The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-18


watson aud asked him what should do, 2ad>Se
tola me TO 10 precisely "a woodward told me To DO:
tnen made out Tie bills as WAS instructed W
Woodward, ior 1 wanted the money; WOODWARD
generally gave me slip OF paper with the amount
OF nne n.il was to make ous and the title Of the
appropriation; Can select nom those warrants
those that were made out in pursuance OF BIZ
THE ADVANCEMENT WITH WOODWARD.
Mr.. Garvey WIS handed twenty seven warrants
and proceeded to identify them se7'fdtim. lie
stated that they represented total sum OF about
$l177,Ooo drawn rom the city treasury; the wit
cent arrangement was about $685. 900. Seven other
warrants were then handed to witness, and he
in his favor for particular purpose and were paid
In accordance with bills made out under an ar
Another objcct ion was made to the answer, which
embraced !ngersolis nam1. objection overruled
: witness continued-Under that arrangement
there was house and coach house TO be built for
Comptroller Connolly; was to do the work and
to do 1t; said 1t would cost about one hundred
and twenty or one hundred and twenty-five thou
structcG me to commence the work; / received
checks In payment Tor the work fiom time to time
from Ingersoll and Ingersoll drew the warrants on
sonsl check; the endorsement upon these checks
(producedl IL Games II. Ingersoll" objection BY
%ss s n Ssns By
counsel the witness made q remark apparently to
explain himself or clear away Misunderstanding
SSan sss hssd t eS Is one no
I = -as- sr~ LACK or DIGNITY i.'.Ss~
before all Courts, jumped up and said.
"Comei comet Every time there Is discussion
or anything needs 70 be well said this witness puts
In his oar, and it's got 70 be stoppedp
were not drawn for WORK done son on Ccnnoy's
house, but for work to be done; they were paid In
advance; the only work done lev. was =, drawing the
To Mr.. Peckham-Alter these bills were made
out would call on Mr.. woodward and we went to
Suiidins there was q reporters table there. and
we sat down to It, and Woodward would get rom
gave my check before drew the amount OF the
warrant for sixty. five per cent OF what the war
o ne ss css on % ss var
audit certificate tackled ON the corner and Tweeds
name written across the face; know Tweed's
"A ICANNOT SWEAR
upon this nave seen them IKE ths Nv with Tweeds
signature sometimes objected to che amount OF
the checks was asked to sign and woodward told
all right.
The defence objected to what anybody told the
counsel took occasion to instruct the Court
pumply that 1.-THE Court ought to rule" In certain
way according TO counsel's Ideas: IA
bank BOOK with him I went with him generally to
the Broadway Bank, and Woodward always made
poss myself personsy 70 csS al
have known Tweed about twenty years; i do not
know whether the vouchers Tor these thjrty-our
Audit; never presented the claims they repre-
sented before any Board and never authorized
Qns s S Rsssn& sa s% the character Of
these bills made out in pursuance OF this arrange
ment with Woodward ihandtng witness billy.
explain from memory what the peculiar form OF
the bill wasy what marks 1t bore, &c, without
Looking Ct THIS IN and ssy1ns at Sas IKE that
to witness, who tcstifed-The bill for this warrant
would embrace
Counsel for defence-Never mind what It ''would
Embrace" tell US wfattt sctuay did embrace.
Witness-It embraced, az near as understand
it, repairs, mason work, carpsntering sca1olding
e1 QUITE A DISCUSSION ENsUED
a. to how far the witness was bound to testify In
days. work done, amount OF material specified in
each bill, and 80 forth. 1t was ended by the wit
ness being permitted to tell to the bess Of his reco-
lection, by looking at the warrants, the nature
and kind OF work named In each bill. There were
about ffty.iour warrants In al, marked as ex-
hibits. During one part OFT Identification and
1.-THE bin for this warrant was for material and
was 80 mncS
many men. so many days at so much day; think
1t ran Tor mechanics about four dollars and atty
cents or i've dollars per day; about that; with
nayue bnnocence) wages were pretty high then.n
The audience and counsel evidently Thought that
for they laughed outright, and even Judge Davis
could only preserve the judicial dignity BY biting
fourteen csscks were vel next handed to witness
who stated that the twenty seven warrants alluded
to had been all paid BY the County Treasurer, as
TO Mr.. Peckham- These fourteen, checks were
also paid;
~ THEY ARE Ny CHECKS, r-,--.,
and have been returned to me by the bank; I gave
them to you; two other papers handed to witness)
these also are my returned checks paid ct the
wy were written on the backs Of the checks by the
teller OF the Broadway Bank; these checks were
DEFENDANTS counsel (savageiy)-Now never
mind telling us what these checks were given Tor.
Witness sharply Then what am to tellf
checks and STOP stop there that's "a an A 'LsusRte Dr.:
We object to anything further. rr-r-s lra- ~ 81,
The Court-Do you object TO the witness stating
Counsel-We do. JIG Il. "a 80 itII
the Court 20 COUNSEL Well, then. note your
Witness-These checks were given by me and
represent TO me sixty-hve per cent OF the amount /
Of my original bills; was requested to draw these
per cent or what they called for. q 49,
own order, and eli the warrants and checks were
admitted in evidence. la F .AQ1 49,
Witness rssu%ing-Tnis check for pa, 600 gave
new up at the Judge from the whole array Of
Tweed's counsel The Court admitted the check
cutio M that they would connect Twesd With the
transaction; they failed to 90 connecs him, the
Court SAID, IL would al De stricken out.) gave
Mr. Tweed; this other check Il for $4,000; it was
about the month OF April Ingersoll came to me
and said TO me-
1.-THE OLD MAN WANTS. fll
objections and Interruptions BY the defence as TO
Indebtedness OF what third parties say about old
men, &c) Said he, the old man wants"-nean-
ing Tweed a lfl ,n IA n ..,4ilt ~ ~
Three or four counsel wanted to know II he
"called Mr.. Tweed the Old mann
F.. Witness-Yes; ne called him 1.-THE Old man."
knew who he meant; he said, THE old man wants
$4,000 nom me, $4,000 nom you, SIS 900 nom Key
ser, $4,000 from Miller and $4,000 nom
few days since sent him SiO.ooo,n and
Ingersol said, well, You win get Il back, but he
must have 4 !" gave my cheek for $1,000 which
said must get somebody to take the money TO
Albany -eomebody who could bo trusted-to give
y 70 Mr.. Tweed personally; my brother John