New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-28
TILE ROBBERS ENMESHED.

THE ROBBERS ENMESHED.
simultaneously with the conclusion of the
labOrs of tho Joint Investigating Committee
of Supervisors, Aldermen and Citizens, we
have the arrest of William M. Tweed, and the
commencement of suits against E. A. Wood
ward, James H. Ingersoll, and Andrew
j. Garvey, who are made co-defendants
with Tweed. These last three conspira-
tors have not yet been arrested, but lngersoll
! will be to-day if he does not follow the other
two who have fed to parts unknown. Though
tho work of tho Joint Committee in
investigating the rObberies is not
specially connected with the pursuit
of the robbers, it is fitting that these
| two acts in the drama should closely follow
each other. The gigantic thefts which have
been unearthed by the Joint Committee form
q part of the depredations of the men who,
unless they all flee from the country, are in
fair way to receive the punishment which they
have SO long evaded.
The report of the Joint Committee has been
heretofore given to the public in detail. From
the overwhelming and damning array which
we now present to our readers, these facts
stand forth most prominently: The City Debt
has doubled in two years; the unfinished
Court House has cost over Eleven Million
Dollars; the public printing, advertising,
and stationery have, in less than three
years, cost more than Seven Million
Dollars; and warrants, vouchers, and bills for
services rendered and materials furnished have
been forged and fraudulently altered. These
facts are brought out, remember, by Com
mlttee chosen by the Mayor of this City, whose
signature upon the warrants calling for
the money expended was necessary to
their payment Who got the money known
to be stolen, what was the real cost of arti-
cles which served as excuse for the fabrica-
ton of such monstrous bills, we will not now
stop to inquire. The figures are spread
before the reader in all their sick
ening detail of guilt no man can
examine them candidly and intelli-
gently without coming to the conclusion
that the Ring thieves have taken from the
City Treasury the sum of Twenty Million Dol
lars. For this enormous amount there is abso-
lutely nothing to show in the assets nor in the
legitimate expenses of the City; it has been
taken without any equivalent
The afidavits of Samuel ]. Tilden, hereto
fore published in THE TRIBUNE, show that a
portion of this large theft-$6, 312, OOO-was de-
posted in the Broadway Bank by E. A. Wood
ward, one of 1.-THE creatures of this
corrupt junta, and then divided among
Tweed, Garvey Ingersoll, and the tool
Woodward. The division of this portion of
the spoils has been traced home to the parties
thereto, and, 80 clear is the evidence against
them, that their arrest is ordered, and por-
ton of the defendants have sought safety in
fight. Mayor Hall is morally response
BILE in that he signed the warrants
by which the City has been defrauded
out of millions of dollars; that he is also law
fully and criminally responsible appears in
that he made over to Tweed, Watson, and
Young, the power to audit claims against the
City, in direct violation of the Tax-Levy Act
of 1870. Therefore. it is held that all of these
men, as well as Controller Connolly, are guilty
OF committing this great crime.
1t should have been expected that Corpora
ton Counsel Richard O'Gorman would have
been the person to whom the citizens could
look for such active pursuit of the guilty
rogues and such determined defense Of the City's
lights as in ordinary times only paid law
officer renders. But Mr.. O'Gormans fortunes
are 80 intertwined with those of the exposed
thieves that he has had no heart for the work.
On the contrary, he has brought what amounts
to cross suit against Tweed In the Supreme
Court, by mstiention of the Mayor That this
absurd proceeding Is begun at this late day for
En0 other PURPOSE than to eHtbarrass the suit