| Show POLICE P GU GUARDED THE T BALLOT B BOXES Promptly Complied Compiled With Justice Order to Take Them To Board of Elections HO NO ONE DUE THERE TO RECEIVE THEM John I K H Voorhees President of or Board Declined to Accept Responsibility In time the Matter I TIlE THE QUESTION OF LEGAL CUSTODY Hearst Men Ien Hustled Around In Iii An Att to Serve Order tug Arr Array y of or Counsel Nfl New York Nov Aided by II an orray nr or Ar Array ray of local legal talent In lu which are r Ia Un law lawyers yer of ot great reat prominence not on only an ai master of ot their profession but also all na ems loader leader In tn mor moors thAn on one movement tf InC or good government In this thin city William Randolph Hearst Ivan has begun his bin tIght light In him th the courts court for tor or the mayoralty which ho hi believes ho won in III Tuesdays Tuesday eleo lion and hi his hili first ct step p hits hait created a situation apparently without prece precedent dent Last night lie he obtained an sit order Justice of If the court directing time tilt police to turn over ovar overall all 1111 ballot boxes boxel to the board of eler elet lions at once The Th police pollee obeyed time tho order ems far ar ax II the they could hut when thy they proceeded In tim the after midnight ht hours to the election boards boardM there thre was H II no one there to lo take custody of I the nims boxes boxel and und th the Ihl policemen were compelled to remain In imm the street ron for hours guarding the depositories tu of fl th tin limo peoples vote otc Later John I K IC president of If the board declined to a 11 ac accept apt ept responsibility In imi the matter pend lag Inn advice from time the corporation conn coun set tiel Mr 11 Voorhees In is it 1 Democrat mid when his 1111 decision was mill made kno known n nI I he the Hearst men turned to lo Churles V it n Republican member ot or the NN I hut he ulso aio declined to 10 act ami then therm the police pollee wel weme erti left In III the tIme strange I of nf trying to carry out the thu courts orders ord I but being unable una hIe to do ulo doo so 80 o The Time street in the time vicinity l of th Ih the election board dittoed l n 11 1 strange sight as us hundreds of or police mell mci stood guard around the time petrol patrol 1 wagons and mend other v vehicle In which the boxes boxen had been ben conveyed from Urn hiss various pret precinct station house Col oh ai Alexander S 11 Haron one omme of Mi Mm 11 heards la lawyer ler Vho timo played n a prominent nent mint part purt In the doln doings doing of at the made arrangements arrangement for the police to tu get breakfast In a nearby narby fp restaurant refusing to rec receive the elitist ballot boxes boxen Mr Mm 11 eon Commissioner and tile tha boxes boxell were voie kept In III time the police wagons va In front of s I m of the board bourel of ot tl elections pending n decision b by hi I t corporation co ro muse Mr Mm 11 said that Ih time the New W York 1011 state supreme court had imami held In imi a re 11 recent recent cent decision that the board of else elec elections I tlona ion Is III not mint th time the rouse custodian of ot the Ihn hOX M but bitt that the time police art ams Among the aiding Hearst Is Itc William M uI I Kins the time Republican candidate for tor mayor In Tuesdays else elec Mr MI volunteered lila his ser ear services 1 vices ices to Mr 1 hearst and the offer was wan Another attorney acting Jo fur for hearst Is III Judge John T F Dillon wh wlm ul III as ut met me omme time thin Idre don of ot th the supreme con 01 of ot lown Iowa President alil that even It If th time tho legal decision should be that thai hit Imis board bourd must receive the ballot box boxes hn ho would ha have them sent under poUr police guard guird to some MOm storage place other t his hili office omee n bleh ilch was too small annul for th lv lull pui po poIn In Brooklyn also the ballot box boxes 1 were re P 11 nut nit b by the board bourd of ell elec elections but hul the police pollee were ura permitted t I to carry them lot Into It Its II room In the tho Tern Tem Temple pIe piC Bar lIar building By Ry 8 11 this thin morning till all the tho ballot bIlot boxes from th time various precincts were In th the offices 1 kro un tin under ct der r guard l arid and Mr Dad Daily has gone gomie to New ew York to confer with Mr II upon upun the situation n It tt WM II reported t that many of ot the ballot boxed bakes in Brook Brooklyn Brooklyn lyn were fr not properly before noon extra police were culled out tn to keep order In the vicin hin vicinity ity of ot the In Manhattan II Its J Il Start Automobiles with Men I ott Carrying I Con Courts Order New York Nov Nor 9 II Sensational de tIe developments i folio follo followed wed Id rapidly this mom mOIn Ing 1111 the light fight of cut t Ft 11 R to i contest the lb mu orally ty election of or It H MClellan Having secured t last nn no order from Justice Jay I nor nol In tn n the police I to deliver dolhI the ballot boxes boise to the board boud of elections election forthwith m omen n lost Ilet no 00 time Ume in iii Ie I rio fiO automobiles carrying men armed d with the courts courll order to