New-York tribune., 1873-01-29

20 the esct that IL he did not give 1t satisfactorily ne
was in danger from these ndictments His oiense was
than larceny 1t was the forgery Oh the name OF
Judge Davis said that tho indictments were incom
peent, but he would allow counsel to argue To the jury
would charge them himself that II the facts alleged
by the people were true every one Of the persons In
dicted were liable To imprisonment Tor Felony.
KRAsUREs on GARvEY's WARRANTS.
The witness. VIM. +. Copeland, who testified for the
people In the Hall trial and also against Mr. Tweed, was
called for the defense Mr. Burrll read the crossersm-
nations of the witness at his last appearance on the
stand to the place where the vouchers were kept now
he used to hand them to Garvey Ingersol, &C., and
sometimes they would come back all crumped ana de-
tached
In reply to the suggestions counsel he testified that
when voucher came IN no entry was made, put the
voucher was filed away; while Mr. watson was IN the
to Garyey, IngersO, Keyser at their request ana
without specific directions from Mr. watson sometimes
Voucher, would 60 with watson INTO his would
be nothing for them TO come and ask Tor ther
for they always In the room together. augnterl
Witness had given Garyey more than one warrant al
time to take into the inner room TO watson ana on
those occasions Garvey closed the do0r "iess toush
he would have missed the vouchers II they had not come
back. -, -
vouchers A. The certificates and tho COntrOllers
order sometimes were not with the vouchers Wnen tney
came back. In nearly every case when gave the
vouchers to Watson Garvey or Ingerson, the Con
troer's order was not them when thcy came oacK-
@ Did you ever notice anything like erasares on the
papers A. noticed erasures on the IND ~ %
soils and others think Sometimes couldn't posi-.
lively say that was an ensure "uitn % and looed
o. How frednently was Garvey in the Controllers
office A. Hardly day but he was there; e., ,,,,
| @. With whom did he do buslnessi A. win watson
q. With ANYBODY else 7 a. No. Sir
q. Did you ever see Garvey get voncher irom Wat
son A. 1 did, Sir in the outer Office
q. How many would you say yOu saw WATSON hand
mInf A. good many could MT say.
Q. When tine warrants were got where y, were IRE the
vOuchersf A. Watson had charge VI them III Ine sde
| until the warrants were taken OUT
O. Did you see Garvey get warrants from Watson and
sign his name 10 bottom OF the receipt and go away
o. Did you ever Mr.. Tweed in your Office or the
o. Did YOU ever give MIR. Tweed a voucher or have
nSthing to do with him at all A. never did.
The witness next described how tho vouchers were
| made up. They consisted OF different bilS-about
dozen bulky bills fastened together. Garvey's and In
gersos were the largest but If there was any dner-
o9ge GaTyeys re SG Me- m qgsC 4Se Control
er's office services were MT Wanted TOOK
copies OF the books while there and gave them
for publication; when spoke OF vouchers hed away
referred TO vouchers for all nis OF county liabilities
Garvey Ingersol, keyser and the rest had not many
other kinds of vouchers: we did have number OF other
kinds under the head Of adjusted claims Just before
these county liabilities accounts were opened they
all filed therea big lot of them-and took an ac-
of these too; the copies which gave the news
papers were taken from the books.
q. For what purpose did you look at the vouchers A.
They came TO in "A loose manner. sometimes. and
looked at them to what they contained generally
opened the vouchers.
O. Did YOU not tell me within this week that you
opened them except when some accident OF the knd
happeDedi A. No told you didn't see them all, for
all them weren't here the red number on the voucher
was taken from the record of vouchers the account
was not written up the audit-book sometimes for
week after the entry In the record-Dpoks; when
| opened the bills l Mr.. Yweed's name across
. great many of them; saw the signatures
Of the Board OF Audit Mt some time on all
the vouchers which opened. OF Garvey and
Ingersol Watson Mr.. Lynes, and pretty nearly every
in the Office had access to the Vouchers when they
got a voucher from me they might have hand ID them
back to somebody else noticed What might be saled
knew OF ths because the other day, after came down
from the stand he spoke to me ana sara they nsd as
good right TO know what saw apont thls mater as
the Others never told You anything about THIS be-
cause you never asked me. Our conversation was
10 Mr.. Bnrrill-I oln safely say saw more than two
OF Garvey's certificates with ensures; they were
bunglngy done lauehterl the warrants in both eases
$4,000 ones sometimes. when the bills came back
would be the first sheet OF the bills was absent
1t absent in the case OF the erasre bills the GER
t6cate Of audit and the Controllers direction would
sometimes be wanting when vouchers came back
MIR. PECKHAM WITNESS
Mr. Peckham was then called by the defense and eX-
amined by Judge Fullerton, follows:
O. Did you ever go with Mr. Garvey to the Attorney
Generals housei A. No. Sir; there IN the
Spring of 1872 when he in to arrange
O. What was the obecti A. Simply TO see Garyey
and nd what be had 10 and could testify TO.
q Was anything said about the fact that he was liable
in any way to civil suits ! A. don't remember any
O. Did Garvey allude to the fact that had seen Mr.
o'Conori A: cannot say, but presume so we knew
testify to. and he detailed il az considerable length.
O. You knew that he had seen Mr.. OCOnOrt A. Yes,
had heard had never Mr.. Garyey before that
night myself learned 1t from Mr.. OCOnor, have
doubt.
O. Have you had other interviews with Mr.. Garvey
A. Yes, great many.
O. Have You met him nc the Attorney Generals Othcef
A. / believe have
Mr. Burrill next called I" Mr.. Drew-nOt Daniel"
lIaughter.l Geo H. Drew testified that he knew Gar
vey. and saw him on the stand during the trial.
@ Did you hear him make any remarks when OF the
standf
The prosecution asked what the object OF this.
Mr. Burrll said he proposed show that Monday
Tuesday Garvey said while off the stand, 81 will send
Tweed To states Prison II hang for it,"
Judge Dayts-That is not competent evidence.
Mr. Burrill insisted that matter OF that kind entered
into the anmus OF the witness. Judge Davis reminded
that he had not called Garyeys attention IL
TO give him opportunity Of contradcting II. Mr..
Burr replied that he not going To prove anything
inconsistent with Garvey's testimony, but TO
independent fact; and he had right to do this. Mr.
Trenain said they should first ask the witness whether
he had animOsy ma c. and then call his attention
to the Out-OfCOurt statement. Tho rulo Of law was
against such evidence.
Judge Davis excluded the testimony.