The morning call., 1895-02-14
THEY ARE NOT TO
ESCAPE UNSCATHED.
LEE, HUSTON AND COUGH AGAIN
INDICTED BY THE GRAND
JURY.
DOCTORED ELECTION RETURNS
THE ACCUSED ARRESTED THE SEC.
oND TIME-INvEsTIGATING
OTHER CASES.

George w. Lee, Albert Huston and John
Cough were indicted for second time by
the Grand Jury yesterday.
The two former were the chief conspira-
tors in the election frauds in the Twenty
eighth Assembly District and were in
dicted on January 18 last, but when
the indictments came up before Judge
Bahrs they were quashed on demurrers.
| The Grand Jury, however, took up the in
vestigation again, with the result that the
accused men were ordered arrested Sec
ond time.
George w. Lee was deputy county
clerk at the time of his first arrest and was
immediately suspended by County Clerk
Curry, though it was for his position, it is
alleged, he committed the crime. Lee
grew up in the Twenty-eighth District
which is south of Market street. At an
early age he took to doing politics fol
came an apt pupil of Crimmins and Kelly
and also served the bosses of later de-
struction.
Lees daily associates were ballot-box
suffers. unscrupulous bosses and election
| tricksters of all ages, sizes and complexion
He is skillful penman, and as such his
services were always in demand at elec-
| JlOnS DIV NOTORIOUS pOlIbAOldAot WIN OoSN
| his talent to serve their ends. 1t was this
same talent and a willingness to exercise il
| in improper directions that has caused his
| downfall.
Lees first political position was that OF
| bookkeeper in the office of the Superinten-
dent of Streets in 1885, He afterward held
clerkship in the Spring Valley Water
| Company, and IN 1881 was appointed
| License Collector, which Office he vacated
| in July. 1892 He was for a time secretary
of the Republican County Committee.
Albert Huston is a machinist, and was
| formerly employed by Thompson & Evans
| being half-brother of the former partner
| in the firm. He, too, was a Crimmins-
Kelly subject in politics. He first became
prominent in politics in 1886, when he
| served as a delegate to the Republican
State convention at Los Angeles: Two
wears later he was nominated for the
| Assembly, but was defeated. In 1889 be
was given a place as machinist in the
| Mint and held the place until last year.
| Huston and Lee are charged with tam
| pering with the returns in the Fourth
| Precinct of the Twenty-eighth Assembly
| District. The election officers, it is al
legged, were cent away while these gentle
men doctored the report in favor of Curry,
| who received 88 fraudulent votes The
| evidence against Lee is said to be strong.
| John Cough was an elector in the Four
teenth Precinct of the Thirtieth Assembly
District, and was indicted and arrested in
connection with the recent election frauds
The first indictment against him is still
pending in Judge Bahrs' court.
The three men were arrested last night
and released on bonds.
The Grand Jury has commenced an in
vestigation of the election frauds in the
Fifth Precinct of the Thirty seventh As
! sembly District 1t is understood that
| frauds of very serious character were
perpetrated in the locality in question, anC
that an investigation will develop some
very sensational facts.
| Registrar Hinton was summoned before
the Grand Jury yesterday afternoon. He
carried under his arm as he entered the in
vestigating chamber the large sealed en-
velopes containing the records of the vote:
counted Mr.. Hinton refused to be inter
viewed as he left the room, but the nature
/ OF his visit was well known.