The New York Herald Newspaper, September 4, 1875, Page 6

6 “THE POLICE. Chief Clerk Hawley in His Own Defence. ‘THE RECORD OF THE CONKLINS. The Board of Police Commissioners met yesterday, President Matsell in the chair, After the transaction of pome ordinary routine business Chief Clerk Hawley presented a statement in answer to the allegations _ made against him before the Assembly Committee on Crime, which was reterred to the counsel to the Board, ‘with instructions to report upon the same, The follow- | Ing is a synopsis of the statement :— To THe Boaro or Pouce:. In pursuance of my communication to you on Angust 8, concerning certain injurious allegations against me published as part of the testimony before the “Commit tee of the Assembly,” I beg leave to submit the follow- ing statement :— The charges presented to the committee by J. Bronson are made on information. The testimony of the witnesses Horatio G. Conklin and Sidney Conklin assumes to be on the knowledge of the persons testify ing, and would have weight ax evidence provided the characters of the witnesses were such as to make their testimony worthy of credit. But their characters for truth and veracity, and in respect to their dealings and transactions, are’ so bad asx to render their testi- mony totally unworthy of belief, as I will show before 1 close this .communication. So far as these charges relate to me, and to the extent that they impute tome ®ny improper ac founded and false, No animals owned by ine to my knowledge fed at the expense of the Poli ment, No policeman ever (with my knowledge) worked | for me, except ina few instances, on their days “off | duty,” when they had a perfect right to work for any rson for pay, or without, at their option. I have ought favor of policemen who employed their days “off duty’ in earning something by their industry, Instead of spending their leisure time and their money | In idle dissipation. | My transactions with Horatio @. Conklin were as fol- | s:—He employed himself (on his days off duty, as I supposed,) in making “rustic work,” which he kept for sale at his house, on Kingsbridge dd. During th first year of my residence on 155th street he sent and placed in my grounds a rustic chair and two tabs cov- pred with bark, placing them upon the stumps of two irees. He sent them without order of myself or any | member of my family. 1 offered him payment for these articles and he refused to accept payment. I then informed my family that they —mnst | not receive any more articles trom Mr. Conk- fin unless he would accept pay for them. Ido not remember that Conklin ever worked for me as a carpenter, and I feel sure that if he had wgked for ine T could find the work he «id. SIDNEY 1. CONKLIN states as follows:— I know there was a load of Iumber— Tcan’t tell what day of the month, but I believe it was jn 1867 or 1868—a load of new lumber (weather boards) | went to make feed boxes or line a coal bin, I don't know which, for S.C Ho 152d street, and he ‘had my father to do the work. I took it from the sta- tion honse—a load of lumber that came to the station house to build the addition to the stable before the new Ftable was built, Q Who ordered you to take the timber to Mr. Hawley’s house’ A. Captain Wilson; I was ordered to help hoist in eight bales of bay; the city was paying me for this work I was doing for him.” This whole statement is a fabrication, not a mistake or want of recollection. _It is wilfully false, asthe fol- jowing facts will show, The addition tothe old police Htablo referred to by Sidney Conklin was built prior to > a marked decrease (of 47) last week, with the 9 degrees the year 1865, It appears by the police records that idney Conklin was appointed policeman August 26, 868. He was a policeman in the Thirty-second pre- ‘cinct (which is the precinct in which I hive) only from | June 24, 1869, until July 29, 1870, which its about thirteen months, and wasa policeman altogether two | ‘and one-quarter years, instead of “about four years,” | as he states in his testimony. He thinks this work (haul- ing lumber to Hawley's house) was done in 1867 or 1868, which is one of two years before he was ap- pointed a policeman, and three or four years after, as the proofs show, the addition to the police stable was built, Therefore his statement dumber from the station house at the time the addition to the police stable was built (in 1865), and that he was, when ho did £0, © policeman, is absolutely false, and there is no good ground upon which to rest a belief that it was not wilfully faise. Inasmuch as his statement about hauling lumber to my house while he was a po- liceman is disproved by the recoré* his statement that his father used it for me, on ny premises, fulls to the ground. The truth is no feed boxes were built for me, no coal bins were lined for me by Horatio G. Conk- | | ing the past twelve months bas fallen to less than half | that which it suffered preceding the introduction of the fin, ner was such work done at all by anybod Concerning the testimony of Policeman Gray tion to the painting of my honse, I desire to sa employed Gray todo painting on my house on his off duty,” when WE, LIKE ALL OTHER PATROLWEN, had a right to work for any other person for or without y. I purchased the paints of Toch Brothers, in. the wery. Gray did the work. I had motives for doing the paimting by this method. In the first place I was. Eure of good materials; the second, I was sure of good work; third, I thought | was doing a kind thing to au industrious, honest policeman, who had a large young family to support. [employed him with the perfect understanding that he was to serve me only on. his “days off duty.” I never knew, nor did I ever hear, that he worked on police time until he made the state- ment before the Legislative Committee. In what was said concerning the delivery of feed at my barn there is . in rela. A GRAIN OF TRUTH; but in the actual circumstances there was nothing creditable to myself, The terms of tle testimon the subject prove but a part of the facts of the and, as is usual in such instances, a partial represen tion of facts is a misrepresentation, To a much smaller extent than would be inferred from this testimony forage was delivered at my stable by the agency of the lice wagon. So much is true, and it is also true that, for ail that was so delivered at my stable, I furnished the money in advance to Captain Wilson to purchase it, or paid him the amounts of his purchase im each case soon thereatter. In reference to the statement of T. 0. Bronson that day was cut by Captain Wilson and divided between Vr Brennan, Captain Wilson and myself, the aecusie tion, on its face, shows that it was from land in the possession of Captain Wilson. in whieh the Police De partment had no interest. The Police Department never had any meadow lands in that neighborhood. I have no knowledge or recollection of such hay being felivered at my stable, The Commissioners will re taf the circumstances which engendered in the minds of the Conklin family ‘A PEELING OF ANIMOSITY TOWARD ME. 1 was required to appear in the Beard in a case where the Conklin family had charge of intoxication against a poli of Lover to perform the duty of examining the wit Desses in the case, There were charges also against Horatio G. Conkliu and George Conklin growing out of ihe same transactions, which were the foundation of the charges against Lober. The entire family ot Conk- lins, five in number, appeared as witnesses against Lober. I was required in the performance of duty to cross-examine the Conklins and to examine witnesses whose testimony opposed the case made by the Conk