The evening world., 1894-05-29
he CONFESSED HIS CRIME.
Admitted stufing Ballot Boxes
in the Second Graves
end District.
COURT SHOWS HIM LENIEKcY.
Must Serve at Crow Hill Before
Going to Sing Sing Other
Indictments Quashed.

Kenneth F. Sutherland. the Grayeseud
conspirator. who returned to BROOKLYN
yesterday from Montreal and surren-
dered to sherir Buttling. pleaded gun
ty. this morning. in the Kings County
Court of Oyer and Terminer, to an In
dictment charging him with procuring
a 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 q period
OF one year and eight months. the sem
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 tn
bars for two years and eight montha
The convict will probably be Removed
from Raymond Street Jail this afternoon
or Tomorrow morning.
Sutherland was taken into court b.
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 arraigned to
plead to the new indictments. Mr.. Shep-
ard selected the second Indictment to be
read first.
He Pleads Guilty.
How do you plead?" asked CLERK
Byrne.
Guilty" said Sutherland.
you waive your right to having
sentence po~stponed?"
Yes; l prefer to hear 1t now"
Mr., Shepard then arose and, addressing
the Court. said:
I'm moving sentence upon Kenneth II.
sutherland on the plea of guilty. which
he has just entered. 1t is proper that I
state to the Court. for its approval, the
assurance l feel justified in giving the
prisoner. Z.
y. In n, addition to the INDICTMENT to which
ar indictment found against him In
January last for conspiracy to procure
the casting Of fraudulent votes IN Grave
found against him last week. y
'Of these seven indictments three are
for procuring, aiding and abetting the
and Third districts of Gravesend to con-
ceal the registration lists. being indict-
ments Of the same character as those
upon which John Y. Mckane was con
victed.
THE fourth is for procuring the In
spectors Of the Third District to make
counterpart of the Indictment upon
which the plea Of guilty. has been en-
tered. The fifth and sixth are for r
Third districts respectively to make
false statements of canvass, and the last
of the indictments is for inducing the
inspectors to omit to enter opposite
Sutherland's name on the registration
list the numbers of the several hundred
ballots which were f~raudulently de-
livered to him in the Second District.
"A portion of the means by which the
false canvass was procured, for which
the prisoner is now to be punished, was
of several hundred ballots, prepared for
that fraudulent purpose by the hands OF
the prisoner himself. and placed In the
sent OF 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 q tate
ment at length n In detail OF his en-
tire participation in the crime at Graves
that statement. or require the prisoner
to testify to facts unless in the contin-
gency that testimony about these mat
ters must again be produced upon =
I'm addition to this account in detail.
the prisoner has made and signed .
lures OF the Gravesend crime which.
with his approval. l now read to the
Court as follows:
sutherland's Startling Confession.
From my knowledge of the election
of 1898, held at Gravesend. including the
direct knowledge l had and the knowi-
edge which came to me indirectly, i
estimate the number of fictitious votes
cast at that election in the Second
Election District. to have been between
eight and nine hundred; the total num-
Der OF fictitious votes on that day cast
In ali OF the districts to have been be-
tween fourteen n fifteen hundred.
1.-THE actual votes cast at that election
were about 2,loo or ZOO In number The
actual number of votes cast In the wear
ISs2 at the election In Gravesend was
1000 or 2,l00: and there were cast In l69I
about 1000 or 1.100 fictitious ballots. IN
both years the fictitious ballots cast wero
what Is known as the straight Demo-
I'm Gravesend the Democrats and Rs-
publicans were united. There has been
practically no difference In Gravesend
between Democrats and Republicans. ia
the elections Of 1855. 1889. 1850 and 1891 The
vote OF Gravesend was cast for the Re-
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