Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-09-24
THE CITY DEBT.

dIS cAclJluE iStCOS sH
THE CITY DEBT.
The total debt of this city is S97 ,2S7, ,525
About the last of April, a statement was
published, showing the debt to be SS1, ,S43,-
515. 1t will be seen that the city debt un-
der the.reign of Tammany has increased
during the last six months SIS, ,44, ,01O.
OF Haggerty, the keeper of the County
Court House, who is charged with steal
ing the vouchers recently, in the interest
of Boss Tweed, the dispatch says.
| 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 a light fall
overcoat. He was represented by the emil
nent lawyer John Graham, who, however,
did not know his client, and when he was
pointed out by Justice Bowling, Graham
remarked, 'Yes, that is the person / was
sent for to defend" With this significant
remark rumor subsequently coupled the
names of two prominent persons. Hag-
gerty is also under Indictment conformity
with James Lynch and William Sampson,
all of whom were before the United States
Court on the charge of allowing $50 men
whose names were not on the registry to
vote at the last election. Haggerty was
formerly q member of the old Board of
Councilmen. He is member of both the
Blossom and Americus clubs.
THE TESTIMONY DUPLICATING THE AC-
$500, 49,. CUSED.
Mary Conway, the servant girl of Hag-
gerty. swears that she has lived with Mr.
and Mrs. Haggerty, in the county court
house, for over fourteen months. She
says: On Sunday morning, September
10, about,7 o'clock, L went down stairs and
Doln 1, g -,
Controllers Office open, he holding it back
on the outside, and saw Haggerty come
out of the door with the bundles of papers
on his arm, land bring them to his bed
room. The door where he came out is at
the foot of the stairs, where the glass is
broken in the county bureau. Each bum
die of papers was tied with either pink
tape or ribbon round them. [ went over
from the kitchen out into the hall. In this
hall Haggerty's bedroom door faced me.
[ saw man, with gray clothes, going in
there with another bundle of papers like
what Haggerty had. Next saw this man
with gray clothes going down with a pill
lOw-case on his back, full, that looked as if
it was filled with papers shaped like the
bundles Haggerty had. At the same time
he went down stairs, Charley Balch said
to him, this way.' [ kind of judged there
was something up, and / went to look in
the drawer where the pillow-cases- were,
and l missed one of the linen cases. When
[ went back into the kitchen, 1 said to
Mrs. Haggerty What is the matter the
kitchen is all black with smoke, and the
dining-room's all black with smoke She
said 'Haggerty wanted those papers burn
ed. l told him not to put them in, but he
wants them burned [ went over to the
range to cook some eggs for breakfast it
was full Of burnt papers on the top and bot
tom. There lay bundles of papers on the
top that were about half burned, with
piece of pink tape around them. | put Oh
the cover again. They were partly smoth-
cred. Going out. Mrs. Haggerty had the
poker stirring up the papers on top and
underneath where the ashes were. The
bottom range was full of burning papers,
and Mrs. Haggerty had the pokor stirring
them up so that they would burn faster.
From underneath the range and from the
top she took three or four pailsfull of burn
ed papers and emptied them up stairs on
the attic floor in heap of ashes"
DISAPPEARED.
The girl Conway has mysteriously dis
appeared, and all efforts to discover her
Whereabouts have so far proven fruitless.