New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-11-11
UNEASY LIES HIS HEAD.
THE, ONCE FIRM THRONE OF THE KING OF
RICHMOND COUNTY Is TOrTERlNU.

SEARCHING INVESTIGATIONS. INTO THE ElE0'
TIoN METHODS USED Tx NICHOLAS MULLER
AND HIS BAND-DIsTRICT-A ATTORNEY
FITZGERALD GETS ALL TANGLED Ur.
The sway Of King Nicholas Muller in Richmond
County is trembling In the balance In the deiuse
of Republican votes which swept over De"o
cratic stronghods last Tuesday. every enor' N"o"
and long practised by the Democratic 'o
Staten Island to keep Richmond County ~
the overwhelming waters was tried, anu U" ''e
ro 81 ,ha RETURNS given out their candidates were
1ootoa IN, srau majorities some Of them as small
ne nine In the words of popular song' sue"
methods as were employed in running tne e'eo
tions and in handling the returns useu u We Wv
caper but they don't 80 now Inc Peop'
staten Island who are opposed TO ring rule nave
annointed n law committee. and that com'hi,'ee
viii mako every legal effort to have the dis'ric's
where crooked work done thrown out IL ','e9
are successful Judge Stevenson WI" Pioo"''
no the only Democrat elected 1he committee 10
working hard to secure evidence, ana WIZ" ".
po,ra Of Canvassers meets next Tuesday, 1t VIII
he heard from. 1t was rumored last hieh' '"'''
the Democrats had given up the election Oh Mcuunc
&c ,ssemb,vuan and wound concede the Victory
to the Republican candidate o
In the Fifth and Ninth Election districts OF cas-
Teton where the ballots were burned, l. Is uouu.
f, ~ the Board of Canvassers will have the hardi
oral other districts the evidence collected Is SO co
elusive that IT, as may be necessary. an appear Is
taken to the courts. the returns VIII surely We
thrown out. This will also mean the ioss
another State Senator to the Democrats LOT MY"
mond County is depended upon TO make sure INC
election of Senator McCarty. The Repupllcdls III Z
not boasting but working and are oe'eihi''eu
that the will of the people Of Richmond county do
EXPRESSED at the polls shall have its legal ana og
cal results. As an example OF how the c'eo'o''
were conducted on Staten Island, wei-hHo""
democratic voice was heard over the telephone
on Tuesday night saying, Keep BACK 'noSo ,e-
turns for awhile. They are not satisfactory YET
rp,,r or Mp sCorIEIp AND Mr.: JONES BEGUN.
The trial Of Lester A. Scofeld and David j. Jones'
of Port Richmond. was begun yesterday after
many adiournments, before Judge Acker IN 'he
Village Hall at New-Brighton. These TWO respo''Si-
bile citizens had District-Attorney FltZgeraiu ar
rested on a charge of stufing pahot poNe' a.
primary in Port Richmond. and he in a spirit oi
repartee. had them arrested LOT perjury i'' e
to swear to the complaint.
The village hall was crowded yesterday aloe, , oud
when the blooming young justice TOOK ms ,bo hands
peslgneT ravnrs Jerome Counsel for scoheld.and
MIR Jones. The complainant the Ds'di Srance Mr.
jerome makes himself extremely UNPLEASANT good o
his knowledge of law If ,S %eT idre and the Dis
would not have sqsn nsri lawyer s
The prosecution put in its case. Justice Sorne f
testified that he had issued the wartant Ir 1a
n;gtr;ct- Attorney not on the afildaVt oil ocoled
and Zones made on October a. but on one they nad
made on October 49, There were one or Two WI
nnsses who testified TO the depositing OF recoiu5S
and other unnteresting but necessary thhss, aiin
@ connie of men testified that they were III IN, ,le
hall n: the primary at WHICH IL was nlieseu, arI
saw no rreguarty
HE TALKS TOO MUCH
Then Mr. Fitzgerald took the stand and the run
hecap. LAWYERS. are proverbally bad witnesses
but AIR Fitzgerald was away ahead OF any proVero
He insisted on talking when there was no necessity
for II and every now and then made such breaKS
that his counsel looked at him as II he w0uid lihs
10 gag him At time Mr. Mullen couiu s,at ,h
it no longer. and interrupted the Witness WIZ"
Mr. Jerome sprang sections of the peral code;
law and preccdents the Disti1ct-Auorhe! uiu,,
he had him in a terrible state of agitation Az one
| time before he realized what he was noiils MI
Fitzgerald had told of what took place IN a gra -,
| iurv room. At another time Mr.. Mullen caihc W
The relief of his client and made rather eloquent
appeal In ii he used the snile OF teepnohe. ~,
| Of a telephone:-On Tuesday night a voice was
hea I'd over the teepho lie. saying Hold PACK u9s
| returns. The majorties are not Dig enough ~. ~
| had heard that voice and had sworn that tnos9
! returns were held back for improper purposes.
should have been guilty of of perjury crr ou' not
| The gist Of Mr.. FitZgeralds testimony was a
denial of having stuffed the ballot box at lhe
urinary referred to- He also declared that IT was
| not a primary within the meaning OF the law.
When the testimony for the prosecution was III, an
adjournment taken to next Friday.