lins. The whole testimony in the case satisfied the Commissioners that the testimony of the Conklins was faise and that Lober was sober. It more lished very plainly that the two Conklins, policemen, had interfered with Officer Lober in the dis- charge of his duty, and rescued from him the prisoner, Bidney Conklin, whom he had arrested. This action on the part of the two Conklins (Horatio and George) was by statute a “misdemeanor.” The Board was therefore compelled to pronounce a judgment of dismissal trom the force against Horatio and George Conklin. In their Vindictiveness they attributed to my agency the disas- ter of their dismissal. They gave public expressions of their animosity toward me and made threats of re- venge. le a SID CONKLAN'S RECORD. The record of the acts and characters of these two witnesses isa proper subject for consideration, in much as itis apparent that their testimony is given in a vindictive spirit, iceman in 1868. He served until October, 1470, when was found asleep on his “post.” The cl proved on his trial, and he resigned to avord a jndg- ment of dismissal, having been a member of the police foree but two years and three months. The records of your department show that be was arraigned before me on seven diferent charges for non-payment of his debts. Subsequently to his leaving the police force ‘was appointed by Mr. Bergh an officer of the Society the Prevention of ity to Animals. He was d missed from that position by Mr. Bergh for cause, August, 1872. a ‘A sufficient cause for Ubis dismissal is Stated in the papers of the day as being for VYING RLACK MAIL’? and altering the “permits of the Board of Health,” The Tecords of the prison show that he was comtnitted on The 24th of Angusn, 18 Subsequently to his d miseal by Mr. Bergh he @btained admission to membe ship in the Fire Department, He was tried Octob 1874, betore the Fire Commissioners on that trial he was com \ng appears on the r yrtion of the testimeny addi “Richard Baxter, sworn, says H, Couki came to me in March inst, 1 elf ax Frauk $50; submitted contract signed as Frank tis namber for identification; failed Jon me and I went to the company and Uy me no such man was im that company; 1 ascertained from Headquarters that the number represented Sid- ney H. Conklin; he said all right, you have caught me, T Will pay you, but up to this time has failed tw pay.” It appears by the records of the Pohee wu ent that fhe had been arrested four different tines by tie poiiee jn different parts of the city HORATIO G. CUNKLIN'S CARERR, Horatio G. Conklin was tor a considerable period de- tailed to night duty at the Juvenile Asylum, and during of Dr. Brooks as Superintendent of Was removed from that post beeanse of an uster jack of confidence in bis truthfulness and honesty, His reputation in both these particulars in the asylum and nerghborhoo: out of the asylum and bis entrance into th forbidden for the reason stated , ssucceeded in getting detailed to might duty atthe Devt and Dumb Institute, from which he was dismisked ior the same reasons that caused his dismissal trom the Juvenile Asylum. His superiors in both those institn tions deetned his word and honesty utierly unworthy of coniidence, It appears by nd (No. 10) that while at the Juvenile Ax he was frequentiy seen at the extraordinary hours of about two tw three 0’ m the ‘morning to poss ont the building to his son, on the outside, @ bag Sled with something, the contents not known to they are un- | | attention of the department to certain sanitary require- that he hauled new | I |. water art held by the | man by the name | Sidney Conklin was appointed a | Ke was | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1875. | witness. The son carriel the bag on his back off | through the wood toward the house where the Conklin | family ved. Such transactions were noticed by the | witness as many as four times, perhaps more, On one | of these oc the witness followed the son across the farm “al Buttertield and observed him close! Conklin and his son Sidney, during their residence im the Thirty-second precinct, have be- come notorious for their disregard of the rights of their | neighbors and lor their dishonest practices toward | those who have been so unfortunate as to deal with | them. They have « general and extraordinary reputa- tion for untrutitulness, and their statements, whether under oath er not, obtain little or no eredence among | those who know the 1 UMMING UP. If the real characters of my accu known to the Chmmittee of the Ls Commissioners of Police andthe publi their vindictive attack would have been required. -five years of honorable living would have shielded | 1 the minds of all worthy persons from unfavorable | The absence of that knowledge compels | © such evidence as my preocenpied time | will allow to show them to you in their true light. I | therefore venture to ask your patient attention to the | impeaching documents annexed to this statement. If | the Commissioners will consider that Tam called upon | to disprove certain (in themselves) unimportant acts alleged to bave occurred during the ten years past, in respect to which no evidence at all likely to be preserved, they will see that the task imposed upon me is rather unuwnal, Never. theless, [ believe that on a careful consideration of the matter you will find no cause to withdraw that confi- dence which you and all your predecessors, during the somewhat extended term of fifteen years of service in | in the position I now oceapy, have reposed in me. Re- | spectfully submitted, 8. C. HAWLEY. Skpremmen 1, 18 Accompanying the statement of Mr. Hawley were nty-two affidavits confirming bis declaration in ref- erence to the charges made against him, and in refer. ence to the records of Sidney and Horatio G. Conklin, as well as of his damnatory conclusions as to the charac- | teristics of those two knowing witnesses. WAT ON ADULTERATED MILK DEALERS—VITAL STATISTICS, A meeting of the Board of Health took place yester- day, President Chandler presiding. A report was re- ceived from the Sanitary Superintendent, calling the ments in Ludlow Street Jail, with relation particularly to a deficiency in the supply of water, The matter was referred to the Sanitary Committee. Twenty-three cases of adulteration of milk were re- ported upon by the Counsel to the Board. and fifteen dealers against whom the misdemeanor had been clearly proven were each fined $50. Two were acquitted, and | the cases of the remainder are still under consideration. | The following is the weckly report of the Registrar of Vital Statistics :— In the week ending on Saturday, the 28th ult., there wers 592 deaths reported in this city, against 685 Which were verified for the previous week. This de- crease in mortality oecurred in connection with a fall of | @1 degrees in the mean temperature, which, for the | last week, was at 67.5 degrees, with a range of only 20 degrees, the average humidity being 76-100 of total | sateration. The natural conditions of healthfulness the past week cofresponded with those of the second and third weeks of June, and except for the infantile, mortality by diarrhoeal maladies the deaths would not have exceeded the rate of mortality at that most favored period. There was an increase of the infantile deaths the week nefore last, with the higher temperature and decrease of the mean temperature, There were 34 deaths from bronchitis and pneumonia last week, 39 in the previons week, 34 in the second and 40 in the first week in August, and in these four weeks the least mortality in the year was registered from these two diseases, Diphtheria caused 23 deaths, the least number of any week in the year; scarlatina caused 3, and small-pox caused 14 in the past two weeks, the least number of any fortnight in the year. ‘The death rate in the third week of August was equal to 33.6 1n the 1,000 inhabitants annnally, and last week the rate was eq) London in the econd week of August was 22.5 per | 1,000, and in the twenty-one chief cities of Groat Britain it. equalled 24 per 1,000, and the mean temperature at the Greenwich Observatory was at 65.2 degrees Fahren- heit. Paris reported its rate as being equal to 23.3 per 1,000; Berlin, the week previously, reported its rate at 40.9 per 1,000, Brussels at 26.6, The Haguo at 35.2, Breslau at 343 and Viennaat 19.2.’ Never has a city more signaily escaped the great enemies of its healthfulness than’ Vienna by the protuse supply of pare water from the hills. The death rate in that city dur- Some villages and small cities in Ame far greater rate of mortality than New | York, simply from Want of adequate supplies.of pure wate The following is a comparative statement of-cases of | contagious diseases reported at this bureau for the two weeks ending August 28, 1875:— —Week Ending— Diseases. Aug. 21. Aug. 28. | Typhus 3 1 Typhoid fever... 25 23 | Scarlet fever 9 16 | | Measles. eae. 7 Diphtheria 5 30 Smallpox . 36 26 Cerebro-sp 3 i THE GEOGRAPHICAL CONGRESS. | AWARDS TO AMERICAN EXHIBITORS. The following official letter from the American Com- | missioner has been forwarded to the President of the ! American Geographical Society, and contains the awards made to American exhibitor: Panis, August 15, 1875. To Chief Justice Dary, President of the American Geographical Societ n—I have the honor to report that the labors of the | | International Geographical Congress came to a close on | | the 1ith inst., and at the same time the labors of the different juries chosen to decide upon the merits of the | various objects presented at the Exhiti You will be gratified to learn that if few | extubited in the American department they were ail | | found of such value as to merit rewards. In the appre- | | ciations of the different juries the United States thus secured as high a position of merit, in proportion to the number of objects exhibited, as was accorded to any | other nation. | _ The following is the list of awards made to the United States (eight in all):— | Letters of Distinetvon (Highest Award).—Secretary of , Coast Sury General Meyer, Signal Ser- Reports. Jats, First Class,—¥rancis A. Walker, Physical Mr. 5 | graphical Exploration; Bureau of Staustics, Ministry of | Interior. Medals, Second Class.—Committee of Emigration; | members of Tuscarora Expedition. | fation,—State of Tennessee, specimens of natural production. | "As soon as theso awards are prepared I will forward them to you. The questions disenssed in the ten days’ sittings | of the Congress were too numerous to admit of a men- | tion in this brief report, It is also too soon to predict what amount of influence they will be likely to exert on the future progress of geographical science. But | certainly a large and sure foundation has been laid for | future action, and the members of the Congrest, more than 800 in number, are leaving for their homes @ith a well settled conviction that a great work has been | founded, ont of which excellent results must necessa- ily flow. | The stenographie report of the doings of the Congress | Med | Atlas of the United States; | will soon appear in book form, and wiil be sent to you as coon as published. From this, and from this alone, | can you get a correct idea of the range and the value of the discussions of the Congress. The Exhibition, which is datly visited by large nam- | bers of persons, will remain open till the 15th of Sep- tember. Your representative never failed to meet, on the part of the officers of the Congress and the French officials most nearly concerned, the highest masks of courtesy aud consideration. | W. E. JOHNSTON, M. D., Commissioner of the American Geographical Soctety, New York. THE STORY OF A COUPON, | Accupon of one of the bonds stolen by Alexander Hamilton, the defaniting treasurer of Jersey City, was | presented yesterday at the Hudson County Bank for | ayment. The coupon was No. 4 of bond No. 423, | Chiet of Police Champney was notified and the coupon | traced to L, Hoffman & Co., bankers, of New York. | member of the firm was arrested and taken to the | net station in New York, but was soon after | Lon his own recognizance, He sent a note to | in Petty stating that he obtained the coupon from | | a bank in Franksort-on-the Main through thetE xchange: This was the tirst coupon of the stolen bonds ever pre- sented. ileath & Coddington, who tried to negotiate | $10,000 of the bonds, are out on bail A JERSEY LESSON | Mr. F. W. Kingsland, Collector for Hudson county, w Jersey, makes the following report of the total re ceiptsand expenditures for the past year:—Receipts, | | bide | IN FINANCE, | $1,198,142 76; expenditures, $1,148,017 59; balance, 50,1 Of the temporary loan zed at the last meeting of the Board of Fi olders the eum of Juded in the fore been procured and is i ie amount of the county bonds fall let inst. is $72,000, amd of this amount | presented and paid, | $100,000 THE MISSISSIPPT BAR. | The Committee of Engineers who, for the Inst few | days have been in session at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, | They were | did nothing of fresh interest yesterd simply receiving and putting down plans in writing. | Yesterday they continued the examination of the plans of Captain Eads for improving, the navigation at the mouth of the Mississippi, During the discussion of his | plans Captain Bads very modestly withdrew, | latter xpied Ross walking down Cortla | the river. | he was taken to the Church street station house. | prisoner here stated that he had done the stabbing in | | stone, town of Flushing. A MAN DISEMBOWELLED. Probable Murder Under the Walls of Washington Market, HORRIBLE WORK WITH THE KNIFE. Another horrifying murder is added to the already alarmingly long list of terrible tragedies that havo marked the past fortnight as a bloody epoch im the an- | nals of crime in New York. A trivial dispnte between two men provoked an alter- cation; knives were freely used, and one of the combat- ants was literally ripped open until his bowels protrndet from the ghastly wound, The murderer, leaving bis dying victim, proceeded to a surgeon, had his own wounds dressed, and attempted to escape, but was haps pily arrested by the police. The details of the tragedy are as follows Augustus Ross, aged twenty-two years, a carrier and driver working in Washington Market, and residing at Bahr's Hotel, No, 127 West street, arose from his bed at three o'clock yesterday morning, being unable to sleep, and’ went down stairs, In front of the hotel was a wooden meat stand, upon this Ross laid down for the purpose of going to sleep. He had been asleep almost two hours, the time being a quarter to five o’elock, when he was awakened by a young man named Dennis Leary, aged about twenty-four years, who attempted to lie down beside him, Ross arose and ordered the new comer away, saying that he could not occupy the stand until he (oss) got through with it. Leary, who is an ac, quaintance of Ross, being engaged in the same oceupa- tion about Washington Market, insisted that he had as. good a right to lie down on the stand as the other. Words ensued between the pair, Ross accusing Leary of being covered with vermin and of being a wandering vagrant; and in a few moments they clinched, The struggle was short but vigorous, and during the melée both men got severely battered. After the