New-York tribune., 1895-12-22
FOR FRAUDS At PRIMARIES
WARRANTS ISSUED FOR THE ARREST OF
ELECTION OFFICERS.
SEVEN MEN ACCUsED-THE CHARGES AGAINST
MACHINE HENCHMEN IN THE WITH
ASSEMBLY DISTRICT.

SEVEN MEN ACCUsED-THE CHARGES AGAINST
MACHINE HEScHMEN IN THE WITH
ASSEMBLY DISTRICT
Magistrate Mott. at the Essex Market Court.
Yesterday issued warrants for the arrest Of the
seven henchmen of ex-Police Commissioner
Murray who have been charged with violating
the law in connection with the Republican en-
rolment and primaries in the With Assembly
District Summonses had been previously
issued in these cases. but the defendants and
their hackers the Patt-Lauterbach managers
showed disposition to belittle and ignore the
proceedings. and the men summoned failed to
appear at the second hearing Magistrate Mott
ordered the arrests He said In deciding to do
so. yesterday This is no trifiing case. but seri-
Gus charges are made which demand careful
investigation. We must have honest primaries.
even IL we have to send some men who violate
the law to Jail in order to secure them"
The men for whom warrants were issued were
Louis Oil. chairman of the Fourteenth Election
District Association OF the With Assembly Dis
trict: Samuel Wolf. Jacob Kuhn and Joseph
Wines enrolling officers and inspectors OF eec-
ton in the same election district. and Albert X.
Morgan. John Havican and f. G. Fischer en-
rolling officers and inspectors In the Twenty
third Election District OF the With.
Many different charger might have been pre-
ferred against these men, but only those of mo-
ment and alleged to be easy TO prove were select
ed They are based on Subdivision 3. Section Al.
of the Penal Code, which relates to offences
against the elective franchise. The complaint
against Oil AYERS that he voted twice at the
Republican primaries OF December TO- and that
he snatched from the hand Of Charles Whyatt,
an enrolled Republican. a ballot that Whyatt
was offering to vote and substituted therefore
another and different ballot, which Oil depos-
tied In the box: also that he boasted OF the act.
The three inspectors OF the Fourteenth Election
| District Wolf. Kuhn and Wines. charged
| with permitting Oil 10 vote twice. in the
| keeping of a false record OF the persons who
| voted. and with making a false canvass OF the
! ballots cast.
The complaint against the three inspectors oe
| the Twenty-thrd Election District. Morgan,
| Havican and Fischer alleges that they fraudu-
| lently and knowingly permitted the casting OF
| illegal woes. and kept the polls open after the
! authorized time for that purpose. The same in
| speciors were examined on Thursday before Mag
| istrate Mott on another charge that Of fraudu-
lently refusing enrolment to eight known Repub-
leans OF the district giving as reason that they
| were members Of the Theodore F. Ruhl Repuh-
| lican Association OF the With District, and
| meant to prevent them from voting at the pri-
| maries The Magistrate reserved his decision.
| The prosecution IN these Is being con-
| Quoted by Victor J. McEheny. of the law firm OF
| McElheny n Bennett. No. 100 Broadway. Otto
| A. Rosasky. one OF Murray's lieutenants, ap-
| peared for the defendants. All sorts OF political
| influence have been used 10 get these cases dis
| continued and small legal lodges have been re-
sorted to for the purpose OF shielding the accused
men, but the prosecution Will be pushed to q cul-
minatiop.