Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-10-09
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keyser may induce the public TO suspend iudg-
ment; but his two months silence has helped
the thieves in Office to cover their tracks. lie
cannot too soon put in proper hands information
as TO which of the warrants are forgcrieS.
The Times expresses the belief thar Judge Bar
nard will dismiss the grand jury, which was
packed TO be in readiness for the case of Hall.
MIR. Donnarumna, the frescO artist Yesterday
stated, under oath, before Internal Revenue As
SCISSOR FriedSon, that he never received cent Of
the sec, 412, alleged in the controllers books MS
paid him in 1869. He said was only an employc
of Garyey, and received one hundred dollars
per week, while at work. or about nine or ten
months of the year. He never signed any war
rants or vouchers for money from the city gov
eminent, and never had any transactions with it,.
Rumor says that County Auditor Lyons has
become insane.
Deputy Controller Green has dismissed the
holders of several sinecurcs in the county bu'
reau. 1t is stated that persons in the controllers
office assert, positively that the pressing of the
vouchers of KeySer, Davidson, Schuyler and
Others was all done by the late County Auditor
Watson.
Tweed will tomorrow reply to Deputy Con-
troller Green's letter. He insists that he has Il
legal right to raise money on Cruton aqueduct
bonds, of which he has halt million dollars in
reserve, and he will, therefore, continue work on
the aqueduct, it being an imperative necessity.
lie also said he was tired of talk about arrest.
There would be no trouble in finding him. lie
was anxious to make defence in court, All
the frauds aud trouble came from the old board
of supervisors, and the action of that board
would be his individual defence.
The city chamberlain says, Of the city finances,
that there are funds in trust amounting to a mil
lion and quarter, q million Of which are in
vested in bonds and mortgages; the rest are in
United States securities and in the vault of the
Park bank rented by the city for the purpose
at $4,000 yearly.
The committee Of seventy has prepared an
address TO the w0rkingmeu, setting forth, clearly
and conciSely the methods by which the ring
robbed the city treasury and deceived the work
ngmel into supporting them. The members
of the committee say an effort is being made to
cast the blame and odium for false and forged
vouchers on the late County Auditor Watson,
who cannot reply, but the committee have
proofs overwhelming, against men now living,
and at the proper time, they will be tOrthCOm-
ing, aid tiien whom the community would hard
ly suspect will bic fUuld having stolen from the
city treasury, and divided the spolls.
EXH'udge Hilton, in response to a request from
Deputy Control err Green for an account of c%-
penditures of the department of parks, furnishes
the same figures which have heretofore been
printed, viz. s2,5OO,OOO from January to Oc-
tober l. In furnishing the figures Hilton says
he does not recognize Green's or any ones au-
thOrtty 10 demand them, except the mayor, but
gives them to Green just as he would to any
newspaper man or other citizen
Mathew j. O'R)urke, who claims to he the
first who gave the Times the figures proving the
Iamma1y frauds. states that he has no further
connection with that paper He declares that
eX-Sherif 0Bren advanced money to effect the
pdrChasc of certain Times stock which was for
sale, and that because he tOROurke) wished to
attack Tweed strongly, OBrien eNerted his in
huenCe to prevent U'ROurke having full swing
IN exposing in the Times the alleged frauds of
Tammany hall. O'Rourkc states that he has
not written for the Times during the past three
weeks
The banks have advanced another instalment
of 100000 to Mr.. Green, which he will assign
to the department of parks.
The Williamsburg saving bank has offered d
half million loan to Deputy Controller Green.
The Tribune, of Monday, will state, from I'M
doubted authority, that it was the custom of
the late County Auditor Watson TO procure
several copies of an original BILL have warrant
drawn for each, and collect the several amounts.
The forgery is said to have been made such an
everyday affair that Watson and Woodward
were not even particular in the matter of closely
initiating the handwriting Of the persons whose
names they forged.