tussle, broken up by the approach of a policeman, Rose went inside the hotel and proceeded to the washroom, where he commenced washing his hands and face. While thas occupied, some ten minutes having elapsed since the fight, Leary camo in, and hot words were again used, Both men then went outside the house to the scene of their first quarrel and in a moment they were locked together IN DESPERATE CONPLICT. The combatants were of about the same stature and strength, and the chances of victory were evenly di- vided. For the first few minutes of tif fight no weapons were used, but as the struggle proceeded cach | f felt instinctively for his knife, Leary appears to have been the first to grasp one, which was an ordinary oyster knife he carried In his pocket, and with this he made a lunge at his antagonist, cutting him severely but not dangerously near the groin, Hoss now man- | aged to take from his pocket, it is supposed, a large, sharp penknife. Ina moment he had plunged it into the body of Leary, penetrating his abdomen. and rip- ping it upward several inches. The hold of Leary now relaxed, and with a groan he fell back on the sidewalk Ross then threw away the knife with which he committed the murderous deed and started for the Park Hospital, On reaching there he called for a pbysician and exhibited his wound, saying that _a man had ent him, and requesting it to be dressed. The surgeon ex- | amined the cut, and, finding it not serious, dressed it forthwith and let the man depart, not thinking the case | amounted to more than an ordinary brawl. | Ross had hardly left the scene of the tragedy when Leury staggered to his feet and ran across the street to- | ward Washington Market, A boy named Charles W. Quinn, working in the market, who had witnessed the stabbing, hurried to the relief of the wounded man, The latter exclaimed “I am stabbed here,” laying his hand on his stomach, Quinn quickly unfastened his clothing and found MIS BOWELS PROTRUDING. Hardly had the discovery been made when Leary tell to the ground unconscious, Officer Sullivan, of the Twenty-s | rived at this juneture and at once hastened to the | station house, from whence a police surgeon was tele | graphed for. The latter soon arrived in an ambulance, | and the injured man was conveyed to the Park Hos | tal, where his wounds were examined and pronounced | | | venth precinct, ar- fatal. On being notified of the murder Captain Saunders hastily summoned his reserve foree, and, giving them a description of Ross obtained from the boy Quinn above named, sent them in every direction in pursuit, Thinking that probably the murderer had fled across the river to Jersey City, Captain Saunders, accompanied by Officer Mulvey and Quinn, at once proceeded thithe, Finding, however. on inquizy that no person answoring the description of Ros had crossed the ferry they re- turned to Now York, At Cortlandt street they were Joined by Officer Suihvan, His arrest was the work ofa moment, and. The self-defence. When asked for the knife he said that he had thrown it away. Coroner Woltman was notified of the occurrence and ordered Ross to be committed to the Tombs without bail to await the result of Leary’s injuries. Charles W. Quinn, the boy who had witnessed the tragedy, was visited in the station honse by a re- porter, where, by order of the Coroner, he was confined as a witness preparatory to his removal to the House of Detention, from him obtained the following ac- coun 1 am eighteen years old, live at No. 187 Greene street, and work in Washington Market in a fish stall, At about twenty minntes to five o'clock this morning I was working in the market, when Leary came in and stood beside me, was acquainted with him by seeing him frequently around the mar- ket doing odd jobs occasionally as a carrie When he came to where I was 1 turned around and asked him what he wanted. He replied, “I hive a sheep that I want to sell.’ I then said that he had better go somewhere else and sell it, as I did not want tw buy, and he went away. About fifteen minutes after- ward he came back and appeared to be greatly excited, Tis face was spotted with blood, as though he bad been fighting and had got beaten. J asked him what the trouble was. In reply he sand, “GIVE ME A KNIFE.” I told him that I would not. He then walked around behind my stand. I donot think he found a knife there, but he went out of the market immediately afterward, crossing Fulton strect. A few minates afterward I heard awnoise, and, looking across the street, Esaw Leary and Augustus Ross fighting. 1 saw Leary with a knife in his hand, and heard hum say, “I'll stab you, you —.”” I then saw Ross stab Leary in the abdomen. Ross then hurried away, and Leary fell down, Leary ina jew Moments got up and staggered across to the market, where I was, eaying:— “PM STABBED! I'M sTansrp!"* T opened his clothing and found that his entrails were coming out; so I ran for a policeman, and before ‘long an ambulance arrived and carricd Leary to the hospi- tal, Coroner Woltman Jater in the day visited the hospital and took the ante-mortem statement of the dying man, which is as follows :— “My name is Dennis Leary and I live at No, 128 Cedar street. Do not think I will die from these injuries. Was down town at twelve o'clock last night, in a liquor store at the corner of Cedar and Washington streets, Went to the Washington Market at about half-past four o'clock this morning and found Koss lying in front of Bahr’s Hotel. 1 laid down beside him, and happened, in so ao- ing, to hit him on the back, and Koss arose and attacked me, when I PULLED OUT A KNIFE to defend myself. ‘oss hit and kicked me several times, and a policeman parted us, I followed Ross into the hotel, and then struck at him with the knife. 1 then went to Washington Market, on the Fulton street side, Ross following me with a knife in his hand, and saying, ‘Take this,’ stabbed me in the abdomen. I recognize the man present as the person who stabbed me. Do not know what kind of a knife it wa: FROM THE SECOND STORY WINDOW. James Powers, a laborer, residing at No. 3 Navy | street, claims the credit of improving upon the ordinary course of wife punishment. day morning be quarrelied with his wife, who is a slight, wan, and, taking her up in his arms, threw nd story window into the stres bruised, though no limbs were Justice was picked broken, and was removed to the City Hospital. Cox committed her husband to await examination, THE HACKENSACK BRIDGE AFFRAY, An application was made yesterday, m the Court of Quarter Sessions, at Jersey City, for the admission to bail of George Norton, one of the men charged with a | murderous assault on Jobti Hughes, at the Hackensack bridge. The Court fixed the bail at $10,000, which the prisoner could not furn MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE, A German named Lonis Keller, a single man, up to about the Ist of August last was engaged in the boot and hoe business on the main «treet of White: About that time Keller mys- teriously disappeared, and nothing has «ince been seen or heard of bin. — The store remains closed and no one seems to know whither the man has gone or whether his dead body may not be rotting inside the building, in the garret of which he was accustomed to sleep. It is tured, however, that he may have lett the village en under the influence of liquor and proceeded. td Yonkers, where he ts known to have equaintances Rumor also says that some $300 were stolen from him some time in July, when on a visit to New York, and that the loss of the money so mind as to make him at last partial tion of him has been sought, but way, and this far without result rible that