Modern battles of Trenton .. . rk had encountered in the grand juryroom had made it impossible for him and them to do more inthe interest of justice. The accused men were arrested at once, and Prosecutor Win-field made prepara-tions for their im-mediate trial. Eachindictment chargedthe four men whomade up an electionboard, and Win-fields prophecy thathe would startthe whole crew ofrascals to StatePrison in files offour became bad an enormouspile of testimony todigest and arrange,^no end of records toexamine, clues tofollow up, and wit-nesses to chase outfrom their hiding-places. Capt
Modern battles of Trenton .. . rk had encountered in the grand juryroom had made it impossible for him and them to do more inthe interest of justice. The accused men were arrested at once, and Prosecutor Win-field made prepara-tions for their im-mediate trial. Eachindictment chargedthe four men whomade up an electionboard, and Win-fields prophecy thathe would startthe whole crew ofrascals to StatePrison in files offour became bad an enormouspile of testimony todigest and arrange,^no end of records toexamine, clues tofollow up, and wit-nesses to chase outfrom their hiding-places. CaptainJohn Graham, who had rendered such valuable service to theGardner Investigating Committee, was the only man whom hecould trust as his assistant in the performance of this difficultand onerous task, and the two frequently worked all night inthe preparation of the cases that were weekly called to through the records he struck evidence that the frauds hadbeen carefully planned beforehand by a directing head, and that. Charl Win field. MODERN BATTLES OF TRENTON. 341 they had been perpetrated at most of the one hundred and«ixty-three polling-places in Jersey City. Hints as to who wasthe head and front of the conspiracy were numerous, but themost searching inquiry failed to bring any convincing proofs oftheir justice. The fraudulent ballots found in the boxes had been printedon a thin tissue-paper unlike that which had been used for the^-egular ballots, and were so marked that they could be easilydetected; but beyond some testimony that they were taken fromthe Democratic County Committees rooms by the poll-workerson the night before election, no trace of the manner in whichthey had got into general circulation could be secured. Themarks found upon the fraudulent ballots were in all cases dif-ferent from those made by the automatic registering machineryof the box in which they were discovered; the circularprint made by it became an ellipse, and the needle puncturethat sh
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