New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-22
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UNITED STATES COMMISSIONERS OFFICE-MtY 81.
Before Commissioner Osborn.
APpIICA ALTON TO ADMIT NOTORIOUS INDICTED COUN-
TEmE1ER TO BAIL-SNGuLiR bisCL0SrRES-AL'
LEGGED sONsPIRACWs BY THB ACCUSED TO BREAK
INTO TIE a. = COURT BUILDINGS. AND To wA1LAY,
AND ROE 4 4. = DEPUTY MARSHAL, Sc, &c. a.
In re- tle Application Of Charles Broc.vay to be admitted 10 ball
To defendant WAS aTess,,e.d u AIaayeh Ia3 charged
Win engraving seysia counterfeit zoe. fractional eur
rcrcy Plates and with printing notes from the same, and
issuna hoin Ho waived an examination, and was com.
mitted 10 await tie action OF Tie Grand Jngy.
His counsel at that time cXJudgo Stewart, asked his
adm. sson TO bal. Tire Commissioner required $500.
The defendants repntcd wife, WHO, 1t sworn, Keeps
house ~ assCnat0n NJ No l5 Mercerst offered 10 he
come his snr.y but the oler was declined ny tho Com
missioner.
Tho defendant has since been indicted Ivy tho Grand
Juiy and his trial IL expected soon 20 take place.
Defendant has within lew days changed his counsel,
substituting Mr. William H. Howe for exJndgc stewart.
Nr Have Yesterday renewed the application 80 admit
the defendant bail saying that II tho amount required
reasonable be- could furnish an acceptable bonds
man, and that The amount ought not 10 DC ARG" az INC
dictc counterf.ter named Atln for tho convection OF
United states District Attorney, Samuel O. Courtney,
opposed the aGmttanco 81 the defendant to bail unless
the amount required should DO large and further said
that while he deemed II impolitio and unnecessary TO
state ia detail the nature OF tho PROOF the Government
relied TO convict tho defendant, he satisfied that
defendant of tho worst Of elons, having served
terms of imprisonment IN the state Prison and elsewhere,
desperate character Of tho and from which 1t would
be perceived that IL would be dangerous 10 admit him TO
balm less than "a very large amount
The following IL the substance Of afdavits then read
by Mr.; Courtney and VIII, nom the startling nature Of
their disclosures, wei repay perusal
Robert Murray. United States Marshal, deposos and
says That Brockways repued wife keeper Of house
II gnaon at No Ii6 Mercerst o resort Of thieves
and bad characters; that Br9eway has frequently told
Inn that his tBroetways) evidence would be good for
nothing IN Government cases rs he had served term OF
Two years in clinton Prison; that Broekway In the
habit Of coming 10 him ,MuTay) almost daily with arti
ces Of ewelry to sell at low rate with the seeming in
tenton OF getting these articles in his Muays house or
upon the persons Of his family that deponent believes
these articles 10 have been stolen that shortly after the
arrest Of Brockway IN March, 1861 person came TO de
ponents house and informed him that Broehway had Of
fered 81 900 10 certain parties to break into the United
states Court Buildings, at No. Al Chambefsst,
and abstract therefrOm the evidence then held
against the said Broekway together with u large
collection Of counterfeit plates Of tho most dangerous
character and that the said 81 had been placed In tho
safe OF Mrs Brockway at No: 45 Mercerst 10 be pad
upon the delivery OF said evidence into her hands anu
deponent on this information removed said evidence ana
plates TO another portion of th6 building and was spec
ally instructed by the Secretary OF the Interior 10 employ
extra guard to watch the building at night that DC
pOnent further swears that during his experience as
United States Marshal extending over period OF SIX
years. he has dealt with person WHOM ne oonsV'
cred SO great criminal or Wore DANGEROUS 70 tne wei