The New York Herald Newspaper, June 2, 1875, Page 7

; NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, J UNE 2, 1875 ~-QUADRUPLE SHEET. etty Corporation or against the said county | ning them through nia bank account. The pro- and to pay the same [rom moneys obtained b: issuing and seling bonds. herein designated as “adjusted claims.” By chap- | 1 1870, section 4, the Mayor, eed, then Pre: pervisors, Were appointed & board to audit and certify labiities of the said ch, When 80 audited, the said © was authorized proceeds of ceeds of these Warrants, amounted to $119,972 19, the whole amount betog | who furnished safes, says that he never verified Ingersoll then goes on to say After Watson’s death | had alike conversation | was requested to do so; that he never appeared witn Connolly, in reference to suca bilis be ailowed in the Finance Department, withouc | before avy Board of Supervisors or of Audit, or any action of toe suid Department of Pubic | He directed me to pay him 1244 per cent. | bill or account of his mentioned or reierred to in such bills presented by said Garvey, sald Accordingly the sev- the precedin, Were tssued from the said | per‘cent, oi the | done in that way with auy such oil, | as paid to Garvey, These claims “THE RING SUITS. An Argument on Motion for Bill of Particulars. ter 382 of the Laws the said Comptroller, a of the said Board of s These certified la- | bilities ure herein designated as ‘special Audits."? | r the system und prac- rge 8. Miller, or myself. schedule, marked No, Finance Department, and 12% amount of each was paid by me to Connolly. ‘The warraut ot tionea in the preceaing senedule No, issued to Audrew J. Garvey. cent on the amount tuereo! and handed that sam to Connolly, with a memo- randum mace by mysel, showiug the amount of such Warrant, and that the money so paid was ten per cent on such warrant. Tight, a8 he was eniivied to fiiteeu per cent, put he received the money and retained the momoran~ Wauen the warrant “ $5, and mentioned in the same scheduie No. 2, | Office and in the Broaaway National Bank, The Board authorized the Was issued to George 8. Miller, I paid twelve and | a bali per cen! thereon to Connolly in pero. | ‘Toe preceding schedule, marked No, 4, 18 a cor- Warrants issued 10 me by Every bill rendered und tice aioresaid Which became an “adjusted as well as every bill which so became | ‘or work, materials or supplies | charged to have been furnished at some date long prior (0 the presentation of the bul or claim, Con- sequently there was au allowance of interest on every such bill, and its umount as rendered ait. | from ihe amount of the warrant issued in | payment thereot, | Until Septemver 16, 1868, the method of division | Ingersoll merely gave Wood- ward Leo per cent of the ampunt named, ter the date given the “adjusted claims’ Warrants | ‘Then Watson aud Woodward |, explained to Ingersoll that obtaining these iaws had cost « great deal of money, and ba make up bils nuer this head of *-aajusted claims’? as of dates anterior to that time, reserviog Jor himself forty-five per cent, and must put up firty- five-per cent tor the otticers, Watson said that | this twenty-five per cent was tor Tweed, | numbered 2,019, SOME STARTLING AFFIDAVITS I received ten per irom said Garvey, He sald boat was ot How Tweed, Connolly and Sweeny Took the Peopl:’s Money. was very simple, were commenced, BEAUTIFUL BANK BUSINESS. rect statement of six ‘Ube said Finance Department on bills for st made uo by me against said City Corporation in the name of Ingersoll & Co., and audited and al- ms” by Conuoliy as Comp- | each of such six weed In person twenty-five cent of the principal; (6 the aforesaid William King five per interes: on seventeen and a bal: per cent thercot; per cent of the principat and interest for Connolly, ten percent of the , principal and interest for said Peter B,’ Sweeny and five per cent of the principal with the interest on seventeen and One-nali per cent of the priuci- pal for himseil, said Watson. ‘the four Court House Commissioners were ap- | jointed Decemoer 1, 1870, and lugersoll was se- | duty of showing What thei contents were and | lected to represent Tweed and Connoily’s inter. ests, it being considered an ‘outside’ aifair. Here | Ingersoli’s own story is amusing tin if ppiles | attack, lowed us “adjusted ¢ How the Ring Rewarded Its Po- litical Favorites. Lacquiesced and made up the bills ac- warrsnisl paid to T Nothing was said aoout interest, but When tse Warrants Were drawn each covered a bill and accrued interest Irom the date of suca ‘The makers Of bills only received their | per centage of the principal, six exceptions ac- | v ersoil, Who received nis snare of buth | principal and Introductory to the new suits commenced | Watson twenty beainst tie members of the old Tammany Ring to yecover the money which they are declared to lave fraudulently obtained from the city and sOunty treasury in connection mainly with tue | building of the new Court House, was one begun | against William M. ‘tweed, the alieged chief of the | Ring, for the sum of $6,000,000, which are com- | puted as his share of the ill-gotten gains. yuit Was brougut in the Supreme Court, and: the | vomplaint, 2 voluminous document, setting forth | whe grounds of tie action, the HeRALD at interposed an claimmg want of definiteness #@ ita charges, and accordingly. in legal parlance, whoved for a vill of jarriculars, motions german to it have been hanging fire tor | jome time, the argumeut ol it having been ae- | jerred repeatedly on one pretext and another, tll Anully treacned an argument yesterday in Su- preme Conrt, Champers, jor to Aprii 26, 1870, when chapter 382 | laws of that year was passed, told me that bila under the fourth | section of that act, so that thirty-five per cent | on tie amount coarged Would suitice for myself, They stated that tne rest was to wo to the public ollicers, Tweed, ax usual, to receive twenty-five per cent of it, Connolly to receive twenty per cent | of it, Peter B. Sweeny to receive ten per cent of it, Watson to