The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-02
GAIUCE GETS INTO PLOT
ATTEMPTS TO DEPRIVE RAE -.
SMITH OF HIS RIGHT
TIC VOTE
TWENTY YEARS A RESIDENT
HIS FrEviIeGe Is AssaiIed by an Of
Ecious MiniOn of the G. 0. r.,
but the Courts In
teFfere.

Barney Smith had considerable trouble
In getting in his vote yesterday and if
was not until the judges of the district
court were appealed to and writ of ha-
peas corpus issued that Barney was al
lowed the opportunity Of walking to the
polls and deposihng his ballot
Barney who registered in the fourth
precinct of the Fourth ward and was en-
titled to VOTE had his vote challenged
when he reached the booth yesterday
morning shortly before o'clock. This
made Barney exceedingly wroth, and he
expressed his views of Capt Gallick, the
Republican challenger, in language terse
but pointed.
Two police officers at once placed Bar
ney under arrest and he was taken to
The central station. Here he was charged
with disorderly conduct and carrying
concealed weapons and locked up in
cell
Herman Oppenheim, one Of the mem
oers of the legal committee of the Demo-
cratic city and county organization, was
notified and at once, visited police head
quarters. Chief of Detectives McIntire
was asked to bring Smith before the DO
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to do so, and also refused to accept bail
for the prisoner, declaring that Smith
would remain at the central station until
Wednesday morning. Mr. Oppenheim
hurried to the police court and advised
Judge Orr of the circumstances but the
judge said there was nothing before the
court that he could take judicial cog
nizance of and consequently he could do
nothing.
1t began to look as though Smith would
have to remain under arrest at the CEN
tral station until the police court session
OF Wednesday morning, as Chief of De-
tectives McIntire had ordered
Mr. Oppenheim, however, was not to
be thus easily thwarted and he at once
went before Judge Jaggard of the dis
trict court and secured a writ of habeas
corpus returnable forthwith. Sheriff
Wagner had Smith in the district court
within half an hour and the hearing was
held before Judge Kelly
Mr. Oppenheim made the point that the
only object of the writ was to have the
court fix the amount of BAIL as the DO
lice officials in whose custody Smith had
been previous to the issuance of the writ
had refused to allow the prisoner to be
ANASeAsNA bil Jail. Judge Kelly incurred
as to the offense with which Smith was
charged and after Assistant County At,
torney Zoliman had attempted to defend
the action of the police officials, the court
fixed the bail for Smiths appearance ia
the district court Thursday morning at
$50 ~
The amount was deposited with the
clerk of the district court and Barney
again walked out on the streets and hur-
ried back to the voting booth.
Barney Smith is well known, having
resided in the city for a score of years,
and the attempt of the Republican chal-
lenger to deprive him of the vote was but
one of the partisan schemes which the
police force have been using to intimidate
Democratic voters for the past few days.
The charge of carrying a concealed weap-
on made against Smith will undoubtedly
fail to the ground from the fact that
Smith is employed as Waterman by the
Belt line road and carried the revolver