New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-07
RETURN 81 INDICTMENTS.
Five Hundred Warrants Out TOR
Illegal Registrations.
READY TO COPE WITH FRAUD
Courts Will Open Early, and
Whitman's Staff Will Be
on Duty All Day.

Too grand iuries returned hfty-one in
dictments Yesterday against peIso''
charged with violating the election laws.
rive hundred warrants have been ISSUED
for use I'm case certain mon try to vote.
Tho magistrates courts will open al D
o'clock this morning and District Attorney
! Whitman and his entire staff VIII ne on
/ duty all day, to act on any emeIgehcI'
/ Magistrate Barlow, sitting specially III
the library Of the District Attorney EeS'er-
dav. issued seventy-hve warrants. Chlet
Magistrate McAdoo. I'm the Tombs Court
issued ninety. The most of these were on
applications made by the District Attorney
John r. Voorhis State Superintendent OF
! Elections. said his deputies had obtained
! in all about fifty warrants. The Dlstrict
Attorney got his information from the in
yestieators of registration under John
BOYLE. ir.. secretary OF the Republican
! County Committee.
Two new grand juries were sworn IN yes
| terday morning. one of these Was the
regular November jury. The additional
| Jury handed down thirty indictments and
! the regular Jury twcnty-one District At
torney Whitman was present when Judge
Rosalsl,y swore in the regular November
iurv. and he addressed the jury on election
cases. Eugene s. Benjamin, Of No 1919
/ Madison avenue, is foreman. The assist
ant district attorneys Strycker and Dem
! ing are in direct charge of the cases. IT. is
/ said that a Tammany alderman, up for re-
( election is involved in the charges, but no
comment came from the District Attor-
/ ncys office yesterday.
1 Michael J. DrummonJ, Commissioner Of
Z tr;. two ON
missioner of Correction, were before one e
/ the grand juries in connection with the
/ eighty one cases of illegal registration on
/ RlackweH's IslaLd They were told they
would be held responsible # any one not
/ entitled TO vote did so.
Mr. Voorhis said yesterday that there
was little of public interest in the work
of his office. My men have Investigate
| complaints where il was thought that regis
tration had been too heavy he said
They found several out Of A hundred or
more that were serious enough to bring
before magistrate Many however. were
of such a slight character that my deputies
saw no reason for going further. so the
complaints were dropped.
Judge Rosalsky will Sit to-day in Cen
| eral Sessions and also as a committing
magistrate In beginning his charge TO the
grand jurors yesterday Judge Rosasky
! said i'm part:
! IT is essential to the proper administIa-
ton Of a free government whose officers
are elected by popular vote, that an hon
eet election shall be held. The violation
Of the election law is a crime against self
| government against our institutions and
against freedom itself
An attempt by fraud, intimidation or
force 10 hinder an honest exercise OF the
| franchise is n perversion Of the spirit OF
our institutions. The Illegal voter ana re-
peater are enemies Of organized society.
Police Commissioner Waldo has told his
inspectors what he expects of them to-day
| Every man in each precinct Of the five
boroughs will be transferred Temporarily
10 another precinct I'm the same borough.
Five thousand out of 100000 letters adj
! dressed to the names on the registration
lists in New York County by the fusion
campaign committee were returned yestor-
day marked Not known at this address.
This Is taken as a clear indication that the
persons so registered are on the books
! illegally and the five thousand names have
han added TO the fusion challenge lists.
Investigators were at once sent out with
the result that warrants viii he issued
| for those persons against whom legal evil
dcnce OF fraudulent registration can he OBJ
! tanned