Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-11-04
SLEUTHS
WATCH VOTERS
Several at Court House Keep
Eyes Upon Transfer
Applicants.

The corridors of the Court House,
and even Judge William P. Martins
court room, VAS a buzz, a veritable
of all nationalities sought to obtain
transfers so they could vote tomor.
row.
And outside OF the voters there
were a number of operatives from
the William j. Burns detective
agency, who were watching for pos
sible violations of the registration
law. Just how many there were
could not be learned. as Prosecutor
Wilbur A. Mott refused to state, al
though he did not deny the presence
of the detectives in the Court House.
He admitted that more would be
on duty tomorrow at polling places
where violations of the law are TX
pected, but still refused to say how
many. contenting himself with the
answer more than there are today"
To an experienced eye it was not
hard to spot the Burns operatives
in the comparatively small court
ROOM, as in order to obtain vantage
places where they could watch the
transfer operations they would fill
out the application blanks for trans
fers, thus enabling to get inside of
the courtroom rail, and then, before
reaching the judge, would drop out
of the line, tear up the application
and mix with the crowd again. either
in another part of the courtroom OF
in the corridor.
The courtroom was filled to its
practically all day long. prob
ably 400 cases being handled by the
hour. The coming and going of
the men, a majority of them foreign
ers. made so much confusion that
Judge Martin several times threat
ened to suspend operations until or
der could be obtained.
Considerable of this noise was
caused by the Burns operatives NOV
ing from n part of the to an
there being probably fifteen or
twenty of them moving in the room
at all times.
Judge Martin issued transfers until
1 o'clock, and at 2 o'clock Judge
Harry V. Osborne took up the work.
both judges will alternate
on the work, starting at 9 o'clock In
the morning and continuing until the
of the polls in the evening.
Jerome T. Congleton appeared be-
fore the court shortly before noon
and announced that he had a list of
approximately 1000 names of voters
that he desired to have stricken from
the list. Most OF them were in the
and Fourth wards, he said.
Mr.. Congleton is acting for the Aron-
committee and produced as his
witness Harry Klein, a Burns
operative, who told of Investigations
made in the Fourth ward on Satur-
day and yesterday. He found at 81
Centre street, so he testified, eight
names registered as living there that
we're not known at the addrss, al
the police list had been
marked correct as to the address.
Klein had sem registered letters to
the men whose names he brought out
and they had been returned unclaim-
ed, he stated. Judge Martin ordered
the names stricken from the list.
then went on with lists
by other Burns's operatives,
but was furnished a special stenog-
by Judge Martin, who said he
would read the testimony later and
announce decision. Mr.. Congleton ex-
poets to take the greater part of the
afternoon in finishing up his appeals
that names be stricken from the
registry.
Up to 1 o'clock more than $50
transfers had been granted and the
courtroom was still filed with
waiting men
Among the prominent men who
sought and obtained transfers today
were Morris r. Sherrerd, city engi-
neer, who said he had moved from
the fifth district of the Fourth ward
to the first district of the Ninth
ward, and Under Sheriff Harvey W.
Keough, who moved from the first
the second district of the Fifth
ward.
Others who obtained transfers
We're Joseph Reicheimer, from the
district of the Second ward
to the Sixth district of the Sixth
ward; Henry f. Trimpi, from South
Orange village to the first district
of the Fourth ward, Newark, and
Ovidia Bianchi, who moved from the
Second ward, second district Or
ange, to the Third ward, first dis
frict. in the same town.