Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-18
DERE[|CT ELECTION
OFFICIALS BUSTED
Judge Osborne Wipes Out One
Board-Sends Case to
Grand Jury.

Charges of dereliction of duty on
the part OF election officers in vari-
GUS districts at the last general cleo
ton were heard by Judge Harry v.
Osborne yesterday afternoon, result
ing in the removal from office of one
board of election, a like fate threat
ened for another and the members
OF four other boards censured.
The board of the Seventh district
of the Seventh ward was the one re-
moved, and Judge Osborne ordered
tho testimony taken at yesterdays
hearing sent to the grand jury for
such action as that body may see fit
to take. The members of the board
are Frank L. Mats, SO Wilsey street:
John ]. Lahey, 48 Wilsey street; Ben
iamin o. Garfield, 376 Academy street,
and George HELEN, 142 Newark street.
1t is alleged that the board allowed
men to vote on the names of other
men In this district, and the specific
complaint made by John Mulligan,
142 Norfolk street, who when he went
to vote found that another man had
already voted on his name. DR.. Wat
son Rodemann, clerk of the County
Board of Elections, testified that he
had been in the election booth, I'M
known to the election board, for ten
minutes, and that during that time
two other men encountered the same
difficulty that Mulligan had found
Miss Martha Nordine, who acted as
a Progressive challenger in the Sec
ond district of the Fourth ward, tes-
titled that "electioneering" was al
lowed in the polling place and that
other violations of the law also took
place. The same sort of testimony
was given by Mrs Frank A. Pattison.
of Colonia, N. j., who aced as a chal-
leiger in the Tenth district il the
Second ward.
The matter against the board Of the
Second district of the Fourth ward
was taken under advisement, while
in the case of the officers of the Tenth
district of the Second ward Judge
Osborne decided that the officers had
acted In good faith and dismissed the
charges against them.
A warning was also given the
boards of the First district, Sixteenth
ward; Second district, Second ward;
Second district. Third ward, East Or
ange, in all of which cases the boards
pleaded guilty to having made invol-
untary mistakes.
Charges against the officers of the
First district, First ward, made by
the owner of the polling place. Frank
Zarro, an undertaken at POS Eighth
avenue, who alleges that some of his
property was broken and destroyed
by election officers, will be taken up
by Judge Osborne at 4 o'clock tomor-
row afternoon, when he will have the
officers of the board before him.
Patrick j. Curran, 13 Cherry street;
John Van Doren, jr., 81 East Park
street; Michael Minervina, so East
Park street, and Anthony Barris, 81
1t - T1I..
bane, 344 Washington street; Thomas
j. Naylor. Il Court street, and Thomas
]. Adams, q Court street, of the
Tenth District, Second Ward Frank
L. Mats, SO Wilsey street; John j.
Lahey, 4S Wilsey street; Benjamin o.
Garfield, 276 Academy street, and
George HELEN, 142 Newark street, of
the Seventh District of the Seventh
Ward
James Richliano, 224 Eighth ave-
nue.; Erminio Russomano, 1861 Eighth
avenue; Antonio S. Cervone, 8 Boy
dem street, and Carlo Di Giacomo, of
the First District of the First Ward;
Alfred E. Hedges, 81 Bank street;
. Herbert l.. King. 107 Halsey street;
9ohn j. Merry, PIP Washington street
and Joseph G. Miller, 268 Washington
street, of the Second District of the
Second Ward; Harry G. Zellers, 44a
Clinton avenue; Joseph A. Behr, 141
Peshine avenuej Reuben r. King, 57a
Hunterdon street, and Adolf Freuden-
berger, of 159 Peshine avenue. of the
First District of the Sixteenth Ward;
Charles F. Neuffer, 55 Ashland ave-
nue.; Albert j. Condit, rs Lincoln ave.
nue.; Louis E. wager, IS Prospect
street; Robert Walford, 70 Ashland
avenue, East Orange, of the Third
District of the Second Ward, Of East
Orange.