New-York tribune., 1894-03-28
SIXTEEN MEN SENTENCED.
GUILTY ELECTION INSPECTORS TO BE
IMPRISONED.
scATIING WORDS FROM MR.. SHEPARD AN
NouNCIXG THAT NEW EVIDENCE AGAINST
MKANE AND HIS MINlONS HAD

Sentences ranging from twenty-nine Gays a. 80"
10 six months in the poniteniiary "e'e INN
Yesterday upon the sixteen GraVescnu t'eo""" "
soectors who pleaded guilty on Monuay "o'o7
Judge Brown in Brooklyn. to the crime oi ooiSp'
,,c IN cast illegal ballots in Gravescnd IN the dSr
election The cases Of the twenty-five Hc" ''',
bv the December Grand jury in the r-N'ia"'"'"
Term Of the Court Of oyer and Terminer su''''V
nv Governor Flower have now been HlsPos'N Va
Deputv Attorney-Geucrals Tracy and Sheparu anu
Assistant District-Attorncys Weinberg ana hai"'
have seen the end crown their work IN 'lls i""','
There are stl few indictments lou"" ~
January Grand Jury to b. considered. \ ne" '',-1
Jury will be summoned in May TO colSi"' ~
cases growing out Of the same crimes "daou "i
information revealed in the statements o' "7 i"'
dictod ins,..,. rs wao p.8'iei gl.'F. oi the t"''
two men indicted, Mckane Is serving 'e'i" 70
six wears in State Prison, Jameson Is i' '"' ~
tentiary for eighteen months Newton Is se'N''s
q term Of nine months in the same lnsutu'ioh
c,,,.arIopd has nod to avoid a term Of year; SIX
teen of the eighteen election inspectors are III 'he
penitentiary or the jail, and two ma" 'iIe NM
ments against them dismissed lhe 'h"'c''i.'.'
against Patrick II. Tighe were dismissed Oh io'
dav and Yesterday those against FRANK l. N'iiN
were also dismissed as lie only served as an ,1'
snector on Election Day. and there was no lrauu"
lent voting in his district
THE COURTROOM CROWDED
The courtroom crowded in every part ""e"
Judge Brown called the cases Of the sixteen me"
,rbo vera 70 b, sentenced They were III CH"iSe
of Sheriff Buttlng and his deputies anu '''
passed the night in Raymond Street Jan
Deputy Attorney-G shepard III h'oNlh' .ol
sentence made a long address. carefully reNle"ihS
the situation and presenting the CONCLUSIONS d'iNVu
at IN regard TO each Of the defendants. lie look
occasion TO excuse them in part and to lay more
blame upon McKane. Newton and sutherland IMAM
had before heen done Mr. Shepard added IN part;
"In behalf of the people it becomes my most pam
full duty to move sentence upon the inspectors o
election at GraVesend who starday entered peas
of guilty In consentins to accept such pleas upon
the indictment for conspiracy. which - mISue-
meanor only instead OF upon the more serious IN
dIctments for felony the counsel for The peope nave
been influenced by their desire, wAe chlorVilS 'ie
law by adequate punishment of the grave anu en-
tensive crime against an honest election committed
at Gravesend not disregard the personal SITUATION
of these prisoners and the circumstances OF con
straint under which they joined in the crime We
are clear that in respect OF criminal intent Ncrv
is n very great distance between the case d NC
Kane and the cases OF these inspectors, even though
in strict law the crimes may be- the same. Indeed,
the information which We have within the past three
days received from the inspectors has 81 atty height
ened our impression of Mciiane's wck'ine IN de-
yisng and carrying through this gross idui. lhe
manner in which he availed himself Of th@ necrs-
stiles of poor men, of m-n the continuance OF
whose business depended upon his favor. "oH-d hda
it been as fully and precisely known ~ the TIME oi
his sentence 1t Is now. have justhei. IN our
opinion. a materially heavier punishment than 'ha'
10 which the court has sentenced hin. ne same
considerations induce Us TO now submit 20 th' oTt
the cases Of the inspectors as cases proper I'I
leniency.