aclew to the mystery may be obtained if the Jandiord of the premises, in concert with the aatly ities, shonid make an exammation of the building, and preyed upon his jy. ins Informa nly in a half-hearted It is thought pos itis considered very strange that this cuurse has not | been taken before this timo, and | At an carly hour yester- | . She | THE DOYLE MURDER. M'MURRAY HELD TO BE THE GUILTY MAN. On the morning of Sunday, the 22d ult., Patrolman Munson, of the Kighth precinct, saw aman leaning against a post on Greenwich street, near No. 494, who was covered with blood. He approached the bleeding man and tried to ascertain where and how he had been wounded, but couldobtam no response to his ques- tions. He at oneé took him to the station house, where the victim gave his name as Willian Doyle, but at first refused to say anything in regard to how he had re- | ceived his wounds, Upon Assistant Surgeon Hathaway, | of the ambulance corps, assuring him that his wounds were fatal, however, he stated that he had been stabbed jon the top floor of No, 494 Greenwich | street, An ambulance was subsequently pro- | curea, and he was conveyed to Bellevue Hospital. As soon as the whereabouts of the affray | was obtained Sergeant Robb sent Patrolman Munson to secure the assailant. Munson repaired to No. 494 Greenwich street, where he found blood spattered in | the hallway of the fitst floor, On ascending to the top | floor he found Samuel McMurray, with a ent on his | right hand. He arrested MeMurray and returned with him to the Fighth precinct station house, where Doyle recognized him as the man who had attacked and stabbed him, MeMurray was locked up to await the re- sult of his viettm’'s injuries, Doyle died on last Friday, and yesterday the Coroner's inqnest took place, Messrs. Ny Eckstein, John Cahill, Edward Duty, Will- iam Levers, Charles Giver, William Lander, Gabriel | Krentzen, L. Brander, T. B. Klences, Charles Fisher, BN, Adams, L. Isaac and FE. Frankfeld composing the jury. The following 18 the testimony given: Thomas Stuley, being sworn, says:—I reside at No, 194 Varick street; 1 have known deceased, William Doyle, for the past five years; on Sunday morning, the 22 of August, 1875, about two o'clock, I was on Greenwich street, about four doors below No. 494; I saw Doyle come along; he was bleeding around his neck; I saw no wound upon him, and.he did not tell me the cause of his bleeding; an officer came up and I accompanied him | with deceased to the station house; I there saw that deceased had a cut on the right side of his neck; Doyle was in the habit of drinking to excess; I saw the pri- soner MeMurray in the station house, Hamilton testified:—I reside at No, 494 Greenwich street; on the night of Saturday, August 21, about twelve o'clock, 1 was lying on a bed in the landing on the top floor of the house, the same being occupied by Mrs, MeMurray; there were two men on the landing; Doyle was sitting on the landing; I was awakened by a man lying alongside of mo; when I awoke the man jumped out of the window; Doyle was then “lying on the stairs; Mrs, McMurray shouted — out = “Sam!” to’ her MeMurray came up and __ shouted ? and caught hold of Doyle; Doyle said, “Leave "Mr, MeMurray said, ‘'No,’” and then pulled airs and called out’ fora stone; Mrs. MeMurray asked him, “Where is your knife /” and he answered, “On the table;"’ Mrs, MeMurray ges ed Went up stairs and brought down the knife which is here shown and gave it to her husband, Samuel MeMur- ray, who then took hold of Doyle and, pntting the head of the deceased r his arm, stabbed him wath the knife in the face and Anger; McMurray said he would Knoek his (Doyle's) bratns ont; the dispute arose about the man lying on the bed; Doyle, however, was not the man who lay down on the bed, but the other man was; Mr. and Mrs. MeMurray and Doyle were all under the iniluence of liquor; neither Doyle nor the other man re- sided in the honse and they had no business there; after the stabbing saw the Knife on the floor; there was seen it before on the table in Mrs, MeMurray’s room; after Doyle was stabbed he went away and McMurray airs, where he gota hatchet and nailed up ows; he also locked tho doors; I saw MeMur- | ray carry the knite up stairs with him and throw it under the bed; 1 afterward saw MeMurray arrested ; ihe stabbing occurred on the first floor; McMurray said, previous to the stabbing of Doyle, that he would stab ly mother if she went up stairs, nne Jane MeMurray testifed:—I reside at No, 494 t, in the attic room; I have never seen on the morning’ of Sunday, Au- two o'clock, I heard my” baby going to the bed, T saw a is face on it; my daughter, agea thir- 11 the bed also, Teried out to my husband, telling him that there was a man on the bed; while my asband was coming np stairs the man jumped out of the window; my husband followed him down, and tind- ing aman lying in the hallway thought it was the same man; I heard some no nd, taking up the lamp, went down too, where I saw my husband put the man ont into the street; my husband then came up stairs and | procured a bar forthe door; Lwent down with him to | bar the door, and saw blood on the stairs and in the hall; 1 then returned up stairs; [had heard a seufle on the stairs; recognize the knife here shown as the one I have had in my possession; I did not see the knife after the occurrenar, Jonn J. Munson testified:—I am patrolman attached tothe Eighth precinct; I was on Greenwich street at | hali-past two o'clock A.M. on Sunday, August 22, when I saw Doyle standing leaning azainst a post; this was on Greenwich street, near No. 494; he was’ bleeding; I asked hitn where he had been stabbed, but he did not an- swer; I took bin to the station house, where he said he hart been stabbed at_ No. 494 Greenwich street, on the top tloor; Sergeant Robb told me to find the assail- ant and arrest him; I went to the honse and saw blood in the hallway on the first floor; I went up to the top Hloor, where i saw MeMurray with a wound on his right hand; I arrested him, and William Doyle recognized Samuel McMurray as the man who stabbed him; about five o'clock I went to MeMurray’s room and found the knife, which is here shown, on the table; there was blood upon it; Mrs. MeMurray’s daughter said to me, “This is the knife which my inother tried to wash the blood off of;"" the point of ‘the knife was bent, and in trying to straighten it I broke it off.. Joseph Cushman, M. D,, testified:—I_ made a post mortem examination of the bedy of William Doyle, at the Morgue, Angust 28, 1875; I found a pune: ured wound of the neck on ,the Fight side, one inch in Jength, its direction being inward and down- ward, through the thyroid cartilage into the larynx; on opening the larynx inflammation was found to extend along the course of the wound to the glottis; there was also found a superficial incised wound of the nose and ofthe glottis, the result of a stab wound of the neck. y found the following verdict:—That William cto his death by a stab wound of the neck, inflicted with a knife in the hands of Samuel MeMurray, | at No, 494 Greenwich street, on Angust 22, 1875." Coroner Croker asked MeMurray it he had anything to say in regard to the case, and MeMurray bogab, sm a nervous manner, to give his version of the affair, but Was promptly interrupted by the Coroner. After one or two more i tial attempts tosay his say he pleaded “Not guilty,” and, in his examination, stated that he was thirty-six years old, a native of Ireland and a laborer by oceapation. ’ He was com- mitted to the Tombs to await the action of the Grand Jury. CORONERS’ CASES. PROBABLE INFANTICIDE AND SUDDEN DEATHS. OMficer