| Subject: [EL] Voter fraud, 1860 edition |
| From: Derek Muller |
| Date: 11/8/2010, 10:21 AM |
| To: Election Law |
An old man, giving the name of JAMES W. SLOVER, who represented that he had spent the last four weeks in electioneering for the Fusion Party presented himself at the poll of the Eighth election District of the Twenty-second Ward early on Tuesday morning and deposited his ballots without let or hindrance. In the afternoon his enthusiasm had increased to such a pitch that he tried to get in "just one more vote" for the candidates of his choice. To do this he presented himself, shortly before the polls closed, at the same place where he had voted in the morning, and his attempted fraud having been detected, he was taken into custody. Justice CONNOLLY sent him to prison pending an examination into the case.
The following named persons were also taken before the police magistrates yesterday on charges of having unwarantably attempted to exercise the elective franchise: James Scales from the First Ward; Michael Smith from the Fifteenth Ward; Wm. Gaatz and John McCaffrey from the Tenth; Jas. McDermott from the Twenty-second; Charles O'Hearn and Michael Dorrs from the Twenty-third; Edward Gleason from the Seventeenth; David P. Bryant and Henry Wilson from the Seventh, and James O'Shannessy and Francis O'Neil from the Eleventh. Three or four of the accused are also amenable for having violated a provision of the Registry law, the penalty for which offence is severer than that imposed for voting illegally -- the latter being punished by confinement for a term of six months in the Penitentiary, and the former by imprisonment for not less than a year. The Police Commissioners have given permission to the members of the force making the arrests to receive the $100 reward offered for each conviction in a case of this kind.