The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-11
BALLOTS ARE ' s1}sve ABOUT Ind dments Found For
 Election Frauds.
BOXES IN THE NORTH RIVER
official Returns Discovered in a Cellar.
In Barber shop are Found the Tickets Cast in the Election District Wherein Resides
 Charles F. Murphy.

| New York, Nov. 10.-Ten indictment!
 for violations of the election laws ant
 two for assaults committed at the poll.
 at the election last Tuesday were to-
 day drawn up by the grand jury. |
 was said tonight that Attorney Genera
 Mayer and State Superintendent ol
 Elections Morgan had instituted a
 searching investigation of the alleged
 election frauds. which would be con
 ttnued until after the legislature meets
 The Attorney General and MT. Nor
 gan tonight examined number of wit
 nesses in connection with the frauds. l Attorney General Julius Mayer. be- fore leaving his office after midnight this morning. arranged to appear before a magistrate in the criminal court building today to prosecute several per- cons charged with violation of the eiec- ton laws. Arrests. he said. would be
 made at an early hour and the prison
 CTS include one or more police officers. These arrests, it was said. would be | the result of the accidental discovery
 of an unlocked and unsealed ballot box l in the rear of Q barber shop that had
 been used as a polling place in an elec- 1 tion district in the Twenty-first assem- i bly, district. s..'s Policeman Makes Find. l The first information regarding the I finding of the ballot box came to the | DtEtTlCt AttDrHGy ytSt6Eudy lATOu&H I policeman who walked into Mir
 Jerome's ofice with a bunch of ballots. | and said that he knew where more of l the same kind were to be found, but that he had not dared to bring in all he had found until he had been assured | of protection.
 He was sent back with County de- tective whom he escorted to the barber shop where the ballot box was found. WhA0 fkA YnIiHar1an PafnPnnd with,
 the ballot box wrapped up in piece of ordinary newspaper he was taken into Mir. Jerome's private office, where were also Attorney General Mayer, State Superintendent of Elections Nor
 gan and several deputies. Later As-
 several stenographers were called in Six Morgan deputies were sent out
 soon afterwards with subpoenas.
 There was report that men on the tug boat Robert White picked up four ballot boxes floating in the river early yesterday.
 Before going home this morning At- torney Mayer was asked if he had re- ceived any information of the finding of four ballot boxes in the East River by the tug Robert White.
 T have not had any such informa- tion," Mir. Mayer said.
 Have you been told of the finding of boxes in the North River?" he was asked.
 After some hesitation he answered:
 "Yes, the North River. I have had such information"
 Ballot Boxes fin Tailor shop.
 At the headquarters of the Munich pal League it was announced that two ballot boxes had been found in tail or shop window, in Gravesend. This shop was used as a polling place on election day. The boxes, 1t is said, were discovered by Bernard Wayneck, representative of a league who re- ported that one contained mutilated ballots and the other, supposed to con- tain the ballot stubs. was empty.
 Evidence of gross careIessness In the l care of the election returns developed yesterday when the official envelope containing the official return and tally | sheets for the Seventy-third election district of the Thirty-ffth assembly | district was found in a baby carriage | in the cellar of a house in the Bronx. | How it got there no one in the house | was able to explain.
 The tally sheet showed that twenty l six votes had been cast for William M. | Twins. ninety-nine for Mayor McCleI- 1 Ian and 139 for William R. Hearst Both | MT. Jerome and Attorney General | Mayer at once began an investigation. L. Archibald Hassell. a poll clerk who signed the tally sheet, said he sealed the returns and gave them to the chair man of the election board. The latter said he had turned the returns over to a man named Dawson who was to take them to the proper place. Daw- son could not be found last night
 W. R. Hearst announced today an additional reward of $10.0o0 for evil dence for the arrest. conviction and im- prisonment of the first Tammany dis trict leader to be convicted of frauds against the ballot in Tuesdays election
 This is an addition to the other re- wards. aggregating $170O0 for proof of crimes against the ballot and registra- ton laws in the election. This makes the total rewards he has offered S27,- poo.
 Two ballot boxes were found today In a barber shop at 156 Third Avenue, one of them full of half-soiled and torn ballots and the other empty. This barber shop was the polling place of the first election district of the 18th As- sembly District, which Is the district 1f which Charles F. Murphy, head of rammany Hall. is the leader. Hearst watchers found the two boxes. Deputies 1 rom State Superintendent of Elections Morgan's office took possession of the 1oxeS
 The situation today was described oy William R. Hearst as follows:
 Hearst Describes Situation.
 The law committee has discovered tome very amazing things and the ieeper we go into this thing, the uglier t looks. We have evidence against welve district leaders and I am con- ident that we shall send two or three ,f them to prison. l am just as much | interested in the criminal prosecution If this case as am in the recount. In his case it makes no difference wheth- IT I am declared elected or not in com | ,arfson with the greater duty of send | ng criminals to jail.
 'It was for this purpose" Mir. Hearst Ldded, "and to strengthen the evidence Lgainst a certain district leader that | made the offer of $10.0O0 reward today or such evidence. We have at least l ufficient evidence to prove the neces- | ity of a recount and I believe that A l ecount will show a difference of 20, Oo0 ,otes in my favor"
 Here Mir. Hearst said that many Iet- CTS had been received by his man. gers rurporting to show that men rom Connecticut. Massachusetts ana z Jew Jersey had come to New York on i Ea nA rF |