HOW THEY ARE TO TESTIFY.
"a statement of the facts known to the prisoner
bas been taken in each case before Your Hon
or not of course. to be used against him. but upon
the plain understanding that at any time he may
be called upon in any proceedings as against other
nersons to testify TO the truth without reservation
w declin
such a statement In each case. upon the prisoner
submitting the punishment now to be niilctrd.
and upon his making good his promise p to teSify h
fully ana tr4g' en cfu ~ The 70 Cravesend c.@ctioa
frauds. the Attorney-Genera Will advise the as as
missal of the other indictments against him ana
will advise against further prosecution Tor those
Offences rS soo,,,o, u.u No, for the ,resent make
public any of the statements made by the inspectors
for the reason among other reasons that such pub
licty would interfere with the further aiministra-
ton of justice IT Is rropeI hoWfver 10 s'dIe i nSTT %
in the presence Of the inspectors IN Ihf iS iI ai
that in those districts, ana more especially IN tlr
votes were cast in 1892 and much larger nuinbcr
in 1898 BY fraudulent votes mean votes which
with the consent Of the Inspectors Of those districts
and during Election Day in 1893 the ballot boxes
repeatedly opened and ballots thrust int;
them by the hands of Sutherland. now convict ana
the poll lists in blanks left for the purpose, Of per
who never voted, even If such persons existed
procurement Of Sutherland and of Newton no"
also a convict and also, as We believe and are in
morning before the court. and all OF H. as appears
from the evidence in the first tried and from tne
statements of these inspectors. was done under the
general control and direction Of John y. Mckane.
NEWTON GOT OFF TOO EASILY
"In the case Of Newton it is proper to add that
II. at the time his plea Of guilty was accepted. the
prosecution had had the testimony which within a
few hours afterward furnished by the in
spectors the prosecution would not have accepted
his plea of guilty for anything less than felony
feel bound also myself to add that if at that time
and he testimony which has since come to us SOM
OF the remarks which made on moving Newton r
Honor. All OF these inspectors who have pleaded
guilty admit chat they @ We're under orders 10 con-
selves in order that application might not be made
to them in behalf OF Mr Gaynor for an examination
of the lists; and they all obeyel the orders which
they received. well as those in the lNth, Vth and
ing as in the st lid and lid districts where there
was fraudulent voting; The Attorney-General VIII
probably be constrained TO ask the Court TO summon
another Grand Jury in May in order to deal with
not yet indicted whom we now believe TO nave been
responsible in greater or less degree for the crime
of other crimes which were committed in the cours-
Of the execution OF the conspiracy.
thrown themselves upon the mercy Of the Court.
and had & saved the labor ana expense ol 'fa M Tncy
in accordance with their different situations, and
young and were dependent on McKane for liveli-
hood. He characterzed Ryan; the coney Island
was under the same terrorism to which the others
were subject.
PLEAS FOR LENIENCY.
Pleas for leniency for some OF the prisoners were
made by General r.. b. Earnum. Hugo Hrsh and
J. B. Shanahan.
Judge Brown, after short address, imposed
these terms upon the sixteen men:
Garretson Morris, Washington l. Tuttle. John NJ
Cunlife. William H. Stewart. Nicholas j. Johnson,
Harlan Crandar and James II. Cropsey, twenty
nine days in jail: John w. Murphy. Morton Morris.
John Browhill and Conrad StcubenbOrt. three
months in the penitentiary; William Lyons and Vic
tor Bausenwein. four months IN the pententiary
Benjamin Cohen. four months in the penitentiary
and 800 fine; Frederick Bader, five months in the
pententiary and $500 fine; Michael T. Ryan, six
months in the penitentiary and $500 fine
The sentences Of Crandall. Johnson and Cropsey
TO thirty days imprisonment each and $50 fine. in
the contempt proceedings before Judge Barnard.
will have TO be served they withdrew their APP
pcas when their pleas of guilty were accepted,
but Judge Brown said that the two terms Of inn