The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-05-04
THE LIBERATED FELONS.

The Ira nsfer Of Prisoners to the TOmbs.
Fifty Backwells Island prisoners were transferred
TO the Tombs yesterday, under Judge Bradys ruling
that the Court which tried them was illegal They
came through the streets from the boat landing in
three vans, and the yelling and hootlng which they
kept up the way caused staid citizens along the
route to imagine it was menagerie procession
made up of hungry beasts. There were thirteen
women among the desperate crowd and If possible
they were more noisy and demonstrative than the
men. The whole procession as it dcbarkcd at the
boat landing looked like a modernized version of
Falstatrs regiment. 1t was probably an i'm
provement on that historic band. Falstaf-s re-
cruits had only shirt and half between them, but
these old soldiers had two or three, such as they
were. Dirty, begrimed unshaven, uncombed,
unwashed with the sullen eye and sensual lips that
betoken innate depravity, with obsccnity and pro-
family comprising their only utterances, they were
hdeous samples OF the depths to which low life in
New York purleus can sink. Little boys and
embryo rulrans in their teens trotted delightedy
in the rear of the vans throughout the long drive
from the landing happy to be within the nourishing
influence of so much adult vilany although no
sight OF the bowling brutes within could be OBJ
tanned Arrived at the Tombs they promptly
dumped" and turned with flal farewell howl in to
the familiar quarters OF the Egyptian pile The FOL
lowing Is the list Of those transferred yesterday IL
few days 10 serve:-
PETIT LARCENY.
Mary WDgler, January 20, four months Catharne
Docherty, February IL, SIX months; Rosanna
Rooney, February Is, six months: Mary ]. Camp
bell. February 70, six months Mary Dillon February
"a three months; Ellen Rogers, February 30, three
months: Wihelmina Probst, March !, four months;
Louisa Goodwin February T. six months: Ann
Riley, February 8, six months; Josephine Dusen-
bury, March Q, six months; Michael Roach March 7,
four months; Annie Howard December 20, five
months Margaret Brown, November 70, six months;
Cahil March 10, three months; Michael Conway,
March ~, three months; George Thompson, January
months; Thomas Smith, November Il, six months;
George Rogers, November Il, six months; William
Smith. February $. four months: Dennis Mullins,
December u, five months; John Williams, Decem-
Der %, six months: Daniel Daily December 20, five
months; Augustus Worth, November IS, six
months; Simon Strauss, November 2, six months;
John Deey November 25, six months;
John T. Murray, November 25 six months: George
Jackson, January Is, SIX months: George Madden,
January is, six months; John Wilson, January 10,
six months; James McCarty, January Is, six
liam smith, January 10, six months; William Wal
lace, December a. six months: James Nolan, De-
cember II, six months: Benjamin Welsh, November
II, six months; William Guion November %, six
months; Thomas Butler, November -, SIX months.
ASSAULT AND PICKING POCKETS.
William Ryan, December u, six months; John
Watson December =, twelve months James DAILY,
August % twelve months; William Jones' August
30, twelve months; Ann Fecney, January IL, four
months.
ASSAULT AND BATTERY.
Peter Drake, December -, twelve months; John
r. Davis, December II, twelve MONTHS William
Hall, November 2j. six months.
EMBEZZIEMENT
Herman Schalin November %, six months.
Mary Wingler. Thomas smith, George Rogers,
John Murray, Benjamin Welsh, William Guion and
Thomas Butler, all in for petit larceny, have each
only few days yet TO serve, and another one,
Simon Strauss, seems TO have served his full term
already. AS it was left optional with these free
born citizens to stay in the Pententiary or take
trial. IL speaks well for their confidence in the
business of their cause that they prefer to try and
be tried again. The Tombs Is uncomortaby
crowded with these new accessions and the
mainder yet to come will have to be distributed
among the Essex and Jefferson Market prisons.
Another load or two will probably arrive to-day.