A. No, sir; he would not arrest a cat that day as long as it belonged to Tammany Hall; he would not arrest a cat.--Vol. i., p. 301. Canute A. Deas, who was Inspector of Election at the First Election District of the Third Assembly, protested fifty times in a single day against barefaced repeating. The policeman whispered in his ear that he meant to be fair, but he had his directions to take his orders from the Chairman of the Board. Captain Devery drove up and stood laughing and talking with the Tammany captain while the legal voters were in vain clamouring to be allowed to vote. The Republican watcher was thrown out by force under the eyes of the policeman:-- Q. Who threw him out? A. The crowd--the Tammany Hall captain of the district, who was in there; he was authority for everything.--_Ib._, vol. i., p. 279. Examined by Chairman Lexow: When you said that the Tammany Hall captain was authority for everything, what did you mean? A. I meant that, whenever he desired to go into the polling place, he did so, that whatever he wanted was done; it seemed that they all worshipped him, bowed down to him.--_Ib._, vol. i., p. 287. Another witness, Ralph Nathan, described how a Republican captain was hustled out because he swore that a voter had already voted in four election districts, for he had followed him round and had seen him do it. Mr. Nathan said:-- The Tammany henchmen around the Third Assembly district have a peculiar method of putting a man out; you cannot make a particular charge of assault against them, hardly, but they push them out and hustle them out; they have probably ten heelers at every election district, and the polling place is generally narrow and small, and they can fill up a place and push you out.--Vol. i., p. 290. Here also is a description of the method in which repeaters were brought up when wanted. Mr. C. H. P. Collis, a prominent citizen who acted as watcher for the Twenty-second Election District of the Second Assembly District, deposed that he saw repeating going on openly:-- Q. Men voted under names that were not theirs? A. I cannot go so far as that. Q. Describe what you did see? A. I saw a man who sat at my side ticking off the list, and those names that were not ticked he would take three or four of them, men who had not voted, and hand them to an active worker, I supposed for the purpose of having those people hunted up and brought to the polls, which would be legitimate; but I saw this man take them out in the street and hand them to the people there. Q. Hand those names to the people? A. Yes, sir. Q. Then what occurred? A. Then after awhile a man would come in and walk up to the polls. Q. And would he call off one of those names?