Patrick Regan, of the Twenty-ninth preemet, found at one o'clock yesterday morning the body of a female infant, wrapped up in a newspaper, at the cor. | ner of Thirty-third street and Fifth avenue, The body was sent to the Morgue, and Coroner Eickhoif was notified. Margaret Healy, aged thirty-four years, was found at half-past one o'clock yesterday morning by her hus- band drunk on the floor, and she soon alter died. John MeClarence, aged eight years, of No. 712 Kast ing at the foot of Tenth stree Coroner Eickhoi was thea Flecker, aged forty-three years, of No. 84 First avenue, and Maria Pritchard, aged forty-tive, of N . Kast River, dences. BROOKLYN ROBBERIES. After along chase Detective Corwin effected the ar- rest yesterday ofa sneak thief who gives his name as Jobn Armstrong. The prisoner stole a coat from the | store of Maurice Fitzgerald, N 7 Adams street, In his pockets were found several pawn tickets for jewelry. He js held for examination, Justice Delmar yesterday committed John Cline and Jobn Hickey, two young men, to answer the charge of highway robbery. On Thursday afternoon Mr. James | was passing the corner of Clinton street and | dah y when the prisoners named sprung | npon him and attempted to rob him, His cries brought | Patrolman Rooke apon the scene, and the two men were arrested, The storo of M. Aherus, No, 181 Park avenue,*was on- by two respectably dressed men on Th , one of whom knocked down George Mill 2 while the other robbed the till, made, A SENSATION Norman Chase has for some timo past oMcinted both ns ticket agent and telegraph operator at Montrose, About eighteen month hi 1 with tho daughter of a hotel keeper in the village, named Sloat, and after an absence of a fow days they returned mon and wite, On this representation the father of the young woman invited them both to make their home with him, and about two months sinee a grandchild was born to him. Within the past few days Chase aunounced his inten tion of Joaving Montrose, and, on being asked whet he int taking his wife and ebild with him, reph wife, ‘This astound. ing assertion havit ears of the father ate Jaw C an order for the arrest of ( unty Judge Giflord, on the ground that ont to go away from th ighbor ard bill unpaid. ‘This, it appear action that the Jather-in-law could take in the pre- mises, Chase was accordingly arrested on Thursday, and furnished bonds in the sat of $1,009 to answer the charge. The aflair has oeeasioned a diminutive sensa- Vio in the vicinity of Montrose, se from the fe vod, He was the only yer, proet was his h blood on it and it was bent; I straightened it; [had | Jett thumb; death, in my opinion, was caused by wdema | ‘Twellth street, was drowned on Wednesday while bath- | notitied yesterday that Doro- | 628 Fifth street, died suddenly at their respective resi- | WITH SUPPLEMENT, STOCKVIS NO. 2. The Latest Outrage at Black- well's Island. MALACHI CONNOLLY'S MURDER. Sickening Evidence of Inhumanity at the Penitentiary. Yesterday afternoon at one o'clock the inquest con- corning the death of Malachi Connolly, who was beaten to death on’ Blackwell's Island, was held at Gorover Croker's office, corner of Mulberry and Houston streets. A large crowd of people, including the brother and sis- ter of the deceased, assembled in front of the Coroner's office, and aconsiderable dogree of excitement was shown throughout the preliminary stage of the exami- nation. Henry Smith, being sworn, saia:—I roside at No, 4 Delancey street; I was a prisoner in the Penitentiary nine- months, being discharged on August 24; 1 have seen Connolly struck by keeper Geary with a club, in the yard, about twenty days ago; I saw Reilly, a keeper, make Connolly carry. a big log for punishment; Connolly seemed to be unsound in his mind; also saw Geary knock and kick Connolly down and order two convicts to place Connolly in the water. John FE. Owens, being sworn, said:—I reside at No. 103 Mott street; I was committed to the Penitentiary for assanlt June 5, 1875; while there I became acquainted with Malachi Connolly, who was also a prisoner there; I first saw him abont June 8 or 9; I saw deceased struck with a stick by a German keeper who hart charge of tier No, 5in the new prison last Thursday two weeks; I saw deceased struck upon the small of the back with Tran away from the Island in June, 1874, and was re- turned there some time after; Warden Fox, in a month or so after, had me relieved of the irons; 1 saw Geary a few days before Connolly's death give orders to the prisoners to chuck Connolly into an iron tank full of | water; he was in about thirty seconds, and then he Ws dragged out and put to work hauling Iumber; most of the keepers carried a stick about three fect long; I when he took up a pebble to fling it at Cowenhoven, Counsel for the prisoners here interposed to request that the evidenes given by the witness in regard to the deceased baving picked up a stone to strike the keeper be incorporated in the testimony, Owens then continued.—I saw Mr. Cowenhoven on one of those days take a large piece of board, I think about the 19th of Angust in tho afternvon; I was in Geary’s gang enzayed in carrying lumber; I saw Cowenhoven take up a piece of board and say, “You big loafer, Ill make you go work; you want to Ro to the hospital, but I'll kill you, you Trish son of a , before you go there; I saw Mr, Cowenhoven strike Connolly with a board and knock him into a wheelbarrow; I saw Geary deputize half a dozen of the prisoners to puil and shove Connolly, and say “work that man to death; think it was the 1%h of Angust I saw Geary, Cow- enhoven, Boyle and Reese jl-treat Connoll; after being thrown into the tank he was placed ina in his wet clothes; the next morning when he was taken ont of his cell he seemed to be ont of his mind; I think this was about two weeks ago; he was then placed in a dark cell; saw him two or threo days afterward; saw him carried in to dinner one day and thrown on a pile of bricks by Patrick Geary, keeper on the Penitentiary grounds; raw Geary strike deceased at least two dozen times with a cane the same after- noon; I saw Geary strike Connolly on the shoulder, legs and arms with a piece of wood; on the following day (Friday) deceased was walking with A BRAM UPON HIN HANDS; ‘he seemed weak and fell forward, when Covenhoven, the deputy-keoper, Kicked the deceased; up, and Covenhovon struck him in the face; he fell and struck his head on a barrel; Cowenhoven said, “you son of a b -h, I'll send you to the hospita};” Geary inct him soon after and told Connolly to move along and struck him with the handle of of pickaxe; Connolly fell down; Cowenhoyen also kicked the deceased; on Satur- day, deceased was not able to stand in the line and was seemingly weak; I saw him in a cell the same day Ihave also seen deceased thrown into a large iron pot used for washing buckets in; have seen Connolly. pick up a stone to throw at Cowenhoven alter Cowenhoven had KICKED AND KNOCKED HIM DOWN; Cowevhoven kicked him about the body, and Connolly would say for God’s cake not to hit him again; Connolly, on another occasion, was carrying some boards, when’ i saw Cowenhoven, on the 24th or 25th of Angust, who told the keepers that if they were afraid to club him he was not; he then struck Connolly with a stick and also kicked him in the back; saw Geary give his stick to a prisoner, who struck Connolly, while he stood by anf laughed; for not working Connolly was made to carry a heavy plank at one end w would strike him with aclub to inake him goon; after he had left the plank three men would run him down to pick up another plank; the plank is about twenty-four | | inches wide. In