The morning call., 1894-11-09
WHO is GUILTY ?
Is MaIoney' Chief of the
Suffers =?
CLUNIE OPENS FIRE ON HIM.
Two important Documents Are
Missing.
CLUNIE OPENS FIRE ON HIM.
A WITNESS WITH POOR MEMORY
He Had Interesting Talks With q
Mysterious Agent of the Key
hole Statesman.

The prosecution is hot on the trail of the
chief of the suffers of the Great Register
of the city and county of San Francisco,
and ere many days it is confidently hoped
that the obese SELF of ex-Keyhole Detective
Jerry Mahoney will make q memorable
grease spot in the County Jail.
INQUIRY into the grossest election fraud
ever perpetrated in the city was resumed
before Judge Wallace of the Superior
Court yesterday, and the attorneys for the
prosecution again recorded themselves as
determined 10 proceed TO the end: they
had not lent themselves to the furtherance
of an ante-election bluff and were ready
10 show II.
During the course of the day many inter-
esting details were unearthed, and at least
one incident OF sensatinal nature was
brought to light. In some mysterious
manner the complaint against Louis Stern
berger, a deputy of Registrar Evans,
charging him with the stuffiing of the
Great Register, was found TO have disap-
reared. The bail bond also, in the sum of
$1,000 ii was discovered, fitted from the
possession of the Sheriff. No one could
Tell where either had gone, or who, or
what means, had caused their absence.
These discoveries served to stir matters
4
settle them, but, at the end. new CON-
plant was made out, the old charge against
Stern berger was dismissed, he was rear
rested and his bail fixed at $4,000. The
Judge also raised the bail of Louis Cohen
to $4,000, in default of which both men
were taken to jail at the end Of the day.
One of the witnesses called in the "stuf-
fng" case proper, Ernest Hinkelman, night
clerk of the Standard House, 1126 Market
street. gave reluctant details OF numerous
visits 20 the rooms of Senator Jerry Ma
honey in the Baldwin Hotel prior to cleo
ton, but bis memory seemed to fail him at
the critical points. Attorney for the prose-
cution will try to-day TO prOd it with the
sharpest kind of stick, and there is no tell
ing just exactly how far it will recover its
normal condition.
When court opened in the morning At
torney Joseph Nougues, representing
CHARLES j. Stilwell, called the attention
of the court to the fact that Louis Stern
berger, charged with a felony in procur-
ing the name of Louis Cohen falsely on
the register. was present. He asked that
he be called for preliminary hearing.
The defendant stated that lie mad not Sc
cured counsel. The court ordered him TO
be in court at o'clock in the afternoon,
prepared for an inquiry.
Ernest Hinkelman, night clerk in the
Standard House, 1925 Market street, was
called to the stand. He had with him two
registers of the house, the one for three
months preceding August last, and the
one covering the period from then on till
election day. The examination proceeded,
room by room, with but very little develop
ment until the name Of 2. Delaney was
reached Oh the register. The room which
he had designated as his In the Standard
House showed on the register as having
been occupied by L. Howard. The search
concerning the identity of these two per-
sons occupied considerable time, the Wit
ness finally admitting that the two names
belonged to one man who was roomlng in
the house.
J. G. Perry, whose name appeared on
the Great Register, it was gathered from
the testimony of the witness, had not en-
gagged a room by the week or month. He
had p i'd for his rooms night after night
as he required them and did not always
occupy the same room. He did not sleep
at the house on number of nights
An examination of the register of the
house showed that forty-flve persons had
registered. On the day alter election the
roomers in the house had dwindled down
10 seventeen. Mr.. Hinkelman had no ex-
DlanatiOn to offer for this state of affairs.
1t just happened.
Witness admitted after close questioning
that be knew Jerry Mahoney casually.
Later Oh, when hard pressed. he reluct-
antly confessed to having visited the rooms
of the Senatorial eX-detective in the
Baldwin number of times. The first time
be had gone there at the instigation of one
Jack Perry, ledger at the Stands I'd
House. His reason was that he was iu-
teIested IN the success of the Republican
party and was anxious TO receive and act
upon any suggestions from Senator Ma
honey looking to its success in the cam
paign. On that visit he was positive he
had done no more than shake hands with
Mahoney and promise 10 do all he could
for the Succpss OF the ticket.
Witness was handed list of names
which he admitted was 10 his handwriting.
He said il was list of those who bad
registered from the Standard House. He
said. after deal OF questioning. that be
had copied It from list published in the
Bulletin, ard had added to it the names of
others who be knew had registered.
At this stage of the proceedings HiDkel-
man was plainly ill at ease. He Quailed
at the questions volleyed at him by Attor-
ney Clunie. and became almost totally en-
tangled AT last be admitted that he had
seen the precinct register and had made up
the list from it,
He saw the precinct register, he finally
explained. In Senator Mahoney's room in
the Baldwin Hotel
In answer to the question il he did have
purpose In going 10 Senator Mahoney's
room other than to shake hands with that
person, witness said he really had forgot
ten all about that precinct register. He
had met an agent of Senator Mahoney,
and had called his attention to the fact
that three persons who were on the regis
ter as living at the Standard House were
utterly unknown to him. Their names
were j. j. Fnerty. Z. j. Phillips and S.
Hayne. AT the polls Oh election day wit
ness made no attempt to see that these
men did not vote.
Mr.. Hinkelman's memory again failed
him, and he couldn't, for the life of him,
IPrall the the a Of ha
agent of Mahouey with whom he had had
the conversation. Attorney Clunie at
tempted to show by the witness that i,
was either Fat Jack" OConnor or Louis
Sternberger. but Hlnkelma q g memory was
as a blank, and the most exhaustive CUES
tioning which followed failed to elic.t
from him the slightest clew as to the
identity of the mysterious agent.
Judge Wallace, who had been paying