The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-19
BROKE PERCY EAGLE'S HEAD,
roWl Antics SAY THEIR INSP &C.
TORS WERE MAULED.

mOnd Arrested Harvard Not "a t.
Harlem furnished yesterday a picture OF
che primary days Of tradition, when there
we're heads broken and eyes blacked-
doinos Of which there has been practically
aching in recent years. There were fights
-siore Yesterday in several districts above
GOTH street. and two candidates for leader
sn,n. both Mcclellan Representatives, were
.ss,,,lted. In addition there were numer-
49, minor scraps in which heads were
Cracked and noses punched.
Tho worst trouble was In the Thirtieth
A.semblv district, where Percy +. Maggie
vss sighting John F. Cowan. Murphy's
candidate for leader. Before the polls
oIosed NaRle had his head and three fingers
hroken. Cowan charged hat Maggie brought
into the district gangs OF thugs from the
poWerv and tried intimidation and illegal
,,o,ing In the course OF the day CowRn
nada manv appeals to Police Headquarters
Tor police protection and about Q o'clock
a number OF extra policemen were sent to
,ba rolling places in the district on orders
from Headquarters.
Nasle had been riding around the district
IN an automobile all day, and about S o'clock
rent into the polling place OF the Twenty
third election district, at 2lS3 Fifth avenue.
gang of men in the place rushed him.
One NJ them had a blackjack and struck
him on the head before he could defend
b,usrlf He keeled over and another man
Came at him with a revolver. There was
n sharp souffe. Several policemen inter-
Tsrad. and finally one man, lob Lennon,
a saloon keeper Of 2lS5 Madison avenue,
was arrested. Maggie said that he was the
man who had had the II. However, It was
not found on him.
Lennon and Maggie were taken 10 the
Harlem police court, where Maggie charged
lennon with assault. While Lennon was
being arraigned Patrick j. Gerry. a bar
tender Of 2i33 Madison avenue. came into
the court. Maggie spotted him.
That il the man who hit me with the
Blackjack said Maggie.
Gerry was arrested and Maggie made a
complaint against min. Thereupon gerry
charged Nagle with ~assaulting him. Magis-
trate Moss entertained the complaint and
Nasle also was held for assault. When the
whole thing had been strengthened out
Nagie, Lennon and Gerry had been held in
$1,000 bail each for examination.
NapIe had a cut over ms right eye and
he said that his skull was fractured. his
fingers were done up in splints and he said
that three of them were broken. For a man
with a broken skull he was pretty clipper:
A Doctor from the Harlem Hospital had
fixed up his mead and hand. he went nome
from court.
From the time the polls opened there was
plenty of excitement in the district. Maggie,
followed by a dozen OF his men, hustled all
over the district. Cowan's followers
charged that Maggie not only had a gang OF
thugs with him, but that the police helped
Nagie and his men at every opportunity.
Cowan said last night:
The conduct Of Maggie and his blowers
49,. KAa vnnVnanf the nOIR 0DQnQ0 was
strocious. l have indisputable evidence
that NaRle went into almost every election
place and pulled out inspectors, regular
men who had a right to be there under the
law. and put in his own men. The police
we're with him. Half a dozen policemen
followed him all over the district, saw every
thing he did and when It was over turned
their backs and laughed.
EARLY in the afternoon I sent a written
communication to Capt. Burns Of the East
i2sth street station house. Before sending
n | read il over the telephone to Chief In
spector Cortright. l said that the district
was virtually in a state, OF riot aho maj
the police were making aDsolutely no enoTt
20 insure a fair election. =,
Right from the time the polls opened
nv inspectors came TO me WIN bruised
ewes. broken noses and cut heads Nagle
and his men invaded polling places and did
rs they pleased without the ponce inter-
There was nothing but gloom and fault
finding last night at the headQuarters OF
the Cowan faction; the Mohawk CInp,
Path street and Third venue. Nagle's
election was conceded early, but there
was talk Of a contest.
William Brandies. a Cowan nan who was
chairman Of the election board OF the Eifth
and Sixth election districts, at 2325 First
avenue, said that Nagle came into his poll
ing place at 2:3O o'clock n threw MN INTO
the street. Then Maggie put one OF his own
men in az chairman without a protest from
any one. After that Nagle had him arrested
hui no wa discharged by Magistrate Walsh'
who said the arrest was an outrage.
SAY BOXES WERE STUFFED
The Cowan men said that NagIe's men
hid the Cowan ballots until Just before the
polls closed, when they gleefully reduced
1000 Cowan ballots and then shut the doors
Of the polling place.
Abuit fifteen men who wore Cowan but
tons but we're really Nagle's men, It was
said. rushed into the polling place at 20SS
Lexington avenue about 230 O'Clock in the
afternoon. They bowled over the in
spectors and grabbed the ballot boxes,
which they carried to the street. There,
absorbing TO witnesses, ballots were stuffed
into the boxes until the police made a dash
broke up tine crowd and rescued the ballot
boxes. When the ballots were counted last
night after the polls closed there we're fifty
more ballots han enrolled voters in the
district.
FRANK E1hIuICy {" NNfoy
To the Cowan headquarters last night and
made an afidavit that he had seen one mar
vote four times. .
There was great rejoicing last night al
the Kanawha Club, the Nagle stronghold
A cheering crowd stood outside and inside
and there were all Kind OF noise making
Nagle was not there to join in the celebra-
ton. He was at his home nursing the
injuries he received.
secretary T. II. Coleman OF the kanawhs
Club said last night:
I'VE have won by over 5000 votes. This
too in spite Of an effort to perpetrate or
the honest voters OF the district an unfaiI
election. We learned that foaters from
Philadelphia with blackiacks were Il
invade the district and we met them or
their own ground
Mr.. NaRle had considerably recovered
hv midnight when he talked to reporters
He had thirteen stitches taken in his AcalI
as a result of his encounter. and one OF the
fingers Of his right hand was broken ir
three places. When told Of the big ma
jority he had won by. Nagle said;
II would have won by more than tina
IL they hadn't disabled me. 1t IL the meres
accident that I am not right now a prisone
in iail. For weeks l ave heard that l wa
I.tIul ..I I haya carried a revolver