The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-14
TELLS OF A PRIMARY RAID
EIIDENCE AGAINST TlMWtNY
LEADER ROSWELL 70. WILLIAWS.
watcher SAYS az Nuiomobue PartS De.
seenhed On = POlllnE Piaee. TOSk
ANAl the G0ldien BaIisls aud Filirtl
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The rial OF Roswell y. Williams.
Iammany leader Of the Seventeenth
Assembly district. aud his six liautenantz.
Peter d. Galligan. Peter J O'Rourke.
Philip DOnOhue Robert Dunn. John
Bingham and John Dunn. for conspiracy
% violate the primary election law in
the Seventeenth district on September p
Last. when Daniel A. Golden ran against
Williams, got under way yesterday before
supreme Court Justice Wheeler of Buffalo
IN the County Court House.
Joseph D. Adams, IT,. IT Is3 West
Ninety-siXth street testified that be vas
a watcher in the Eleventh and Twelfth
Election districts Of the Seventeenth
Assembly and that he went to = polling
place IA an undertaksr's shop at 1t1
Amsterdam avenue. taking 80 Golden
ballots with him which he put on
table IN front Of The inspectors A.
about Z y. N. touring car and several
iaHlcabs pulled up IN front Of the place
and a lot Of men got out out oI twenty
five OF thirty men Adams recognized
Williams, O'Rourke and DOnohue he
said Williams had occupied The touring
car and led the procession. When the
men from the machines crowded into
the polling place they were followed by a
number Of others from the street. and soon
the shop was in an uproar
The election inspectors appeared To he
amused. Adams said. and one man started
stuiing ballots into the bon without
interference from the election oficials
Adams called on a policeman 10 clear out
the crowd aud he did so Adams ds-
clarrd he then saw Galligan leaning over
The ballot box After Galhgan and the
others went out he saw that Tho Golden
ballots which he lett on the table shortly
before had disappeared lie had counted
the ballots aud was SURE he left 80 Of
them on the table
Did YOU count them No az to he able
10 testify in the event Of tnal.- asked
counsel on crosse 1aninatiOn
Yes SAID the witness. bat when
Deputy Attorney General Prentice asked .
him about Il later he said that wasn't his |
original purpose in counting thsm.
Daniel A. Golden. the defeated candi- !
date. said he Was in the Amsterdam avenue |
polling place when the automobile party .
arrived and said he RECOGNIZED Williams /
GalliEan and O'ROurke When the police |
Steamed out the place he saw Williams /
some out followed by Gallgan. who had
4 package Of pa pers under his coat
The witness said the papers looked like
ballots. but counsel for tho defendants
Bb Iectsd TO the testimony and Il vas
stricken out Mr. Golden then said that
Williams helped Galligan dump the
pa pers into the touring car and that one
u them dropped TO the street. The paper
llew away, but he sent a hoy after u
Have YOU seen that paper since9-
lsked Mr. Prentice
Yea. ! have Il IN my pocket nov. said
h. witness He produced Il aud when
Z had been identified az q Golden ballot
Z was offered In evidence
Mr. Golden denied that he offered TO
.uppOr Williams for leader for $3.50
James ,, Mcmillan. watcher In the poll
Nc place a. West End avenue aud Ninety
iNth str-st said that the Williams auto
larty arrived ~ that place late IN the
litenOOn and stopped across the street
ueniy men ran across the street and
ushed into the polling place He said
hey turned things upside down In short
,r,ieT aud that while DonOhue stuffed
Oinething into the ballot bOx Galligan
walked ~ with al the Golden ballots II
Mcmillan said he demonstrated With .
iallEan and that Gallignn replied.
You 10 to hell