New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-20
FIGHTS IN 12T'H DISTRICT.
Election Boards arrested for IrregU-
L0ritieS.

All yesterday afternoon and last night there was
the liveliest kind of battling in the 18th Assembly
District among the Republicans contesting for the
leadership It assumed such attitude that the
police had to take hand and placed under arrest
the election boards in the 14h and 18th election dis
tricts.
The principal battle centred at the polling place
at No. 59S Grand-st. Soon after o'clock twenty
men formed in line to vote Many Of them were
armed with their citizen papers and other Iocu-
ments authorizing them to vote.
Nothing doing gentlemen, said Emanuel Tosen-
thai. the chairman of the board of inspectors; AL
of you have already voted"
The men, who had been working all day de-
manded that they be allowed to cast their ballots.
but RosenthaI and his fellow inspectors obdu-
rate and waved them away. policeman Charles
Becker of the Delancey-st. station. who was on
duty at the polling place. told Rosenthal that he
had better allow the men to vote. But the chair
man still refused. Roundsman Walsh was ap-
pealed to by Becker. and then Captain McCIlyln'
the precinct commander. ordered that the inspec-
tors be arrested charge Of violating the cleo
ton laws.
RosenthaI had declared the polls closed at 6
O'Clock and all votes in and Immediately started in
to destroy all the unvoted ballots The police
pointed to him that the law required the polls
to be kept open until o'clock, but according to
the policemen. RosenthaI ignored them.
The four inspectors followers of the present
leader of the district. Jacob A. Neustadt, who. al
bitterly by the opposing faction which had in the
field for the leadership a ticket headed by John
Steibling and Abraham Mas. The faction
against Neustadt admitted defeat. but strenuously
objected to what they called outrageous high
handednesS
As soon as the inspectors placed under
arrest Leonard Smitkin. Of No. 2o9 Broadway,
follower OF Neustadt. hurried to the Essex Market
court te get magistrate to bail the prisoners.
Court at Essex Market had adjourned. and Smitkin
drove to the Tombs police court, where he got
Magistrate Mayo. The magistrate and Smitkin
drove in a cab to the Delancey-st; station. but
found no prisoners there. The bail bonds were
fixed up however, and at o'clock. after the poll
ing place in Grand-st. was legally closed, the in
spectors went to the station and affixed their sig
natures to the bonds of $500 each and were
liberated.
Besides Rosentha1 the prisoners were Frank
Ludlow, of No. ga East 13th-st; James McKeon. OF
No. % Broome-st. and John Shank, OF No. 70
Mangin-st-
Early in the evening Neustadt declared
elected.
Emil Carroll the Prendergast captain of the 22d
election district of the 9Th Assembly District re-
sponded to summons to appear before Magis-
trate Finn in the Jefferson Market police court last
night, warrant having been issued for his arrest
a charge Of refusing to allow certain alleged
peared for Carroll. and showed that the O'Neil
chairman of the board Of election inspectors was
fault in causing the arrest as the men who were
challenged were unable properly to answer the
questions. Magistrate Finn discharged Carroll