The New York herald., 1871-09-13
CONNOLLY'S COMPLICATIONS.
The Trials and TribulatiOns Of the
Comptroller.
The Vanished Vouchers and What is said Of
Them-Comptroller Connolly and His Re-
signation-Belmont to Succeed Him
Comments on ''the Situation

even when the first gun had been fired on Sumter;
not even when Richmond fell, or Lincoln died; not
even when France had dcGed Germany, and the lat.
ter had accepted the issues not even when the lem-
poral power had been stolen or whecdled from the
Holy Father; not even when the Tam
many organs first turned tail ana cried 'st0p
thief" and '.peccars," was there 80 much
and so real excitement as there was yesterday m
regard to the questions at city manage Eent
and the loss by robbery or vCE eers from the
| Finance Department.. As was stated In yesterdays
| HERALD, there had been a numoer OF documents
stolen or done away with from the County Auditors
| Bureau, and those, too, which might, could, woad
and should be wanted as evidence by the JOINT cti
| zens' anu Common Council committee, II not by the
| Supreme Court IN q day or two to decide
the honesty malfeasance OF the Comptroller ami
his aiders and abettors. That they gone there
was no doubt; tnat the closets had been broken
open there was no doubt; that corner Of the glass
pane Of the oflce door had been broken away there
Is no doubt; that very large bundle OF worthless
papers was stolen ana carried ont OF the Court
House on a quiet Sunday evening by professional
burglars or others there is--a great diversity Of
opinion.
- VINO STOLE THE vOUCHERsp
was The question asked everywhere yesterday. 1t
might be heard at every turn, and the answer was
almost invariably the same. Quiet citizens, who
have sat calmly by and cared, or appeared to care,
nothing for the quarrels going on among the poll
tlcians Of one party ana another, were aroused
from their phlegmatic state, and with smile iuil OF
meaning and an easy shake OF the head, in
timated that they thought much more Ihan
hey felt disposed to say. Exuberant individuals
screwed up their faces, stamped their feet and an.
nOunced themselves as decidedly OF opinion one
way the other. But few, If any, had the temerlty
to say that the Comptroller had been imposed upon
heVOnl
pale OF his friendship The question was looked
upon rs good conundrum, IN its way, and the
answer was almost invariably,
~ GIVE 1T UP."
One might as well DO so, for no explanation could bc
given OF the affair to satisfy anybody.
AS as the true story or tie affair, which ap.
peared IN yesterdays HERALD had been duly read
and commented on, the cr0wds began n0cking TO
the Court House. Many OF those, OF course,
belonged to the swell mob who continually
hung around the marble pile, but there were many
who had never before loafed around the place who
stood gazing alternately at the delicate gliding on
the iron flower work the ceiling and the delicate
or Otherwise-wOrk on the County Auditors door.
The hallway Immediately inside OF the County
Bureau was crowded all day long, and insld the
ONCE 1t was just as bad Mr.. Kellogg
THE VENERABLE AND VETERAN KELLOGG
was at his post, but looked exceedingly worried
He was as kind anu courteous as ever, but evil
IDENTIFY felt that he was IN bad position. He
seemed to have grown fully ten years older IN o
single day. The Cheeryble Br0thers-Storrs-wer
evidently more annoyed than they had been for
years. They were not at their desks more than
very few minutes ut O time during the entire day.
Neither Of them did
SMILE AS THEY WERE WONT TO SMILE
when told the good time Of day asked Tor niorma-
tion In regard to the sad occurrence which to
loht m MOnday
deputy brother new around from one desk TO an.
other giving instructions and advice to the numer-
Gus clerks and consulting with all the responsible
ones, so as to straighten the investigation as to
what documents were missing or stolen. In the
room which the burglars had entered
THE DEvoUT AND DEfERMiHED DyCKNAN
fused about behind the 'stock clerks'' desk think
ing alternately O. Mrs. Johnson anu the gniness OF
his shirt collar. This could be seen rOm The changes
III his face and the diversity OF his actions. When
the iormer was uppermost m nh his mind ne was. ike
would smile so heavenly as only dispenser Vi the
Word conid SIN smile; but, & when ,sis cuo,,, ,os.
with 1t; then would ne Irown aud, inserting his
eH nIer k ma bn petan u ms ne ny
would work the impudeni neck gear back 10 its pro-
per place. lie knew nothing Of ne aiair Of course.
he never "gves anything out" feopie, especially |
newspaper men, ought to be there at the time, and
nish their journals with sketch by the special |
artist on the spot. He had nothing to do with the
County Auditor Lyncs could tell no more than he dad
the day before there were the doors as
they had been burst open; there were the empty
WHERE, OH WHERE WERE ALL THOSE VOUCHERS
There was no answer. Moloney laughed. Houghta-
lin griancd and Carro looked aecldc,ily angry. He
dld ms duy-he told the tale as was told to him;
Nothing exenuste aught set down In malice,
and he didn't think 1t right that he should be CON-
seSond to a his however Was inc @ that
the vouchers were gone, that the municipal leaders
were dIsaraced by tner absence Or abstraction and
that an indignant public was
HOwLING FOR VENGEANCE
on somebody. As stated In the HERALD Of yesier-
day, 1t was proven beyond doubt that the glass IN
the door had not been recently cut. No diamond
could cut It all the way through, and tnat the
HERALD theory Is correct Is amply demonstrated by
the fact that In the opposite corner of the same
pane Is a similar cut or crack but smaller IN
dimension, entirely through the glass. This does
away with all tue stories By experts as TO the way
In which the glass would show now or on what
sensation.
Now, It was only natural to suppose that in the
OF aia,rs existing yesterday the letter Of Mayor
Hall requesting Comptroller Connolly TO resign |
would come IN Tor goodly share OF comment. and |
for. Intervewers OF the Mayor and Comptroller were |
almost innumerable and certainly unIntinlidated.
his ' rooms as well as they could; they hung 10 !
Colonel Joline's coattails In the Mayors Offices they
geant.at-arms, until he got mad-tCooneI Joine
dldn'tl-and they questioned the amiabie "Gusn
Caru0ZO until Ills Mepulstopnelean mustache stood
straight on end and his peary teeth shone under
his lips which had grown tlred answering the qucs
tons as TO whether
CoMPTRoLLRR CONNOLLY HAS RESIGNED
or not lie could not tell; ne did not know. Mayor
Han had received ofcial answer TO his note IRON
Mr.. Connolly, but he anXiousy expected one all tne
day long. IL was surmised, however, that MI ual
expected reply from the Comptroller containing
his resignation, and that he was determined 10 nave
q man ready Tor the emergency. THIS Dehen galneu
ground when II was known tnat Angus! beimons
had been sent for and had been c0seted with the
Mayor several nours and that, without saying
word to anybody, they had gone away together.
THIS circumstance seemed TO settle the matter, and
in the vestbules and rooms ID the City Hall pools
BELMONT WILL SUCCEED CONNOLLY a'~a
as ComptroIIer and that the questions OF the
city and county finances wil 0e set Iixht 10 very