receive tive per cent of i¢ and Wood- ward tu receive tive per cent of it, 1 atranged | accordingly ail the bilis on which the warrants appear iu Said schedule No. 3, to have been issued | to lugersull & Co., or U, LD, Bollar & C0,, or A. G, Miller, or J. A. Sauth. } In the -course of tne conversation last referred | to | remarked to Watson that sixty-five Was a pretty large sum to pay; he replies I got my full sum that ought to sausfy me. further remarked to him mat the bills Would look Jarge (referring 18 my owp mind to the possipiliiy of their being made public); Watson replied that Ineed not care, a8 the department passed th bills and took the responsibility. ward and Watson arrange and present “after our appointment the sald four Commis- sioners met and talked over and arrancea their At frst some of that the Commissioners ou them argued t to control bucI stated that mucn,of it was already done, and that whether we bad anytuing to do with the rest ol it or not was of no Consequence to Us, for that they (mean- ing the pabligoficers) Wouia have so much, what- | was published objecton to) the complain , This and three | Commisstoners, the ' same | He urged iu conclusion that neither the amounts ‘At this time Wood- | digmity of the various parties platnai? shoatt ward had ceased to oe as Much as usual avout the | change by one hair's breadta those rules for the city Offices; und it Was Understood that | sould take Wooaward’s place and do the business of tne divisions in (be same way that he (\Woouward) ha ‘tne people who furnished we | work and supplies for the public buildings and | aida! offices pad got ito tne way of making out thew rate to admit of these | from January 1, 1867, to Ausust 1, 1571, out of might remain to be done. before Judge Donohue, | Mr, Dudley Field appeared for the motion and Mr, | Wheeler H. Peckbam in opposition, Euough docu- mentary evidence in the shape o/ aflidavits was submitted to occupy the leisure time of Judge Donvhue during the really, however, contain but few facts additional | to those heretoiore published, being made up of the | statements of Ingersoll, Garvey auc Keyser, tive | suboriinate members of the Ring, as to the modus operandi through which the money was obtaines, | and the further statements of various lookers and examiners of accounts. The statements nade by Mr, Ingersoll are more novel in their character. We give beiow a pretty full abstraet of nis aul- | Letore done it. at a sumcient percentages veing takeu | omcers, Watson told me ‘hat under this elevenio section proceeding he must receive ten per cent | dared for Connolly and two and a half per cent for hun- Having tnas received my insiructions [ toid the said Commissiouers thavall we had to ao | that now before the Court have been judicially was to certily the bills and receive ior ourseives about five per centa piece. And this wasassented | ‘The said jour Commissioners never | Nad any meeting to consider, or did in any way cousider, auy bills or claims ‘for materials or sup- | Most effective remedial laws toa: could be de- certificates of auditors named in said fourth section, and ob- tor the same and dividing it, taining the money y 6, 1870, to the proceeded on tuis footing trom end of that series on August 12, 1870, both days ‘The Warrants so issued are stated in said schedule No. 3, Many of the difticulties encountered at the out- set by Goveruor Tilden 1m Mis attempts to trace | the movement from and to hand of the public | money procured turough the operations aforesaid 18 atiributable to the aforesaid aliowances of in- lerest and certain pecuilurities attendaut upon | tie division of the sums su allowed for interest. | p ‘So far a3 | know, am informeu or belteve, tweed never received any share Of such interest, apo the claimants or Work and supply meu very rarely re- coming vacation. I signed the wadit fur the same i two parcels. other Commission yas present when | so signed, hor Was | present, according to my best recollec- Legens, Arthur E. Smith, George W. Smith, Henry ¥. Taintor and Eugene G, Barrows, Davidson, | or proved asy vill, claim or account, or in person, or by any agent or representative, any public officers or officer, in relation to any SUITS, &C. statement, or knew of any meeting i any such bourd or officers to examine, Or audit auy such bill, wecount or ciaim; th action usider he BCABD OF APPORTIONMENT. TRANSFER OF MONEYS FOR TULIONS—SUPPORT OF PRISONERS IN COUNTY JAIL—PAYMENT OF SERVICES IN BING | TROUBLES OF ERIE. CHARITABLE INSTI- | jopryinG ¥OR A RECEIVER IN NEW JERSEY— THE CHANCELLOR RESERVES HIS DECISION. Yesterday, in the Chancery Court of New Jersey ton, before Chancellor Kunyon, Mr. Court jandt Parker made an application to have an orde) issued, similar to 4be one recently issued im the The Board of Apportionment met at eleven o’clock yesterday in the Mayor's office, did pot Kuow or believe tout anything wasever | troller Green, Mayor Wickham, Alderman Lewis | @ecount or ciaim, and that nothing was New York courts, appointing Mr. Hugh J. Jewett | receiver of tue Erie Railway Company, Plication Was made by Mr and Tax Commisstoner Wheeler were present. ‘arker In behalf cf the | evar done with auy of them, except making A resolutioa was olfered vy the Comptroller pro- it out and handing or sending it in at some public | yiding for discontinuance of printing in pamph- | oimce. Mr, Cady recites tne particulars of the Elmira [ron and Stee! Kolimye Mull Company. Leon Abbett, of Jersey © ty, opposed (ue grauting stealing of the voochers on September 11, 1871, | 1¢¢ form the proceedings of the Boird, as snen He chen gives the dates of the departures from | Matter was already puolished in ‘he City Record. this counry of Richard B, Connolly, Peter B. | c Sweeny, James M. Sweeny and Wuilam #. King, ali Appeal of the application ana suvmitted t atidayit in support of Mis opposition there wax no need as explained by with the further information that neituer of these | fF any additional expenditure, gentiemen have since returned. The remaining | him. Yue