The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-10-14

The ADMINISTRATION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE
WAHNxR AND HIS WUx-srooLPnsor NOMINATION
OF JoU GRAHAM As DIsrRICr ATToRSEY.-We
publish in our columns to-day q very curious law
ease, which was argued in the Supreme Court on
Saturday last, case which grew out OF the char
aeter and conduct Of Thomas Warner, who il, will
be recollected, absconded and ran away from this
city last month, in consequence OF Developments
coming out against his character, both private and
professional, Of shocking nature The quesuon
before the count was in reference to the disposition
of his property, and the decision to be made con-
corning it, either in favor of or against the claim
set up by the lare wife of Mr.. Warner, who was
so badly used by him in both this country and Eu-
rope We also annex, as illustrative Of the same
remarkable character, biographical sketch OF the
same Warner, written by Marcus Tullias Cicero
Stanly, during period when he was confined In
the Tombs on some criminal charge, which has
not yet been disposed Of by the present District At
torney, in the Court Of Sessions. Stanly, it will
be recoected, is an attache of Wilkes, OF the Po-
nee Gazette, and an associate Of the stool pigeons
Of New York.
Here we have, in the report Of this law case, and
in the sketch of the life of Warner very rmarka-
bic and singular illustration Of the professional and
private character OF Thomas Warner, during his
career in this city for the last few years, as that OF
Tombs lawyer, stool-pgeon counsel. The
history Of Warner in his professional capacity, as
lawyer at the Tombs, to say nothing of his private
character, as revealed by the recent tnals and evil
dence, presents a more unmtigated succe ssion OF
great and small villanies than were ever before ex-
hibited in legal pracc or criminal jurisprudence in
this or any other city ofthe United States. He was
the foundera land author of the system of m anufactur
ing evidence TO impcate innocent men, in order
to procure money, or for other purposes, and also,
of making evidence for the purpose OF getting of
rogues who had money to buy themselves from
before the courts of justice. The Developments
which have been made Of the talents and qualifca-
tons of Warner, in that point OF view, have been
ample and startling during the last two years, as
they appeared on the trials OF Arlington Bennett
and old Drury, and also in the columns OF his prin-
cipal Tombs, or stoolpigeon organ, conducted by
George Wilkes, and called the National Police
Gazette.
Most true was the assertion or statement made,
on oath, by Ambrose l.. Jordan, Esq, late At
torney General of this State, on recent trial in
Poughkeepsie that il difficult to procure fair
trial in the city of New York, unless the public
mind and the public interest were aroused by some
great overt act of villainy, and made itself felt in
watching any particular case, and seeing that
Justice, and strict justice, were done before our
courts of law. We all remember the prosecutions
20 which James Arlington Bennett has been sab
jected, and the various charges that were manu-
tactured against him through the fundamentally
of stool-pigeons and rogues Of the deepest dye.
We remember it, because the public voice, at the
time Of the trial, pronounced upon them with deci-
sion and emphasis. Warner, with his associates,
One. Eyed Thompson and Wilkes, were the chief
Instruments and propagators of the recent system OF
criminal practices and criminal matters, which have
given 90 much dscreditabe celebrity to the doings
Of our criminal courts, during the last two
years. The purity and integrity Of the administra-
ton Of criminal justice, which characterized our
New York courts some years ago, have been i'm
paired by such lawyers As the runaway Warner,
and such agents, and such editors, and such jour
mails, as he employed. Even at this moment there
are indictments, founded on evidence purely manu-
featured for the purpose, hanging over both Airing
ton Bennett snd Old Drury, which, when brought
on and investigated by highminded court and an
intelligent jury, will result in the same way -
others which were got up according to the same
system.
The Warner school Of criminal practice, has
risen to its highest point Of development, and
brought a number Of young, fishp lawyers into
it's meshes Among those who have thus fallen
into bad company in the practice Of the law, and
from the high morality Of the profession, We are
sorry to say that John Graham lie one-the son OF
the late excellent David Graham. John Graham
has bee n nc minated a. District Attorney, by an
outside, stoolpieeon influence, that 10 anything
but moral, orderly, or prsiseworthy In the commu-
ay. He has been too intimate and too much
associated with the Warner, Wilkes, and Ono
eyed Tompsoa coterie, and the business Of the
tembs and his associations tend to throw the
deepest suspicious over the whole nomination, and
Tender him, even II he had talents for the post,
(which he has not,) Totally unfit to occupy such .
responsible position, in such city as New York,
a. that Of District Attorney, We shall show these
views and theee points more at large on another
day Our objections to John Graham are profess
sonsl and legal. His private character and private
reputation we shall not touch. He 10 totally unfit
for the ofse, and only received the nomisstion by
outside, stoolpigeon, disreputabe influence Of the
worst kind
TrK NrcARAouA CANAL AsD EseLAsp.-Infor.
nation from London has arrived in THE city,
which gives the friends Of the Nicaragua canal
reason TO believe that there will be much difficulty
In raising money among British capitalists, fer the
psrpoee Of carrying out the project. The treaty
between Mr.. Clayton and Sir Henry Bslwcr, OF
the nineteenth OF April last, IL 10 well kaewn has
been read differently by different persons, and con-
aic,s with the Squier treaty, made between our
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