New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-26
TWEED'S GRIMES.
STARTLING AND UNANsWERABLE PRoOFs
OF HIS ENORMOUS THEFTs.

II. KEYsRR-GARVEY, NGERsoLL, AND
WOODWARD DIRECTLY INvoLvED-THE
LIONS SHARE OF THE PLUMBER GOES TO
TWEED-HIs ARREST TO FOLLOW TO-DAY.
At Last the evidence against William N. Tweed has
bean COMPLETED to the satisfaction Of Mr.. Charles
oConor It Is gwen to the public this morning in ad-
vance Of its submission in court Of justice to-day.
Mr. Teeds arrest In criminal and civil SUITS TO punish
his crime and the amounts which he has soen'
viii probably follow to-day
INQUIRY was made a. to whether the suit would be be-
gun In this county some other We are authorized 70
state By ono Of the counsel associated with the Acting
Attorney General who begins this action that the spp
cation for arrest Will be made to some court outside OF
New.York. Albany County will probably be selected.
The fraudulent transaction which Is the subject Of the
contemplated suit began in the passage OF Section OF
the County Tax Levy OF 1870 which reads 81 folows
County TazLery ls7O-sECTIost Anlisbilinee agalDse
the County Of previous 70 tne ps
ler and present President Of the Board OF
7SeS the issue Of Sonds Of the
psysS during the year ana sn LAYING
the taxes for the year 1871 an amount sufcent 70 peg
said bonds and tho interest thereon. Such claims sna
to receive the Ssme upon the certificate Of the Ocers
named herein.
That section was On innocentlookng but decepuVS
provision for the payment Of such claims and liabilities
against the county the special Board Of Audit created
by that act That Board of Audit consisted Of Mayor
Hail. Controller ConnoNyJand VIM. ~ Tweed, President
Of the then Board Of Supervisors That Board Of Audit
neVer had bat meeting, and that did not last teeH
Rinles At that meeting the record was made up OF
minute and resolution, which resolution rd' dTdUn ana
read 6r Mayor Hall, and is said to be IN Ma
handcritina Instead Of auditing the claims or hbih-
49, hat N
of the law provided that the Auditor in the Controllers
Office then James Watson) should collect together sn
the claims, and that the certificates OF Wm NJ Tweed
President OF the Board Of Supervisors, or Joseph B.
Young Secretary OF the Board should be the eV
dence required to enable the claim to be paid.
It is now held by the Acting Attorney General init
Mayor Hall must have advised his colleagues in that
BOARD that this was an execution Of their trust whereas
the duty imposed upon them was TO investigate these
accounts and ind out what amount, any, was due
upon themA The Board Of Audit consequently, had no
right whatever take the certincaton proposed by the
resolution as conclusive. 1t bound to look into
these claims and to exercise Judgment upon theln'
That duty was not ministerial, but judicial
The next step was the collection Of the warrants. Ot
the total amount Of these warrants tSl9 81 three de-
pendents and tools Of Mr. VIM. NJ. Tweed deposited
t55IO,0I3 0S, and the New-York Printing Company
deposited 1854, 305 40, making s0,O05,3l9 IL. Frs-
Their IS believed to have been deposited by In
QersOn QnerenC DdnK, 80 JndJ
audit except tlS6s3 81 really collected by persons
In connection with or In COLLISION with Tweed Ingersol
collected so OF the warrants and he received
from Garyey out Of hts collection, 7,7 &c. or that
aggregate he paid W Woodward nSl7,4e7 49, orr
little more than half Of his whole receipts.
Garyey deposited warrants amounting to Al7T4lS H.
He Garvey, paid to Woodward s1s1s OF, over two
thirds Of the whole Of his receipts Woodward de-
posted 81 O3a715 49, and he received in checks from
Ingerson and Garyey enough Of these collections to
make total Of t3,5S2054 %. OF this amount he pala
over t923yS6S so to Tweed.
Woodward was then and Is adeputy-cerkt to Young
OF the Board Of Supervisors. whose cetcaton &C
cOrdnR to Mayor Halls resolution, web as on that q
Mr. Tweed, the bills to be paid 1t Is unknown IT,
whom woodward made other payments, but those he
made to Tweed are established beyond doubt. The tick
cts accompanying the deposits are in the handwriting OF
woodward and the teller Of the Broadway Bank sWore
that they were generally made by Woodward In person
Including 1888 o., Tweed received handsome as
gregate Of SI,OS5,199 IA.
The manner In which the City warrants were ident'
fed is explained in the affidavit of Mr. Tden appended
The frat table appended is headed County Labnities
That is made up from the records in the Controllers
Office and warrants The last contains all that there
on the back Of the warrants Nearly all the vouchers oil
these bills were among those stolen on Sunday Sept TO-
but the warrants kept in different place and are
now in the Controllers Office The next table, headed
Identification Of Parties who Received the Proceeds Of
the Warrants" is made up, TO the description OF the
warrants from the books in the Controllers ONCE, and
from the warrants themselves and the Identification OF
the who deposited the warrants is made out from
accounts Of the entresin the National Broadway Bank
The astersks against the Of the warrants In the
fifth column indicate those Of the Keyser warrants on
which John Il. Keyser alleges the Endorsements were
forged.
All those warrants which fell within the period OF this
account were collected by Woodward, except one aud
tAaG one by Ingeysou
undoubtedly the transactions taken together were, in
the opinion Of the Acting Attorney conspiracy
to defraud the county by Of bills exaggerated
many times for work services received or for work
and services already paid for for accounts that were
fictitious.
The result throws great light both on the stealing and
burning of vouchers by Hagery the anitor Of the
building appointed by the Chamberlain, and also upon
the Keyser fOrgeries.
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