The evening world., 1914-06-15
Is murphy MEN
GUILTY OF FRAUD
At APRIL ELECTION
Inspectors and Clerks Gave
Big Tammany Vote for Con-
stitutional Convention,

Nineteen election inspectors and poll
and ballot clerks ~ the Twelfth As
sembly District o-day pleaded guilty
TO violating the election lawn, before
Justice Vernon NJ. Davis In the Grim
inal Branch OF the Supreme Court.
Three others pleaded guilty last Fri
day and three more will do likewise
tomorrow. making twenty-five in all
The frauds were committed on April
> during . special election held to
determine whether q Constitutional
Convention should he called. Tho dis
trict II that OF Charles r. Murphy.
the chieftain Of Tammany Hall. but
no evidence was secured to show that
he was IN any way responsible for
the violations OF tho law.
A number Of the inspectors con-
fessed to the Grand Jury which
brought in tho indictments that the
impression was that Tammany Hall
wanted a large vote for tho holding Of
tho convention and that a. nobody
seemed TO be interested In the question
and the vote would prove extremity
small. they Just flled in ballots with
the name Of both live and dead ones
and cast them. A no one would be
deprived Of office by this malpractice
Of the election laws. they thought II
was all right TO 20 ahead and cast all
the votes they thought necessary for
the making Of q good show in the
Murphy district That wNs their
story. Republican a. we'll a. Demo-
cato inspectors were indicted.
The plea was made to . miods-
meanor charge and the penalty 10 .
nns of $500 or one year in Jail or
both jail term and nne. The guilty
men will b sentenced Tomorrow
afternoon At o'clock By Justice
DAVIS.
Tho confessions Of guilt Of the
Twelfth Assembly District oficers
makes II extremely probable that
there will be no constitutional con.
vention this year. a thing that Tam
| many wanted for purposes OF redis-
tricting the city. There was only q
| majority Of 1900 votes through all the
state. and It Ii believed that through
out the city more than that number Of
fraudulent votes were cast. The
election can be contested by civil ac-
| ton In tho courts. and the Honest
Ballot Association. the City Club and
the Republicans now have under CON-
sideration the mannsr Of making this
contest. .,
The pleas Of guilty TO . misde.
meanor were accepted by Justice
Davis on the recommendation Of Dis
trict- Attorney Whitman and Assist
ant District-Attorney Ford, who made
the investigation. Some Of the In
spectors confessed to having voted
fftesn. eighteen and twenty names.
None OF the men who told tho bald
truth to the Grand Jury charged that
any instructions had been received
from men higher up in the Demo-
cratic party and It seemed that they
ton. II In not improbable that they
will be punished by fines merely.
The men who pleaded guilty to- day
were: william Sweeney. No. AT East
Seventeenth street: Henry Hogan,
No. as EAST Fourteenth street; will
lam Wertheimer. No. 6l9 East
Twelfth street: Daniel W. Brosnan,
No. Sol First avenue; Joseph Coates,
No. SIC Second avenue: George Was
sen, No. %23 East Sixteenth street :
Edward Cubea, No. All East Four
teenth street: Lee Bleck. No. $50 East
Fifteenth street; August Ramb. No
6sS East Sixteenth street: William
Beisler, No. 603 East Sixteenth street :
John YuenglinK. No. 400 East TWEEN
ty- second street; Louis Bachmann
No. 27l Avenue A; John #. Pagan
No. 4OS East Twenty-third street
Gilbert J. Bagley. No. 6O6 East FIJI
teenth street: Charles II. Coolidge
No. 324 Second avenue; Peter Conlon
No. A2 East Sixteenth street: Ed
ward II. Loan. No. 613 East Four.
teenth street: James Iarrousse, No
606 East Fifteenth street. and Johr
d. Figiiozzi. No. COZ East Sixteenth
street.