NEW JERSEY: Preacher and Parsi

¶ In Newark, N. J. a file of shackled prisoners on their way from courthouse to jail passed the Second Ward, Fourth District polling place. "Hey, wait!" shouted the head man in the file, "this is where I vote." He was hustled off to prison.

¶ In Atlantic City, 817 votes for State Assemblyman were recorded for William H. West, running as an "Independent Republican." William H. West is an inmate of the Atlantic County Mental Hospital, where he was confined several weeks ago when G-men discovered that he had been writing letters...

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