Miss Anthony and the fourteen other ladies who voted, went before U. S. Commissioner Storrs, U. S. District-Attorney Crowley and Assistant U. S. District-Attorney Pond, and were ordered to appear for examination Friday, November 29.  Following is a portion of the examination of Miss Anthony by the commissioner: 

Previous to voting at the 1st district poll in the Eighth ward, did you take the advice of counsel upon your voting?—­Yes, sir.—­Who was it you talked with?—­Judge Henry E. Selden.—­What did he advise you in reference to your legal right to vote?—­He said it was the only way to find out what the law was upon the subject—­to bring it to a test case.—­Did he advise you to offer your vote?—­Yes, sir.—­State whether or not, prior to such advice, you had retained Mr. Selden.  No, sir.—­Have you anything further to say upon Judge Selden’s advice?—­I think it was sound.—­Did he give you an opinion upon the subject?—­He was like the rest of you lawyers—­he had not studied the question.—­What did he advise you?—­He left me with this opinion:  That he was a conscientious man; that he would thoroughly study the subject of woman’s right to vote and decide according to the law.—­Did you have any doubt yourself of your right to vote?—­Not a particle.

Cross-examination—­Would you not have made the same efforts to vote that you did, if you had not consulted with Judge Selden?—­Yes, sir.—­Were you influenced in the matter by his advice at all?—­No, sir.—­You went into this matter for the purpose of testing the question?—­Yes, sir; I had been resolved for three years to vote at the first election when I had been at home for thirty days before.

It is an incident worthy of note that this examination took place and the commissioner’s decision was rendered in the same dingy little room where, in the olden days, fugitive slaves were examined and returned to their masters.  While the attorneys were endeavoring to agree upon a date for the hearing of arguments, Miss Anthony remarked that she should be engaged lecturing in central Ohio until December 10.  “But you are supposed to be in custody all this time,” said the district-attorney.  “Oh, is that so?  I had forgotten all about that,” she replied.  That night she wrote in her diary:  “A hard day and a sad anniversary!  Ten years ago our dear father was laid to rest.  This evening at 7 o’clock my old friend Horace Greeley died.  A giant intellect suddenly gone out!”

The second hearing took place December 23 in the common council chamber, in the presence of a large audience which included many ladies, the newspapers stating that it had rather the appearance of a social gathering than an arraignment of criminals.  Of those on trial one paper said:  “The majority of these law-breakers were elderly, matronly-looking women with thoughtful faces, just the sort one would like to see in charge of one’s sick-room, considerate, patient, kindly.”