The morning call., 1894-11-27

manager, was there. and said to Mahouey:
'Thatll be all right; I'll look out for that
myself?"
The witness had no recollection of
that.
Other questions finally led to the Judge
lnterposing and saying that he thought il
was stablished that Mah0ney had m ade
an agreement OF some sort with the Bald
win people.
Hardenbergh was relieved. and J. B.
Fort. cashier of the New Western Hotel,
tlmOny that q. r. Walker, who registered
October 16 as residing at the New Western.
lett that hotel September IA. Several
other suspicious eases were brought up.
incidentally Fort mentioned that Joseph
King, the recently elected Supervisor, and
the proprietor of the hotel, stopped there
onc9 or twice week, though his home was
at OBJ jackson streat. The precinct regis
ter showed that King registered from the
hotel.
Fort was witness at the afternoon ses-
sion of the court The list OF registrations
from the New Westarn was gone over.
The witness knew of no one by the name
of J. W. Hussey. w. R. Drake had left
before the elecli ion.
AT this point James Long appeared. an-
nouncing that he came as attorney or rec
ord for the Registrar, and as an attorney
LOT all the defendants.
Ernest Hinkelman, night clerk at the
Standard House, after some skilltul ques-
tons pinning him down had been asked.
declared that Sam Regens berger, candi-
date for Police Judge, had called at the
hotel anG asked the dodgers II they would
not vote for him.
Attorney Long entered an objection,
which was overruled, which caused one Of
the opposing counsel TO remark, You are
dead wrong. You had better get Evans to
instruct you."
Witness Hinkelman did not remember
that he had sent for RegeDsberger. He
was asked if he did OF tell Regensberger
that there were forty votes in the house
which he could have if he would put up.
Inc answer was denial.
Did you say there we're thirty or forty
votes III the house which you could han
dle?" asked ClunIe.
II don't remember" was the response.
Hlnkelman declared thai he had seen
MahOney but once in his life, but later on
admitted that he had gone to his rooms on
q number of occasions. He went with
Jack Perry, who resided at the Standard.
lie went over the precinct register with
Perry IN Mshoney's rooms.
II just fell in" was the only reason the
witness would assign for visiting Ma
moneys rooms. He did not remember
whether nr not ne bad ever met Stein
berger at MahOney's rooms.
ne examination took another tack.
Clunie asked If Perry went under an alias.
mo, he doesn't sail under an alias" re-
sponded Hinkelman.
''Wby." asked Clunie. docs he appear
under the name of Wilson on your Iist?"
ooh. because he didn't want person to
call on him." replied the witness una
Dashed.
1t was developed that man named Le-
land was registered under the name of
Fletcher, and that Archibald Burns,
step-brother of the witness, who trained
horses at the racetrack occasionally, slept
in his brothers room at the hotel aud was
registered from the Standard House.
Samuel Regensberger was called. He
had gone to the Standard House in re-
spoDse to note from man named
Sh8uGhnessy, who informed him that it
would be for his interest to do so. He did
not meet Shaughnessy, but some man
whose name he could not remember had
introduced HIM to several men forming a
political club, and had intimated TO him
he could have the votes if he would put
uD some money. The witness had gone
away without doing so.
At this juncturs Hinkelman tried to
interrupt the proceedings by correcting
his own testimony, but was promptly
checked.
reterating what he Tad said before. The
name of the club, he thought, was the
Standard Club.
Hinkelmen was recalled. He was mis-
taken in bis testimony about Regens-
berger; be had never seen she man: ii
must have been some other candidate who
ca led and he had confused the names.
Hinkelman admitted that he was presi-
dent of the Standard Club, Louis New
man was the secretary with the exception
of a few names, which he had previously
given in connection with the testimony.
be could recall no other members of the
club.
Questions seeking to establish that the
Standard Club was Organized merely for
the purpose of getting money from candi-
dates were narred by the reply that the
club never amounted 20 anything. and
finally that it burst up. The witness snn-
posed that most of the mem bers of the
club would vote for Mah0ney. but denied
that he agreed 10 deliver the votes to that
candidate.
James Shaughnessy, who wrote the
note to Regens3erger to call at the Stand
ard House. did so. he assured the court.
because of his great friendship for that
candidate. 81 spoke to members of the
Standard Club about him, and they said:
Bring him around and let US look at
him.
The case goes on at 10 o'clock this
mOrninp.