The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-09-30
Donalosolrbille Gbref.
Who Stole the Vouchers!


were stolen from the Controllers
office, New York city, a telegraphic
dispatch from that city says.
Two men were arrested to-day
charged with stealing the vouchers
from the Controllers Office, and were
brought before Justice bowling, who
committed them for examination.
When it was published, last evening,
that the thieves who had stolen the
vouchers from the Controllers office
were known, certain parties became
very anxious about the matter, and
sent q woman to several of the news
paper offices, offering through her the
stolen vouchers for the sum of five
thousand dollars, in the hope of aseer-
tanning the correctness of the report.
Thomas Murphy, Watellman of the
Controllers office, and Haggerty were
in the courthouse about the time the
vouchers were supposed to have been
taken. Mary Conway, the servant
girl of Haggerty, swears that she has
lived with Mr.. and Mrs. Haggerty, in
the county courthouse over fourteen
months. She says: "Ol Sunday
morning, September l0.seabout seven
O'Clock, went down stairs and saw
Charles Balch with the door of the
Controllers Office open, he holding it
back on the outside, and | saw Hag-
gerty come out of the door with u
bundle of papers and bring them into
his hnd1nny1 Thu l.,
came out is at the foot of the stairs,
where the glass is broken, that enters
the county bureau. Each bundle of
papers was tied with either pink
tape or u pink ribbon around them.
| went over from the kitchen out into
the hall. In this hall Haggerty's bed
room door faced me. | saw n man
with gray clothes going in there with
another bundle of papers, like what
Haggerty had. At the same time he
went down stairs, Charles Balch said
to him: This way ] kind of Judged
there was something up, and went to
look i'll the drawer where the
plllow-cases were, and missed one of
the linen cases. When [ went back
into the kitchen, i said to Mrs. Hag-
gerty: What is the matter in the
kitchen it is all black with smoke,
and the dining-rooms are all black
with smoke? She said: Haggerty
wanted some papers burned, and /
told him not to put them i'll, but he
wanted them burned / went over
to the range to cook some eggs for
breakfast. 1t was full of burned
papers on top, and in the bottom there
lay bundles of papers, and on the top
of that were half burned papers, with
Il piece OF pink tape around them.
put on the cover again. They were
partly smothered. When | went out
Mrs. Haggerty had the poker stirring
them UP, so they would burn faster.
She took three or four pals full of
burned papers and emptied them up
stairs on the attic-foor in heap of
ashes.r
The girl Connolly has mysteriously
and NIL efforts to dis
cover her whereabouts SO far have
proved fruitless. Mrs. Haggerty has
been placed under arrest.
Very few persons were aware that
any arrests had been made, and.
accordingly, when the case was called
up before Justice Bowling, at the
Fombs, only a few persons were pres
ent.
'Haggerty was very nervous and
excited. He was elegantly dressed,
and ON his shirt bosom sparkled three
elegant diamonds. Thrown across
his left arm was light fall oyercoat.
lie was represented by the eminent
lawyer, John Graham, who, however,
did not know his client, and when he
was pointed out by Justice Bowling,
Graham remarked: I" Yes, that is the |
person | was sent for to represent.
Haggerty is also under Indictment, |
conformity with James Lynch and
William Lampston, all of whom were
of election, in the United |
States Court, on the charge of allow
ing about one hundred and fifty men,
whose names were not ON the registry, |
to vote ut the last elections. Hag- |
gefty was formerly member of the |
old board OF councilmen. He is a
member of both the Blossom and
clubs. 4
About six o'clock this evening, dur
ing the examination of the ashes of
the burnt vouchers, which lay in heaps
near the ianitor's room, portions of
several burnt vouchers were found in
Il sufficiently preserved condition to
make ont the figures on them with the
aid of Il glass.
The committee of seventy this
resolved to ask District
Attorney Garvin for permission to
appear by council at the examination
before Justice Bowling, of Haggerty, |
Baleh and Mrs. Haggerty, and APP
pointed William G. Barrett as such
counsel.
1t is reported that another warrant
has been issued for the arrest of ii
person high in official positioa. The
detectives are looking for him, and it
is reported that he cannot be found.
and has fed.