resolution was iat, aMdavits mainly has reterence to exammations 4 OLaccouats by bookkeepers m the Comotroners | YOUDM In the afirmative. tte Jefferson Ca: ralaing of $100,000 a Le ey 5 = THE ARGUMENT, Assessment bonds for paywient of city Mr. Field, in opening ms argument, tnststed that the deicndant ts eptitied 10 know whieh tema ot ved from the Fire A communication was re pave exeeation | these several accounts the plaintifs intend to | Department authorizing the transfer of $0,000 be false, which item 1s alleged to pe feu- Item 1s alleged to be fraudulent. piamtiffs either know or do not know | the payment of certain which part or lem ol euet of them is from their fund. ‘nis money will be applied, ace cording to the statemeuc of the Comptrolier, to any and deponent what they can prove about these accounts. If whohave beea kept ont of tneir funds for some they do not know, toey should not have brought ume, | tne action. Ifthey do know, then the defendant > Ratiway Com should ve apprised of What they intend to Excise Commissioner Stiner appeared before prove, thut he may meet tt (if he can) by counter — the Board, and requested an increased appropria- proof on his side. This was tae very office ofa bil Of particulars; such a bill Was especially necessary Mon Of $7,500 for the ensuing year, Some $47 500 in acuons hike tots upon accounts. It was no Were designated jor this Commission last year; answer to say that ome of the accounts are lost — $55,000 was now solicitett- or destroyed. ‘That fact would autno ize the piantiut vo give pirol evidenee concerning their Thid—Vhat Mr. Jewett is not 4 resident of the State of Mr. Stiner stated that | ement at Ei the Increase was cemanded im order to oanined ro ized the disposition h the said company ouly r ‘That the presen coutents,.but would not exonerate him from rhe the business of the Commission more eMfetentiy. Seventy thousand dolis which portion or iiems thereo! Were false or fic- he Hy Ee ttious or Iraudulent. 1 wasa mistake to sup- lected trom excise isot Me. Jeweit have nses since the 1st of May. f at them largely the increase was : bose, #8 has been seriously argued in a similar Alter some stort discussion, | case against the same defendant, that in an ac- reraged, ast year’s appropriation only being | tion to recover back mouey improperiy pad tae Plainurt can show a fraud in regard to a portion allowed. 01 is adverse to thowe ppointment of yuhe present Sicth= that Mr. deweet ore ot said company Were trausferred from vt an account, und can then j@ave the jury to The wilowing amounts infer that tne whole is iraudulent, or that appropriations to Fire Dep! \bey can thus throw ihe aefendant the ment fund, Depart- burden of proving which items are correct. It Ment of Taxes and Assessinents, construction and must be remembered thut the: 0 been seitled by the proper officers, and epi fhe ment of Public Works: - jalotifts now come forward to falsify. ln thisthe To Protestant burden is upén them and hot upon ine aerendant. invoived ip these varioos litigations nor the high | due and orderly administration of justice whica — Yo? are laid dowu for the rica aud the poor, the pows = to printing | erful and the weak altke, fo cleaning and sun; In reply, Mr. Peckham tnsisted that, by the | #2 suppartot pisone 38 produced, it waa reasonably estap- '° Mew arvere d that the people were swindled by the King lisi over $30,000,000, Notwithstanaing that the prools were £0 ubundant against {weed that he never interpose a circumstantial denial of te charges, a single cent had never becn recovered against him. All civil suits prosecuted prior to rv, IS wellancous HO) Havie personally to eveditors or to the company accounss bave all Jepairs 0. puolic buildings and salaries, Depart: STR Ut sane ache so badly insolvent, upor | enougi nssets House of Merey Wi showing, (1 to ady inierest: Mr, Jew: hat during the past fen months the whote ets Imanugement, according to the supplemental ¢ i wherein Mr. Jew have run behind over $1 indented nessa. said tas said New York -uit 1 id Ere Company nd re eiver,the company arts ot New Jersey require Company in'ihis State and eiod bY a dis At the appropriation of $23,010 tor nting of evitence " frauds comuitied county, under the its ere tits should he inet receivership, admin zeus who lives within the ved by one oF is OWN Citi im tne jurisdiction of the courts @f (ges are reasouabic and pronounced professional viunders and con- of the Comptrolies thatthe eh tumeliously dismissed. ‘the Legislature ut Proper. toresix of ihe the iust Session stepped in and enacted, at the in- | In connection with this resolution Mr. Charies stance of the State's professional advisers, the O'’Conor wrote the lollowing :— slay ot May. A. 0), 1875, at N > RADCLIFFE, ‘The services are ail rendered in the Finauce Depart ays Wiitiam Morena: Vired; and tuis suit has been Commenced unier ment. its books, vouchers and that jegisiauion. ‘he Attorney General, with such | every investigation. Edo not see Now any other deyart- professioual aid as be coulu command, has famed — ment can judge o: the services. Tor the purposs what be and bis assistants deemed — 1" the budget of 1874, should be obyiated by @ resolution as above. er of the suid Commissioners | the Most appropriate process; and the question oe Penk; May 21, 1875. of dividing it | ton, when auy ot | go certified any oi} such bills, they respectively Signed such certificates at their convenience; whether any two of them were ever , Machinery = by = whic this last eifort together vr not at auy such signing Ldonos know.” | to obtain civil justics can be bamMed, William M. the payrolls were arranged so one-fourth to sinecurists. got two and one-half per cent, Connolly ten per cent and each of the Commissioners 0 Here we give Ingersoli’* Own narrative regaraiog the operations of the Ring :— “I pald more than $30,000 for furniture, afoplied > ceived any ofit. Besides, the proce Was not upliorm among tie oMicia. very constant witness ui the divisions of sucn per- | centages as afvresaid among said ollices, and