New-York tribune., 1873-02-04
MORE FRAUDS DISCLOSED.
NEW EVIDENCE OF ADDITIONAL C0RRUP-
lion OF TIE RING.


TION OF THE RING.
| THE RoBBERY OF THE SPECIAL AUDIT LARGER
THAN WAS SUSPECTED BEFoRE-THE ENTIRE
DIVISION TRACED - TWEEDs SHARE MORE
THAN MILLION AND HALF-FRESH CIVIL
SUITS AND CRIMINAL INDICTMENTS PENDING.
The people of New-York viii probably never know
the full extent of the robberies perpetrated upon
them by the Ring. Many have supposed that the
evidence supplied year ago and repeated Inehec-
tually the Tweed trial. indicated that only about
S6OOO,OOO had been stolen by the Special Board of
Audit; and the people have been content to- believe
that this would be recovered by the civil SUITS while
the thieves would be punished under the criminal
indictments The deusion to the latter has lately
been rather rudel broken by the result of the Tweed
trial and the quashing of the indictments against
Others The civil suits yet to be pressed to an
issue and though they stand better chance of sue
cess than the criminal prosecutions they are by no
means certain to result as the people desire. The
other hope that the public had learned the full ex-
tent of their loss has also to be broken by informa
ton shortly to be published and acted upon in the
Courts.
For some months past the Controllers Office and
several banks of the city have been laid under con-
tribution for evidence of the further frauds alluded
to. 1t will be remembered that percentage of the
division of the proceeds of the Special Audit as
heretofore established was not traced. The new
evidence shows precisely who got the money and
what percentage each confederate received. Fur
ther than this it establishes that the total OF the
frauds in the Special Audit was nearly, II not quite,
80 900 OOO instead of $6,300,0O0 only. Heretofore
S9S2 s5S 20 of this money had been traced into Mr.
Tweed's hands. The additional evidence establishes
that of the Special Audit frauds he shared over
81 100000. The exact amount was not learned by
rTlso -, = hos haan n
labor of months and the evidence retained in docu-
mentary form is a mass of material filling several
large drawers AS each account has been traced the
documents have been placed in large envelopes,
marked with the names of the tradesmen who rem
dered the bills and of those who shared in the plum
der. The account of Ingersoll & Co. is among the
largest heretofore not published in detail and when
given will startle the community.
The frauds of the Special Board of Audit are not
the only ones which have been investigated. The
examination of the books of the banks have re-
yealed extensive frauds of the Board Of Public
Works. heretofore concealed because Of the refusal
of the Commissioners to allow any scrutiny OF the
accounts The amount Of the frauds in this single
Department is not to be divulged at present /;
but there is trustworthy information to the effect
that the total frauds developed by this new nvesti
cation into all the Departments will aggregate
S2OOOOOOO 1t will be remembered that the Com
mittee of Fifteen Citizens and Aldermen reported n
1871. after careful computation from the Con-
trollers books conducted by Mr.. Wm Z. Warren,
that the frauds upon the city and county amounted
to fully S28,OOO0O0 The Committee made no
attempt TO trace the stolen sums to the thieves.
The investigation now about completed, which has
been conducted by others, does this very work. and
does it effectually.
In the prosecution Of the Ring the criminal in
dictments against Tweed are not to be Immediately
pressed. The fight now comes up on the Civil Suits,
and to these the whole attention Of the prosecution
is to be devoted Meantime the new evidence is to
20 before the Grand Jury for the present term and
fresh criminal indictments are TO be procured At
the same time the facts TO be made the basis of
new civil suits to recover the additional sums now
known to have been stolen.
Many persons of minor Importance not prominently
known in the former exposures will be involved In
this. Among the evidence in possession are scores
of bills for furniture sent by Ingersoll TO private
houses and by Garvey for decorating dwellings Of
officials both here and at Greenwich. ali paid for out
of the public treasury In short the reserve testi-
mony s to be brought forward in another effort 10
! scatter and break up the Ring.