The evening world., 1894-03-16
NOW
HARD AT IT.
tcortinvnd rom First Puoe.

and | was hustled out. I asked the po.
liceman there to protect me. but he told
mo to get ont.
Some Of my friends told me I ought
not to go back, but | did"
The Tammany captain. witness said,
at once made a complaint against him,
and he VAS arrested and taken to the
Eidriage street station. Capt. Devery
was IN charge.
What did he say to your asked Mr..
Sutherland.
lie said was in business and ought
to let politics alone. was then sent
to the Essex Market Police Court, and
Justice Ryan fined me SO"
Mr.. Goldman said no opportunity was
given to him to defend himself.
Dr. T.. Il. Duffy, who was the Repub-
lican candidate for Assembly in the
district last election. When asked what
he saw the police doing, he said: ,
Il found that they were very obllging
to the Tammany heelers.'
He then went on to describe how. in
one election district, he had found a po-
liceman In n booth with a voter, and at
the rail folding a ballot for a voter.
II asked him what he was doing there.
and he told me IT was none of my busi-
ness.
II insisted that he should come out
side. and he refused to do so, saying
the Chairman OF the Board of Inspection
had told him to stay there, and he woul
not get out until the Chairman ordered
him to do so.
II went to the Forty-seventh street
st~ation-housc and made n complaint to
the sergeant in charge. That was the
last ] ever heard OF the matter"
The policeman's number was 1855. and
the election district vas in Ninth avenue.
between Fifty-hfth and Fifty-sixth
streets.
Dr. Duffy told of several other In
stances OF the failure Of the police to
do their duty on election day.
Thomas !: Lnnney' a Republican
told the Committee how, he had been
knocked down, thumped. kicked and
thrown out of n polling place In the
and had ordered the police to arrest the
The police refused to give protection
to him, and although he made n com
plant against the policeman. whose
number he obtained, nothing had ever
come OF IL.
witness, Senators saxton and Robert
son entered the courtroom and took
their seats with the other members OF
the Committee.
ray. Republican candidate for ID strict
Attorney In the last election, and super
of the Census In New York City
In 1890. He said he was the Republican
'aiAi' VI Nv 'Nht
and spent the entire day In going around
among the polllng-places In that district:
His chief complaint was that in all
the polling places in the Third District
Republican watchers were excluded
from behind the guard rail. In several
places the watchers were thrown out
Mir. Murray. who refreshed his memory
from "a memorandum book, said he had
paid several visits to Police Headquar-
ters during the day to ask for protec-
4 -. F-. skAn. ..Evt RIara ~ La agr
case Supt. Byrnes had sent an Inspector
or Police to investigate the complaint.
Once Inspector Williams had accom-
him and on another occasion In
The policemen at the various polling
places were directed by these inspectors
TO do their duty and prevent any viola
ton OF the law. The witness said that
In no case was any OF the policemen
disciplined, so far as he knew. and none
OF those he had complained against was
replaced by Others.
sion store at 46 East Fifth street, was
called at the request OF Otto kempner.
and testified hat two men had gone TO
told him he must take down the litho-
graphs OF Mr.. Kempner, which he had
In his window. He said he took 1t down,
although he did not know the men who
demanded Il. He did not know they
were policemen. as they wore citizens
clothes. Neither Mr.. Murray nor the
last witness was c~ross-eXamined by Mr..
Nicoll.
Adam Rcinhordt, a shoemaker, OF East
Seventh street, said that on last election
day he went to vote at bS Columbia
street. A policeman named Mulligan
handed him some ballots when he en-
tered the place, and went into the booth
with him.
the witness said he saw the name of
Maynard on one OF the ballots and he
told the policeman he would not vote
the Tammany ticket.
lie had not asked the policemen to ac-
company him into the booth and told
him to get out. The policeman refused
to go, but insisted that be should vote
After ordering him out three times,
Witness Reinhardt said he threw the
ballots he had in the policeman's face
vote at all. one of the election officers
tried to induce him to return and vote,
Inf he rnfusnl To do 90