New-York tribune., 1911-11-06
SAY TAMMANY ALDERMAN
FACES AN INDICTMENT.
!46 Other Registration Cases Go
to Grand Jury TO-day-1O0
More Cases for Warrants.
IRISH VOTERS IN GHETTO
Koenig's Friends in Federal Club
Find Names of Clnvicts Who
Say Dollar John" Told
Them They Could Vote.

As result of the investigation of reg
John Boyle. jr., secretary Of the Repub-
lican County Committee, n Tammany
alderman who is up for reelection prob
ably will be indicted, it was said yester-
day.
Assistant District Attorney Strycker
has 1i6 cases Of Illegal registration to
present to the grand jury to-day for in
dictment, and there will be more than
one hundred additional cases brought be-
fore city magistrates for warrants.
Something like five hundred such war
rants have been granted already, al
with the one hundred which will be
sought to-day there will be more than
six hundred warrants in the hands of the
police on Election Day. If the men reg
istered under the names in which these
warrants are drawn attempt to vote, the
police will have no choice but to arrest
them.
This mass of prediction work Will
bring five hundred witnesses to the Dis
trict Attorneys office this morning, al
though some of the more serious cases
will not be touched until after election.
The Tammany aldermans case falls
into the division which will not be
opened until after election, chiefly be-
cause District Attorney Whitman, when
Boyle presented the evidence to him, de-
clared that the accusations were too
serious to take up in the hurried manner
which would he necessary if an attempt
were made to dispose of the case before
election.
The story is that this alderman, who is
from an uptown district, engineered
seven cases Of illegal registration from
an uptown hotel.
Another case where the investigators
found fourteen registrations from one
house was exposed largely because of a
careless error by a Tammany worker,
who is now secretary to a judge of the
Court of General Sessions. In a district
which is entirely Jewish in population
this judicial secretary had fourteen men
registered from his house, and every
on of the fourteen bore an unmis-
takably Irish name. That gave the IN
vcstigators an incentive to work. and
when they called on the landlady OF the
house, in which the judges secretary
v only a boarder, she told them she
didn't know anything about the four
teen '1rishnfen," but to see a man who
she said. was a Tammany official in a
municipal court
This official handed the investigators
a list of names carefully written, with
the information the law requires to he
put on registration records, and said:
Here they are. These are the fellows
who are to vote from that house
The easiest work the investigators en-
countered was in the 9th Assembly Dis
trict, because of the fact that i'm that
district they received great aid from
some of the lawyer members of the Fed
eral Club, which is the home district or
ganization of Samuel S Koenig, Repub-
lican county chairman.
When these lawyer members Of Mr..
Koenig's club went over the registration
lists they found numerous names Of men
they had defended for various crimes,
some Of whom had lost their cases and
had been sent to Sing Sing.
Calling these returned ones up, the
lawyers asked them what they meant by
registering after they had done time -
From some Of them it was developed,
bit by bit, that a man known to them
as Dollar john" had entire charge
Of the planting Of voters" in the 9th
Assembly District, and that Dollar
john had assured them there would be
no trouble about it whatever.
Most Of these would-bc illegal voters in
the 9th Assembly District have disap-
peared. and although there Is little ex-
pcctation that they will return on Elcc-
iion Day, warrants have been secured
/ for them and handed to the police, with
instructions to serve them on any one
who tries 10 vote under those names.