ire- quenUy took part in making them, I will explain Taking, for an instance, vy way Olillustration, a division unger the iourch sec. tion of 1870, whica has been commonly cahed the “Special Audit” act; let it be supposed that a bill cf mine was lor $100, aud that tne interest on it amounted to $10. This would give $110 to be di- In 5uch a case the rule so agreed on Would davit, with indications of the leading points in { understood that AFFIDAVIT OF JAMES H. INGERSOLL. He begins by stating nis age as thirty-five, that | his father learned nis trade irom Tweed’s father, and in that Tweed befriended him. oes on to say that in 1807 bis father and himself | ceased farnishing supplies on account of per- | centages required; that alterwara be calied | how they were mace. in the bills Watson now presented 1s whether there 18, 1n this Court ed that the facts set forth in the affidavit should oe proved by testimony be ore @ Master in Chancery to be appointed, Phe defect, i at be one, He said that or ‘the Oourt of Review, some judiciai | Some further unimportant business was trans. ‘weed, the defendant, Was the uaiversally recog- nized leader and manager of tn t whe parti took 0. its iruits were his subordt | the others have filed from jusuce; acted, when the Board adjourned, CUSTOM HOUSE CHAFF. York to place Erie if there was not Was an understanding to ruin the creait ra of the brie Company. He belleved the whole scheme waa to place the management of the roac in the hands ol certain parties in order to reorganize it in suck m its presen: @ collusion there THE TRUTH ABOUT THE SILK FRAUDS--THE | loug controtiea the politiggl action of those wie NEW ORDER OF SROBETARY, BRISTOW AND ITS | manipulated the votes of bota political parties, EFFECT. by my orders to Tweed’s house at bis request, aud | and had so long dictated nommations by both par- require a ¢ivi8ion of this $110 a8 follows :— upon Tweed at the Street Department, aad | 1 would retain....... through Woodward learned that he must fx twenty-five per cent on the ‘There Would be allowed to per cent on principal and interest..... There Would be allowed to Commoliy twenty "per ‘There would be allowed ipal it, ever B, Sweeny percent; that he began work under a new pro- | gramme; that bis first receipt of a warrant from | the Finance Deparment, on account of such deal. | ings, was oa January 20, 18968; that he shortly | after witndrew from his fatver’s concera and set | Op business on his own account; bis bill under the firm of Ingersoll & Co., except | where he used fciitious names; that he never | ny effldavit as to the correctness of bis | er agked to do 80. Lundersiood from the acts | ot Tweed, Connolly, Wat- Woodward that! had ouly to do as i was yy the.u OF any OF them, and that she al- | Jowance and payment of bills i aguinst suid City Corporation and said county Would be so arranged that l would be wel paid | Tuereout, and that irom tue resigue and hike deal | inge Wit. otuers jurnisuing public work and sup- essary expenses of mavaging we a New York local government, | 8 jor the manpage would be real -th+ Laws ol 1871, coutaiming section 7, appropri- ating $750,000 ior tne said County Court Hi Tweed tuld me that Obtained = and fifteen per cent Cow ml-sioners, propriation would be to Watson ‘AV | - ce pp whee ‘te thet | sresspuial pee n° Pe poe Schuloff goods, anu did noteven cease their labors The corps of experis under the chief direction of en slignt, and perhaps even these im whom the public have confidence. | was expected to be made yesterday, but if It waa, fecd and suudry others, the ia | examination and approval by the proper officers ood Ward ‘ilve par cent hum, a8 a large amount o1 that season in ey ad to de used are tO get things Toese Commissivners appointed ad appointed me tr in May, 1871, taese Commissioners made a requ! sition Upon the Comptroiuer fi at he wade out | . of 'he inter. a and Wovdward im exch imstunce this wogld 5 est waich, asl suppose, W divided themseives. just sixty per cent of the interest, being tue 1 five per cent a by the mechanics aud supply wen, In June, 1889, Ingersoll Was ordered to increase YY an additional five per cent, aud then the payments to Woodward was fifteen per Cent instead of ten, the additional fve per cent being diviaed be:ween Woodward and Wat- son, the ten per cent being Connolly's share. 2 .ccoubt at the Breadway Orm name of Ingersoll & o., and & private account at tne jenth National Bank | 19 bys lather’s fem ni T lo dividing * | gersol: as flows their chairman $200,000, where: sun Was placed to their credit iu the Tenth Nationa! Bank of the At a later period they on the thirty-f ely of New York. the sum “put up?’ peed after this lust requi- tome days having ance, 1 callea on Connolly sition without com; and inquired as that he had uot received his percentage on | I replied that | did not sup- wade up by me to the cause, | suid drat requisition, he pad any claim of the kind; but he insisted | that four-sevenris, or about one-| rt ersoii had then Pp that he had a right to ten ver cen ok in pis sssum on the audit aid Cs vious wiater, I toid him that 1 did not so understand 1, He mor- | without any regard to truio or tact and in gross mured and complained, saying that te had to puy | great deal to Keep nimseit in straight, aud Souliy oosetved that he ougnt to be | aliowed five per cent at le: alcerward, but vever brought him to any action, and I believe be never did anything further im the | destroyed whilst im charge 01 the Comptroiler, Way of putting these Commissioners in fads. iy \d Commissioners drew on the said Tenth | spiracy. Tt tovk place at the moment when woosrer—is on his wa: Nationai Bank Jor oblis Ob account of the Court | rs, ¥ House to the extent of the said $200,000, whica, ‘vod, wad been so piaced to tueir nl also jor about $250,000 more, and so tute Legi-lacu ry metuod adupied describea by In- “On learnings that Watson hed a warrant or war- | Tanta ready lor one or more of my said bills, I Went for und got the warrant or warrants from i then immediately met Woou- | Ward ig the chamber of the suid Board of Super- Visers, whereupon, thea and ther taking suck Warrant or Warrants to tre oank, | Woodward figured up the intended division of tne Amount specified in the warrant or warrants be- fore us. We made there computations together, A meuiorandum of ce by tim, aod any clerical derstood bel weeu + bowed, that agers in these lweed and connouy, tiluded 10 were on this unuerstanding. Jerstvod daring ali that time, ‘OO Wing persons thus covuucted (he business of | Urbisolug Work and materials or supplies to the wid pubhe ofces and buildings under arrange. Meucs bei ween themselves respectively and the | said ‘lweed, Conuoliy and Woodward subdstan- id to keep tiings = plian respecte were ic All my operations hereip him accordingly. 