The New York herald., 1873-11-16
THE TWEED TRIAL.

OverhauIing MIR. Tweed's Bank Ac-
count-MI. Tiiden Reopcning Has
Budget OF Facts and Figures-One
Hundred and Ninety Exceptions by
the Defence-John Garvey on His
Brother Andy's sojourn in IIobolSen.
There was another rather slim attendance yes.
terday at the trial OF William M. Tweed The farce,
as many choose to call it, thinking 1t unworthy
higher place IN dramatic representation, does not
draw as well as on its first production This may
be owing, perhaps, to there being change in the
drGns1tts pe7sOng. The defence calling the
same witnesses, and, OF course, they have each the
same story to tell. No new facts were developed
In yesterdays testimony, and had 1t not been for
the occasional Interchange Of pleasantres between
the counsel and John Garvey's rather amusing
cital OF his brother Andys sojourn III hoDoken
previous to setting out on his more extended trip
OF foreign travel the days proceedings would
have been of the dullest imaginable character
Meantime the cool and self possessed bearing and
demeanOr of the great "ex-Boss' remained un-
changed Most OF the day he was occupied in writ
ing, as ii having a voluminous correspondence to
attend to, but during the examination OF John
Garvev he was all attention, and shook his
plethoric sides with laughter with as hearty gusto
as any OF the rest.
DEPUTY COMPTROLLER sToRRs RECALLED.
The proceedings opened with recalling Deputy
Comptroller Storrs In answer to counsel for the
defence he SAID he meant to testify the previous
day that there were instances in which he did not
see the signature OF the defendant on the certii-
Gates OF audit " hcb ne inspected in company with
the Mayor He could not tell whether the name
was On the yolcher when not on the certificate.
number ol objections ruled upon the day previous
were rerew by counsel for the defence, ana ruled
upon, as extending to all future branches OF the
csSe new objection was made against R PROOF @ @. OF
ny offences after July 13 1870, when the OLD Board
OF Supervisors went out OF office. The oblectons
were disallowed.
Arthur Z. smith,. formerly 9 bookkeeper OF the
Broadway Bank, but now in the. Comptroller >
onice was the next witness Called ne SAID that la 7
he kept WoOdwards account lii Inc Dank, anu tnat
MIR. Stockwell kept the account Of Gafvey acd the
New York Printing Company. He remembered rls
examination of those accounts made BY Mr.. Tilden !;
he had seen deposit tickets OF GarveY, Ingersoll,
Tweed the. New York Printing Company and
Others ne last saw them ID the Grand Jury room
Tnen Ae tQade his deposition to Mr. Tlden they
wards and taken to the Grand Jury room !;
haTe s turned sa 'ny Mere Weeds s BANK x'nsss ac
count ior 1870, and testified tnat he
up four times from April 1870; witness himself
balanced it; 1t was balanced on the 10th OF April;
his balance then was S550O7 40; on the 18th oi May
ss2s,426 CO. with balance OF SAL 1896 2l the next
balance was on July IL the footlngs were
$534.343 81 and the balance S63,922 IA; the next
is on October IL the footngs s3S2,623 5s, the bal
ance s16,4l7 II the account was then put in evi-
dence; he kept Mr.. Woodward's account as he did
Mr.. Tweed's; on April s he had a balance OF
$l7,s52 SO to his credit on September l, $2loS6 IL
on october 81, SO, 66G 81.
MR. LyNEs RECALLED.
Mr.. Lynes was here recalled for a moment and
TestifIed lie saw no affdavits to these county
liabilities bills and thoughtlt nothing unusual.
MORE or THE RINGS FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS.
Mr. Root and testified that he did not know In
gersol Co., and did not himself keep their
account. The entries from which It was
had seen their passbook alter IL was balanced
Alter some lurther discussion the account was ad-
united, and so was Mr.. Garvey's, the Court hold
ing that, even If the accounts were false, If they
were shown to be mere conduits TO transfer moneys
to Mr. Tweed, they were admissible. The Keyser
Il Co. warrants were shown him, anu he said, as to
the first. that there was the cut Of the receiving
ts,,'' the receiving Ell teers handwriting r there
was a difference between his cut and
the other hs noww he Was ehers
was the same cut through the memorandum on
the back IS was sometimes made by the assistant
receiving teller: he then examined the other 1870
warrants some OF these had not the cut OF the re-
ceying teller; he had taken part in the examlna-
tickets and SO far as he compared them they cor
responded exactly; that covered Tweed's accounts,
ness mere explained how the entries were made In
the books Of the bank, and that the only way of
certainly tracing the items OF deposit was by the
TO Mr. Root left the Broadway Bank in March
last; was occupied two weeks In my first invest-
cations and have been repeatedly called on since
before the grand and petit juries am now In the
Comptroller's ONCE there was no understanding
when | made these examinations ! knew the
handwriting on the tickets by their general ap-
pearance / did examine them with reference to
the handwriting, but not ! think, Garvey's or In
gersOs: Mr. Woodward's tickets were in his
handwriting; some OF Mr. Tweed's were In his
handwriting.
Mr.. Peckham here offered the entries on the blot.
ters for each day which ledger entries were
made ana the same were admitted under opJec-
tion.
THE LOST DEPOSIT TICKETS.
Mr. Draper, secretary of the Grand Jury IN
November, 1871, was called TO prove the loss OF the
deposit tickets, but could not remember that they
were before the Grand Jury, nor what was done
Mr.. Allen, Assistant District Attorney, testified
that ne had searched and caused search to be made
In every place where he thought these deposit
tickets were at all likely to be found in the
District Attorneys o1lce, and had not found them
He had not seen them that he remembered and
did not believe tnat they mad ever been in the Dis
trct Attorneys ofce.
MIR John L. Everett, cashier OF the Broadway
Bank testified that the deposit tickets covering
and other gentlemen, and they afterwards disap-
peared; the deposit tickets accompanied every de-
p0sit In the bank, and were generally Kept In the
wooDwARp's pErosIrs IN TwEEDs NAME.
Ansel Il. Parkhurst, receiving teller IN the
Broadway Bank In 1870, testified that Garvey,
Woodward Tweed and Ingerso kept accounts In
the bank the endorsement on the back OF war
rant shown HIM of "E. A. WOODWARD was made
by himself anu Indicated that IT was deposited to
the credit of Woodward; Keyser Co. were the
payees In the warrant and their endorsement was
In blank; woodward made deposits In the pank IN
the name OF Tweed he took the deposit tickets 10
the Grand Jury room In 1871 and had not seen
Them since.
4 Crosse cxamined- package OF deposit ticket
was handed him he did not see them, ana did not
know OF his own knowledge that they were deposit
tickets.
{ Mr Samuel j. Tilden, who was the next witness
called, testified that he was a practising lawyer
In this city, and IN the fail of 1871 examined the