New-York tribune., 1904-10-20
MORGAN MAKES A RAID.
HIS ANSWER TO MURPHY.
Three Hundred Men .4RSTcer Sab
pen0s-MOrc Forged Papers.


Summoned by subpoenas cf George W. Nor
ssn. state Superintendent OF Elections nearly
shrse hundred naturalized citizens appeared AT
ths Naturalization bureau" at No. II Park
Row, yesterday. The deputies and seven law
ye7s who examined the men were swannped un-
Der the rush OF work. and as half the crowd
couldn't get into the small rooms. the deputies
who were reinforced by a detachment or police
had their hands fun. The climax came when
6ssemblyman Samuel Prince OF the XVIth
District, IN which most OF the men under exam
tnation lived. protested that they were being
treated un5ustly. and demanded that lac and
lawyer be allowed TO represent them. He had
forced his way into the general room. CHIEF
Deputy Swasey told him he was hindering the
work. and asked him TO so The Assemblyman
refused. Half dozen deputies escorted him.
stiu protesting and making n show or resistance
to the street. where he harangued the throng
which had assembled, telling them their rights
az American citizens were being stolen
Then he rushed to Tsmmany Han. and told
Charles F. Murphy that Morgan deputy had
struck him IN the face and that a policeman
refused TO arrest his assallent. He also declared
that two lawyers. Charles Holman and William
Friend. who accompanied him. were thrown
down the stairs.
As each man subp@naed entered his naturali-
Esr,on papers were taken and numbered. Then
he was passed or for examination 10 Chief
Deputy swasey snd his assistants
Governor oden at the Fifth Avenue Hotel an
nounoed that tho county committee would begin
legal scticr against eve hundred persons who
had illegally registered in the first two days
of registration. Application would be made, he
said. through counsel n he county committee
20 the courts 70 have the five hundred men
~ These IL
legal registrants he sai5. were scattered
throughout Manhattan. while a number were
IN Brooklyn.
AS result of the investigation he had dis
covered in one election district twenty-five
men who had registered illegally and eighteen
msn who had registered seyenty-eight times.
As a result Of our Investigation" continued
Mr Oden, we found ths; out Of three thousand
naturalization papers over threa hundred were
fraudulent. no records being found in the counts
~ their Issuance.
Asled whether the three hundred were Demo
Gratis or Republicans Nir. Odel replied:
We are not inquiring into the politics Of
any one. We are anxious only 70 get a fai-
count OF the votes Of those entitled TO vote. ans
shall ssy TO YOU tha: none Of these fraudulent
ly registered VIII be allowed ovote."
VIII the same methods be pursued on the
next two days?" was asked.
They viii. The right 10 challenge IS abso-
lutte, and viii be exercised wherever thers is
any doubt as to the right OF the one registered
10 vote We are simply doing the best We can
20 have an honest vote"
Charged with selling naturalization papers
for 81, John Bodnsi. a saloonkeeper. OF No. 242
East Third-st. was arrested on Tuesday night
by Deputy Stowell. He was held in S1.o00 bail
Yesterday for examination to-day.
After an unsuccessful effort Of Terence Nc
AIanus TO have the case adjourned for a week
or ten days the hearing before Justice Wyatt
tl the colonization charges against Richard Van
colt son or the postmaster, and Bankson Nc
Av5N was begun yesterday Mr.. McManus told
fhe Justice that within the hour he had received
Information which would strike directly at the
root Of the prosecutors case, bur that he could
not reveal its nature. Therefore he wanted sd-
5ounlment.
Deputy Attorney General Collins. TO- the pros
ecution. said he didn': think it could prejudics
She defence If he pat on his Witnesses. and Jus
tice Wyatt agreed with him. Benjamin p. Levy.
who turned states evidence. was the only Wit
ness examined. He told his sror- Of the talks
with McAVov and Young Van Cotl and his plac-
ing Of men s. .ariols furnished room houses. as
IL was told T. The Tribune when Van Cott was
arrested and as II has beer told IN Levy's ahl-
eavit. printed "Wednesday. The only new
point in his testimony was that There had been
leak which caused McAvoy and Raphael
Fones 10 withdraw
Tho hearing viii be continued next Monday.
ip q r&i5 by Captain Flood of the EIdridge-st.
station. and ms men, assisted by Superintendent
Morgan deputies. Max Wolf. ihe alleged pro-
prietor 81 discrderIT house IL No. - Stanton
ST.. Was arrested in the afternoon. The raid was
The answer Of Superintendent Morgan to the
question 81 Charles Murphy. 'if M- Morgan
has any knowledge OF evidence that men are col
'nizins in disordeTly houses. why doesn't he
take Some action through The poce?'
II Is stated by Mr. Morgan thar eighteen men
registered as voters from No - Stanton-st on
the niSt laF of registration. last Friday. This
mouse is iu tlte Eleventh Election District Of the
with Assembly Dislrict. None % ths men. who
arc alleged 10 have registered from this address
were found In The house when the raid was
naof. An invest igafioll mas already been begun
10 ascertain Lheir whereabouts ard arrest them
after Wof he'd been aIraiErea DE was taken
10 Ar- Morgan $ office. reaTrested and locked up
on charge of peI iu1v
ar. Morgan declares that from the house az
Ao - SfaElof-St. twenty-five people registered
last Friday aud SATURDAY Houe Of whom had
The rlghr 70 register. ana that he has evidence
- SHOW that ffe same Dar has three other
houses which have been used for -oonizine
William HalUln, chairman Of the executive
COMMITTEES of the Republican County Commit
zee. announced last night that to-day LAWYERS
tepreseitng the committee would ask the Su-
Nleme Court i0 strike one thousand names from
Tho registration lis.