Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-29
Recount Of Ballots Adds
Many 10 The Total
Cast For Him IN New Yak
MayoraIiy Contest Of 1906.
Court Calls For Tally Sheet .neafst
Sails For Europe.

New York, May 2S.-When today's
session Of the McClellan-Hearst re.
| count trial had ended q total Of II
votes had been added to William r.
| Hearst In the 1905 mayoralty election.
The contents Of six boxes were over
hauled in the presence Of the court and
several discrepancies In the officaAl
count brought to hight. In one caae.
while the tally sheet and tho Official
canvass figures were identical, the
count of the ballots disclosed % more
votes for Hearst than had been re-
| turned. 80,
| The net result Of the count for the
| two-days session has been to give the
| contestant for the may0ralty " more
votes than he had been credited with
| receiving. eight ballot boxes reccunted
adding this number to the Hearst to-
tai. During the latter part OF the SEES
| sion two boxes were opened at time
and the recount went along With more
| celebrity. The opening of the boxes win
be continued tomorrow.
New York, May 2S-Possibility Of
criminal prosecutions was indicated at
| today's session Of the McClellan-H Hearst
recount trial in the supreme court
| when Justice Lambert called for orig
inal tally sheets and summoned tho
election inspectors who testified to tho
count Of ballots in box which had
just been re-canvaSsed.
This was the third box opened and
the re-canvass disclosed a net gain for
Hearst Of q votes over the figures as
otfkially reported. Similar gains for
Hearst had resulted from the recount
Of the ballots in the two boxes pre-
viously opened.
When the result Of the recount of
the third box was announced, Justice
Lambert asked: Where are the tally
sheets? Where are the election inspect
ors?"
'"They are in, the county clerks Of
fice," replied Attorney Richards. coun-
sci for Mayor Mcclellan, as he offered
| the printed returns from the city re-
| ord ".
mo, that won't do" said the justice.
| II want the originals; want. 40 kno,a
what was being done and who was rA-
| sponsible."
Justice Lambert then sent for the
| original tally sheets which had been
certified by the inspectors OF elections.
in spite of the protests from Mr. Rich
ards. a,e.
When they were produced It was
found that they balanced with the re-
turns as printed in the city record No
further action was taken at that time.
| however. The justice directed that an
other box be opened and the recount
proceeded.
William r. Hearst, whose lawyers,
Ix1,tkt - - ~s.A~
general. are trying to demonstrate
that Mr.. Hearst was elected mayor OF
New York in 1906. went on board thu
| Lusitania at 4 o'clock yesterday morn
| ing. remaining in his stateroom from
that hour until o'clock In the after
| noon, when the boat sailed for Eu-
rope. To his representatives Mr.. Hearst
gave this message a few minutes be.
| fore sailing:
you might as we'll go back to the
! house and tell that subpoena server
who is laying for me that there II
no use hanging around any longer. -
am on the high seas and won't DO
back for two mOnths.'' 's.f.
| In the supreme court before Justice
Lambert Eugene Lamb Richarde.
| counsel for the mayor. announced ON
| Tuesday that he wanted Mr. Hearst -
witness. As Mr.. Hearst had made
his plans to sail for Europe. the news
| sent a cold chill down the back OF
Clarence J. Shearn and other adler
ents. Justice Lambert mildly suggest
ed the best way to get q witness VAS
to subpoena him. a.5-
Mr. Richards acted on the suSxes-
ton and obtained the subpoena. II WAS
put into tho hands of a process nNfx-
er, who posted himself outside M.
Hearst's house at Lexington avenue
and 18th street. where 1t had been an
nounced conference Of party leaders
Of the Independence League was to b.
held Wednesday afternoon and even
ing.
The process server and various re-
portcrs called at the Hearst house
yesterday afternoon to see Mr.. HeAryt
and get something about tho ''cohfek
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