The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-09-28
Arrested for Stealing the v0uehern-
War Predicted beeWeen kossia and
Germany-ChSDer

NEW YORK, Sept. 2l.-Edwin NJ. Hag-
| garty, keeper of the county court house, and
his assistant, Charles Balch, and also the
wife of Haggarty, were arrested to-day,
charged with stealing the vouchers from the
Comptroller's Office. They were brough, be-
fore Judge Bowling, and committed for ex-
animation. The arre~t- were made on the
affidavit of Comptroller Connolly, who al
leges that his information was received from
a woman named Conway.
The woman swears that she has lived with
Mr.. and Mrs. Haggarty, in the court house,
over fourteen months. She says that on
Sunday morning, Sept. 10Th, about o'clock,
she saw Charles Balch, with the door OF
Comptroller office open; he holding it
open on the outside, and saw Haggerty
come out of the door with bundle OF pa
pers on his arm and bring them to his bed
room door; he came out at the foot OF the
stairs where the glass Is broken, that enters
into the County Bureau; each bundle of pa
pers were tied with either pink tape or pink
ribbon round them. | went over from the
kitchen out into the hall; in this hall Hag-
gerty's bedroom door faced me; saw a
man in grey clothes going in there with an
other bundle Of papers like what Haggerty
had; next | saw this man with grey clothes
on going down with a pillow-case on his
back, and looked az if filled with papers,
shaped like bundles Hsggerty had; at the
same time he went down stairs, Cha.ley
Balch said to him, "this way" kind o
Judged there was something up, and ! went
and looked in the drawer where the pillow
cases were and l missed one of the linen
cases. When went back into the kicken
said to Mrs. Hal gerty: whats the matter?
kitchens all black with smoke and the
dining rooms all black with smoke" She
said: "Haggerty wanted these papers
burned" told her not to put them in, bet
she wanted them burned; went over to the |
range to cook some eggs for breakfast it was |
full of burned papers on top and on the |
bottom; there lay bundle of papers On the !
top that were about half in with pieces of
pink tape around them; l put on the cover
again and they were partly smothered and
going out. Mrs. Haggerty had a poker |
stirring up the papers on the top and under
meath where the ashes were; the bottom of
the range was full OF burning papers, and !
Mrs. Haggerty had the poke ;, stirring /
them up so that they would burn LASER from
underneath the range and ON top; | took /
three or four pals full Of burned papers and
emptied them up stairs on the attic floor on
heap Of ashes. The girl Conway has mys-
teriously dissapped and all efforts to discover
her Whereabouts have 10 far proved fruitless.
Mrs. Haggarty has been placed under arrest
Very few persons were aware that the arrests
had been made, and consequently when the
case was called up before Justice Bowling,
at the Toombs, only few persons interested
and half a dozen reporters we're present
Haggarty was very nervous and excited. He
was elegantly dressed, and On his shirt bosom
sparkled three splendid diamonds. Thrown
across his left arm was . light fall overcoat.
He was represented by the eminent lawyer,
John Graham, who, however, did not know
his client, and when he was pointed out BY
Justice Bowling, Graham remarked, "Ye-.
that is the person was sent for to defend"
With this significant remark rumor subse-
4uently coupled the names of two prominent
persons Haggsrty il also indicted, with Jos
Lynch and Vim. Lampson, all Of whom
we're inspectors Of election, in the L S {
Ehose names we're not On the registry to
ormerly a member Of the old Board of
He il a member of both the
Blossom and Americas Clubs. 1t is report
d that another warrant has been issued for
he arrest Of person high in Official posi-
ion. The detectives are looking TOR him, |,
nd it is reported that be cannot be found =
nd had fled. About clock this evening, 7
uring the examination of the ashes of the
urnt vouchers which lay in heaps near the r.
anitors room, portions Of several burnt a
ouchers were found in sufficiently pre- .
erved condition that the figures on them .
Duld be made out with the aid of the glass o
A St. Petersburg letter says the ablest d.
lomats there predict war between Russia
nd Germany within six months.
The alleged cases of Asiatic cholera in >.
lev JERSEY are being investigated. II has II
zen ascertained that q recently arrived Ger
an woman died at Woodbridge, near Perth o.
mboy, last week, Of q disease which the VI
physicians pronounced cholera. Woodbridge,
consequence of this report, il nearly de-
,pulated.
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New YORK, Sept. 22.-The first Minister =
the Chinese Embassy will sail for Europe "a "a
morrow The Embassy were unsuccess- y
| in their previous mission to France and
IRE to have departed for home Yesterday,
i were notified BY the French Government
at they would be received If they returned
France. They therefore chaseed their in :
,tions. The Object Of thsir mission, Is in
tied heretofore. n @ make Eepa.ation for sal
. massacre Of Fssneh eEisns q Tin-Tsin. ste
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