The evening world., 1893-11-07
VOTING ON OTHER MEMS NAMES.
Startlinz Number OF Complaints in
the Supreme Court.

Chambers to-day, were notable for the
number of conplainants who alleged
that other men had voted on their
names. The court attendants could not
recall when this kind OF fraud was SO
extensively practised. Justice Andrews
was the only Judge sitting,
Ex-ludge Arnoux and John i. Baker
were on hand in behalf of the Republi-
assist any Republican voter who came
to court with a grievance.
Assistant District-Attorney John II.
Lindsay was the only member of Mr..
Nicoirs staff to appear.
He communicated with his chief by
telephone, and was instructed to accept
bail for any prisoners who might offer
such bail as would be accepted by n
of the justices of the Supreme Court.
on an affidavit made by Lawyer Baker,
luhse :Arnoux applied 70 justice An
William H. Decker. in order to get him
before the Court 10 be admitted to bail.
Tle writ was granted. and an officer
sent after Decker.
Decker is the Republican captain of his
election district. He was arrested, as
told elsewhere on the charge OF Illegal
! registration.
Tn votes of Victor Luglero, oil Al Mott
street, and John Schiathno. of l0l Park
street, were rejected by the election
board of their district. on the ground
that other men had already voted on
They appeared a. the. Courthouse.
They are Republicans, and ex-Judge Ar;
noux took heir statements, embodied
drews issued an order TO the inspectors
Of election Of that district, returnable
at ! o'clock, to show cause why they
should rot receive the ballots of these
Michael Barry, of 81. Bowery, found
that some one had voted tor him at the
polling place in Second avenue, near
was obtained for him.
Barry has lived seven months at Sl7
RlsGI T;y.yIx but ytaF hs ana nSS M liHsd BORN In f is no a $
man. and a Republican.
The next victim was Peter Ritter, a
Prohibitionlst, who has lived at $50 Mul.
berry street for eleven years. He was
personally known to all OF the members
of the election board at the Thirty-sec-
ssmhly District, yet was told when he
offered his vote that he had already
voted. That Is to say some one had
given his name and address and voted
When l wanted to make a fuss they
ran me out Of the place" said Mr..
Ritter, Indignantly.
Mr.. Ritter votes In Mulberry street,
near Broume, He Is a shoemaker and
has been IA voter since 1886.
Ex-Judge ArnouX has devoted election
was performing to-day. He said that he
never before knew of so many cases of
imporsonation of voters. There was Just
one such case last year. 1t came so late
that the aggrleyel party could not reach
his polling place before the polls were
closed. The question of whether a voter
Is entitled to his vote in. spite of the
fact that another has voted on his name
has, therefore, never been definitely SET
tied. as last year case was the first
under the present law.
In the case of the two Park street
Italians, Vito Lugiero and John Schiaf-
fhno, Justice Andrews said informally that
the voters should not be deprived Of
their votes through the fraudulent i'm
lie advised the inspectors TO accept
their votes. adding that the law pro
vided that the surplus Of votes on the
list Of voters, should be taken out OF
the box 10y chance when the counting
began and before the ballots were I'M
folded.
directing the inspectors 10. receive the
votes at the suggestion OF ex-senator
I thomas j. Creamer, who sad he ap-
peAtIISS ert tor q. " WelRIs s'6 ONE of Walter Bahan's
adherents in the Ninth Assembly Dis
trict, and living at 2S2 West Fourth
street, found when he ofIerea 10 vote.
cnth street, His vote was rejected ON
this ground. He applied for and got AN
order from Justice Andrews.
Charles +. Barnes, an old CitiZ =. lIv-
ing at Row-Cy, In the First Election
District OF the Third Assembly District.
was another victim OF the impersonator.
He got an order to the inspectors 10
show cause WEy they should not receive
his vote. He is sighty-sevcn years old
and has voted slNiy-n'e years. lie is a
Republican.
As the day wore on AN alarminElv
large number Of citizens applied 10 jus
ticc Andrews for the restoration of
their rights OF franchise, denied to them
on the ground that some persons had
already voted ON their names.
Among them was John \. Mel .aughlin,
Of - BuwtTy, a voter In the First EleC-
ton District, Of the Third Assembly
District. Benjamin /" Bennett, of
Chrystic street. in the same election
district. Joseph Richiclin OF Is Rousr-
Welt street, in the Thirtirth Election Dis
trict, of the Second Assembly District,
and Adolph Fr"Iud, 10y EldridEc street,
in the Nineteenth Election District, OF
the Third Assembly District.
II viii b" observed that nearly all OF
these cases are from Tim SulliNan's
Third Assembly District,
Adolph Freund said that after his Vot"
IA been rejected he went 10 capt.
DeVery's police station In Elirldgr
street and tod his story.
How are you going To Note.' Freund