The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-17
how THEY VOTE A CANNON
EXPLAINED nv STUDENTS o.
TAWMANY PRIMARIES.

FhP nallots GO IN ~ On. says one W.T.
ness Hostile "a nosS Williams Poller-
man saw Something ~ the Mind m
the Ballet IaoN- Arrests Var Between.
The trial in tho Supreme Court Of Ros-
we'll D. Williams and his six lieutenAnts-
Peter D. OalliRan. Peter j. O'Rourke,
Philip Dunohus. Robert Dunn. John Bing-
han and John Dunn-fOr conspiracy %
violate the primary law last fall In tbs
Seventeenth Assembly district, Of which
Williams u Iammany leader. brought
out yesterday testimony concerning a
-cannun.- which was a term new 10 many
Of the jurors.
Patrick II. O'C0nnOr testified that hs
was a WatcheF for Daniel A. Golden. who
ran aRainst Williams for leader and didn' Z
Est vote. according 20 the oliicial returns.
O'Connor was on duty in the polling place
az 800 West Tooth street. the Twelfth Elec-
tiun district. where be- delivered go Col
den habits on the morning Of Septem-
Der q. witch was primary day. late IN
shs afternoon the automobiles which
had ban described by previous witnesses
arrived. O'CounoT said. and from twen,y
20 thiFty-ive men rushed into the polling
place. He was sure Williams was one OF
the men and that he was at the head OF
the party.
-Four Of the men took papers out Of
their pockets and began stuffing them
into the hailot bon. They were the ooloT
and shape u ballots O'Connor said. With
williams standing right behind him
another man picked up all the Golden hal
lots from the tabls and bundled them
under his arm. Williams then led his men
out Of the polling place.
OConnor said that the ballots he Jaw
stuffed into the boz were known ~ cam
nons.- A juror asked what hs meant and
O'Connor called for half do1en sample
ballots and pressing them togethsr said;
A cannon IL a bundle 81 five or more
ballots folded together one inside the
other and ironed out with a hot iron until
they am pressed down 10 hook like one
ordinary ballot folded IN the usual way.
The cannon n dropped through no slo'
into the ballot boK. The boa h then shaken
no well and the ballots making up the
cannon are shaken out 30 that they look
a. though they had been cast in the usual
way
O'Connor said on cross-examination
that he had seen ballots folded and iToned
20 mako up a cannon. but only Tor pnr-
poses Of demonstration. not acutal tise.
He never saw Ross Williams vote can
non The man he saw do Il was a short.
thiokssi. -murderop' looking man with
a three days growth Of beard.
Deputy Attorney General Prentice.
who has already put IN the testimony
og a score Of enrolled Democrats IN the
Seventeenth district who were recorded
as voting at ths primary. but who said
they didn't vote. started IN % call num-
ber 81 witnesses who Intended 20 testify
that they voted for Golden. and Mr..
Jordan said he would oonoeds that the
witn@aaaa would say that they voted
for Golden. Mr. Prentice then read the
names Of thirty-lour persons who were
prepar ND 10 testify that they voted Tor
Golden IN the Twelfth election district.
John b. Wolf. Golden watcher az 70
90 Golden hallOta b. the polling place
In the morning shortly after 3 O'Clock
williams. Gallinn and O'Rourke entered
with a number Of others. One 81 the
men Rrabhsd him under the chm and
yslled: What tho hell are you doing
hera9- Then several 81 the men gathered
around him and he saw a half dozen others
st1iing paper that looked like ballots
into the box
The last man to 60 out was Ross Will
ians said the witnsss He can say 40
himself. Am / nght?' said OtpnnOT.
pointing 70 the defendant. Williams
didn't pspond. The Golden ballots were
missed iust after the Williams party left.
Policeman Edward smith who US
on duty AZ 70 West Ninety strsst.
testified that when the ballots were
counted he saw thres or four folded
together he noticed eight or nine
lunches of these hall0ts and called the
attention 10 the inspectors ca them. Sir.
Jordan asked how the ballots were folded
and the policeman took bunch II sample
hallotn and made cannon. a. OConnor
had done
Policeman Joseph J Finnegan. who
was on duty 40 IA Amsterdam avenue.
testified that he saw a man run uut Ot
the plnos with a bunch q Golden ballots
under his arm and ARRESTED him. He took
the man around 90 the West 10th street
polics station. where he was released.
Other policemen told II the arrival %
the auto party at polling places where
they were assigned and had seen some one
running way with ballots. but they didn't
succeed In making any arrests and
coYttdu't r,.rnuT1,za any of the defeudanta