answer to ajuror the witness said:—I saw Con- nolly ina dark cell about a week previous to death; he said that he would do all he could when they were beating him; he was working in the same gang with witness; I’ neyer had any trouble with the keepers, and bear no hard fecling toward them ; | never saw Connolly until T saw him on the Island; 1 heard of | Connolly's death on Thursday or Friday; saw him | alive two or three days before that; never saw Con- | nolly quarrel with i John J. Fallon, N : Tam akeeper in well’s Islani ; ‘e been 80 | the Penitentiary on Bi 6th of June; he was a prisoner in the Penitentiary; the first time T know anything about him was abont two weeks ago; he was placed in the gang that I had part charge of; Michacl = McKenna and myself. were the two keepers having charge of the gang; av that time our gi loading ashes from barges; the first day Michael Connolly worked inthe gang { noticed that he acted like aman not having rational qualities, and seemed to be averse to working, whieh condition attracted the attention of the keepers, the Deputy Warden, and, in fact, the prisoners themselves; force had to be employed to ‘make him work, and we were obliged to apeak very harshly to him; saw the keeper, McKenna, strike him with a piece of a stick; [ am satisded he did not intend to hurt him and did not hurt him; this was when into our gang; he was only three or fou gang when he was exchanged into another gang; there try the different officers who conld work the man Con- nolly best; from our gang he went into the gang of Keepers Reese and Skelly; 1 saw Reese whip him with a stick to make him go to work, the stick bemg abont three feet long and abalt inches in diameter; I saw him hit Connolly more than once, but I cannot say how | many times; he struck him in ‘the back somewhere; the keeper seemed angry when he strack him, and aworo at him and threatened punishment; Connolly Would ogy and act foolishly; P think Connolly. tried to do ‘the best he knew how; [ saw Reese | strike him on two different occasions; Connolly would make foolish answers and sometimes threats, but they were so entirely foolish that any one might know that | he did not mean them; he was only in the gang one week when he was again transferred, and I lost sight of him, except seeing = him in the eve ing, when he, came back from his work; I know that Reese took delight im jeritating and ex: citing Connolly, and afterward thrashing him; about eight weeks ago I heard that Connolly had been’ beaten by Reese, and afterward locket mp ina dark cell; on aston Connolly was being beaten, and I heard the seon the Deputy Warden strike Michael Connolly with a stick; never saw any one strike bim with their ys with the stick that the keepers carry; | the jast time I saw him beaten was about eight weeks azo, | bat have heard of his being beaten, and that Keeper Geary | used more violence than any other keeper; never saw him strike Connolly; it was a common rumor every | night when Connolly came back that he had been card that other prisoners had struck of the keeper, but T never saw it y told me that he was abused by every ained of fecling sore and of having bruises on his body; have heard him ery out that they would kill him ‘before they got done with him; he od to be well enough in health, bat would hot work — unless forces to do wo; he would not refuse to work, bat would’ mope around and jag behind, ‘and — appeared — not tw know what he was doing; he appeared to be a quiet sortof aman, and never quarrelled with any of his ing last he was ding him by the walk along; he com his appearance, 1 jud to from the handle of a shovel; | never saw Connolly strike back except on one occasion, | | but he could not answer; come out of the dark cell 7 Connolly got | le two men carried | the other end; and when Connolly wanted to rest Geary | feot long, eight or nine inches thick and three or fonr | | committees Connolly . first came | days in our was no partienlar reason for changing him except to | | | | Warden, Cowenhoven, ery ont to give it to him; | | him to be a siek, crazy man; he wos raving and was | taken buck, and’ Th on the night wag placed in adark cell day) L heard from those who aw it that Mic 1 nnelly hal been beate abused that day; alot the keepers w 7, and the topic of conversation was the treat! ment that’ Connolly had that day; saw = Connoil, on Thuresta evening lying in his cot in his cell; he was raving; it Is the Hty of the keeper on duty to report f sickness either to the hall keeper or to the y Warden; when I aw him he was raving, and was not, in my opinion, rational; one of the hall men | passed the cell door at the time he was raving; | When the mail was being called at suppor Connolly was raving almost interrupted tne the lette heard ot his « (Pri abort tw Tecan aay ronghly be= lieve that had not the treatment of Connolly been mntenanced and encouraged by the Deputy Warden Connolly would have been alive to-day. Herman 1 | reside at No, 16 Spring street; I committed on March 27, 1875, for lureeny 5 | 1 was discharged August 26; 1 know Michaoi Connolly ; | first saw him in Genry’ Koopor Geary mano Connolly carry a heavy inock, oF pulley; Connoll picked ft up, whem Geary stre”: itm with a stick, voll ; have Hi knew the decensed, Michael | He | of next week, ing him to hurry up; this was two months ago; & worked in Geary’s gang. Quinn, being sworn, said:—I am now a prise oner at the Penitentiary; was committed for four months on May 20, 1875, for petit larceny; [ knew the deceased, Michael Connolly; saw nim twenty days alter he came there; he appeared to be a kind of foolish man, disinclined to’ work and careless; I have seen him beaten by Mr, Geary, Thomas Corcoran, of No, 232 East Twenty-0fth street, testified: —I am a keeper in the Penitentiary on Black- well’s Island; have been there for two years; knew the deceased; he was a prisoner in tho Penitentiary, having been sent there June 5, 1873; saw him alive last August 17, between seven and eight in the morning; he was then tn the fith tier of the now prison; I wad prescat at the time he died; the doctor and Mr, Thomaa Raywood were also present; Mr. Raywood is a keeper and resides at No. 96 Third avenue, he was the keeper that had been on duty on Thursday ight when the inaw Connolly was at supper and ap. peared to be sick; on Friday morning at half-past seven o'clock Iwas in the office when Dr. Lenihan was sent for to see Michacl Connolly; I went to the cell to seo him; he was then alone and’ speechless; L spoke to him he was lying’ on his conch; the deceased was a very —quiei, inoffensive man; [never heard and ‘I d) not know that Michael Connolly had been beaten by any one in the — Penitentiary; he could’ have | been beaten without my knowing anything about it; on Thursday at dinner time I noticed a peculiar idiotic ’ ex- pression in Connolly's face, and I said to him, “Mr, Connolly, you are a pretty ‘good whistler;”” he replied, “Pretty good for an Irishman;” it is customary when prisoners are slightly ailing to let them have the freo- dom of the hall without any doctor's orders, Mr. Con- polly had the treedom of the hall on Thursday after- noon, as he did not appear well. y the inquest will be continued at Blackwell's To- Island, cor HOVEN SURRENDERS HIMSELF. Deputy Warden Cowenhoven, of the Penitentiary, who has been missing sinee the investigation of the death of the convict Connolly, surrendered himself to Coroner Croker. He said he ‘had not been out of the city. He was held in $2,000 bail. THE TRAMPS IN JERSEY. A LIVELY WAR BETWEEN JUDGE HOFFMAN AND TEN VAGABONDS. The action of Judge Hoffman in dealing with the tramps in the Court of Special Sessions at Jersey City has evoked general commendation, ‘The tramps, how ever, are far from being satisfied. The following note, which was unsigned and posted in New York, was re ceived yesterday morning by the Judge:— Jvupcn Horraax:—You were a kind o° wrathy yester- day, Well, prepare yourself for another little episode, Wo intend to annoy you considerably this fall, and tha harder you are on the tramps the harder they will be on you. : Yesterday afternoon a wretched looking individuay entered the store of Michacl C, Guerin, on Hoboken nue, Jersey City, and said he wanted to purchase a “sonthwestern hat.’’ The attendant proceeded to search for the article, when the tramp helped himself to a “beaver,” and said he would call again. His move- ments were observed by Mr. Guerin and the thief was soon in the hands of Detective Clos. He was brought up inthe Second District Poliee Court and was com- mitted to await the action of the Grand Jury, He gavo his name as William Moter, he was being conveyed to his cell Mra. Brooks, of Ege avenue, entered the court room and identiied himas the man who stole $20 worth of goods trom her store a few days ago. A young man entered the shoe store of J. Wenz, im Greene street, Jersey City, yest afternoon, to got his shoe fixed, He hart ont: nel sent the shoe. maker out for change, He then seized a watch and chain whieh were hanging on the wall and mado his es- cape. A little boy named Willie MeShea, whose father keepe awhoe mantifactory at No. 12 Erie. street, Jersey City, was on his way home from Sands’ shoe store with a pat shoes wrapped in a paper parcel, when he was stopped by ‘a rough-looking man,” as the boy describes him, Tho. man, after asking him a few questions, snatched the parcel and ran off. Before the boy’s cries attracted attention the man was ont of sight. During Thursday night the burglarious brigade which seoured northern Hudson county on Wednesday made adescent on the residence of Marcus Pfeiffer, on the Fort Lee Road, killed the watehdog with a pitchfork and stole a set of harness, No clew to the whereabouts of the thieves has beeit found. Some members of the same. gang also paid a visit to the house of John Gol- sing, on the Hackensack Plank Road, but, hearing a rumbling noise within, decamped at a lively rate, An Italien, bamed Gravazi, who keeps a saloon on Union street, heard burglars operating at his windows about midnight, and, jumping out of bed, he prepared for battle, but with such a noise that the robbers fled writh- out having effected un entrance. The citizens are greatly excited over the numerons outrages perpetrated in their midst and clamor for an increase of the police force. TREASURERSHIP JERSEY. THE OF NEW HE QUALIFIES IN A $300,000 nonD AND 18 . SWORN INTO OFFICE—THE S00¥ INVESTIGAT+ ING COMMITTEE NoT THROUGH YET. Trextox, N. J., Sept. 3, 1875, General Gershom Mott, the newly appointed Treasurer of New Jersey, appeared in company with his bonds- men to-day at the Executive Department, in Trenton, and, after duly qualifying, was sworn into office, According to an old statute of the State, it used to ba customary for all State officials, before taking the oath of office, to have their bond examined by the Governor and Privy Council. As there is not in New Jersey a privy council, nor has there been for a number of years past, the duty of testing the validity of the bond in the present case devolved on the vernor, Secretary of State and President of the Senate, If General Mott had been appointed by the Legislature of course the usual procedure provided for by Jaw in such cases would have been taken, Previous to the presentation of General Mott's bond to-day Governor Bedlo was noticed to be in very high spirits, walked to and fro through the — Exeentive Department, his face wreathed with smi and chatted good humoredly with every one present. He remarked to a Hrravo reporter, “Ie,” meaning General Mott, “is giving a grand bend. Yon can get the names of the bondsinen from the Secretary of State in a few minntes, eo that the people can, by the Hrraup, see the kind of men he has for bondsmen.’' Atter a brief conference between the examinin; and the bondsmen, who were all Present, the document was approved and signed, sealed’ and delivered in the usnal way. Ib is for the sum of $300,000. The new Treasurer heads the list, and the following names follow in rotation:— Barker Gummere, Trenton; General Lewis Perrine, Trenton; Henry 8. Little, Clerk of the rt of Chan- H. Longstreet, Burlington county; Mahion on, Bordentown orge M. Wright, Borden- Job H. Gaskill, Burlington county; Bunting WL. Stry- ker, Trenton, As svon as everything was fixed Treas- urer Mott took his fri je Trenton Mouse, where a sumptuous dinner was served. THE s00¥ ¢ The investigating committee accounts has finished examining all the books, pa and bank accounts belonging to the office and into report that everything has been found correct wi exception of the account with the Penn: town Harkins, Burlington county, and General on ex-Treasurer Sooy's ors lly the vivania Rail- roa Company. They have received certified state. ments from’ all of the Imnks with which Svoy deposited, whieh correspond with the entries made in the books kept by him. The committee saya that there 18 another matter which will take two 0 three days to investigate, and consequently no official report of their work can be made until the latter part They do not believe that the investiga. tion will alter the conclusion they have already arrived at. They adjourned over until next Tuesday, REAL ESTATE MARKET. There was scarcely any life yesterday at the Ex- change Salesrooms, the market being without any feature, It is evident that there will be very little im- provement until toward the close of the month. Real estate never was at such a discount as at present, yet many predict quite a brisk time this fall, Most of tho soles now, in fact all that have taken place for the past ten days or two weeks, have been by foreclosures, The Exehi * quite deserted, and will evidently so ho month. der a foreclosure the covering some. forty ensack, at Ridge- Hinue until about the middle of Yesterday R. V, Hartnett sold 1 property ot Harry Robertson, aeres, located on the banks of the Ha field , Miwhich ix valued at $170,000, bt was purchased by Jerry Abbot’, of No. 81 John. street, to mortgages amounting to $70,000, for $10,000 and auctioneer’s fees, It covers @ beantt- ful tract. of Jand, all laid out and worked, has a- Jarge hotel built upon it and numerous onaes, EA, Lawrence & Co, sold, subject toa mort. house and lot west side -ninth street for $100, which avenne and Sixt Mo. Gra plamtif. The property: twa ra ago was worth $9,000, BF. Fairchild nts on Rider avente, subject to an 7 at an advance of $1,000, which were bonght in. by the rigagees, the Real Est Trust Company, The property is valued at $10,000, There were no” private eales, REAL ESTATE LAWYERS’ SWINDLES. To tH Eoitor or tre Herato:— Speaking of the swindling at foreclosure sales, it ts nothing in comparison with the expense of foreclosure, amounting to from $200 to $559, The whole eystem in this and in taxing costs in all site at law is infimons, and the court clerks, whose duty it is to see that no are made, toady to the lawyers and allow them to rob their clients, instead of fultitiing their daties and acting as a safeguard to the public, ‘Tho illegal foes collected by lawyers, sheriffs and auctioncora actually eat up all surplus er for the untortinate devendant, Our Grand Jury or Saprome Court jad should, fur their vwn credit, tako notice of Unis leg rubbery. A VICTIM tyage o .