Jury Rebuked By the Judge

New York, 1895

George C. F. Fisher, of Newtown, formerly a clergyman and at one time a lawyer, was acquitted in the County Court at Long Island City on Tuesday, of the charge of falsifying a certificate of nomination in connection with the spring election last year. The certificate was that of the citizens and tax-payers party. It was charged that Fisher, who organized the party, added twenty-five signatures and also the names of certain candidates.

Town Clerk John T. Robinson testified that when Fisher filed the certificate he had added the names. Charles J. Sneller testified that he saw Fisher writing the names.

When the verdict was brought in Judge Garretson declared that it was palpably inconsistent with the evidence.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 22, 1895, p. 1.