The sun., 1898-11-05
AMUSING APPEAL CASES
Man Lived in County Six Years
and Claimed Only One Years
Residence.
ALMSHOUSE CASES HEARD
A Number of Paupers We're Disquali.
fled and the Employees Were Reg
Observation-Disclosures Scenes in
Judge Spruance's Court
Yesterday.

The cases OF fourteen men residing at
the almshouse were acted upon by Judge
Spruance yesterday, in hearing appeals
from the decisions made by the registra-
ton officers.
They were brought before the court on
the petition of James +. McIvor, nomi-
nee for inspector in New Castle hun
dred
The right Of the men to register was
challenged.
George W. Kay, Benjamin Holt, Will
liam f, Jordan, William J. Connor and
Samuel Marshall were alleged to be
paupers and not entitled to vote.
Superintendent Mccoy said they were
on rec ord as getting help from the
county. Kay works on the almshouse
farm but gets no money. The Judge
struck them off as being paupers.
Edward Brown, who was admitted to
the almshouse in November 80. 1904, but
has for two years been on the pay roll at
$l4 a month as kitchen hand, was
qualified.
Robert Cavanaugh was admitted July
8, 1894, but now gets SIS month for
tending cattle on the farm, was quail
fed.
Peter I. Matthews, admitted May l.,
1897, gets SIS month as carpenter. He
was qualified.
PeIer McGinchy and John M. Ziegler
both get $l.50 month as assistants in
the hospital portion of the Almshouse,
but the Judge said their work was not
skilled service, and their names were
striken off.
| Charles Moss and John Riley United
States pensioners, boarding at the Aims
house, former paying So and the latter
$S a month, were qualified.
Samuel Comegys, admitted June %,
1897, Is residing at the Amshouse with
his wife. He carries mail for the Cav.
ernment between Farnhurst station and
the post Office and gets IS month but
pays nothing to the county. His name
was stricken off.
William Ruth was asked to be stricken
off at the instance of William Morrison.
He was admitted in 1895, and lodges at
the common gate between the State Hos
pital and the Almshouse and provides
his own clothes. He gets S. a month
from the State Hospital and board from
the Almshouse for caring for the gate, as
he understands it. He is also postmaster,
giving a $500 bond to the Government.
He was qualified.
A ludicrous incident occurred at the
afternoon SESSION. 1t occurred while
the case of Edward Miller was being con-
sidered.
Registrar Campbell said this man had
told him he lived in Delaware one year,
New Castle county four years, and the
Fourth Election District of the Tenth
six years.
How he could have lived in the Fourth
District six years without having lived
longer in the county than four years and
the State more than one year was more
than Judge Spruance or any one else
could understand, but he was quail
fed. u
The name of George H. Hinson, of the
Third Election District of the Thirteenth,
was ordered stricken off the list.
George Hooper was also stricken off
from the Third Election District of the
Thirteenth.
In the cases OF w. +. Jordan and
Samuel Marshal there was a kind of a
mix-up in the names. Jordan had been
registered as w. L. Jordan and while in
the appeal his name appeared as W. f..
Jordan.
Marshall was registered as James
The court allowed the corrections to be
made on the books and they were quail
fed.
Thomas Lally, colored, of the Second
Election District, New Castle, who was
challenged on residence, stated that he
had gone to Porto Rico as the servant OF
Major Rodney last July. He was also
with the Major at Fort McHenry. He is
90 years old. The man came back to
New Castle in September. His father,
William Lally said he had lived in the
election district one month. Lally was
ordered registered.
Judge Spruance had some difficulty in
finding out where Harvey Miller's home
really was. He is colored man, 70 years
Of age, and works for a Mr.. Mcfarland
in the Second Election District Of the
Tenth, but said il he was going home he
would go to his mother in Thorntown.
He has hairy birth mark on the left
side of the face and it is said that he
registered with that side turned to the
registrar. There was some doubt as 10
his age, bat he looks his age fully, and
was ordered registered.
In the matter Of Frank F. Bonsall
Registrar Shockley stated that Bonsall
came to the Forty-second Election Dis
trict with a transfer from the Thirty
ninth of the Second, saying he had
moved into this district on October 10,
which would make the time too short
and he was turned down.