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Show Y03K ElECION FS ME TO iBE MOT Hearst Offers Additional Rewards for Crooked Judges; Ballot Boxes found 1 in aut-of-the-Way Places Make Sus-picion Sus-picion Stronger. - -. NEW. YORK, XOY..10. Ten indictments for violations of the election law and two for assaults committed at last Tuesday's election elec-tion were drawn up by the grand jury, to day, The. jury adjourned until Monday before the indictments had been presented to them for indorsement after being drawn up. NEW YORK, Nov. 10. Evidence of fraud in last Tuesday's election was prepared for the grand jury today by both State's Attor- . ney-General Mayer and by the law committee, which is conducting William R. Hearst's contest for the Mayoralty election.' Mr. Hearst made public ji postal card received today and signed merely "Truck-driver," which read: "On Wednesday night five ballot bal-lot boxes were taken from a boarding stable at 232 Front f treef i NEW YORK, Nov. 10. Prosecution of persons guilty' of election elec-tion frauds will be vigorously pushed here and every effort will be made to punish the guilty persons. Additional rewards amounting to 117,000 have been offered by Hearst for the conviction of election judges guilty of crooked methods. The finding of a number of ballot . boxes in out-of-the-way places leads to the belief that there was much fraud In the election. talnir.g the official return and tally sheets for the Seventy-third election district of the Thirty-fifth Assembly district was found in a baby carriage "In the cellar of a house in the Bronx. , How it got there no one in the house ' was. able to explain. 0 Hearst Was Ahead. The tally sheet showed that 2i voles had been cast for William N. Ivins. 99 for Mayor McClellan and 139 for William R. Hearst Both Mr. Jerome nd Attorney-General Mayer at once Iwgan in investigation.' Archibald Hassoll. a po!l clerk who signed the tally sheet, said he sealed the returns and gave them to the chairman of the ejection board. The latter, when found, said he had turned the returns over to a man ramed Dawson, Daw-son, who was to take them to the. proper place. Dawson could not h found la?t nleht. Additional He ward. W. R. Hearst ar.nour.ced today an additional rev.nrO of $10,000 for evidence evi-dence for the t-rrt, conviction and 1m-prlsonmr.i 1m-prlsonmr.i of fr.o first Tammany district dis-trict leeJ.-r :o b- convicted of frauds against the talict on Tuesday's election. elec-tion. This l p. Initio." t,i the oter rewards, re-wards, usi-epating' f 17. COO. for proof of crimes ajralnst the l.iilot and registration registra-tion laws In the election. This makes the total of rewards he has offered 127,000. -NEW YORK, Nov. 10. Attorney-General Attorney-General Julius Mayer, before leaving his office after midnight this morning, arranged to appear before a magistrate in the' Criminal' courts building today to prosecute several persons charged with violation of the election laws. Arrests, Ar-rests, it was said, would be made at an early ' hour, and the prisoners lnclJde one or more police officers. 9 These arrests, it was said, would be the result of the accidental discovery of an unlocked and unsealed ballot box, full of protested ballots In the rear of a barber shop that had been used as a polling place in an election district In the Twenty-first Assembly district. May Qo Before Grand Jury. Today the matter may be put before the grand Jury. It Is said that it will not be a question of John Doe proceedings, proceed-ings, but that direct evidence will -be presented. The first information regarding the "r.ding of the ballot box came to Dls- .t Attorney Jerome yesterday .uiougo a policeman, who walked into Mr. Jerome's office with a bunch of baliots and eald that he knew where more of the same kind were to be found, but that he had not dared to bring in all he had found until he had been assured of protection. Returns With Ballot Box. He was sent back with a county detective, de-tective, whom he escorted to the barber shop, where the ballot box was found. When the policeman returned with the ballot box wrapped up in a piece of ordinary newspaper, he was taken Into Mr. Jerome's private office, where were also Attorney-General Mayer, State Suoerintendent of Elections Morgan and several deputies. Later Assistant District Attorney Sanford and several stenographers were called in. Six Morgan Mor-gan deputies were sent out soon afterward after-ward with subpoenas. None Reported Missing. So far as could be learned this morning morn-ing the police have not reported any ballot boxes missing since the election. At the same time there have been reports re-ports that unlocked and unsealed ballot bal-lot boxes have been found in out-of-the-way places. There was one report that ten men on the tugboat Robert White picked Op four ballot boxes floating float-ing In the river early yesterday. Before going home this morning Attorney-General Mayer was asked If he had received any Information of the finding of four ballot boxes in the East river by the tug Robert White. "I have not had any such information informa-tion Mr. Mayer said. "Have you been told of the finding of boxes in the North liver?" he was ".After some hesitation, he answered: "Yes. the North river. I have had such Information." , Two Boxes Found. At the headquarters of the Municipal Ownership league it was announced that two ballot boxes had been found In a tailor shop, next door to the old town hall, Gravesend. This t-hop as ued as a polling pl.-v-e on election day. The boxes, it is saM. v.erc discovered by Bernard Wayneck. a representative of the league, who reported that one contained mutilated ballots and t:e other, ruppostd to contain ballot stubs, was empty. Evidence of gross cpreiessnrs iu t ie care ol eiection returns developed yesterday, yes-terday, when the official envelops con- v . - - -.- - |