Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-31
OFFICIALS TRIAL
ON CHARGE Of
PERJURY OPENS
Camden Policeman Charged With
Giving False Testimony Re-
garding Election Fraud.

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CAMDEN, March 31.-Another Of tbs
Camden Republican ofiee-holders to
stand trial on charges of corrupt p .
lttical practises at the election in Nc
yember last Is Policeman Samuel FLICK
of the Twelfth ward, whose case II
beins heard today before Judge Joline
and q Jury drawn from a special panel
in the criminal court.
Flick Is well known on the east side,
where he has been Il policeman and a
Republican worker at the polls for
many years. It Is claimed that he
gave the Republican organization the
double cross when the Camden
County Bar Association started 70
clean up fraudulent election practises
In Camden, and, to ave himself, gays
information OF the use of r%epeaters.
Made Charges In Affidavit.
He went SO far as to make an affida-
vt IN the office Of William c. French,
n Democratic lawyer and leader in the
Democratic campaign, to the effect
that he had been engaged by those
higher up" in the Republican organ
ization to bring repeaters from Phila-
delphia to swell the Republican vote
IN Camden.
This affidavit was forwarded to State
Democratic Chairman james r. Nj
gent, who was later ~subpoenaed %
produce II before the Camden grand
Jury. The original paper is now in the
hands of Prosecutor OF the Pleas
scovel, and win be an important piece
Of evidence in the trial.
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Policeman Flick see.ns to have changed
front, for he there testified contrary
to the contents of the affidavit ne had
made. The grand jury found two In.
dictments against him for perjury. and
he is being tried today on one of these
indictments.
There are four other indictments
against him for procuring the regis
tration Of Illegal voters in the second
district Of the Twelfth ward. He will
be tried later on these charges.
Policeman Flick's counsel, Howard
Miller, endeavored 10 have the perjury
indictments c~ertioraried to the Supreme
Court, but his application was refused
by Justice GARRISON. If his client is
convicted he will appeal, He claims
the indictments are defective. Flick
is under $4,000 bail on all six charges.
Sensational disclosures are expected
when he goes on the witness stand
All the members of the grand jury and
State Chairman Nugent nave been sub
poenaed as State witnesses.
At the trial of Policeman Samuel
Flick, Democratic State Chairman
James r. Nugent was called to the
stand to testify regarding an affidavit
by Flick regarding a Republican
scheme 80 use repeaters at the last
election.
Nugent said the affidavit was for
warded to him by Lawyer William C.
French, a member of the Camden
Democratic County Committee, in
whose office il was taken.
Flick says in the affidavit thai just
before election he met David Baird, the
Republican leader, on the street. Baird
told him things looked bad and he
must get In all the votes possible and
to vote the men he had registered from
his house.
The defense claims hat Flick never
swore TO this affidavit and therefore is
not guilty Of perjury, as charged.
Henry Snyder, a clerk in Lawyer
French's office, swore that when Flick
signed the affidavit no oath was ad-
n1inistered to him
The Rev. Holmes F. Gravatt, fore
man of the grand jury, testified that
IN the grand jury room Flick denied
having made the affidavit. Other grand
jurors c~orroborated the foreman.