Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-03
Reputable Citizens Drag
ged Into Court to Prove
They Are Entitled to
Vote.
600 WARRANTS PLACED
IN HANDS OF DEPUTIES
Prisoners Seized in Many Dis
tricts and Rushed to Court
House Methods Are De-
nounced-Many Citizens Ap-
pretended as Result OF Mis-
takes by Election Clerks.

Wholesale arrests for alleged Illegal
registration marked the opening of
the polls today. Prisoners from al
most every ward and district in the
city were taken to the prosecutors
Office in a steady stream. UP to noon
there We're more than score of ar
rests, and the police of the various
precincts are said to have warrants
for more than 500 persons, which viii
be served as soon as the persons
named come TO the polls to vote.
Many of the warrants are for men
registered from addresses in the CEN
tire of the city, in the Fourth, First
and Second wards. At least $50 wal
rants have been issued FOR persons
registered from these wards, with al
most half of the warrants sworn out
Tor persons in the Second ward.
These warrants We're turned over
to the captains of the various police
precincts last night by Frederick
Wemer, chief of the prosecutors de-
teetives. Policemen assigned to the
polling place of each district where
voters We're alleged to be registered
illegally were instructed to arrest the
men for whom he held warrants as
soon as they appeared to vote. Chal-
lengers at the polls also had lists of
those for whom warrants were out.
When these men were taken prisoner
the captain of the precinct where
they we-e arrested sent word to the
prosecute s office, and an automo-
bile was sent 10 convey the prisoners
TO the Court House. Es
Judges Martin and Osborne and
Matthew j, Treaeey and Meyer Slut
zhS, Justices of the peace are sitting
tt the Court House today for the pui-
Huose of hearing the cases Of alleged
illegal registration. Up to noon none
of the prisoners had been arraigi1ed,
Prosecutor Guild is taking personal
charge, of the cases of illegal regis
tration.
City Counsel Nugent went to the
prosecutors office shortly before noon
to protest against the manner N
which voters We're being arrested.
do you think. Mr. Nugent asked
the prosecutor, that if a policeman
rings doorbell, asks if a certain
man lives in the house and receives
a negative response that constitutes
sufficient evidence to arrest a man
for illegal registration
Eyes. we think So" the prosecutor
told him.
"Well, ahis. beats old time Russia:
that's all / can say, said Mr..
Nugent.
While Mr. Nugent was at the Court
House, Giovanni Accimondo, of 26
Csarside street, was brought in. lie
hao been arrested charged with IL
legal registration. Mr.. Nugent asked
why the arrest had been made.
1.Twenty-six Garside street which
this man gives as his home address,
is a printing shop said the prose-
cutor.
"That may be so, but this man has
lived there, in the rear of the print
ing shop, for two years., said Mr.
Nugent.
Investigation by the prosecutor
showed this to be SO, and the man
was released
Four of the score of persons who
were arrested were taken into GUS
tody last night They were registered
from 80 Orange street, where Jacob
Braumstein, who was arrested last
Saturday charged with aiding and
abetting illegal registration keeps
salon. The four men spent the night
in the county jail.
Among those who We're arrested
was John Holden, judge of elections
in the third district of the Second
ward. Holden registered from 241
Plane street on primary day. AT that
time he hved at that address. Three
weeks ago, however, he moved to 24S
Plane street, and a warrant was is
sued for his arrest on the ground he
was not registered from his home.
John l.. Duryee was another Sec
md Warden mbO Was 7-paSto1 DIR
yee not only lives at 436 High street,
he address from which he was reg
istered. but owns the house at we'll.
Nevertheless. he was arrested,
charged with illegal registration.
Michael Stonack, of 70 Lille street.
was arrested when he attempted to
vote this morning because of an error
on the part of the Prosecutors Of
lice. After Stomach told his story the
Prosecutors office admitted its mis-
take, and Stomach was allowed to
vote.
When Stonack appeared in the poll
ing booth of the Fifth district of the
Fourteenth ward, at 12S Belmont ave-
rue, this morning, he was told that
he could not vote as he was not on
the list. On warrant sworn out by
the prosecutors office, he was ar
rested by Patrolman Linnenkohl, OF
bllt rOui I'll pASClICly anu " tllt
Fourth precinct police station 1t
then developed that through an error
Stomach had been registered as living
at 79 Livingston street, instead of at
70 Lille street. Investigation by the
police confirmed Stonack's statement
that he had resided at 70 Lille street
for the last three months. The Fourth
precinct police notified the prosecu-
tors office of what they had learned,
and were ordered to release Stomach
and allow him to vote
When Louis Leible, halter, of 90
Montgomery street, presented himself
before the election board in the Fifth
district of the Third ward, he was
denied the privilege of casting his
ballot. An investigation showed that
the election board in registering his
name had mispelled it. When Leible
insisted upon his right to exercise
his prerogative he was taken into
custody.
Friends who went to his assistance
met with considerable difficulty at the
Court House. This being a legal holt
day, the telephone operator at the