1 spoke to him und believe, the aud beiore my Luelping Woodward division Was then work required im ail otherwise to comp then and there also used tu jeod i weed money from time and on a settiement toat we had In t ade me allow mim $112,500, det said fitteen per cen Ppriation named 1 business nerein perp cnsa oard, J. T. Barnard & Sons, ba Bianck’s Sons, Alexander Brand zh, W. Davia, East © any, Gregy & Brother, Gregu uaries 4. Jacobus, Johnson Ko! Bernard Keily, P. 0, C, Lockwood & Uo., | Manuiacturiug Stationers, | er McKnight, James A. Mona> ailie Rooflng Compsny, New uy, Jonn O'Donnell, W. D. v0., J. O. Seymour & U Fralcis digerson, seventi section of 1871." au a suit seuinst | estroy ali his books ster ‘Qui ry Cl & Co., Arco a Ingersoll Tweed told and papers, as it was Peter B. sweeny’s advice, too, aud It was dome except a lew that escaped | This is the reason why Ingersoll can- | the proceedings of and acy by Tweed and others to get up and wowetimes, present, also —- vecastonal: The said chamber hosen irom observation, Except when the Board was in session, it was neither a duty nur practice of any one to be there; and, at Our said meetings therein, we always boited tue dvor imside, and taus protected vurseives irom any sudden lotrasion. Morgan Jon Edward Marrenne: being @ place tr not give fuiler details of AFFIDAVIT OF ANDREW J. GARVEY, ‘The plastering work o: the new Court House was awarded to nim in May or June, 1867, him to add fifreen per cent to bis bills. He never made any affidavit as to the correctness oF io June, 1800, he used Sctitious vames on some ot hisoliis, A day or two alter Watsun’s deata he ways that Connoily cold him, ‘1 did av! yesterday ; | got noid of Watson's boo! iat of payments to us; I tell you I soon pat it of tne way.” He then recitea the particulars | Gestruction by d rection of Tweed of ail his accoants and papers which mig! means of ,urnishing the particulars vf their trans Tois aMaavit concindes as ioliowa:—"* am unable to give particul done, or mate Roe & Co., T. 4. 0, seymour, Kenuerd & Hay, dovn Sigerson, J. W. Smita and Tue Transcript Association, He says, furthe Ol Warrants draw: ies, aNd compared the sam i always brougat m atson to our aforesaid piace of meet- he Supervisors’ Chamber. bas examined the list materials and su) ® Broadway bunk; at other tunes! ance ww him in ollis drawa by mys day's work © containing | From the very commencement of the trans | injured, in January, 1871, at Supervisors’ it immediately to the Chamber ended | actions, until w Wutson deliverea all warrants relerred to as being is- rsoll, aud ail otner warrants. All | of Ingersvil’s bills were made either the said cit: check for tt, and imvariavly, | ¥ OF 8.00 alter, g Out against or the said county, and (yougn n County Anditor, he appeared to direct the whole business of delivering out ali | from said Finance kither through Woodware, or in some other way, own to me irom time to time inact y with one or more of such war- and I uniformly called at Watson's the warrant either 00 the same furines: the next day, 1 banved the amount by check or Dank notes to tweed, Woodward, vemg ion a hurry to cateh a train, woald often ieave jugersoil to divide toe money, | and used to hand it uver to Watson, whe useu to for Woodward, Sweeny sometimes Ingersoll wi al 8 of Sue Work really re furnished for h dealings. For any | respect I would be | obliged to depeud on a memory necessarily very imper.ect as to times, places, So jar as any of these be partially remembered, 1} weuid scarceiy ever irue connection with any other and consequently any vill of particulars which £ covid render of the Value actually giv n to the public by mein any of deal ‘Would ve, a8 it respects ali 1 or desert, tlon, essentiauy conjec- | Tecan say, that according knowledge, recollection, (ge whole jair value of any yy myseil.or otwers, for or oa account oi the public aud mentioned of atiuaed 10 1M this statement, or any Of the said preceding m the mstance of uny four-sevenths Department, | a Watson was re: ariiculars migot and Conpoily. to Sweeny with | goes on to describe a ¢ actions of Sweeney and brother, and it is explicitly stated that div sions OF mo! warrants intended were well understood by ail er Ingersoll retained sixty i he paid to Tweed hye- Woodward and | met on the same day, and made @ Givision of the proceeds until the close of the ¥ dule, orl that th per cent of the privet twerfths’of rhe sum so kept Ingersoll jurther say#:—in each of these opera- tous With the regpective sarrants mentioned in said schedule No. 3, tne warrant was eituer pinned to tne oili or claim on Which If was issued, or folded with it, and the Olli and warrant we:e not Separated until, ut said meeting ef Woodwaid and myseli in the Supervisors’ Chamber, ihe me! | Tandum ot division had veen made as afore ‘The bills Were always returi u said Finance Department. figured up oy Wood- resaid mem- t to Peter B. = the whole amount vts menuioned in said schedule No. 3, whieh were issoed and deposited on the same Whenever the money | parcels 80 made up by said B. Sweeny cag be ound unmixed with any other moueys, it ought to correspond precisely with ten per cents upon one day's depos s in the said Broadway Bank, of warran said schedules No. 3 und No. matier of dev ‘al. This, however, to te very best of judgment and be! or all the work, mi done or furnished %, say the miadle of August, 18 Woodward and Watson Were dusi- Qess mabagers in dealing with the warrants Aforesaid aud distriouting the proceeds. Then Woodward in a great measure withdrew irom b Participation therein, aud thenceiorto { which had previously been performed devolved upou me, rer Watson’s death, Ingersoll Dad & Conversation witn Connolly in the suid Piuance Department concerning tu “What snailido now? tno head here.” be pretty dificuit to fll W Dut trat be understovd his business, aud as bilis tment ne could attend to (Connolly's) mterests, uouy answered promptly, “That's good see that 61¢ Warrants are issued as usual.’ While the warrants Were being issued Watson remarked that Ingersoil’s nam 0.ten; so the schedules, would not one warrant | amount retained ior or allowed to the person or pe sons to Whom uch Warrant was issued, after deducting the sum or soms rum the proceeus of suca warrant for cers or agents above stuted, Early in 1874, ‘put up’ or taken itevent. Cou. Wara aud Watson there was in the oraodum thereof ol precisely tem per cent in many ins’ an - were groundiess to much greater the proportion last specified; one of them, to the judgment and if clims exeeeding tbat ol them were in any of sad | fatson for said Perer tiem and see to bi but im no res) rm re founded on setuat roportion. As vefol a unded Md no value bate ae tip AS accruing to the ic, Independently of moneys and teovages allowed 19 the public Offlcers afore: my Dilis as aioresaid, aud e pe eit friends velere mentioned, the request of said ‘oodward, of certain members of sornish work and appeared too Ouse fic.itious names in id, after so using two ficti- added at W tnentoned in | made up tor said Peter b. Sweeny by Watsun Was by a written J Memorandum, specity. | i oat day, dria tae the work done | ronal use of ry iDg@ the severt ount of imgntiy altered, J. 6D. bollar & Uo, Muller for Adam Muller, the r times furnished ° eri tuus anne, nw! All of 01 ey, 10 @ sealed envelope, | ev that Moaey Was delivered by me oF in my presence such parcel was denvered un- foresala Wood- Which we uoder- per cent on | © ance with bea of Board ‘of supervisor the warrant jor raoll & See, were issued in pursuance ot Made between [wee Boiore startin ward invariably stood to be for Tweets twen ‘he prigcipai of all toe bills paid that day except tou Warrants hua issued in of Ingersoll & Co., U. D. Bollar & Uo, and J. A. Smith, | ™ 1 etek age ‘3 see = amount of a rew & check, Woodward and Ingerrol, Toe system of issuing such Warrants required some utvention to the laws passed from time to | siature, Sach as ine city tax tevy ty tax levy, whieh coutained pumerous of limited sums fo) 1 xpenditare by the w said amar add to my said biils iu suca my seit for such work, a to compen: materials and contribution: APPIDAVIT OF JOBN H, REY: SBR, began Work Jor the cit, Suosequent fo June, 1867, 4 \< nis mo iaring as for referred enty-Gve per cen Special appropriation! imaginary kinds of me: the said city or oF 1 \deretood WwW that in bpaig | oeNary to 1 without exo iY Presentation and, con te Heued wi @ alWaye, as 1 pel be Tauts Wentioned Im suid schedules Ss wien Ailowed them tu be iagte anG Bale of Ond— Of Haid jones ud, Mw i 4 Bad @ny connection, were ore a i 563 Of the Laws vi 1068. sectio’ (be same session | ptioller had autiori Ggainss the od to ectively | never 0a account thereot to hia, Gescrive |nese county and believ Factice, It Was bills rendered tor Work, o several years never verified b onland deel ixteon Warrants 10% 8 tm things \hus mii TY sostance and Whole Operalion Wus periormed ui ayes pg tt gee ib ener ‘Tweed's orevit in On eacu und ev Broadway Bau rr} the walrabte tn jationed | re OF accurate Dame most oF ti @ Was done and jurnisn extent, Could state the materiais or supplies 69 furnished Oubid NOt sare the quantities or vaine, w be In some jew rere instance, and in whem 1 could ao wou to a very aus, extent," is are those ud Cady, Stevi 1 No. Tnv6:s0u & Lv,, or to & CO, 1 pala iw 1 of the res} a tweaty-dve | pective ciaima ‘arrants Wore respectively ssucd, moneys mysell personally into Ww mentionad | Stuer rio pinces in wnich e1 per cent on tne princi ond, to @ con- jor #hieb gach 4 paid va Tweed's own hand Ui the wiiier Worrants twenty-five percent went | o bank Botes, but sometimes he party drawing the w ‘a8 Dullding @ house ta fugorsed roa- tions, By chap’ Ps © of ta Ui Cuonoliy he Waa paid ia ating | fm 1 advanced him $15,000 10 cash. It was understood | tes, as well as the election returns, tuac , Sifting the wheat from the chad of all the sensa- vetween Tweed and myself tnat these payments | he ventured to set xt detlince the legisiative, should stand ior wis profit on tbis Court Huuse ; judicial aod executive branches of the govern. | jov. Just prior to the adoption of cnapter 583 of | Ment. He. couceived that the personnel vf eacn is not money ashape as they desired. enough now to pay the depts of the company and hardly enough to pay the bonds, sired an investigation and that no order should be granted as was lesued in New York. tional stories afloat in some uf the newspapers in reference to the Custom House frauds, the HERALD | was either directiy or indirectly interested in past 18 able to present to tis readers the trath in regard | Corruptions and in tae continuance of ms sysiem, | to the recent inv tnough pussibly under siignt moditications, He», hie history that, to @ very great extemt, on Decoration Day. pposal was well founded. Tne icon. j more apparent toun geal. Uh licit that, pursuant to % combi) ev! outrageous and unprecedented proceeding, and the order asked for gives Jewett absolute power ‘The result will be @ epevies of favoritism, and wil work infinite mis There ought to pe a rest ‘The inspectors and appraisers have been very busy examining the tigations, chew to the creditor dent receiver of tne § not a resident Bx-Avtorney ( nosausfactory. Gichrist said be repre sented A purty who liad