr.. Mayer. of MIR. Gaynor's office, on
Nov 4, and that at Mr.. Gaynor's office
he met "A dozen more men. Before they
went to Gravesend each was furnished
with an unsharpened lead pencil and Il
| package of cigarettes.
Afiidavits from many of the men hired
by Mir. Gaynor to go to Gravesend to
copy the registry list were read 10y Law
Yer RoleriCk.
The rea,iing of these afildavits caused
considerable amusement among the peo-
pie in the courtroom.
All of the atiidavits seemed to seek to
show that at GraV"Senl Mr.. GaNnOr' \
clerks had entertained them by furnish
ing them with beer and sandwiches
for two hours at Gravescnd and that Mr..
| Mcnamara, one of Mr.. GaynOrS clerks
who is said 10y his friends to be a tenn
perancc advocate, was drunk on the
Gen. Calm said he appeared for Jus
tice Of the Peace Il; V. l.. Newton. He
sa Il he had only been retained in the
| case this morning.
Justice Newton swore that the state
mont Of Edward NJ. Gr9ut that tn" De
llt rt>l nd nor Ia, ,