The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-19

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strangers took 10 their heels and l was able
TO- get into my automobile unmoleated.
Mr.. Williams went to the West lOOtn
street police station and made a complaint;
He said that he didn't know the men ana
thought they weTo hostess imported into
the district. Capt. Carson sent out ms
detectives, but they were unable to get any
trace Of the men.
The followers Of Matthew F. Donohue;
the Tammany leader OF the district, said
when asked about the incident that they
considered 1t a plant
wALsH's WATCHERS BEAT ~PoLIcEAIEN
Patrolman Charles Fox Of the West l2oth
street station, who was on duty at a polling
place in Eighth avenue between 1850 and
l34th streets, in the Twenty-first Assembly
district. was called upon about 5 o'clock
TO arrest a man who gave bis name to the
election officers as Joseph MCGUIRE OF $40
West l2eth street. Watchers for Joseph
Savage. Magistrate Walsh's opponent for
the leadership. insisted that MCGUIRE was
an illegal voter.
Fox arrested the man and started 20 the
station house with him.. He hadn't gone
more than half a block before half a dozen
Walsh men snatched MCGUIRE out OF his
hands n knocked him down. Patrolman
Michael Quinn OF the West Sixty-eighth
street station, who was In plain clothes a
block away, heard the connection and ran
up. He grabbed Mcclure, who was run
ming away, but the crowd set on him, trpped
him and kicked him in the face as he lay on
the sidewalk.
Patrolman Rooney got there about that
time and the crowd assaulted him, knock
ing him down n taking his clu away
from him. There were Atty or more men
in the mob by the time Rooney got to the
spot and the three cops were helpless.
MCGUIRE was hustled away n the mob
broke, running in all directions before the
reserves from the West l2Sth street station
got to the polling place. Quinn wa badly
hurt and was sent to the j. Hood Wright
Hospital. Fox and Rooney were treated
for minor injuries and went back to work.
The cops weren't able to find out the names
of the men who rescued Mcclure, although
Quinn said that they were Walsh watchers
apd followers.
cor FOUGHT
Lewis Croker DEM OF 222 West lO7th
street, said to be a Donohue worker, was
charged with illegal voting by a challenger
at a polling place OF the Seventeenth AS
scmbly district at III Columbus avenue.
Policeman Hoffman Of the West Tooth street
station house alleged in h West Side
police court hat as he attempted to place
Croker under arrest he was assailed by
a crowd Of Donohue workers, who tried
to take his prisoner from him. The police
AINhl bdAu- Via uNFOA q
landed Croker at the station house. but
in the meantime the complainant had dis
appeared. Magistrate Wahle ordered that
a charge OF assault be placed against
Croker. The prisoner was held in 500
bail for further examination.
ONE OF oDELL's SUPPORTERS.
As a result Of the trouble in the Thirtieth
the Harlem police court was thronged all
dav. One man, who said he was John
Mccarthy, was arrested for attempted IL.
legal voting. An election inspector charged
that he didn't live in the house from which
he tried 20 vote. Magistrate Moss was
about to discharge him on the ground that
the evidence against him was too ffimsy
when Mccarthy began to speak with a de-
cided Hebraic accent.
"ChudHe, / am an Irisher,' he said.
THE prosecution rests said Lawyer
Defendant held for examination said
A Harlem politician wandered into the
court and told this story: He had met a
Republican leader from downtown going
through the district at the head OF about
afty men and asked him what he was doing
Il am up here for Odell !" said the Re-
publican, hut after 8 o'clock l will be Tor
ANYBODY who wants me. They're all good
voters that I've got here.
HARVARD AT A DISCOUNT.
NJ. w. Barber, an election district cap
tain Tor j, -. ". hl0eldIN III NhO "chty
ninth Election district Of the Third As
sembly district, said last night that the
OdelI crowd voted twenty-eiRht repeater
at that polling place. There were torty
nine Republican votes registered, Mr.
Barber said, and t~hirty-slx votes IN az
| tered Republicans were unable TO vot
| because men had been there before then
and had used their names.
Barber chased a man who trled 70 vos'
in the name of Police Sergeant John r
Sweeney of 243 East Thirteenth street on
az the polling place, but was tripped uI
bv half a dozen Hoenninger men and helo
until the man got away.
MIR. Rinehart's volunteer workers, mos
of them Harvard men, hadn't a chanc
against the strong arm men sent there d!
the OdeIl crowd" said MIR. Barber.
AN EAST SIDE
ua1 Weisohner OF ~ Broome street
recently naturalized, passed out a bundl
OF ten ballots in the Seventeenth distric
of the Second Assembly district. The,
were accepted by the inspector. II ~ alleged
and slipped into the box. NJ. p. Silverman
the captain Of the Roosevelt league Of IN
district, promptly raised a hue and cry
Weiechner ran from the polling place at ~
Madison street az fast as he could go, FOL
lowed by a crowd After a two block
chase Policeman Convery OF the Madlso
street station collared him.
Weischner, the policeman says. admitte'
that he had voted a bundle OF ballots unde
the name OF Isaac PERTH OF 2l0 Madisol
atreet He said that the ballots had bee
given to him by a man in a saloon and the
n the policeman would go with him n
would point out not only the man VIII
had given them to him but also those VIII
had Instructed him how to vote. He wa
taken before Magistrate Sweetser IN IN
ESsex Market police court. Sllverman, wh
anneared to ask for warrants for the arret
az the election board OF the district on th
ground that the inspector had Commute
q felony by accepting the illegal votes, wa
soueIched by the Magistrate. who said tbs
mad no proof that the papers accepted b
the inspector had been anything but Dial