The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-10-09

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was won by Harry Bassett in 3:54a.
The Baris horse in the second race be.
came unmanageable and ran away for
over two miles. The third race was
for tht Mercer stakes. McDauiers en-
try won in l:53.
The Voucher Frauds.
1t is stated positively that evidence OF
the completely Of late County Auditor
Wilson in the voucher-raising frauds is
accumulating.
John H. Keyser.
John II. Keyser has published let
ter in the evening papers in which he
denies that his statement made to the
committee of Seventy, and his subse-
quent assignment to jackson and
Schultz, on behalf OF that committee,
were of the nature represented in the
public press. He says the so-called
confession of his to the committee Of
Seventy was no confession at all, but
simply statement Of facts, and that
grievous injustice has been done him.
For every dollar he received from the
city he gave full value, and the city is
now indebted to him about 100000.
Among the warrants which he has been
shown, and which purport to have been
paid to him for county work alone, he
declares there are upwards Of $SOO,OOO
worth he never received nor saw, and
the Endorsements on which. in his
name, are clear and unistakable forge
ries. He made an assignment to the
committee of Seventy of property valued
at $6j0,000 simply for the purpose OF
meeting the charges that were alleged
against him, and that he might prove
the falsity of the rumors that he in
tended to abscond and defraud the city
government. He claims, also, that the
result of an accounting will show that
the city is indebted to him. He denies
that VIM. NJ Tweed is interested i'll his
firm as partner or otherwise. -.
The World, this morning, has an edi-
torial on the subject of Keysers letter
concerning his alleged confession and
assignment. Referring to the forgerles
of Keyser's name, as Endorsements on
warrants for payment of work done by
him, says the whole business must have
been concerted and carried on inside OF
Comptroller Connolly's department
And could he have been unware OF ltI
The people will now demand that the
committee of Seventy rightly perform
the duty it has taken upon itself, or else
dissolve. 1t has been talking about
furnishing the guilty, now let it give
Richard B. Connolly an opportunity
to prove his innocence in the matter.
The fact that the Comptroller allowed
millions of dollars worth Of those very
vouchers and warrants, now alleged to
have been forgeries, to be stolen, oy
his auditor, and not only concealed
the theft but retained the offender IN
office up to the time of his death, is Of
itself a fact sufficiently suspicious to
warrant the arrest of Connolly. BY
what right does the committee screen
this suspected official and stand between
him and justice. They are seeking to
enlist the Attorney General OF the State
in suits against such persons as they
choose to designate They have gone
through the farce of summonlng the
Mayor OF the city to a police court on a
long string OF technical charges, only
to bow him out with long string of
complaints; they have stopped. most
all of the public works and have
inaugurated crusade against certain OF
the Departments, to the hazard and IN
iurv of the city. Now when will they
cease all this nonsense and bring the
matter of those wholesale forgeries in
the Comptroller's office to a test, and
do so by initiating proceedings in
court of justice against Richard b. Con-
molly, the responsible head of that
office.
James Fisk, Jr.
It's extensively rumored in legal cir
cles that a civil suit will be heard in
the Supreme Court tomorrow, brought
bv a lady whose name has long been
familiar to the New York public,
against James Fisk, Jr. Tomorrow
has been set down for hearing of the
affidavit which has been lodged, and is
said to expose very much Of the secret
history of the Erie Magnate and disclos-
es series of gigantic frauds. Both the
plaintiff and defendant are to be exam
ined, and it is said the former will not
scruple to disclose all she knows OF the
Erie and Tammany Magnate. 1t is sta
ted she is familiar with all the details
of the secret management of the Erie
road.
Address to the WOrkmen.
The committee Of Seventy have on
hand an address to the working men OF
the city, which will be ready for
adoption at their next meeting, on Tues
day evening, and which it is also stated
will set forth the modus operandi by
which the alleged ring robberies were
perpetrated. The address will be
printed in English and German and by
the aid of the Democratic Reform Asso-
citation and Republican organizations, it
will be put into the hands of every voter
in the city.
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