The evening world., 1894-03-30
Many Witnesses Tell Of 1t Before
the Lexow Committee.
Saloonkeepers FIannery and 0'Brien
Ordered Not to Support Bahan.
rho Former Did and Soon After.
wards He Was Arrested.

Dartment In the General TERM CouTt-
room Of Common Pleas this morning
There was the usual large attendance of
spectators and witnesses.
Counselor Sutherland stated that
about thirty witnesses a been sub
poenaed for to-day. and the inquiry
would for the present be conducted on
the same lines as in the past, the evil
'dence furnished to the Committee tend
Tag to show undue interference Of the
police at the polls, and a pernicious ac-
tivity on their part In furthering the in
Sterests of Tammany candidates on cleo
tion day.
Chairman Lexow was indignant at the
manner in which Wheeler H. Peckham
had critized the Commute in his speech
before the Good Government Club, of
Harlem. last night.
* Mr.. Peckham said that the Committee
could not get a good lawyer to conduct
the investigation. because the Commit
tee hampered hin and circumscribed
\ his authority. In such a way that he
was absolutely powerless..
INF. Peckham seems to have lost his
head since he was rejected by the Sen
ate" was Chairman Lexow's answer to
10 number OF reporters who asked him
senators Bradley. '65'tconnor. Cantor
I M&lu ItoDCEt Eoh "SiS thC otHt
Of the Committee present when the pro-
tceedings opened at IL o'clock.
The first witness called by Mr.. Suther-
q Isl rs" SPRING IUsn street ra f0f He told 9 Si the Com,
r mittee that on election day in November.
1892, he was Republican. watcher and APP
theodore Snyder. a policeman, on duty
there. ordered the witness, out OF the
place, and when he refused to go took
him by the collar and threw him out
ii didn't get back till 2 o'clock in the
afternoon. when Alderman Alfred Conk-
ling fixed things for me-"
WHAT did o see at the last cleo
There wasn't any interference at the
last election. In 1872 i would be hard to
1T was knock down and drag out
all day long. Ballots were passed into
the booths; heelers were allowed to 90
In with voters without taking any oath,
and although l kept, objecting,, all the
me, and took no trouble to stop the
NJ did you know. that a polling place
rs under the absolute control of the in
spectors?" asked Mr.. Nieoll: ,-
Chairman Lexow objected to this
saying that the Committee knew what
the Election law was.
$50 do ], Mr.. Chairman, put in the
xpector there I would have, had every
lone of those policemen in jail"
Mr.. Nicoll stated nat nearly all the
4 Testimony taken so far had only shown
h suspicious circumstances. and none OF II
HRBuch a state Of affairs as would justify
q policeman In making an arrest unless
he had teen ordered to DO so by an
Chairman Lexow disagreed very en-
~phatscaiiy With Mr.. Nicon on this point
Il ruled out his question as to the wit
ness's knowledge of the election laws.
Observation-Disclosures Fellows walked in
curing the morning and took a seat near
The witness went on to tell how he
Il had been insulted by the police and said
he had made no complaint to the cap
y ain or at Police Headquarters.
II left 1t all in the hands OF Mr..
n Conkling. I thought he was the person
10 attend to IT," said Mr.. La Fonde,
liquor dealer. testified that last Summer
Il he was ordered by several Tammany
men in his district to give up support
Ing Walter H. Bahon' n work for the
Among the men who approached him
were George Loughlin, and Alderman
Keon. The witness said. he refused to
a support the Tammany candidate, and
not long afterwards he was indicted for
n violation of the excise law.
The case was called for trial just be-
fore election at Special Sessions. with 9
lot of others. II did not come up till
after election. and then | was discharged
without having to testify -.
Az ~ ALt0 10 CAV btbui tSh tlc WIZ
II pess some questions about the manner
m which the prosecution of excise cases
Is vas conducted, when Mr.. Nicoll pro
4 tested that the Committee was exceed
Il mg It's powers In trying to cast discredi
n opon him..
II am not afraid to have my office
fnittee gets the proper power from tn,
n Legislature to do So"
No further questions were asked by
s anotS ShaiT Tl1aoi; s snd John OF Was 3Ihrlsm
a qnd Perry streets. was called. O'Brier
testified that on the morning of las
election day, Ward Detective Brennan
|tsof the Charles street station. came t.
81 him with a marked paster ballot. which
What a., ala he say to yNuT"
IBID you take itT"
OfBrien said he was a Tammany man
andidate for Hssembly, VIII While the detee
tive wanted him to vote for McDer
mott, the regular Tammany man. .Bren
nan came right INTO his saloon n gay
but he could not remember the name
of any OF them.
The witness did not vote the paste
ticket, and said he thought he still ha
L. b. Rafelson, the uncle of Lawye
Ralph Nathan, who ran for Civil Jus
tice on the Republican ticket last Fall
had a dry-goods store in Division street
ST had a Autograph OF my nephew l
my window, and about a week befor
y me ! must take 1t down"
~ Did you do so?'
Not BY a long shot. They struck tn
DO you know the policeman VIII
|R made this demand ?"
|f mo, l would not know him now"
84A Henry Kuster, who voted in Narlcl
street, told the Committee that just al
ter he had given his vote to the inspec
tor to deposit the policeman tapped hir
'tt on the shoulder and told him he had lief
1l something in the booth.
He turned around and did not see HI
vote deposited. He did not know whethe
'1f MS vote had been changed or not,
a might have been. The policeman ha
n previously folded the witnesses ballot
Tor him In the booth.
n Rev. Woodruff Halsey. of % Charlto
"a street., pastor of the Spring Street Pre-,
.<t pyt.srian Church, voted in the same plac
az : o'clock, and had somewhat the sam
experience. About an hour afterwards
friend, ]. L.. McClintock, called at III
slergynlan's. house and told him he ha
just come from the polling place, an
name. -
t...Mr. McClintock told me he had locke
AL around, but could see me nowhers
mi thinking somebody must be votin
my name he came over to tell m
bout 1T"