VOTE THEFT TRIAL BEGINS
VOTE THEFT TRIAL BEGINS AFTER almost four years of delay—during which a large part of the vital evidence has been lost or destroyed—the trial of the Tammany men who -stole August Claessens',...
...WILFRED...
...The District Attorney's office prosecuted Piatt, while former Judge Leonard Snitkin and State Senator Josephs appeared for the defense...
...On Tuesday evening, April 14, at 8:30 p. m., Dr...
...the second party in England, the request should secure ready assent...
...Daniel Piatt, chairman of the Election Board, one of the four Election Board members arrested and indicted by the New York County Grand Jury, was the first to be placed on trial In General Sessions, before Judge Rosalsky...
...4 Child's Song ONE winter rnornjng early I rote an hour too soon...
...THPRLEY.' Rand School Notes On Saturday, April 11, at 1:30 p. in., Scott Nearing will discuss the question, "Must We Fight Japan...
...Benjamin C. Gruen-berg will lecture on "Guiding the Child's Leisure...
...Margaret Daniels will continue her lectures on Psychology...
...Upon emerging from the rear room, Marcal declared, a wholesale removal of Socialist votes to Felenstein's column was ordered by Piatt—and his lieutenants complied...
...The trial has progressed to the point where Hyman Marcal, one of the Socialist watchers In the Harlem polling booth, and Patrolman John O'Hara, who was present during the count' have recited the story of Piatt's irregular methods of counting the votes...
...The trial will be resumed Monday morning...
...Meanwhile, the bal-ots were on the table...
...For Statue to Hardie A number of Labor M. P.'s, including George Lansbury and Tom Johnston, are taking, steps for the presentation of a request to the First Commissioner of Works to have a statufe of Keir Hardie erected in the Members' Lobby of the House of Commons...
...Vote* for Claessens, by the dozen, were tallied for Murray Felenstein, his Tammany opponent...
...The Moon herself was waning, O such a withered thing 1 A sheaf that fell inheeded, v In heaven's ¦¦harvesting...
...A stur for every blossom, With angles in tnen tree— Ten thousand tints.* ten thousand To shake t',' doii'jiW me...
...Louis Untermeyer will give his last Talk on Modern'Poetry...
...On Thursday, April 18, at 8:30 p. in...
...O'Hara testified that he, with other policemen, finally arrested the entire board...
...Morris H. Kahn will discuss "The Influence of Environment and Heredity" in his course on Heredity and Eugenics...
...It It thought that In view of Keir Hardle't eminence at a Labor pioneer, and the fact that he wat the first chairman of the Parliamentary Labor party, now...
...The sky was like an orchard Where good Saint Miehael goes, With endless blossom blanching Along the starry rows...
...Both Marcal and O'Hara testified that about n.idnight someone entered the polling place and engaged Piatt and his assistants in a conversation in a rear room of the barber shop where the voting had taken place...
...VOTE THEFT TRIAL BEGINS AFTER almost four years of delay—during which a large part of the vital evidence has been lost or destroyed—the trial of the Tammany men who -stole August Claessens', Socialist, election to the New York State Legislature in 1921 finally begun this week...
...Marcal declared, despite hit numerous protests, that Piatt and his lieutenants on the Election Board had falsely tallied the vote.i cast for member of Assembly...
...Plea's for an honest count were met o.ily with threats of "funny work...
...And found the air all silver With stars about the Moon...
...His subject will be "Poetry and Propaganda — Glovanitti, Oppenheimer and others...
...Qn Friday, April 17, at 8:30 p. m.j Mr...
...in his Current Event* Course at the Rand School, 7 East 16th street...
...At 7:00 p. m. (Friday) Dr...
Vol. 2 • April 1925 • No. 15
