The New York herald., 1873-11-29

or rnIs county ana you roox solemn oath 10 sup
port the constitution Of your country ana your our
duties OF your office, according 20 the best OF your
| ability. by accepting the once you entered into a
| would TO the best Of your ability, protect them
| against great wrongs and frauds, and you solem.
that oath, 1t Is true, does not involve IN law the
crime OF perjury; but IN sound morality II Is vio
You ' perform o. n that Contract aud Keep that OATH
Instead OF protecting the people from plnnder
you yourself became a p1naerer, ana & united with
dence in another case, IN the greatest scheme or
| plumber ever known 10 this or, perhaps, in any
1 other country From the evidence laid before the
! Court In the case OF Tweed you appear 70 have
| been the recipient through charges laid against
! SS,s4i 89l Is, out OF which You turned over to
| Woodward $l.Sl7,4e7 40. leaving apparently In
your hands or county funds over ST. 900 763 81 or
tins fact the Court cannot fail to take notice. not
! ior any purpose affecting the question OF your
| guilt, but as affecting your connection with the
ENORMOUS FRAUDS ON THE COUNTY
| that have been perpetrated What was the char
acter OF your crirnes Instead OF being always,
and to perform the duties You undertook 70 DIS
charge. you deliberately, as appears in this case.
which had little or no just foundation in fact; you
prepared II in the name OF a long extinct copart-
o stock o % own es nane o On as
your being president OF the latter should develop
It's true character and then you carried out the
scheme through the various stages until finally
the warrant had been procured and the money
obtained, and as one step in obtaining the money
you endorsed upon the warrant the name OF the
firm by whose name you obtained that account,
and thus committed the crime OF forgery. The
crime thus committed does not stand by itself,
but involves the crime OF moral perjury or the
violating OF your Official oath and the crime Of
fraud In fabricatlng an account which had no real
existence and obtaining the money under false
pretences by that course OF conduct to which
progress OF the offence, you were necessarily obliged
to commit
THE CRIME OF FORGERY,
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was able TO lay it's hands upon you. But looking at
the whole thing and surveying the whole course OF
there is that degree OF dclberatlon consideration
and preparation that there could be two
the sentence to be pronounced upon you We are
very unfortunate in this State in not having laws
% ao bo o.
that officers commit in violation OF official
atS .. necessity asa moral WI perjury
said very unfortunate IN not having laws ade--
quate to punish that class OF crimes. ! trust
another legislature viii not pass through its ses.
sion without enacting laws TO preserve official
purity and to levy penalties against crimes such as
this. All the Court can do in your case Is to
MAKE AN EXAMPLE OF you
to the extent the statute permits. i seems very
small penalty considering era sne character Of the
friends and relatives. as l am informed, arc not
only respectable but estImabe citizens of this COM
muntty You have O vile whom the Court pities.
s%sy % You have 'nuSf friends s who es''SH viii se eel
you do but even they, in the hours OF their deep.
est agony, must admit the justice Of the law and
Is, that you be imprisoned in the Prison at Sing
Sing at hard labor for the term of five years. which
is the utmost penalty that the statute permits the
Court TO in1ict
SENTENCE OF HARRINGTON.
am very glad that the prisoner Jointly con-
victed with you has had the manhood TO admit
what seems TO me he ought to have admitted IN
the progress of this trial, and thus perhaps. have
saved you from conviction. am glad OF 1t because
it enables me to do what contemplated doing
making distinction between your sentence and
as any evidence discoses otherwise connected with
the great frauds committed against the county OF
New York than as disclosed by this single transac-
ton. Nothing in the case shows that you ever re-
ceived any OF the money that was obtained even
on this claim OF SIS, 1873 40, in the OF obtaining
does appear to the Court, however, is this-that
you were ia the employ Of lngersol, tool of his.
willing to do his bidding, to serve his interests;
and when this account of $4,000 against the
yor Sa yon TO
MADE It out Without te existence ssas Of nny
and was largely increased. You are guilty, there.
fore Of partcinaMon N the fraud, even II you did
pate in the subsequent steps which the Court held
to be forgery. Now, have taken into consdera-
ton the TACT OF your relation TO this transac cton,
which is very different from that of lngersoll and
am determined to diminish your sentence very
considerably in view Of that Iact 1t may be true,
as now stated, that you didn't participate In the
actual making up OF the endorsement and with
that moral crime OF forgery standing by irscf that
you were not a party to the transaction upon
which the crime OF forgery alone was predcated.
Nevertheless, am satisfied you were party SO
far to suffer yourself to be tool in the hands or
lngersoll in the commission OF that fraud. From
l am very much inclined to be merciiul in Sour
case because the punishment which the statute
permits to be meted out to tine principal under the
crime Is totally inadequate to his offence, and 1t
seems scarcely consistent with the fitness OF Il ngs
that II the principal can only be punished for so
ft,sfa chr I,A
equally severe as his. SHALL on that
ground, make q distinction, and shall
while the punishment may be adequate to your
offence, 1t may restore to you the fullest oppor-
tunity, after the time snail nave expired to redeem
career In the future OF honesty and integrity l
would not be thus lenient il thought you were
guilty participant in the proceeds OF the fraud or
II thought you had connection with those trans
actions beyond what appeared in the trial. There
signed the Name Of Heath smith. but II think the
jury were right in what they did, and, in fact,
the Court is that you be imprisoned in the prison at
Sing Sing, at hard labor, for the term of one year
ana SIX months .,r, rvr svvrr,,c,
The two prisoners, soon after being sentenced,
were taken in charge by Order Of Arrest Clerk Jud-
son JARVIS. After they had partaken OF q hearty
they will remain until transferred to State Pris-
soon & w''t as they M have We arrranged their "0 busi
ness afaiIsn % It 10 the general opinion
that harrington Will get new TRIAL, owing 10 the
statement made by Ingersoll Yesterday that Far
rngton made out the bill OF items against the
Court House by his order, and had nothing to DO
with the forging OF Meath Smiths name Late
yesterday afternoon Mr.. Root, one OF Farrington's
counsel. was sent for by Mr.. Tremain, and a long
interview between the two was the result.
STAY OF PROCEEDINGS.
Scarcely had the prisoners been taken from the
building when their counsel went in 10 see Judge
Fancher, sitting In Supreme Court, Chambers.
They had a whispered conference with the Judge
for some little time, and then he signed an order,
ii is said, to show cause why stay OF proceedings
should not be granted: The opinion was generally
expressed that no such order would prevent the
speedy carving out of the sentence,