Evening journal., 1895-02-06
ECHOES FROM ELECTION
First of the Cases of Violation
of Registration Laws.
A AMIsTAKE AND NOT INTENTIONAL

convened yes erdAy afternoon Ihomas
alias Dunk Riley and Alfred Spencer,
charged with burglary ~ the house Of
Stillman A. Hodgmau, 81 peared through
counsel, Joissh Marv, and after
Withdrawing their pleas OF not
guilty pleaded guilty to larceny.
Detective McYey gave good
account OF Spencer but when asked by
| Riley to do so for him declined In view
OF character, FIRST offense, &c Spencer
received q lighter sentence than he
would otherwise have gotten II was to
| pay 500 30 restitution money. receive ten
lashes, pay costs OF prosecution and serve
six months IN jail Riley will have TO
pay a like sum, receive fifteen lashes and
serve nine months
/ Henry Trusty. colored, was arraigned
| charged with stealing coat aud vest from
John Tobolskl at No 4 EAST Front street,
on November 23 He pleaded not guilty.
There we're a number of witnesses. Poles
| whose names wers uupronounce BILE and
ended In ski, aud they all swore hard
againet the man whose name and charac-
ter did not agree Truaty represented him
self and his cross questioning WAS very
keen. He also took the stand aud made
a strong plea but the jury did not seem
to axe much stock In II and found him
guilty This sentence was to pay $40
restitution money, be imprisoned two
months and pay costs of prosecution.
John p McElroy, who Is charged with
having assaulted Bernard Farrsn, was
called It WAS shown that his counsel,
Frances II. Hoifecker, was sick aud un-
able to be present. The case was sent
over TO the May term.
, Silas @ Garrett, who confessed to en-
bezzling &400 from the B. & o r r.
while acting as station agent at Kiamensi,
was sentsnced to three months imprlson.
msnt and TO pay costs.
} True bills were found against William
. Coursey and Amos slosser, arrested for
running a gambling place in the base
ment Of Fifth and Market streets.
There was q marked scarcity of the
; legal fraternity when the court crisI
warbled his diurnal lay The reporter
. table was comparatively clear too, the
a eold weather having evidently kept the
curiosity club from sending the usual
large and noisy delegation. AS the morn
ing wore on, however. both the lawyer
pit and the reporters corner filed mp
until the former was comfortably filed
: the latter uncomfortably crowded
Attorney General Nicholson announce,
q that he proposed taking up the election
y cases, and nearly an hour was consume,
Ia calling witnesses and getting them Il
line for the trials. Walter II. Hayea
i who appeared for some Of the unfortu
y nate vlolstors Of the election and regis
/, trAtion laws, stated that some Of hi
Y witnesses returned as summoned, wer
!. absent. and he asked for warrants fc
! Hugh Lynch, Robert McCadden and job
y solomon
\ II was II o'clock when the hrst cas'
Z, that OF Howard Caldwell, ooloreC
z charged with knowingly aud fraudt
u lently registering At two election dli
|. tricts, once IN the First district OF th
u First ward, on tax receipt OF 1892 an
again In the Sixth district OF the Bixt
!. ward, on tax receipt Of 1894. The Juror
4 drawn we're Robert Mclaughlin. Pete
= Ryan. Gsorgs w. Handy, Nathanii
4 Armstrong, John johnson, Thomas
al Dixon Robert Hawthorne, John Moor
y Robert W. Brnie, John Cochran, Jr
Patrick McGrory and Aaron Paxton M
HAYES objected TO Mr. McGrory an
Il Lambert e Kirk was chosen. The jur
- WAS then accepted
4 Frank A McCloskey, clerk Of II
- Department Of Elections aud custodla
- OF the registration books. was sworn an
. identified them
!. Preston w Yeagsr, Inspector in n
y Flrst district. First ward, was swor
- He identified the book he used Am
y Simmons and Edward Parker were ali
- inspectors The attorney eneral ask
u AZ he had noticed whether Gala wells Il
- receipt had been stamped whom presents
for registration. Objected TO on u
ground that the receipt itself was u
Fest evidence aud should be sui
mitted
ad The objection was sustained as was
Rs objection 70 the next question, Was
paper presented by Caldwell which
claimed TO be tax receipt In answ
" to a question whether Caldwell pr
- ~ sented any paper, witness could not s
" nor could be remember having seen b
on that day.
~ Amos simmons. chairman OF I
,ne registration board, identified the DO
~ used by him and read the entry made
~ him on the occasion Of the alleg
4 registration. Mr. Hayes objected to
II II reading OF the entry Of the date a
Nv number Of tax receipts as not bel
,uV provided by law, and secondary eyideD
le Edward Parker, another inspect
a. identified book. Caldwell gave resideI
w as Delaware House.
syn James Feeney, chairman Of the board
REGISTRATION IA bne blALu uihbtlol OA
& : Sixth ward knew Caldwell. identit
ulu the book Caldwell registered from
~ 500 East Tenth street. Made an
lsy vestigation and found Caldwell III
there. He voted from there and was
- challenged
su Robert McCadden. proprietor Of
~ ~ Delaware House, said Caldwell worl
eue for him and does now. Heard him
!, he thought he could register from cit
' place. Caldwell ate at the Delaw
~ House, but slept at his home on Te
street
. James Feeney was recalled and idel
fed the books of his associates, Da
His Layton and Harry Baldwin. He lead
entries in these books. No applicai
] G. was made afterwards to have the n'
an OF Caldwe removed from the book
OF a the Sixth district Of the Sixth ward.
seks Amos Simmons likewise swore
ing application had been made in the +
snce district. First ward.
was Bernard Mcyey, state detective, stl
leg that after he had arrested Caldwell
4 - "a he r.oA hofb r.orafufa Z