contracted witn the Brie ation of that cou- The pariy he repre Company five years ago. A vio! ‘tw iu question Was votaiued under false certificates | Would retard :t sutficienily (0 prevent its publica- of wudit signed by him. The claimants ali made | tion to-day. Euougn of its import, however, was up tueir claims under directions from himsel! and tract is now sents is the National stock Y: large anvant of property was bought by that com: pany in Weehawken on the sireugty of that con- Pays abont $1,000,000 ad Company, and & ssociates and agents; anu there was pal. to | #!eaned trom the attachs of the department to , ‘Tne company his bimsel!, ior his OWu Use, One quarter Of This Whole | Warrant the assertion that the oMcials are con- sum, say from $1,000,000 to $1,500,000, Iwo 7 - He replied | other quarters were distriouted among wacos hate wainenion ofthe. nges me erépes bis official compeers ocr subordinates, Of , Sik Were traudulently made. the remaining quarter there ts a mere po , may have some work, materials *h -siewe aertverntrny had @ foundation fi bit Movement is to dive. t tne woole trafic to the Penusyivanm Railroad Com- the receiver year jor ireight. i When there 18 4 deficiency of five or ten per cent In the validation laces, ribbons, &c., between the Comsequentiy. He wanted a reservation made getting reitef. plies furnished to the public offices ana buildings, | @PPraisers and importers, it is possibie that the Tae Claims were jounded Oa accounts made up quality, condition, mode of purchase abroad, &e., vio! jon of both, They were -o made up in com: with express instructions given to Ul claim: to by — official conspirators, Tne ac- PRAUDUL: counts tuas made up add certiued were (with | ¢, | a shgbt accidental exception) abstracted o¢ CaM hardly be doubted. | This was Ccnoolly, & chief actor im tne con- groused public indixnation had begun twper- | allvely to demand a remedy in tones suMcientiy loud toexcite alarm among tbese corrupt officers. | At Bbout tue same time Tweed directed the prin- | ctpal claimants to destroy all their boo. ‘counts hould be protected, 1b may affect in nuected With tie nrist said it seemed je on the other side that In the order so that his clients Tf tne order is issued ¢ # good many mea ompanr. Mr. G coucession m: Was proper t May account for it; bat when that difference reaches thirty or forty per cent, the evidence of ST UNDERV ALU ATION It 18 Said the senior mem- ber of the house of Schulof—whose place of vasi- bess J8 in Broome street, between GfBene and | the reservation order Is substantially tne same Tf these extraoraioury a aims are permitted (t will prov tne creditors. a disastrous te vr, granted, caumot be | recalled, and it ties the hanos of the coarts Aiter the corporation is dissolved pot even a judg. | mentcan be revived agaist it. Tc is mot just op an order made in this State similar Wo tue one m -de in New York. Mr. Courtiand Parker (hen sail the National Stock Yard Company was created by the money of Erie, ana the only security now fad war ‘ortn of bonds secured by mor! trom Europe to ‘tunity proper to ha Me punish fraud wherever discovered. and Bapaee of apary Senoripi ve © he th any dasee |. Anew order of the Secretary of Whit, With: | Bas been issued in regurd to the f the Treasury ! baggage of pa Gut atiemptiog or daring to make any circum | $¢gers arriving at this port. tions no good: Stantia! denial, without Venturing to cewur to tne | Wearing complaint “ i. a zai su acy, sage | aosWeritand “pul mself upon the countr, or | trial)” Tweed now comes iuro this. Court with eb passenger sour special motions of a dilatory nature Ceawuning question: aadressed to discretion, The complaint makes no | #BY fa!sidcation con: mwputation of negligence, It chary @ conspir- | the actual procurement of a set of taise and | grounuiess claims, ali oi whica are specified in a renedule of the warrants tssued for tneir pay- ment. That these faise claims were never audited | " re admitted free of duty caneps APPAREL IN ACTUAL USE. required to fill up a biank od swear to it. question Was raised vy Mr. Giicnrist wihe employés of brie shoud be protected ‘The company owed them $500,090. Generat V. poared on behaif o against the trie insisted that this is the State aod said it had @ cl Company ot about $ rior clal@ and svould be fue Chauceilor toen su would not send th the Bothnta, cd from pass case to a Master ta Caance: It is very clear, he said, that there oagut vo be but one receiver Sppoimied and pot various receivers. company 18 but one Institution and there:ore fhe Court 18 uot io There was @ Marsbal’s sale yesterday, in Bar- Saito: the UNg slip, of Some Of the goods seized recently as | 1,280 boxes of cigarettes, 2,500 cigars and a iarge | Made ciothing, allot which or examined by the auditors is merel; | narrative by which the irauduient Juntacterar | *mug«gied articles, the Most important items beng the transaction is exhibited. H@ insisted that no § turther bil of particulars could be furnished. trunk oj iaaics’ Feady f sume further the papers, reserving nj ; FORGED BONDS. Herat. Ustial urbanity, | pleased at its sueckss. Assistant Colector representative | MORE ARRESTS—THE DETECTIVES’ STORIES OF | that t receivers outside of the the habit of hs arise to crase be done. a, Was Mr, such @ boing to a It he is, the Court w ampie amount ol gument, the Judge took | Wrought good pilces. Colonel iriecnel, of tue decision. | Seizure Dureaa, attended the saie and seemed esterday and, with nis the information of his department proper to be made public. dl report Made in a morning paper tn refer- ve ow teey = atked lor THR CASE—WHERE THE BONDS CAME FROM—- | CNC? to new disclosures Was rensatioual ana un- tra BURNS BAILED OUT. se PHILADELPHIA, June 1, 1875. veputy Survey When tte report of the appramers in the lon case came tn it would be mare puvtic. Phelps said Loere Was bal litle ck tO the wages OF the cud plorés the Court believed that the act passe t Inst ter in this copnpection I ret gving on in Dis bureau, aod only the daily routme Siuee the