New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-10-16

dents even then. McAvoy, Levy and Jones nus
tied them around to convenient saloons. paid
them of and then got them !nto their houses.
The next night. Levy says. he went to See Van
Colt again. and the candidate for the Assembly
asked for the yellow slips" Levy said that he
had given them to Jones on the previous night.
FOR GODS SAKE. GET THEM
For Gods sake. get them exclaimed Van
Colt, according to Levy's afldavit; they'll
be handy for next year. I'll give you 500 for
yourself if you get them" The Attorney Cen
erals Office got them.
Some OF the witnesses before Justice Wyatt
yesterday were Jones. Cornelius Havern, OF No.
9 Christopher-st; Joseph KIrwin and Edward
boarding house keepers.
IN the evidente which Deputy Attorney Gen
eral Collins accumulated and prepared II is SHOWN
that at No. 81 Bank-st. there were quartereo
eight men: at No. 10S East Twelfth-st., i've
men; at No. JOG East Eleventh-st. two men; at
No. 63 Fourth-ave.. seven men; at NO. III
Fourth-ave., two men: at No. 143 Fourth-ave:,
three men; at NO. Miiligan Place NO. ~
Christopher-st. and No. 81 East feminist, two
men each: at No. 2e5 West Fourth-st. and No.
152 West Eleventh-st.. one man each; at No. 80
East feminist. four men, and at No. 81 East
feminist. and No. "a Third-ave, one man each
1t was a colonization scheme Of the good old
fashioned sort" said Mr. Collins. The meth
DDS employed were such that the officials of the
city would have been blind not to have discoV-
II.
sembled in public park, TO be transferred as
hoaters TO surrounding houses. conducted an
Investigation here. examining most OF the people
concerned. and the inmates of these houses.
with scarcely any exception, admitted that they
were induced 10 go to the various houses by
promises OF having their rent paid. on condition
that they would vote The Republican ticket in
the district. II may be that some of these men
had a right to vote in some other district. but
that doesn't alter this offence in the least
VAN CoTT GIVES BAIL
Van Colt and McAvoy. with their lawyer
Terence J. McManus. went to Justice WAITS
house late yesterday afternoon, and furnished
bail for their appearance next Wednesday
Frederick Haldy. Republican leader Of the Hid
Assembly District. was bondsman for Van Colt
the bail being $1,000 Edward Ney went on
McAvoy's bond. Neither Of the accused men
would speak for himself, but through Mr.. Nc
Manus Mr.. Van Colt made substantially this
statement:
I am entirely innocent OF this charge. II came TO
me as terrible shock 70 hear that warrant was
II vas necessary just at this peculiar time for
Tammany Han TO make a demons tration. and
garding this alleged colonization came from Dep
uty Attorney General Thomas F. Byrne, Tam
many Hall man who lives In she district.
don't deny that there may have been coloniza-
ton there. but say that wasn't concerned in IT,
says he had any dealings with don't know
anything about the list OK addresses which they
comes TO trial there will be a considerably different
showing
According u Mr.. Morgan none OF the men in
the alleged colony registered yesterday. Ho
also said thar il did not alter the case against
the men arrested as section AIN OF the Penal
Code. under which the warrants were issued. Is
"for furnishing money or entertainment 10 in
duce attendance at the polls"