Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-02-23
FRAUD
PROBE EXTENDS
To MAINLAND
Woman Is Placed on Stand to
Tell of Theft OF
Ballots.
Especial to the Newark star.

ATLANTIC CITY. Feb. 23.-The
members OF the Assembly investiga-
ton committee resumed their grind of
deiving into the Atlantic city election
ffauds today. and this time to he ex-
tent of two witnesses they dug into
affairs off on the mainland. 1t was
the first attempt to show there was
anything wrong in any other spot save
directly In the city.
The first witness was Edwin Wool
bert. Of ~Pleasantville. He TOLD the com
mittee that on the day before election
in November he had been in the nome
of one Richard Shaw, Who had ex-
hibited q roll Of bank notes of small
denomination and that Shaw told him
it was given by Lewis IL. Barrett. who
is a member OF the Republican County
Committee and the acknowledged
leader Of that voting district. with
which 10 purchase votes. This testi-
mony wa corroborated ~ William IL.
Haas. also OF P%leassntvilie, who said
he was with Woolbert at the tiIae.
Attorney Hinkle, counsel lcr lie com
mittee, then brought to the front Mrs.
Nellie Warner, who had been employed
as a ~ianitres5 in the Bartlett building
in which William Riddle, candidate Tor
Congress on the Labor ticket. aad an
office, and from which Office all his bal
lots had been stolen the night before
election. Mr.. Hinlde attempted 10 show
that the witness knew who heG TAX d
tile tickets.
In fact, on election morning, When
Mr.. Riddle arrived at his office AMI
found his tickets gone he had told tic
xr-of,o,, eDn KpAyN who 3HnIK than md
had shaken his finger at her.
She said she was mad at being &C
cused, and old Mr.. Riddle hat she
know, but would not tell. She corrected
the statement today before the COM
mittee, and vowed by all that was good
and holy that she knew nothing about
the matter at all.
BY questions from Mr.. Hinkle. she
admitted hat William |. Cherry, of
the United Paving Company and a
dabbler in local politics. was in the
building the night before election, but
she denied she had ever said Cherry
had any part in the disappearance Of
Riddles tickets. She denied Mr..
Hinkle's assertions that she had re-
ceived Christmes presents from either
Nh. Cherry or Louis Kuehnle other
lfAA tiI 0'AihA NhiAi CiAIlAg - a. .
gave TO the scrub-woman of the build
ing at the holiday season.
Mr.. Hinkle wanted to know II she
had not talked with Mr.. Kuehnle early
today about being served with a sub.
poena and was told by Mr.. Kuehnle to
tell the committee to go to H..
She replied she had not seen Kuehnle
At all. and he mad told her nothing.
She denied, also. that Kuehnle had Of
fered her a 1oh after she had been dis
charged from the Bartlett building as
tanitress.
Witness said she was now employed
IN cleaning up the headquarters Of the
Republican League, but said she had
been out OF work for more than six
weeks before she got this work. She
admitted she had been employed as
The result OF a letter written TO Mr..
Kuehnle, but could not say how much
money she was to receive for her serV-
ices. She had just gone to work there.
Mr.. IIlnkle attempted to show by
William H~ochstadter, proprietor of the
Hyeeia Hotel. that attempt had been
made for the last three years to ragis-
ter q large number of voters from his
house, but Mr.. Hochstadter denied this.
Several ther witnesses, mostly
women. were called and it was shown
by them that several names which APP
peared on the registry lists were not
actually residents at the addresses
givn. The committee win continue its
sessions this afternoon and all day to-
morrow. Mr.. Hinkle nrmised to de-
velop some startling irregularities be-
fore this session ends.