Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-22
Jury WILL PROBE
ALL BALLOTBOXES
Hudson Investigators lndict
Thirty-two Election Officers
for Primary Frauds.

JERSEY CITY. Oct. 22.-The Hud-
son county grand Jury today is search
Ing the ballot boxes used In the
primary election at Bayonne, and de-
velopments are expected shortly that
VIII duplicate a score or more OF
election officials in different parts OF
the county.
The jury yesterday handed up thir-
ty-two indictments against the cleo
ton officers of eight election districts
In Hoboken and at the same time an.
nounced that the probe would be
made countrywide.
Foreman John H Ward informed
Supreme Court Justice Francis J.
Swayze that in examining the forty
five boxes few of them were found to
conform with the law in respect to
the return of the unused ballots and
stubs. and in the majority of the
boxes there were errors In the count
Eight of these boxes we found So
wrong" said Mr. Ward, that II
looked to us as If a crime had been
committed. and in these cases we
have found indictments and offer
them at this time"
The eight boxes that interested the
| Grand Jury were as follows, the
names of the indicted election boards
in each case being taken from the
records of the County Boards OF Elec-
| tons
Third District, First ward-Joseph
r. Heldner. Arthur H. Reich, William
H. Bunger and Herman Stutz. This
board has already been twice in
dicted.
Sixth District, Second ward-wal-
ter c. Ludwig, Walter z. Morris,
Morris L. Smithson and Charles H.
Hicks.
Sixth District, Fourth Ward
Charles Tiscornin, James ]. McClos-
key, Henry Geiger and John F.
Lynch.
Eighth District, Fourth Ward
Charles NJ. Cooke, Richard Aschinger,
| Joseph j. Maloney and Elmer Walsh.
Second District. Fifth Ward-Jere-
| miah ]. Ryan, Patrick J. Cornell, Jo-
| seph F. Kelly and John NJ. Hopkins.
Fourth District, Fifth Ward-Will-
lam B. Burtis. Harold H. Dewey,
Thomas F. Brady and Charles Papa
| chane.
Seventh District, Fifth ward-Fred-
erick Hahn, Lewis Baeder, Thomas
| O'Reilly and John A. Matthews.
| Third District. Second Ward-Will-
lam H. Hartman. Douglas Mcknight,
August V. Berner and Edward c.
Halsey.
| Discrepancies are said to exist in
the boxes from the Seventh district
of the Third Ward, and the Fifth dis
trict of the Fifth Ward. the last
named being a Democratic box, bur
no report of indictments has been
heard in these cases.
To what extent, the returns were
'off color" in the boxes from the dis
| tricts where indictments were found
| is not known precisely, but 1t is un-
| derstood that In some of the boxes
| fifty votes were stolen for Stokes as
against Carey and that from seventy
| to eighty votes were given to John
| Rotterdam, candidate for the Re-
publican State Committee, as agains:
George w Decker, who was nomi-
| mated.
| AS the Grand Jury proceeds with its
probe, there Is a great feeling of UNI
| easiness among the members of the
| other boards. Many of them known
| to be straight and honest feel thai
| they may be indicted either for errors
honestly made, or for the alleged
crooked work pulled off by some un-
scrupulous colleague on the board.
The expose of the fraud or errors will
evidently do more toward securing
election officers who will obey the law
in every particular in the future.