The evening world., 1894-05-29
SUTHERLAND
SENTENCED.
A Year In Grow Hill, $500
Fine; Then a Year and 5
Months in Sing Sing.
he CONFESSED HIS CRIME.
Admitted Stufing Ballot Boxes
in the Second Graves
end District.
COURT SHOWS HIM LENlENCY.
Must Serve at Crow HiII Before
Going to Sing Sing Other
Indictments Quashed.
COURT SHOWS HIM LENiENCY.

conspirator. who returned to Brooklyn
yesterday from Montreal and surren-
dered to Sheriff Buttling. pleaded gull
~. this morning. in the Kings County
Court of Oyer and Terminer, to an in
dictment charging him with procuring
q false canvass of votes In the Second
Election District Of Gravesend, at last
Falls election.
On this plea he was sentenced to i'm
prisonment in Sing Sing for a period
OF one year and eight months, the SEN
tence to begin at the expiration OF the
sentence Of one year in the penitentiary
and $500 fine. imposed by Justice Brown.
This will keep Sutherland behind the
bars for two years and eight months.
The convict will probably be removed
from Raymond Street Jail this afternoon
Or tomorrow morning.
Sutherland was taken into court by
Sheriff Buttling. Before Justice Bart
lett arrived the prisoner chatted with
Lawyer Weinberg and a few friends.
Immediately after court was opened
Deputy Attorney General Shepard
moved that Sutherland be arralgned to
plead to the new indictments. MIR. Shep-
ard selected the second Indictment to be
read first.
He Pleads Guilty.
How do you plead?" asked Clerk
Byrne.
Guilty" said Sutherland.
d. you waive your right to having
sentence postponed?"
Yes; l prefer to hear It now"
Mr.. Shepard then arose and, addressing
the Court, said:
In moving sentence upon Kenneth F.
sutherland on the plea Of guilty. which
state to the Court. for its approval, the
assurance l feel justified in giving the
.'"In addition to the indictment to which
ne has now pleaded guilty, he is under
January last for sonspiraey to procure
end and under seven other indictments
found against him last week.
for nr tmesf aiding ann abe tnIe are are
election inspectors in the First, Second
and Third districts Of Gravesend TO con.
ments Of he same character as those
vietsd.
spectors OF the Third District to make
a false canvass of the votes. and is the
counterpart of the Indictment upon
tered. The nth and sixth are for pro.
curing the inspectors in the Second and
Third districts respectively to make
false sta of canvass. and the last
OF the Indictments is for Inducing the
inspectors to omit to enter opposite
Sutherland's name. on the registration
ballots which were ~fraudulently de-
iivered to him in the Second District.
"a portion Of the means by which, the
the prisoner is now to be punished, was
the actual insertion into he ballot-box
Of several hundred ballots. prepared for
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the prisoner himself. and placed in the
box by his procurement and with the as
sent Ct the inspectors.
~ have from the inspectors OF the
Second District. and from this prisoner,
an account in detail Of the transaction.
The prisoner has made to me a state
tire participation in the crime at Graves
end. bu, the people DO not propose TO use
that statement. or require the prisoner
to testify to facts unless in the contin-
cency that testimony about these mat
tiers must again be produced upon a
Grim nal trial in court.
I'm addition to this account In detail.
the prisoner has made and signed a
statement touching the general fea-
lures Of the Ora vesend crime which,
with his approval. l no" READ TO the
Court as follows:
\ s~utherIand's Startling Confession.
of 1893. held at Gravesend, including the
direct knowledge I had and the knowl;
edge which came to me indlrectly,
cast at that election in the Second
Election District, to have been between
Eight I'D nine hundred: the total num-
her ~ hctitious votes on that day cast
IN ali Of the districts to have been be-
tween fourteen and fifteen hundred.
1.-THE actual votes cast at that election
actual number of votes cast in the year
1892 81 the election In GraVesend was
1000 or Zoo; and there Mere cast IN 1882
both wears the fictitious ballots cast were
what is known as the straight Demo
AIN Gravesend the Democrats and Re-
publicans were united, There has been
-actica!ly no difference in Gravesend
between Democrats ImGi sSs d iSSs. n lssp snS Isl the fe
Sic OF Gravesend was cast for the Re-
Jubican tickets. and the voios in those
years were to some ana N increasing
= T. he same extent as in 1882 or 1898.
. ~ am unwilling to inCulPate any
other psrs3p x anS am .b NriiiiGs with any any
one else, the burden Of what ! myself
did IN the second Eleclon District on
liant ns s%leG PMo la, day of I PaSsa gS%a ,iiiR @S e 9wR
one hundred or two hundred in number'
which were fctitiously cast in my pres,
ssnaGSsas '6 of M day sbapa ntyv the S'aDiS Deputy At.
torney-General, a fun statement Of my
participation in the whole crime, imciua,
ing the COncHalment OF inc lt5'S''J 70
and the casting of fictitious votes, glVen
upon his examination OF me.
I'm my view of all the several cTINies
committed by the prisoner for which the
Indictments ] have mentioned have DIeE
found, and also the crime OF oppression
OF which he was convicted in February
last, although In law they are iistinr,
offenses. they still formed a part OF 9nt
criminal transaction, the object OF whieI
was TO fraudulently increase the vote u
the iowa OF Grayesend.
II think proper, therefore, that "a.
plea OF guilty hal be determined win
due regard 10 the fact that the prisoner
has TO serve a term OF one years i'm
The crime OF the prisoner was a seriou!
one, and especially serious because o.
the position OF official power and inhu
ence which he held In Gravesend.
ION the other hand. II Is consistent II
my opinion with ;ho administration o
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