New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-18
TOBE NO SCARCITY OF ICE SAYS WILLIAMS LED RAID
Golden Watcher SWears He
Dropped More than One Ballot.
OBJECTED: KNOCKED DOWN
schellenberger mistaken When
Cross Observation-Disclosures
Tell of Rough House"

Following the Introduction OF positfys
and mistaken testimony that Roswell D.
williams. Tsmmary leader OF the 18th As
sembly District. personally stuffed ballots
into the box at the primary election last
September. the prosecution rested It's case
yesterday in the trial OF Williams and six
others before Justice Wheeler. IN tks
Criminal Branch OF the Supreme Court.
Justice Wheeler refused 70 dismiss ths
charge against the defendants. whose conn
sci. Clark l. Jordan. moved for dismissal
on the ground that the testimony die not
prove a conspiracy 40 deprive Daniel A
Golden OF the Tammany leadership OF t1@
18th Assembly District Mr- Jordan then
announced that he would open the defence
this morning and probably would finish
his case in a day.
The witness VINO connected Williams
with the alleged misdofngs at the polls
was Eugene ScheIIenberser. OF 10. % wesu
1Oed street. who was a Golden watcher at
the polling place at No 81 Columbus ave-
nue. He told OF being set upon oy several
men. including Williams. for PROTESTING
against their raid on the place He swors
the Tammary leader deposited several BAL
lots in the box He also identified Peter
]. GaIIigan. Philip Donohue and Rooerr
Dunn. three Of the defendants through
out his crOss-examinat10n ScheileuberzeT
stuck to his statement that Williams per
sonaIIy dropped more than one ballot into
the ballot box.
IT can swear TO IL positively. he said
Pointing out GailiSan. the witness SAID:
Says Williams Knocked Him Down.
He grabbed a pile of Golden ballots and
started to run out OF the polling place with
~ -r.f4-
man TO arrest him 1 was jumped on by
the mob and dragged 70 the sidewalk
Williams knocked me down When got 10
INV feet Quinn knocked me down again and
kicked me several times I was covered
with bruises from head to feet and one OF
my fingers was broken"
In reply TO a question whether he caused
the arrest of any of the men, Schellenberger
said that the patroIman who chased the
man with the ballots asked the witness
whether he wanted to make a complaint.
but he explained. II was so broken up b.
the sudden attack on me that I was TN
able to make a charge. and the man got
away"
John NJ Manning. who was the patrol
man mentioned by ScheIlenberger IN nm
testimony. was also a witness yesterday
He told OF the raid on the polling place and
said that Williams was the first OF the raid
ers 10 enter the place Manning described
the rough house follows
PatroInsn's Story of Rough House
There were about ten or twelve who
rushed in at first. Then fifteen or twenty
more came in. They rushed to get back ~
the guard rail, but only four or five sue
ceeded- They all held Up folded white
papers in their hands. Ike ballots. and said
they wanted to vote I told them they
would have to get in line, and then there
was a scramble in which the ran was torn
loose and the tables were thrown around
succeeded in clearing the room OF the crowd
after about two or three minutes
Manning said that Williams led the raid
ers into the place and remained there
throughout the fracas. And when they
had been Ousted from the polling place.
said the patroIman the Golden Ballots were
missing, some of them being found on the
sidewalk 1t
Patrolman John J. McEmOry. who was
on duty outside OF the Columbus avenue
polling place cOrrObOTated the TESTIMONY
of Manning as TO the trouble cTeated py
the Williams crowd.
Justice Wheeler permitted Ezra Prentice.
Deputy Attorney General, who is prOsscut-
ing the case, to read into the record the
names of about a hundred and hfty Dem
Ocratic voters whose names were voted on
at the primary election, but VINO dtd not
personally cast the ballots