The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-10-29

SINGULAR POLICE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. De.
vEIorEhENT ID THE SrOoI-PIGEoS BUSINESS We
give elsewhere in our columns to day, report Of
recent case which has been examined by Justice
Moun.fort, Of the Police Court, in which certain
charges have been made against M. G. Stanley,
end for whose arrest warrant has been issued.
Stanley has eyaporated however though not in the
direction which Warner recently took. The
latter went 10 Europe Ia escape certain responsible
ties in this metropolis. Stanley, it is said, has
gone off towards California, where he may be en-
ployed in digging gold or pounding quartz, instea
Of carry ing on the stool pigeon practices in New
York.
These Developments are curious,and interesting.
Among the sffidavits We particularly notice, are,
fret, one from his Honor. Mr.. Woodruff, the
Mayor Of this city, one from the Chief of the
Police, end others from various employees in the
Mayors office. BY these sworn statements, some
fresh and curious insghs given into the charac
ter and conduct of Wilkes, of the National Police
Gasstte, the ostensble organ of the stool-pigeon
gang in this city--a gang who have been playing
many pranEs for the las, two years. The an
nonymous letters which Wilkes seeAhed to have
an intuItive knowledge about, were certain doca-
ments manufactured by some person in some
quarter. and intended to bring charges against
Arlington Bennett, imputing to him no less than
The intention Of taking the life of James Foster Jr
of this city. How came Wilkes to know about the
existence of these letters! They had been sent to
the Mayor by some person; and the Mayor had
read them alone, and mentioned them to nobody
else. Other disclosures in these alIidavits are
equally curious, equally instructive, equally start.
linz They ere eYooeures of he criminal sfnol-
pigeon business of this city. In fact the perasal of
these papers is equal in interest to that of romance
or modern novel.
In connection with this case of Stanley's, we may
well sliude to the mol. pros. entered up by the
Grand Jury, in the case of One-eyed Thompson, on
the torpedo mystery a mystery which seems to
reproduce itself in little mysteries in every move
ment that has been made, either in the jury rooms
or the courts for the last few months. From the
first moment that our attention was directed to
these criminal mysteries, by the arrest of Arlington
BeDnet, every new investigation that we have
made, has only Statistic Us the more of the perfect
innoce nee Of old Samuel Druay, of Astoria, of the
torpedo charges that had been imputed 10 him /;
and also of the innocence of A; lington Bennett
Of the often ces on which he was araigned and
of which both have been triumphantly acquitted
by our juries. Every day. every week, every
month, only serves TO brig forth new facts and
fresh developments, establishing TO the courts,
jpries, and the public IN general, the perfect
innocence Of these men of all the other offences
that have been imputed TO them and also the
datolioal and satanic course which has been pur-
sued by the National Police Gazette and many OF
it's aiders and assistants, in reference to all these
mysteries. Justice is slow, but sure; time will
reveal all