Modern battles of Trenton .. . tamp notmerely of fraud but of a conspiracy as broad as the countyitself. The milling and stamping were not such as the machinery of the boxes could haveproduced. Poll- booksdid not agree withregistry-books. Tally-sheets failed to cor-roborate the other rec-ords of the evidences of astupendous crime wereeverywhere. When it had com-pleted its startling ex-cursion through thfrballot-boxes the com-mittee met in ChanceryChambers in thebrown-stone buildingof the First NationalBank in Jersey City,and prosecuted equallyfruitful explorations into the registry a
Modern battles of Trenton .. . tamp notmerely of fraud but of a conspiracy as broad as the countyitself. The milling and stamping were not such as the machinery of the boxes could haveproduced. Poll- booksdid not agree withregistry-books. Tally-sheets failed to cor-roborate the other rec-ords of the evidences of astupendous crime wereeverywhere. When it had com-pleted its startling ex-cursion through thfrballot-boxes the com-mittee met in ChanceryChambers in thebrown-stone buildingof the First NationalBank in Jersey City,and prosecuted equallyfruitful explorations into the registry and poll-lists. The testi-mony of one witness revealed a passing glimpse of a coach thatmade the rounds of the election booths in Jersey City beforethe hour for the opening of the polls, with a lot of rolls ofpaper. The committee intimated its belief that these rolls ofpaper were lists of names for the use of the repeaters employedby the ring and the ballot-box stuffers. The committee engaged a corps of detectives, and, placing. John J. Gardner. MODERN BATTLES OF TRENTON. 331 them at the service of Captain John Graham, a constable ofstalwart build and a courage that knew no fear, directed him tolearn if the men whose names appeared on the registry-lists asof those who intended to vote, and if others whose names ap-peared on the poll-lists as of those who had voted, really livedat the places of residence assigned to them in the records. TheCaptain was met at every stage of his inquiry with threats ofviolence at the hands of the hunted ringsters, but he went onfearlessly with his task. Every day he sent to the witness standwidows to testify that their husbands, recorded as having voted,had lain in their shrouds for years, and housekeepers to declarethat they had never had the pleasure of the acquaintance ofscores of men recorded as sharing their homes with , indeed, was it for the weak-nerved men and thehysterical women of the county that they knew nothing of aghostl
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