Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-11-14
Grand JURY DRAWS
UP Indictments
TWELVE BILLS FOR ELECTION
FRAUDS AND ASSAULTS
ARE PREPARED.
TAMMANY LEADERS
FACING PROSECUTION
Ballot Boxes Found in Alleys and
Rivers - Heavy Reward Offered
for Arrest Of Men Convicted as
InsHgators.

1nstigators.
New York, Nov 11.-Ten indict-
ments for violations of the election
law and two: for assaults committed at
last Tuesdays election were drawn up
by the grand jury Friday. The jury
adjourned until Monday before the in
dictments had been presented to them
for Endorsement after being drawn up.
Evidence of fraud in the election was
prepared for the grand jury by both
State Attorney General Julius M.
Mayer and by the law committee
which is conducting William R.
Hearst's contest of the mayoralty cleo
ton. The law committee applied for
16 indictments, and its members said
that the names of some very prom
tnent politicians were among the in
dictments requested.
Mr.. Mayer announced that the evil
dence in his possession would justify
him in asking for the Indictment of
several persons, both on charges of
violating the election laws and also
for committing assaults at the polling
booths on election day. This evidence
was prepared by Mr.. Mayer, working
in conjunction with District Attorney
William T. Jerome's staff.
Mr.. Hearst made public postal card
received and signed merely Truck
Driver" which read: "On Wednesday
night five ballot boxes were taken
from a boarding stable at 232 Front
street."
Ballots Found in Alleys.
Superintendent Of Elections Morgan
received a number of ballots Friday
which had been found by policemen
and others in alleyways and out-of-
the-way places. 1t was apparent that
they had not been counted. These bal
lots, it is said, were found in the dis
tricts of two prominent Tammany
leaders, and it Is thought that the in
vestigation which the superintendent
is making regarding them will lead to
the possible Indictment of at least two
persons higher up" There was one
report that men on the tugboat Robert
White picked up four ballot boxes
At the headquarters Of the Municipal
league it was announced that two bal
lot boxes had been found in a tailor
shop window, next door to the old
town hall, Gravesend. This shop was
used as polling place on election day.
The boxes, 1t is said, were discovered
by Bernard Wayneck, a representative
of the league, who reported that one
contained mutilated ballots and the
other, supposed to contain ballot stubs,
was empty.
Evidence of gross carelessness in the
care Of election returns developed
when the official envelope containing
the official return and tally sheets for
the Seventy-third election district Of
the Thirty-fifth assembly district was
found in baby carriage in the cellar
of a house in the Bronx. How it got
there no one in the house was able to
explain.
w. R. Hearst has announced an
additional reward Of $4,000 for evil
dence for the arrest, conviction and
Imprisonment Of the first Tammany
district leader to be convicted Of
frauds against the ballot in Tuesdays
election. This Is in addition to the
other rewards. aggregating $4,000, fol
| proof Of crimes against the ballot and
registration laws in the election. This
makes the total of rewards he has
offered $4,000.
Stories Of Hearst Frauds.
It was announced at Tammany Hall
that Tammany district captains have
secured evidence showing frauds com,
mitted by Hearst's supporters On cleo.
tion day. Several leaders said thai
while recount might lessen McClel,
lan's vote, the countercharges of fraud
which they intend to bring against the
Hearst organization will likewise bring
about the lessening Of the Hearst vote
and that in this way an equal reduc.
ton will be made in the vote which
will not affect the result. An offer
was made in Wall street Friday to bet
| $4,000 against $4,000 that W. R.
hearst will be seated as the next
mayor of New York.
| Both Parties Claim Minor Offices.
Columbus. o., Nov IL. - 1t is believed
that the official count alone will deter
mine which party has elected the minor
state officials. Returns early Friday at
republican and democratic headquar-
tiers only add to the confusion. Both
sides continue to claim the election OF
the minor state officials. Incomplete
but corrected returns received by the
Dispatch seem to indicate that the re.
publican state ticket ia elected and that
Pattison has plurality of about 43. 600
The democrats still claim both house
and senate; the republicans say the
! senate will be republican, 19to 1S, and
the house republican, 81 to 60 democrat
ic and independent. In a number Of
counties the contests will undoubtedly
be made. especially In counties where
| the vote was very close.
Courthouse Dedicated.
Lincoln, ILL.,, Nov. II. - The new Lo