The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-10-04
MANY ARRESTS
MADE BY POLICE
49,
Disturbing the Peace and At
tempted Illegal Voting the
Principal Charges.
ATTEMPT LITTLE REPEATING.
Pistols Discharged at Two of the
Polling Places, but No Per
son Was Hurt at
Either.

Th- polic- kept a close watch at all OF
the police places yesterday and. acting un-
der instructions. arrested all persons who
created disturbances or We're charged with
attempting 10 vote Illegally.
Bur little trouble OF 4 serious nature
vas reported. Firearms We're discharged
in only two places. and in neither was any
person hurt.
| Barney McGovern was arrested at the
| First Precinct OF the Third Ward yester-
| day afternoon. charged with attempting to
| east an Illegal vote He said that he lived
! at No. 2l3 Florida avenue while IT is be-
| lieved by the police that he lives in De
| Ho,iidmont.
| A man giving the name of John Smith.
who is alleged 10 be Niger Foley. was
| TO get ont OF the line.
Charles Cousins of No g332G North Elev-
| enth street, Chris Vcrdon of No Ilos NAL
linckrodt street and Michael OConners of
| No. 2$Os North Ninth street were arrested
on charge of creating a disturbance at
the polling place at No. 35ti North Four
| teenth street. Cousins is judge and Yer
| don and O'Conners are clerks. William
| keogh, the opposing judge. -alieges that
| they attempted TO take the ballot box and
| books away from the polling place.
William Williams of No. 42:ss Lucky
| ing the peace Patrornan Reagan. who
arrested him at the polling place at Good
and st. Ferdinand avenues. said tina; he
was attempting TO repeat.
BUTLER MAN HELD.
Harry Horracks. an adherent Of the
Butler faction. was arrested early yester-
| streets. charged with having discharged
a revolver on the street.
He was held by the police and bond was
refused. He has been active and prom
inent in many campaigns
shooting ARRAY took place in the Sec
ond District OF the Third Ward about $50
o'clock o'clock last evening John 4. Hogan:
OFallon street. and Peter F1aherty, Tenth
street and Cass avenue, it is charged, made
an assault upon James Cullen. No. 1445
with pistols. They are charged with dis
charging firearms.
Stanley Smiktalsh of No. l2G North
Twelfth street who has lived and voted
IN that district for four years, and Frank
Chassnick, salOonkeeper, who has
owned property in the district more than
six years and lived there sixteen. dis
scratched from the books. but were on
the canvassers list. 1t was found that
this had been done in other wards.
JGpIf- AISD CIIfIfeh ARRESTED.
Chris, Nerton of No.. 1i08 sMallinckfodt
street and Mike OConnor Of No. 900 North
Ninth street. judge and clerk, were ar
rested Tta,ts at the polling place S No SSl6 North
became involved in dispute and We're dis
turbins the peace.
Believing they were worshouse pris-
oners, Edward Gillenhauser ot No 1886
Cote Brilliante avenue and Ernest Hem
faith of No. 3751 Cote Brill!ante avenue,
were arrested and prevented from voting
in the .Twenty-seventh Ward. Investisa-
parole given by Judge Taylor, and that
Gillenhauser had never been an inmate of
the Workhouse.
OTHER ARRESTS
The following persons were arrested
yesterday at the different polling places,
charged by the police with disturbing the
peace and intimidating. Several of them
were released later, but the majority will |
be held until to-day.
They gave the following names and ad-
Arrested at polling place No. ia, West |
Courtois place, Eleventh Ward: Doctor |
Horace NJ. Julian, No. 69ls Michigan ave
nue..
oa sea at RTsnh PRss Racs ward SS M adWsEd Hak
Sweeney, No. 2714 North Ninth street: |
William Eagan. No. 502 Carr street; Frank |
Barry, No. 1i2s North Jefferson avenue; |
William Canty, No. 1875 South jefferson |
avenue. Thomas Haney; No. HOG North |
Eleventh street; Max Ketcher. No. 1ilo |
giddIe street: Thomas Kane; No. 10iS |
North Broadway: James Void. No. 1903 |
North Fifteenth street; Charles Gorham. |
No 12lS North Fourteenth street.
and o'Falion Streets. Sixteenth ward: |
Edward Award. No. 1907 o. Fallon street: |
Larry White. No. 1913 Division street:
Tbonaa mb No No IA IA Ks;p sys5ne Stre
Chancellor sdlwell. No. 12S7 North Seventh |
street; James Gillon. No. 1908 North |
Eighth street: Henry Thinner. No. 152s
~ &SpSth Twentieth street: Dennis Dwyer, |
E9FSA2 O'Fallon street; John Helser. No.
l5il OFallon street; Mike Hardy: No: 1913
lon street; Jerry Breslin. No. 1907 North
Sixth street
Arrested at polling place. Eighth and
o,Fallow streets Third Ward: James
Lawler. No. 1888 Division street; Felix
McAdams, No. 1918 North Broadway; Mike
Calvin; No. 14ls North, Seventh street:
Sh,s sohn smith m ns ars TaTh Gf aSSas tse
James Lawler, No. 1918 Collins street: John
Mulcahy. No; 1880 North Thirteenth street;
Thomas Jordan 1S.s SS ,. s oFalion h;oa street:
Peter Flaherty Twelfth street and Cass
avenue; John Hogan. No. 1896 O'Fallon
street
Arrested at Twenty-second and Cass
avenue. Eighteenth Ward: Thomas H.
arrested at No; 50 sos Sa Natural Bridge
head. No. 252 North Spring avenue
Arrested at Goode and Kennerly avenues,
Twenty-slxth Ward: Edward Hackett, No.
42l7A St Louis avenue; William ]. VIII
liams, No. 4239 Lucky street; John H.
Lingner. No. 4723 Easton avenue; William
Coin, No. 1915 Easton avenue.
Captain johnson of the Fourth District
had a squad of the largest men on the
force on duty in the Third Ward to pre-
serve the peace. Four detectives were at
each OF the polling places. In addition to
this number fifty men were held in re-
serve at the Central District Station to be
available in case of riot call
Will RE- EASANT TO.nAY