The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-10-28
Grand Juries in Both Bor-
oughs to Get Charges of
Official Neglect.
HYLAN LETTER ASSAILED
Law Deputy Says SAKE Wrote
It-Jewish Forward AL
leges 800 Floaters.

Registration Of voters in the lower
East Side Of Manhattan is ''indescrib-
ably rotten" Abraham S. Gilbert, Dep
1ty Attorney General, said yesterday
at the close Of another day Of in
vestigation.
False registration, perjury, neglect
of duty by public officials, false infor-
nation by occupants of dwellings are
as common as flies in summer" Mr..
Gilbert said. Others asserted the in
quiry is developing into the worst
ballot scandal New York has known
in years.
In Brooklyn conditions are a scan
dal, according to Grover NJ. Mosco-
witz. Special Deputy Attorney Gen
eral, in charge of Kings. He ordered
several arrests yesterday after ques-
tioning scores of persons charged with
false registration. In both Manhat-
sented to Grand Juries.
The Forward Associat ion. publishers Of
the Jewish Daily For1card, announced
that 500 floaters had been planted B..
Tamrnany In the Twelfth Congressional
District and Offered reward OF $1,000
for the conviction OF the first twenty
illegal registrants.
Cites Violations.
| Mr.. Gilbert said that the statement
given out by Mayor Hylan assailing the
State officials for going after the regis-
tration frauds was written by John
Godfrey SAKE of the Tammany law
committee. He added:
1.-THE deeper we go the worse it gets.
In one election distri:. checked up by
my office to-day. find this remarkable
condition: In a tenement house occupied
entirely by Italian families twenty-six
men have registered, all giving what
are generally known as Irish or Ameri-
can names; most of them give no place
of business and no business address;
one person gives none of the data re-
quired by the statute; seven of these in
dividuals give their age as 62; seventeen
of them claim to have been born on
Manhattan Island; ten of them state
they live on the same floor. My In
vestigator reports that none of them
live In the building from which they
have registered. and that none OF them
are known by any one IN that building.
I'm another district investigated by
me to-day there woulG appear To be
at least nine. possibly eleven. persons
registered from a Democratic cam
paign headquarters In which nobody
really lives.
"John Godfrey SAKE OF the Tam
many Hall law committee and chairman
OF the Democratic State law committee.
who prepared the statement issued By
Mayor Hylan yesterday, might well
spend a little time investigating condi-
,ions in the section of the city to which
I have referred before he undertakes
To create a smoke screeD BY attacking
my efforts to make this clean
election"
Arrests I'm Brooklyn.
The offices OF Mr. Moscowltz. the
Brooklyn deputy, at 1s9 Montague street
were crowded for hours. Special depu-
ties who assisted were Sidney T..
Strongin. Clarence w. Donovan, Jacob
a. Freedman and Norris Salpeter.
George w. Gioster was arrested on
warrant issued by County Judge George
w. Martin. Gloster registered In the
Fifth Assembly District, giving his resi-
dence as IL Utica avenue. Several wit
nesses testified ne did not reside there
but at 233 Marion street. Adolph Hon-
meyer owner OF the IL Utica avenue
property, testified that number OF
gangsters had threatened TO beat him up
IL he testified. Mr.. Moscowitz demanded
that the police round UP the gangsters.
Gloster was held IN $1,000 bal.
Walter Scott registered from the
Third Assembly District, giving his ad-
dress as sac Court street. Witnesses
said he had been dspossessed from that
address IN September. He was held in
$1,000 bail
Sam Kalb registered from 404 Dumont
avenue. He was disqualified from vot-
ing, having been convicted on n charge
OF grand larceny.
Several witnesses who gave their
residences as the Fort Lowry Hotel In
Bath Beach were before Mr.. Moscowitz