Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-09-21
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the new court house were builtfor $500 each by
Il NCwburg firm, who could not get their pnv
until they agreed to make out bill for $50 ,000
which was promptly paid, and S22 900 which
was handed back. The name of our informant
is at the service of the citizens committee.
Mayor Hall still refuses to recognize Green as
deputy controller, butit is not generally believed
thar he will resort 10 force to remove Green from
the controllers office. The friends of Connolly
met last night to make preparations for dem
onStration in his honor. Resolutions were
adopted severely censuring Mayor Hall for his
recent action, and calling upon him 10 resign.
Judge LcdWlth expressed an opinion yesterday
that Connolly will force Hall TO resign Fer
nando Wood endorses the action of Connolly.
John Foley in an interview yesterday, said the
committee of seventy had resolved to meet law
with law and force with force, in defiance of
everybody. He said the committee fully expect
to see Mayor Hall and his associates in state
prison soon.
Connolly has offered to pay back to the city
every cent he owes and also TO submit state.
ments which will crimiu ate and send Tweed,
Swecny and Hall to prison. There will be no
"ring"
Matthew j. O'Rourkc, late controllers clerk
and the person who secured the city accounts
for publication, went to the Tribune Office yes
terday afternoon TO see the managing editor
about an editorial paragraph in yesterdays
tribune referring to him. AsCertainng that he
could not see the managing editor, he APP
preached the city editor, Shanks, with upiItcd
cane and threatening words and manner, upon
which Shanks rose, seized O'Rourkc'S stick
with one hand and his collar with the other,
and put him out Of the office.
1UeIHOOR-Thcrc is at last rest in the po-
litcal storm. To-day all is peaceful around the
city hall aud the new court house. in remark
able cont asst with the excitement of the past
week. No crowdng of distracted politicians,
M tI,,,
clerks. Everything is quiet The controller
and Deputy Green were at business soon after
nine O'Clock this morning. Several prominent
lawyers have been ClOSeted with the former for
two hours. The deputy controller is having
prepared list of attaches of all the departments
OF the city and county bureaus, together with
statement of their salaries, aud duties they are
supposed to perform. This will be ready for
press IN few days. EX-Deputy StOrrs remains
an attache of the controllers Office as chief
clerk.
4ttelnoon.-Ihe man who stole the vouchers
from the controllers office on Sunday week is
known and will be arrested in the morning. 1t
appears that Connolly had nothing to do with
the AFFAIR, which was inStigated by the head of
another department. The Post this evening.
announces, on the highest authority, that the
vouchers stolen from Controller ConnoIy's Of
nee on Sunday night week are NOT the only ones
missing from that office. Early in the summer,
1t is said, city vouchers for three million dollars
were suddenly missed from the controllers Of
nee, though it was only very recently that the
mayor, or any other officer outside Of the con-
trollers office, knew of the abstraction of the
documents. The city auditor, through whose
Halds the vouchers passed. and who was respon-
slble for their accuracy, was j. Town
send Connolly, son of the controller, and
VINO has since left the country and gone to Eu-
rope, MIR. Herring taking his place. The Post,
however, says it has not learned whether the
nolly departure or not, nor has it any facts
directly duplicating him in the thefts. 1t was
SAID, some days ago, by men who know thar
these vouchers were missing, that it was de
signed to manufacture new ones in their places,
but il is believed that Mayor Hall will make use
OF this robbery, as well as the later one for
driving Connolly from office.
Misunderstanding more has developed dur
ing the evening regarding the truth of the Posts
story. 1t IS reported, however, on good author
ity, that this IS only another dodge Of Mayor
Hall in his fight with Connolly.
The department of parks to-day renewed its
requisition on Connolly for money with which
10 pay the laborers on the parks and boulevards.
Inc tOtal amount OF acquisitions since June 9th
Is 81, iOO,OOO, of which only S265,000 were re-
ceiyed
EX-Sheriff O'Brien has issued letter deuounc.
ing Tweed, Hall, Sweeney and Connolly, and
denying the statements made in some of the
papers that he was secretly in league with tn
ring.
Controller Connolly will, tomorrow, publish
letter to the public, in which he saws the
charge that his son was concerned in theft of
vouchers, as minated in the Evening Post is
SANDER as malignant, as base, and part of
conspiracy of men "having an interest which
have not IN destroying these vouchers NV son
was not assistant auditor under Mr.. Watson,
but under w. A. Herring, who was city auditor
MI WI tson was county auditor, MY first in
tnrmntiOn 0hnnf 1,.e ~
received IRON Mr. StOrrs, deputy controller, in
the fall OF 1870, who was instructed by me to
nave them returned. | had always supposed
they were so returned until | learned otherwise
after the death Of Watson | have
further to say that the loss of these
vouchers VI was well known to Mayor Hall,
Mr.. Sweeney and Mr.. Tweed Immediately after
Mr.; Watson's death, and as soon as | asccr-
talded they had not beeen returned"
Accompanying the letter is an affidavit from
W. II. Virgins, clerk of the city auditing
bureau, setting forth that the late James Wat
son, county auditor had obtained from him the
warrants and vouchers referred to in the letter,
a complete list of which is given. An
affidavit from Richard b. Storrs, late deputy
controller, states that he learned from
Virgins of the delivery of the vouchers to Wat
son, and on the goth of August, 1870, he adj
dressed note to the latter requesting their re
turn as soon as possible. II is not stated wheth-
err the vouchers were ever returned Among the
stolen vouchers are those for labor and material
furnished by lngersOll & Co., to the amount of
S773,53O; keyser & Co.. 5000 ,3O7; John O'Don-
nell, Sl26,62S; G. L. Schuyler & Co., S4G3, O37;
Edward Marrener, S109,133.
Mrs. Julia Connolly, widow of DIR. ]. Con-
nelly, who murdered his two infant children
and committed suicide, was sent to the Bloom
ingdale insane asylum yesterday.
FIVE Chinese, official members of the embassy
sent to France several months ago. to apoogize
Tor the massacre of French citizens at 1ienstin,
in China, arrived from Liverpool Yesterday,
several members arrived here last week. They
are accompanied by II. o. Brown, the English
secretary. They leave tomorrow for San Fran
cisco, where they will take the steamer for home.
The embassy is accompanied by sixteen ser
wants.
Gen. Francis f. Spinner was among the ar
rivals by the steamer China Yesterday from
Liverpool.
There were twenty-scven offerings of bonds to-
day, amounting to S6,9O4,550 flom 112 0S-10O
ia 5000. The award was So 900 900 at from
112 OS-100 TO 112 66.100.
There are rumors this morning of several bull
failures. Two prominent firms are said TO have
suspended, with liabilities estimated at one TO
two millions.
Collector Murphy threatens to turn out a num-
Der of men from the custom house, whom he
thinks are on the side Of the Tribune, ON ac-
count of that journals denunciation. He is
bitter against Greeley for the course the Tribune
has taken.
ID. Il. Sexton, prominent citizen of Cleye-
land, o., large dealer in pork, died at Ithaca
yesterday.
The Fleetwood park races were postponed to-
day.
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