The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-11-08
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Tammany Lawyers Tell the Men Arrested
70 he Fure 20 Vote.

AanhNAAnN AAANIoEu AoNh tno moM AEEDHNNo
to BE Sure TO Vote,
The Tammany campaign slogan. KNOCK
'em down." was heard in the West Fifty.
fourth Street Police Court yesterday. and
within the prisoners railing a school OF In.
structlon was improvised by TammAny law.
yers for the benefit OF would-be voters who
had been arrested on the charge Of illegal reg.
istration.
All Of the prisoners arraigned on these
charges were arrested by ward detectives
from the West Forty-seventh street and West
Sixty eighth street stations upon warrants that
had.been:issued;at the request Of suDerintend-
emit McCullagh's deputies. In some instances
the detectives tried to make martyrs Of their
prisoners and bellttle the Importance OF their
arrestand TO insult the lawyers for the prose-
cution.
Tho first case was that OF John J. Rhine
lander. = bartender in the Grotto. charged
with illegally registering from BOT West For
ty-third street. in the Second election district
OF the Fifteenth Assembly district The warrant
against him had been sworn out by Deputy A.
H.Marquis Of Brooklyn. This,warrant. together
with others. was sent by Superintendent McCul-
lagh to Police Headquarters and thence to the
tivss shheeSan and Lockwood were assigned to
the case. Bheehan intimated that The arrest
We found, the man all right, " he said. in
where hs said he lived when he rSEistersd.
lyn known about Il. anyway"
John Pitts. o laborer. who said that he lived
raigned by Detectives Doyle and Hecklero OF the
West Forty-seventh street station upon the
S%SihhlRa.nmlsSoon Oh he ee RSs CHARGED snPsii WisR iilssai f. reg =:
seysnteenth Assembly district,
said Doyle, He was right at the foot Of his
own street, near where he told the inspectors
this Deputy Williamson, the complainant in
"Oh. you, can find him II you want to-. In
address. al West Eortieth street. You WON'T
have any trouble II you look for him. Your
Then 1t was the lawyers turn. Louis Low.
appeared for Rhinefander and Pitt. and pro.
cured their release under $500 bonds each
until THURSDAY. the day set by Magistrate
Wentworth for their examination.
received the following parting instructions
Don't let this court business bother you,
You're all right for to,morrow' and don't faii
to Snr vote over II to on fa% 2ne n5lo aa Il a ssSp report ySa: ' ths
arrested. therein be a bondSman ready to get
You've forgotten something. Louis" said
a bystander.
lnhbS 30, continued INC lawyer. II y
1Mccullagh deputy interteres with you. knock
At the afternoon session William Davis. a
negro. and Joseph Nelst.. WHO declared that
they lived at 212.and ia West Si1ty-flrst
street. were Arralgned on the charge Of Illegal
registration in the Third election district of
the Nineteenth Assembly district. The war,
OF Deputy Superintendent j. j. Sullivan. De-
~tectiye Maher of the West Sixty-eiRhth street
station made the arrests.
Detective. Doyle appeared again in the after
noon with John J, Dougherty. charged. with
registering illeSally, from Gl4 West Fifty;
the Seventeenth. Assembly district; Davis.
Neist and DonRherty. furnished bail In $500
each for examination tomorrow.
A. batch OF six warrants that had been is
sued by Magistrate Wentworth were surren-
dered by Detective Maher. who said that tho,
men for whom they had been issued were en-
titled to vote. Investlgation OF the warrants
had revealed that the inspectors had blum.
dered IN making out their lists OF names and
addresses. The six men, who proved to be
district. They were Frank -Bartosh. George
Parr. John Schummers and James DAILY OF the
Eighteenth ee ,tlon district. Louis Kobes OF the
Fourteenth election district and Joseph Nc
Evoy:of the sixteenth election district. None
Of the six warrants was got by a McCullagh
deputv-