The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-08
ONLY ONE DENIES
FRAUD COMMITTED
At THE PRIMARIES
String OF Indicted District Work.
ers Plead Guilty and
Non Vult.
"PACKY" ROGERS ALONE
ENTERS NOT GUILTY PLEA
False Registration in Wards Be-
fore Court-ThOse Indicted
Remanded for Sentemce.\

Pleas of guilty to forty indictments
charging illegal registration at the last
primaries were made by eleven men SO
indicted by the grand jury before Judge
Ten Eyck in the Court of Quarter Ses-
sions today. Only one of the indicted,
! Edward Rogers. known as "Packy.''
said Not guilty.
Those who pleaded guilty were re-
inanded for sentence, either on bail or
otherwise, until next sentence day, the
last Monday of the month.
Prosecutor Wilbur A. Mott took the
pleas, and guilty" was the response
with clock-like regularity.
There were ten indictments against
William Brown, the first man called,
and it was charged that he had ille-
gally registered three times in the third
district of the Sixth Ward. Besides
that, he was charged with having used
the name of George Brown, seventh
district Fourth Ward; Thomas Keam,
sixth district, First Ward; Sylvester
Coyne, third district. Sixth Ward; AL
fred Horner sixth district of the same
ward, and together with Alderman
Elmer A. Day, of the Second Ward,
had procured the resignation of George
Boston, sixth district, Second Ward:
Frederick Arose, same district. and
George Hughes, sixth district of the
First Ward.
George Hughes pleaded guilty to two
indictments, one in connection with the
sixth district of the Fourth Ward, and
the other the third district of the Sixth
Ward, while John Holmes and A. F.
Moore pleaded in a like way to two
indictments of a like kind in the First
and Second Wards.
Frederick Alrose had three allega-
tions to answer for: Seventh district
of the Fourth Ward sixth of the Sec
and and third of the Sixth.
William Van Horn said guilty to IL
legal registration in the sixth district
of the Fourth Ward.
Henry Holmes pleaded the same way
to allegations of an offense in the sixth
district IN The Seventh Ward
Six pleas of nonNNult were then made
by Harry Mendel He was in the
Fourth Ward, and the districts he
covered illegally and SO admitted are
first, second, third, fourth, fifth and
seventh.
Another in that ward was Richard
White, who pleaded guilty to working
illegally IN the third. fourth and sew
enth districts of that ward.
Joseph Torello worked in the first
and second districts of that ward and
so admitted.
Frank Casale also made similar
plea.
George and Frederick Boston did not
deny that they We're unlawfully active
in the third. fourth, seventh and eighth
districts of the Fourth Ward; the sixth
of the Second, and the third of the
Sixth
William Bender displayed his activ-
ity in the third district of the Fourth
Ward and the fourth Of that ward.
'.Packy' Rogers's alleged offenses
lwere that he, together with Robert
Mcguire, had procured the false reg
istration of Charles Hughes. sixth dis
trict, Fourth Ward; George Morgan,
sixth district. Seventh Ward; Mellva
Van Horn. sixth district, Seventh
Ward, and George Hughes, sixth dis
trict Fourth Ward. At the same
time he was accused with having him
self registered illegally in the sixth
district of the Fourth Ward
The two Bostons,. Bender and Rogers
We're those jailed; the others were
bailcd.