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were introduced o another man who gave
them money and gave them a list Of names
on which they agreed to vote on election
day. They did vote on several OF these
names. according to the affidavit.
The prisoners all pleaded not guilty.
liams and Brasier were paroled in his Gus.
tody for examination SkidInore aud
Levine were held in 5000 hail each.
number Of women were examined
by Supt. McCullagh yesterday, and one of
them, he said, may turn out 20 be a valuable
witness II was said that "A number of
women housekeepers had failed tn identity
the prisoners as men who had been living
at houses from which they had registered
Supt. McCullagh said that he had begun
to get evidence against the gang on the
first day Of registration. The gang got
suspicious, however, and his men had TO
quit until the third and fourth days of
registration. when they succeeded In get
ting some evidence. Two of the men now
in custody Were arrested at the last election.
Brasier, Supt. McCullagh says. is william
Kelly, who was arrested in polling place.
He escaped. Policeman La Tour Of tho East
lO4th street station arresting two men for
assisting him getting away. The next
day IN court La Tour swore that he could
identify the men. When they came up for
examination La Tour swore that he couldn't
identify them, He was indicted for per-
jury and Commissioner Partridge sus-
pended him
Alderman Dietz is a contractor and for a
long ime has been one OF the workers In
the Tammany organization OF the district,
Lest year, Frawley who is "a young man,
and builder with an Office at III Broadway
began a fight for the leadership Of the
district, which was held then by John j.
Ryan The supporters of Ryan raised the
cry early in the campaign that Frawley
was running for the leadership merely for
the purpose of turning the district over
Ito the gambling syndicate and that Big Tim
Sullivan, then the leader of the Sixth dis
trict and now one of tho members of the
Tammany Executive Committee by virtue
of his membership In the Committee on
Municipal Affairs, was behind him. Fraw-
ley said that a. matter OF fact there were
gambling houses in the district anyway,
and that on this account the argument
fell to the ground. The fight between
him aud Ryan was fully as bitter as that
between Foley and Diver in the Second
district where Foley was the acknowledged
candidate Of the Sullivan faction. When
the primaries closed Ryan declared that
he had been defeated by the Use of improper
methods and that the district had been
filed with repeaters and non-re-idents who
worked and voted for Frawcy When
ever there is a primary fight in Tammany
each side declares that the other resorts TO
improper methods, so no one paid much
attention TO the words of Ryan at the time.
Frawley has been constant in his at1en-
dance at Tammany Hall since Lewis Nixon
began TO sit in the leaders chair and has
been called one of the conspicuous Alb
SALONS of the organization.
Leader Frawley and Alderman Dietz
were not -at home" to callers last night.
They live in East Ninety-fifth street. not
far away from each other. Ex-Leader
John J. Ryan could not be found either.
Il was said az his house that he was down
town. The Miami Club al lO2d street and
Lexington avenue was practically deserted
all the evening.