The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-06-01
COUNTY ELECTION CASE.
CONSTABLE MEYER ANGLE ACQUTT.
TED or THE CHARGE.
Of Deserving Ignorant Voters During bs
Recent Election Some of the Testi-
mony Addoced,

The case Of the Commonwealth agaisnt
Meyer Angle was investigated at great
length before Justice Vincent, OF Hen
rico. on yesterday. Tho defendant. Meyer
Angle. vas constable in The recent cleo
s.on held Ia the county. at Bakers cleo
ton precinct. and the charge against him
was dccclving ignorant voters. while act
Ing as constable. Two colored and one
white voter were examined. the coiored
voters each swearing that his ticket was
fixed By Mr.. Angle exactly contrary 10
10 the way they asked him 10 nx them,
and the white voter testified that he de-
sired 10 vote. and so informed the con-
stable, LOT only four persons on the
ticket, and so requested The constable
TO ~ his ballot that he could not read and
write. and hence dil not know whether
his ucket Was fixed r.sht or wrong. but
that the constable only scratched out
seven names oH ,he ticket. lie also
testified that while he could not read, he
coul1 see and count and saw that only
seven names were erased. Upon the
ticket being exhibited. 81 appeared that
twenty-five names were on 81.
CONTRARY 10 THF WISHES or THE VOTER
Air. Donley. n witness introduced by the
Commonwealth. testified that he saw the
TWO tickets OF the two COlorcd voters, and
that they We're fixed just contrary from
the way tho voters said they wanted TO
vote that as 20 one Of the voters, ne
was in a position % look owes him through
The booth. and trait he heard The voter ask
TO vote for certain OF the independent
candidates. and that he saw the constable
tx the ticket The other way. The tickets
OF both colOrcI voters were found 10 be
just as claimed boy Che voters and as
seen by Donlcv.
The defendant himself was introduced,
snd he denied amy intentional wrong in
tho premises. and claimed that IL was
the fault OF the voter that the ticket
was fixed wrong.
Justice Vincent dismissed Angie. saying
when he did so that ne was possessed OF
much information upon the subject not
before him. and as there had been some
criticism ms to- his sending cases on TO the
grand jury. he thought 10 best not 90 GER
tify the case particularly in view of the
fact that the grand jury. If they thought
proper could take up the whole matter
anyhow.
1HE DEVIL OpMgNTa.
The developments I'm the case were rare
and rich. and threw some light upon
Henrico election methods. For single
district ticket was presented containing
twenty-five names. each ticket contain
ing the same names and the candidates
in each instance running for the same
offices but The tickets I'm every Instance
We're entirely unlike i'm the matter OF the
arrangement of names. For instance. The
names of Solomon and Southwark on
one ticket were al the bottom OF the tick
o.. I'm another. IN the middle of the ticket,
and in another. at the top az the ticket,
and one of these tickets was printed IN
green ink. the green letters being so dis
tinct that they could be plainly seen
through the paper. Each OF these tickets
bore the seal Of the Electoral Board OF
Hennco. which seal has 10 be attached
20 the tickets with great care and solemn
ity and an tickets not voted must, under
the law, be destroyed on the night Of the
election. ANY number of these tickets
could be found at Henrico Courthouse to-
day, Mr.. Southwark having, IL is claimed,
as many as no. IL is understood that these
tickets were left loose in the polling
places on the night of election at some
of The precincts.