Yesterday morning julius Stenmar, aged
thirty, Il lager beer shopkeeper, murdered his
wife Julia, native of Weisbaden, TWENTY-FIVE
years old, crushing her head with a club and
smoothing iron, and cutting her throat with a
sheath knife, and then banged himself with a
clothes line at his shop door. Their bodies were
both cold when discovered She was saloon
waiter, and he was Jealous.
Judge McCunn, not having vet decided the
case of the alleged absconding agent, Evans, the
governor of Pennsylvania has been advised to
demand the delivery of Evans to PENNSYLVANIA
officers from Gov. Hoffman, in compliance with
the act Of congress.
Judge Hilton, who is at the head of the de-
partmcnt of parks, stated last night that the
work of repairing the bridges across Harlem
river, which is under his charge, will have to be
stopped soon if the controller does not provide
funds. Also, that the police and gardeners of
the parks will have to be discharged.
Charles Wagner, Thursday evening, was
found drunk in a miserable tenement in New
town, l.. l., with the dead body of his wife by
his side. She had been beaten to death by him
in drunken quarrel.
The Evening Post says: Secretary Boutwell,
authorizes us to deny that any letter has been
received from Assistant Secretary Richardson
requesting that the further shipment of the
new bonds TO Europe be suspended, as the syn
dictate already has $50, 100000 on hand which
cannot be disposed Of Just now as the World
yesterday asserted. Factions and unpatrOtc
attempts to alarm the public as to the security
OF the treasury, and to prevent the successful is
sue OF the new bonds, can find no sympathy
among honorable men,"
The internal revenue officers have seized the
cigar and tobacco factory of August Steffenberg,
No. 28i Ninth avenue, on the ground that the
proprietor has been guilty of various violations
OF the internal revenue laws.
The five physicians appoin ted by Judge DAILY,
IN Inc court oil common pleas, to examine into
the condition of b. b. Colah the rich Parsee
lunatic, have reported in favor of his returning
TO ms home in Bombay, as a sanitary measure
The wholesale markets during the past week
nave 1uctnated greatly and prices declined.
Flour declined rapidly, closing firm Wheat
also declined, but recovered somewhat toward
the close. Corn has been active and lower, clos
ing urn. Pork has been in fair demand and
higher. Sugars have been dull. Cotton has
huctuated and prices have reccded, the market
closing quiet.
George O. Evans, the alleged absconder from
pennsylvania, was before the court again yester-
gay and further argument was made by counsel,
until next Tuesday.
The quarterly session of the national insurance
convention will be held here on the 18th. Nearly
every state will be represented
PA reporter who interviewed Collector Murphy
yesterday, says he is ready to resign whenever
IN the opinion of the president the interests Of
the country require. But he didn't think the
president would fake such action without sub
stantial proofs of his unftnesS for the position
sensational story is printed to-day, that the
Third Avenue savings bank is nsolvent, and has
been IN rotten condition for two years. 1t is
said that the state examiners have reported the
liabilities of the bank to be S4S3O0O in excess of
the assets.
&. NJ Van Buren,, United States pension agent
for this city, was arrested yesterday charged
by the commissioner of pensions, MIR. Barker,
with being deiaulter TO the amount of S11 900.
He gave bail in $4,000 to appear for trial.
The Ruler says a civil suit has been begun in
the supreme court agaist James Fisk, Jr., by a
lady whose name has been intimately associated
with him. Affidavits in the case it is alleged
expose much of the secret history of the Erie
magnate, and show to what extent the Tamma-
ny ring and the Erie ring have united for plum
der.
Michael Phelan, the billardist, died yesterday,
aged &c.
Taxation is Brooklyn is reduced about thirty
per cent from last year.
The Russian minister, Catacazy, declares the
whole story-that he has spoken in Infamous
terms of the president and Secretary Fish. and
the latter's respected lady, or that he ever nut
low estimate on American characterize be A
falsehood.
member of the New York Yacht club ex
presses ms intention, unless the club recOnsiders
its determination to risk the queens cup in the
hands of single yacht against Livonia, to ap-
ply to the courts for an injunction restraining
the club from violating the sacred trust under
which all its vessels have right to join the con-
test
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