Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-29

!. g. 3 .ElsON RING
The Cameron ring in Pennsylvania
knows how to do things with neatness and
dispatch. The Philadelphia Press has the
following dispatch from Little York (which
shows that this gang not only stole the
county vouchers which might implicate.
them, but after the re auditing committee
appointed by the Legislature to supply the
deficiency In the evidence created by the
theft, the gang next stoles the Treasurer's
accounts for the past six years, and to crown
all, carried off the report of the re-auditing
committees, so thst there should not be a
particle of evidence against them. The
\ New York tribune thinks it matter of
surprise that the rascals left one stone of
the courthouse upon another. The fol-
lowing is the dispatch to the Press detail
ing this last piece Of Cameronian rascality:
lAirsLIrTLE YORK, Oct. z2.-Little York
was this morning startled by the report of
another robbery at the courthouse, more
astounding than that Of last March, when
thieves entered the commissioners room
and stole all the vouchers and other impor-
tant papers on file. Suspicion then pointed
to prominent officials around the courthouse
as the guilty parties, and it was settled be-
yond doubt In the minds of the people that
the theft bad been committed by some one
hired blythe Ring which controls the coun-
ty. The perpetrators, however, were never
brought to punishment, if discovered at all.
This making away with the evidence on
file, it was thought by the Ringsters, would
fob the, auditing committee appointed by
the Legislature, through a special act, to
examine the accounts Of the York officials,
at that time accused of wholesale frauds. But
the auditing committee collected enough
testimony to prove that at least $4,000
had been either stolen or squandered.
This discovery appears not to have suited
certain officials, and they determined to Sc
cure every evidence Of their guilt. Last
night the long-planned job was successfully
carried out. The courthouse was re-en-
tered, all the remaining accounts for the
past six years, the books containing the re-
cords of notes issued by tho county, and,
most important of all, the auditors report
itself taken. Unless the thieves are dis
covered and the reports secured the COM
mittee will be entirely at the mercy of the
Ring, as the reports were to bave been filed
at the November court. The affair has
created as much, If not more, excitement
than on the previous OCCASION. Heavy re-
wards were then and viii again be offered
for the arrest of the thieves. 80.
- sThe history of the ring rob-
berries in this county during the past
twelve years is disgraceful one.
In 1861 when the commissioners
were for the first time required to publish
the debt of the county, the fact Of the i'm
mense robbeTies came to light. For nine
years thieYing had been going on, and bank
ruptcy stared the people in the face. Some
thing must be done, the people thought, to
stay this wholesale plunderiDg, and spe-
;cial law was passed authorizing an issue e
bonds not exceeding $4,000. This, it
was supposed, would be a full limit Of the
debt for-aA time to come. A seYen-mill
tax was also levied to pay the interest and
llQuidate the debt, but the result was still
worse. As fast as the people paid their
taxes into the county treasury the Ring Off
Gals put the money in their pockets. The
debt kept on increasing until it reached over
$3o0,000. Then it was that an investiga-
ton was demsnded and ordered, and finally
commenced. And this is the result of it:
Nothing left with which to prove the guilt
CT the criminals, the evidence Of their dark
doings all gone, and the people more at
their mercy than ever before" +,