New-York tribune., 1871-12-16
TWEED A FELON.


OVERWHELMING INDICTMENTS FOUND AGAINST
HIM-HE Is CONFINED IN THE METROPOLI-
TAN HOrELcHs EXAMINATION TO TAKE
PLACE TO-DAY IN THE COURT OF GENERAL
SESSIONS.
About $3.50 o'clock yesterday the Grand Jury
of which Lucus g. Coms.ock is foreman and which
lately continued from the November term through that
December that might complete the work OF indetins
some Of the Ring rogueA entered the courtroom ana
submitted batch Of four indictments Recorder HACK
EFT on examining the first Of them found 1t was di
rected against william ~ Tweed, and charged him
with the.crime Of felony Upon further examination
other indictments for the same cme found against
him.
Recorder Hackett and Judge Garvn, the District Az
torney at sent for Sheriff Brennan and on his ar
rival after p m, placed in his hands bench war
rants for the arrest Of Tweed. The usual process In
cases Of this kind Is place the warrants In tic hands
Of the police, who serve them; but, In apparent dis
trust Of tho police authorities, who are In rweeds
interest and would be likely to take him before Judge
Dowling some police magistrate In the Tweed
interest," they given to Sheriff Brennan The latter
accompanied by Judson Jarvis his chief deputy at once
waited on Tweed at his ONCE, and without ceremony,
served the warrant upon him.
Tweed was greatly taken by surprise, and turned pale
The next moment he was ivid with rage, which SOON
settled down into OF calm despair The walls Of
Sing Sing were never before brought wildly before
his eyes, and well no might tremble for the testimony
on which the indictments are brought is more sweeping
and convincing than even the results OF the Broad
way National Bank examination. One OF the In.
dicmens drawn lls several hundred pages OF legal
cap paper and formidable In facts in slze Not
only Tweed but all his friends taken completely by
surprise ut this unexpected blow, not OF them sus
Meeting that the examination before the Grand Jury was
proceeding Tie developments before that Jury as Will
by tho indictments to be read In the Court OF
General Sessions to-day at II o'clock will prove more
startling STILL and will render Tweed oven more de-
spOndent than be was last night.
Immediately after his arrest Tweed taken by the
Sheriff and his deputy to the Metropolitan Hotel which
is kept by his son, and confined In rooms Nos III and
H. under the guardianship of Deputy Keyes who
it will be remembered. kept watch over Richard Is Con-
molly at the Ncw-YOrk HOTEL When TRIBUNE
reporter visited him at II o'clock he- was
regalng himself In the apartments OF MS
friend Judge Dowing loom No. ll6 During the evening
he was visited by such friends Morgan Jones, o. g..
CORNELL water heRsthri hiuernAh Hooi &c IL "A"''''
A. ID. Barbour OF Albany, and Police Commissioner
Henry Smith, great number Of other persons. princi-
pally young and members Of the Tweed and other
Ring tribes called apparenty ont Of idle curiosity or as
idle sympathy.
Mr. Tweed will he arragnrd as common Thief to-day
in the Court Of General Sessions at II o'clock and the
question Of bail win then be settled. Recorder Hackett
will hold the court Charles O'COnor will appear ON be-
half Of the people, assocatnR himself with Mr. Gar,n
and will make q powerful effort to prevent the
release Of the great eulprtt on small and
insufficient bail. The bail required will probably be fur
nshed, but the bond OF Mr.. Tweed In the civil suit
agsisss him has boea jaatiAsd. tho Sheriff will
doubtless insist being well secured against the flight
which Tweed ia said to have contemplated. 1t was re-
marked by HIS friends that this prosecution would pre-
vent hls taking his scat at Albany.