arrest of James H, Gaw, J. W. Stevea- | copies to be decirled Detween the customs om- son and Peter Burns, on suspicion of being impli- , cers and passcugers or | Chaixer said but few dutiable packages were now cated with George F. itilt, of the bogus Safeguara seized, aud ne thought the ‘new. order of the | Insurance Company, no farther captures have | Secretury would so dismay tue. fair smuggie: | been made by t _ ton’s lorce who have charge of the case in this he sees it au uo limitation, Laere were so ings in the order hut satistactory, bat tie Court WH look into (nese mati The Chancel Pers. ar then. took Yhe papers ana saic he Would reserve his decison, private deiectives of Pinker- | that they Would give up the Dasiness, Mr. B.A. Buxton, United States Consul, onde: city, in the empioy of the Cuicago and Northwest- HISTORICAL SOCIETY MEETLN ern Rallway, whose forged stock certificates Hilt date of Setily, i7th May, writes (hie oilice, attempted to raise money on. The bonds usedin ORTEF JUSTICE DALY'S ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE this city by Hilt in bolstering up his bogus com- | OF JAMES W. GERARD. Paby Were part Of $300,000 worth of forgea bonds Dewell, New York, Who tele ing @ letter sor grapned ham :— eweil. New York, to Baxtoa, Consular Sertly Isiands :— ‘Messen, sale Wi A regular meeting of the Historical Society w: (the detectives say), and were issued at the held last evening at toe ball in Second a | same time as the large forgeries of Western ‘{nere was the usual choice ana numerous attend- | Umion Telegraph Company recently put | day for Riogway an ters’ bodies found * » Buxton replied mobaim Hideway.” Union Pacific stock ance. After the 1eading of the minutes the dona- the markets, The forged Chtcago tions of books, which were qaite large, were au- | tified. Telegrapn and Northwestern stock was sent to Europe nounced. A number of gentiemen were elected and returned us soon ag the other forgeries were members of tne society. discovered and before any had been nezotiated. Chief Juatice Daly, baving those | web bt By been arrested through «nd his sei vices, the accusation oi Hit sine: pis im ment. Simce the case has pri ir am rae lhe gy ig Bio hus \ome trom Wasningion directing we Unued | © mankind as states District Attorney bere to accept tue farner pronounced by the the. Court. of Com- GENERAL BUTLER'S VICTORY. tthe detee- mou Pieas, them read the paper of — evening on the late James He said ) oF UIT AGAINST HIM FOR Ww. Gerara | DMMTBCAT. OF THE * Ts t those who people were as use? ‘Tis seatiment w mperor Leo im the Hfth ce { Jasper K. Bervert again Butier for $10,000 was resamed yea in ihe Unied States Distria soudier, terday morning of young Hilt a8 nis Sail. This, i ts said, Wasdone tury. it Was the upshot of @ last ery for | | lor the purpose of leavi Hut free toco-operate peace as ae Wita tae détectives ior the appreaet of the | ieeling that the other parties counected wit the Ey ry ne eo givea him by id, Gaw was arrested inten, ani $25, ia, ai Bank, ente: ey Was arrested also on che Oath of Hilt » aoa 000 Nation: tor Oi 354 | cune Mre, | When the best manner. sweet Court in Brooklyn, betore Judge Beneaet. wi t Was av epitome of the | : man who heard the secrets of | be he Hg ments avd advanced detende’ their jaime, He ban 20 hat the evidence aid e plaintin. The movlon ld give the plavmt Judge Be: rected the jary tc aren a were Bumerous, but nowe more 2 who this city jor b: alt a century. deceased ‘oe Premdeut of the Sixt: supported by the, mother, iy claéy Gerard in 1802, She Kept a china store and Jennie Cowell | supported and educated her cutidren in What Was James was the sixta chiid. | FATAL DESPO} SUICIDE OF A RETIRED LIQUOR MEROWANT 12. | terday i0 tne act of negotiating thive $i,0u0 | He was of mixed scotch and French extraction. A melanctoly suicide occurred im Brooklyr stolen bonds, belonging to Isuuc Ovttinger, of | To the latter ne owed his vivacity, wit and cour. vel G. Alderman Kennedy bound her over tesy. At an early age he gaye proofs of | in $3, ii for a further fearing. The Rainey ao talent for extempore speaxing. He entered | case cate’ vack fo the arrest of bi at Will be remembered, Was taken loto for Daving in bis possesion on goveramen' wee & $6,000 bond ana the other a $10,000 third in nis cla om oss Was ti Secure these ponds the Pinkertuw promioet , Agency went to work. M@ivilie was jeved | ing ciass in the a0! ne rs ago. ior lu id fasiton & 1a | the Morel ate Bank Of Prérabu oO jour years’ Oh the lant ti O'Vouor were Amon; ud figa up, enarged raing. Tne ik ny Amency In heir jnvestivations Were led to Leliove That Le Ly bonds which Dr. susice Daly wenc on 1 Gerard and he nepecteu of dealin rus Was bailed tuis afternoon by Joun defeat: yesterday, the victim being Christopher T, Pro vost, & retired wholeanle liqnor dealer, who 1e aided at No. 1,845 Falton street. ago Mr. Provost, Who was filty-six years of ag nd married to A second Wife, Wont to Greenwo« to Visit [he grave Of Lis Hest Whe, Whose remuiu He caught @ severe col ik beIOg P. rales the Melville, who, Columom College in 1809 and gradwated in 3811 He was lon and became a member vt the Bar im 18) prestrated Gy the wal member of the priv: Abont @ montr tne city. are tuterred (ownieh resniied Siage them he had bee! * rel bo tle of laudanum, sugges: t | they poth pus ap end to ti eae yor clients, His Arst case Was that of Dak German baker living then ge. He triumpued, hardly any ousihess, iF LFOUvICS by She deetined, but ne im! + suicide, Yesterda. 8 Bouse to ¥; 801 Sue retarnod at noe y Por several years descrive the | 18 Sucoesst¥e Iriumphe and | da.od Upon the Bur of New wmbentios to com morning Mrs. Provost leit ( tvtends 1a Bast New Ye aud found her husbana’s d ook In door nes. Bi ex Maliigs, @ Well Kuowa coutractor, Ou seurching York ip those days, aga read on the whole a very” | Burns @ i Reyer Ofatiorney for the transier | interesting ‘an oe conclusion states conds Was found upon | Ay Of Ranks, was toudered Judge Daly at Siramme was ho Teadiog, semaine,