The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-03-13
''Little bird told me,n returned the ex-


ting fresh information. Chairman Storrs
brought out the fact that the ballots were
not counted until five o'clock the morning
| after election. STEMS eyes gave out about
one o'clock and he was forced to, give up
tallying the count Yet his tally sheet was
complete.
"Some one must have taken up your tally
sheet and finished it for you," suggested Mr..
Flynn.
81 don't know; the figures appear to be
mine said Stein
All hands questioned him closely as to the
apparent mystery of the tally sheet, yet,
while maintaining that he had quit work at
one o'clock on account of his failing eye
sight and persisting that the work of count
ing the ballots was not concluded until five
O'Clock in the morning, he held that all the
| figures on the completed tally sheets were his
own.
'Did you see William ]. Thompson in the
room at any times" Stein was asked
''No, he was not around there at all on
Election Day." was the reply.
'Do you work at your trade nowW asked
Mr.. Lewis.
mo, Pm in another business. Last sum-
mer / tended bar for my father in Gloucester
| City," answered Stein.
| Edward McAlear, another election officer,
| with Republican proclivities, followed Stein
| to the stand.
| He testified that he, as well as the other
| contain LOCO official envelopes.
''There were !, Ill votes polled2" asked Mr..
Griggs;;, ,oo
We found two mistakes on the count" said
| McAlear.
''Then if you only had 1000 official envel-
| opes and /, 100 votes were cast, where did you
| get the extra envelopesp' quickly asked Mr.
| Griggs. But McAlear was a cool sort OF a
customer. 1t had been testified to by George
G. Coubier and Daniel Lane. the latter of
| the City of Gloucester, that package of
mussed and spoiled envelopes had been re-
| turned to the City Clerk the day after cleo
tion.
There may have been more than 1000 en-
velopes in the original package" explained
McAlear, 81 didn't count them. read
the number on the side of the package and
receipted accordingly"
ELECTION OFFICERS WERE SLOW.
McAlear said the box was in bad condition
on the morning after election, but not so bad
as it is at present Thompson and a man
named Ross were at the polling booth on
election day and they urged the election Off
GERS to work faster. They thought them too
slow. One Charles Fowler was about the
booth and he occasionally helped the men
having charge of the poll books to find names.
Even after STEMS eyes failed him he kept
tally of the vote for the principal candidates,
McAlear testified.
In answer to question by Mr.. Griggs
McAlear said that when man applied to
vote his name would be written down at
once. Then when it was discovered that he
was not registered or that the name had
already been voted on, it would be scratched
out This would account for many erasures
he added - H.
man essayed to vote on another name n
asked Mr.. Griggs.
"Not bit of fuss" was the reply given
with refreshing nonchalance.
'No talk of arrestsW
'Not word"
'.Did you know of any man who voted
twiceg"
"Oh, yes Martin Mclaughlin voted
| door to me for two years. I kicked when
he offered his vote the second time, but it
was no use.n
1.-THE vote went ing' asked Mr.. Griggs,
| arching his eyebrows.
'sSure, it went in right enough"
Continuing, McAlear said that one Thomas
Lenny, an election officer, took offence at
his objecting to Mclaughlin voting twice
and told him to keep his mouth shut as he
was only an election clerk.
81 kept quiet after that" explained the
witness.
Although living all his life at Gloucester,
McAlear did not know more than one out
he said
From the ice house stable two Thomas
Bars were registered, but only one voted
The names Of John ellsworth, James
| O'Mara and other well known citizens were
voted upon by strangers, McAlear told the
committee, and he never made an attempt to
check the strangers. He couldn't say if all
| the strangers who were at Gloucester on
| Election Day are still residing there.
The committee will resume work at Tren-
| ton today, and on Thursday expects to go to
| Camden and summon citizens of Gloucester
| to appear at Camden to testify. The COM
mittee seems to be little afraid of going all
the way into Gloucester City.
THE INVESTIGATION TODAY.
The investigation into the alleged frauds
| in Thompson's district was resumed shortly
after eleven o'clock this morning, with
| Michael Loughery, Democratic election
officer from the Second precinct of the Sec
employe of the South Jersey Jockey Club.
| His memory was slightly defective, because,
he explained, it was four months since Elec-
| ton Day He could remember that there
were four or five eases where men applied to
vote to find that others had been there be-
| fore them
'sAnd yet there were eighty-two such
cases." hummed Nj, Griggs.
| The witness said nothing. He was per-
| fectly cool and self-possessed at all times.
| He couldn't recollect that anyone had voted
| twice and had not heard of the Martin Nc
| Laughlin incident. Some one had tried to
vote on James O'Mara's name, and it had
| been asserted by John Dilworth that his
name had been voted ON. Loughery ex-
planned later, in reply to questions he
answered, he didn't know whether the mem
| bers of the election board had stopped for
drinks while en- route to the City Hall with
| the ballot box, but one officer had told him
| last night that he thought they did stop.
| The ballot box, Loughery declared, had
| been broken for more than year.
| There was more or less talk about registry
| lists, and ex-Judge Rankin said that he
| would get the committee few. =.
On the second test Loughery picked out
| names at the rate of six, seven, eight
seconds and sixteen seconds. In one case it
| took full minute to get name. The wit
ness couldn't remember how many men
whose names were not on the registry list,
voted. He couldn't say how an old resident
named William Margold came to be left off
| City Clerk Lane of Gloucester, produced the
package of unused envelopes. He explained
4 that the registry list was printed. There
| were 1858 untouched and 81 soiled envelopes
| in the box On the outside the box that con-
tanned the envelopes were the figures 1900.
1t was said yesterday that the original
package contained but 1000 envelopes The
number of votes polled was /, ,109. Mr..
| Storrs held that the box wouldn't hold 1000
envelopes.
"Better send for your republican County
Clerk and get his testimony on that point" !"
said Flynn.
| A summons was issued for the County