Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-11-06

Sims ie said to be the choice Of the Kit
Gould faction in the Thirty.fourth
Ward. John MCGEE and County Com
missioner Irwin are backing him. and
OK. Alderman John O'Neill. who always
fights the Gould party. is interposing
no objection. state Senator Sid Nc
Cloud may make things interesting for
the machine in the Thirty-third. The
hoses never liked him very well. any.
way. and when he beat their apportion.
ment bills in the Senate last winter
they swore to have his scalp at the
first Opportunity. McCloud's honest IN
dependence has made him stronger
friends than the machine could furnish
him, however. and with a fair show
NE can beat them. Some say he has an
eve on the nomination for sherin.
Charged with making false returns
Of election. Patrick Ferris. Democrat; (;
John ]. Hanrahan. Adolph Freese. Re.
Du,,Iican judges of election: A. j. Pur-
Wis, Republican. and John \ Mcmahon.
Democrat. clerks Of election. Will be
placed on trial before Judge Waterman
In the criminal court next Monday.
states Attorney Deneen has assigned
Assistant A. c. Barnes to the duty Of
prosecuting the case. Attorney John
e. King will appear for the defendants.
Three indictments were returned
against the men. charging them with
making false returns, erasing names
from the poll books and excluding
watchers appointed by opposing polit-
ical parties. The trial will be ON the
iirst count.
The indictments Of last week were
found In order to correct some Omis.
tiOns In the first batch returned some
time since. When originally presented
to the grand jury the extent Of rhe
falsl1ication of the returns In the 10th
precinct Of the Seventeenth ward was
net accurately known. Since then the
recount which unseated stephen Re.
we're and Sented james Walsh as alder.
snan hss shown that a false return was
made giving Revere. Republican. ~!
votes. as against To- actual ballots In
the box. Nicholas Maggie. Democrat,
was credited with 35 votes when he
had In. ana James Walsh. indeI,en
dent. with fs. when 80 was the correct
number.
Assistant s,utc:s Attorney Barnes
aaid:
There n no question ~ to the iden
tlty and none ns to the false returns
We know Just where we stand. W.
know that the ensures have been mad,
and the canvassing beard has shown
that we are correct In our position.
expect uothing hut u technical defense
The ease may occupy II week. There
will ise nice question Of law as to the
uusealing Of the ballot box again, but II
we cannot have the box we are pre-
pared With ample proof VI the facts
and I cannot see how the men will In
aide to escape the l,eniten;iarY. rhi'
case will be prosecuted vigorously, nnd
II may be that we shall strike some
others before the end
Attorney Joseph "A. O'Donnell, wha
has been active In pushing the cast
against the judges ana clerks OF clec
ton now indicted. II husy gathering
evidence In expectation Of implicatin,
ex-Ald. stephen Revere. Morris O'Con
nor, city gas ins"ertOr and Democrafi,
county central committeeman: TimOth!
O'COnnor. Henry Deal. bailifY Of tn,
criminal court. and NJ. ConrOyd, m en-
gineer In the county building. as con
spiratOrs in the seventeenth ward iron
bile.
Timothy O'Connor is a nephew Ol
Morris O'Connor ana was precInc
captain In the Fifteenth. Deal AM
COnrOyd are said to be his associates
II II asserted that OCOnnor ana Re
we're were together on election day an,
were also seen In company with tn
three other men. At one time II Is al
legged that Revere went into n salOOi
with Morris OCOnnOr ami displayc,
a large roll Of bills. Soon after Revere
kept his hanus in his pockets an,
OCOnnor paid for the drinks from III,
wrappers Of n large roll. IL Is also sal,
that the poll sheet in the fifteenth pre-
cinct of the Seventeenth ward wa.
changed three times. being altered az
often as news of changes from Othc
precincts Of the ward We're announced
The return from the precinct was no
made until I O'Clock in the morning.
circumstance which Is considered sus
piciOus by those who are active in III,
prosecution.