Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-15
REPUBLICAN BOXES
MAY SHOW FRAUDS
Justice Swayze Urges Hudson
Jury Not to Limit Its lnves-
LEGATIONS to Democrats.

JERSEY CITY. Oct. 15.--Supreme
Court Justice Francis J. Swayze
yesterday afternoons charged the
Hudson county grand jury as to
the alleged election frauds in Ho-
boken on primary day. The JUS
tice said that the matter Ought
to be taken up at once not
only on account of it's great public
Importance, but in order that the ball
lot boxes not required by YOU may
be promptly returned SO that they
may be used at the coming election"
Justice Swayzc continued: Some
of the boxes have been examined.
and, as / understand show no evil
dence of fraud. Other boxes have
been examined and show evidence of
fraud, and these ought to bes held
subject to your order and under the
control of the Prosecutor of the Pleas.
Others have not been opened and
may or may not show evidence of
fraud. 1t is probable that the returns
from these districts may indicate
whether the investigation on your
part will be worth while or not. You
are, of course, free to examine any
of the boxes, but | suggest that
it would be a waste of time to ex
anime those In which there is no rea-
son to suspect anything wrong.
Where there is reason to suspect any
thing wrong your time cannot be bet
ter spent than in the effort to detect
ii and to see that indictments are
presented. You realize as well as l
do the necessity of a strict enforce
ment of the election laws and of our
doing all we can to suppress and
punish fraud. In fact, when fraud of
that kind goes unpublished In this
county, / feel that 1t is reflection
on both the Grand Jury and the
court.
my attention has been called to
the fact that 1t is possible, perhaps
probable. that there may have been
fraud in the ballot boxes of the other
parties, especially the Republican
party, which We're not involved In
the recount OF course, | do not
mean to limit your inquiry to the
boxes involved in the recount. l
think any boxes in which there is
reason to suspect fraud, no matter
of what party, ought to be investi-
gated by you. The prosecutor of the
pleas will look after 1t, and | suggest
that you confer with him. Release
as many of the boxes as you do not
need, and examine thoroughly not
only the Democratic boxes but the
Republican boxes where there Is any
ground of suspicion. If you suspect
anything in the boxes of the other
parties. why, of course. you can ex-
anime them, too. but that is not sug-
gested to me now"
Before Justice Swayze began his
charge Foreman John Ward, of the
Grand Jury, handed up several, in
dictments, including indictments
against Alexander E. Kittredge, Jo-
seph r. Heldner. William H. Bunger,
Herman Stutz and Arthur Reich,
charging them with conspiring to vio-
late the election laws. Indictments
were found against the last four
named, charging them with classifying
the primary returns from the Third
district of the First Ward OF Hobo
ken, of which the four are the cleo
ton board All of the men indicted
are out on bail following their arrest,
with the exception of Reich, who so
far has eluded the officers of the law.
A committee of the grand jury
will confer today with Prosecutor
Hudspeth as to the steps to be
taken to probe further for cleo
ton frauds in the 318 Democratic
ballot boxes which still remain under
guard In an upper room of the Court
House. Four detectives and con-
stables are watching them constant
ly, the watch being relieved every
eight hours