the various pollee police stations they den rde I 1 Ithe Ithe the ballot boxes boxen in most Instances time the In charge char at stations directed that hut the box boxes be placed In patrol wagons WI OIlI and each lot guarded by b five policemen hurried to 10 the office alice of or ortho th the tho board of ot elections at 78 S Greenwich street Meantime other Hearst men macit had gone rono to the horn of ot John K R Voorhees preel president dent of the board of elections at 11 it west Seat Forty street and arousing arous In log ing him asked lUke him to Immediately goto goto go gro to his office President Voorhees y wa was surprised nt lit the peremptory demand and was waa quickly Informed of ot the courts court under order Later Luter ho hI appeared at a window addressing the thu th Hearst men who hu fairly surrounded 1 time the house houle W said that he ho would not go to the time office of ot the bureau of elections at such an Mn unreasonable hour but Jut that he would ap appear r ra a at I his hili office omel an 1 open tim the same at 9 the Ihl usual hour today At 3 k this morning wagons and automobiles automobile filled with ballot boxes bores polled pollee oft officers cers and Hearst not wat h hen I tu he jan gun n to ai rive at t the office of the board of ot el elections and ind an hour later Green Greenwich Greenwich street In that thal y y was fairly impassable impalpable Unable UMble to get let rid rh of ot their charges there was Wal not nothing bin for Cor the po polite lite Ike t to do hut but to 10 await the o of ot the and nor every one omme of ot the U 13 I boxes were gu IU b by five Ile policemen a S most Impressive array of ot officers was waa toon sim In III evidence A As M the lime morn morning in p ad 11 J i the ba balance of Urn thus boxes i continued to arrive and hearst hearl watch era ern a 0 numerous n ns as the police I t I to s um I o I II ilm h 4 w hl hll hIli li lIll ices nas further I 1 In n 1 le i f to tm t fh in pre pread lt that KIJUC Sonic t u riling political mo 0 had b been tea a a grunt tt bod body of ot of ot M e r at it tb tho OCI 0 ol or the board of ot Wh n th tb the y fa failed to lO ur rt the till pret on onee ene of ot President I mm man called upon A C Allen Alien chief arIi aler of ot th till the board at aL hi hll home horns on ou street firt Mr Allen could 4 do nothing for far thorn ana Ancs expressed Ui Ih the opinion that th the court ourt order had re mUted from s I ml r R He Mid that I a literal compliance with Ui order would b be LI at II tb the tbt 1000 ballot boxe boICe used lit III U outer New ew York ork rould not by any men mean be bt rotten Into Into In tn to Lb the room occupied b by the tho board HI m Hit and r ot of the tho law kw h he said laid wa that thu boxi box remain In the of ot the police for six lx Ix month following an election U JIo Jle could tv 1 no 10 n to t t t Ii i i lion linn of ot the fait fact accumulating bouts boxe and thought that there was wan nothing to todo I do 10 but to await the opening of ot th tha thi board Mid and nd let et President II hc a decide what to do dl with the br ballot box bolte It wa wee enid 14 thu morning that 1 tho the move madu by Mr Hearst l t night flight followed n a report received h by him bun that a printing company had been at ork Tuesday y night printing ballot The rile report wa wai tu further rt he r to o tb the effect that tillit the ballot box boxen boxel were to be bl opened In the hands hand of the police polte and anil Muffed Mr Hearst 1 decided to set Hot al at once The Tile order secured from flOm Judge JudIe Ganor directed UI the polio commission ar r 1 and nil oh h his 1111 lea In the tho live five troughs to turn over to the board bourd boardo I o of election forthwith All 1111 ballot box s I Il l containing ballots bellot and fit stubs ubI of at and d 4 also to tl Die le with the county clerk ifor forA noon today nil ni envelope con tall tally taUy return 1 Affective ballot ami all ballot ballote marked rot Identification fo Tb The order was wai d on the tie affidavit at ot Mr Hearst himself The h affidavit MI Mr H Hearst ireta belief bellet that lie he hl ro 10 a plurality of at the DIP hI vot Iol hut that ei according to the returns return snOre more vote t 1 than he himself received were counted for tor Mr t McClellon Capt Capt Cram rend read the order to com corn r ml bv Over the tha telephone Tile commissioners reply repty was WU un an UI order older I to the contain captain directing him to rend read the Iha I anor order oder over tI the telephone to the captain r COUNSEL COUNSIL New Wew York Nov Not Mayor B R announced today that ItoI ito tto protect t hi sIs hll t In th the proceed proceeding In I brought by W It n contesting tb the mayoralty olp election tun he hid had retained Jag He has ban employed the law Iw firm rm of ut Parker and Hatch I of which Judge JudIe Alton un H n Parker Parkes I Is II the lifted IMd 2181 ami the urns firm of or Dykeman unit anti Carey Th The first named firm In Ie II of Man Manhattan hattan tc nd of Brooklyn The fie he mayor said laid I IK lid ld not expect to toie tolie lie ie directly H I in 11 ii IW uny legal leat action acton |
