The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-02-22
THE RING FRAUDS.
More Developments to be ffade soon
The Aggregate Nearly 25,O0o,OO
From the New York Times

more DeVciOpmeDfS 10 be IasIe
The Aggregate Nearly S25, 900, 900
From the New York Times.
"Reformers have only so far sue
ceeded in scraping the top of the mud
IN their Investigations into the Ring
Frauds" said a well-known lawyer of
the Ring prosecution yesterday. $50
completely have Tweed and his fellow
consplrators intrenched themselves
behind acts of their own legislature,
the corrupt judges whom they had
created, and their creatures whom they
had placed in high office, that it is only
by the laborious work of years that the
full extent and enormity of the rob-
berries committed Will be disclosed.n
1t is gratifying, however, to know
that the developments cannot be long
delayed. In every part of the City
Government which has passed under
the sway of Republicans, fresh evil
dences of the frauds committed by
their predecessors in Office are being
daily discovered, and the proofs col
lected. Meanwhile, the Council of
Political Reform, the Committee of
Seventy, and private individuals earn
est for the public good are burrowine
out facts which will lead to complete
discovery OF the stupendous frauds
committed by the ring for their own
evil purposes.
An immense amount of legal evil
dence has been tabulated concerning
the maladminiStration of Justice ia the
Police, District, and Marine Courts.
They show clearly that brides have
been accepted, and moneys which
should have gone into the City Treas
ury, were diverted from their PRO
per channels into the pockets of
the Judge and officials of the
courts. Startling facts concerning
the long suspected corruption of
the Police Department have been
unearthed, and there is not a depart
ment of the City Government whose
records do not show that robberies
have been committed to greater ex
tent than was before believed possible.
Much OF the evidence tabulated is now
being shown TO the Legislature, and it
is also intended to make it the basis
TOR new indictments by the Grand
jury OF number OF individuals who
now consider themselves secure with
their ill-gotten gains.
one OF 5he Investigations, which has
been quietly pursued for some time
past, has led to the discovery Of facts
IN relation to the special. audit frauds
surprising IN their character The to
tai amount stolen by this clever bit of
machinery, it is said, has been proved
to be nearly 100000 instead of
100000. A portion of the money
divided IN this way was never traced.
Inc new evidence clearly traces the
entire amount, and gives the name of
every person who received a per cent
age. 1t shows, it is understood, that
Tweed got, as his share Of these spe
clal-audit frauds, 81, 500, 600, instead of
1892, $500.
All the evidence so far collected is
tabulated in documentary form, and
filed for use, it is said, in the trial Of
the civil suits soon to be commenced
against the individual members of the
hing. The aid of the District Attor
ney's office has been extended to those
now investigating these frauds. and
two books of banks whose officers re.
fused previously to give up. are being
scrutlnized. Perhaps the accounts Of
the Department OF Public Works.
where Tweed held the supreme power.
are unriyaled as showing the most
shameful exhibit Of fraud over those
OF any other department of the city.
These accounts were thoroughly
overhauled by Messrs. Davenport and
Lyons, on behalf of the Committee of
seventy, about year ago, and the re-
suit of that investigation was published
at length IN the Times. Every facility
was given to the Investigating Commit |
lee by Commissioner Van Mort. and an
immense amount of evidence was care |
FULLY and laboriously collected, to be
preserved for future use. The most |
5iarlng ofthe fraudsln this department,
{ Will be remembered, were committed |
through the agency of Tweed's Super
ntendent of the Bureau of Department
md Supplies, William Hennessy Cooke. |
That individual is still at large in the
,ity.
The amount of money stolen from
he city was estimated, by the Com
nlttee of Citizens and Aldermen in |
81, to be S26, 600, 900. 1t is said that
he present investigation makes the |
mount S20.000,000 at least When
here is added to this amount the vast
lumber of minor robberies in everv |
branch of the City and County Gov
the aggregate may come near
he first figures The grand total will |
far exceed the largest esti- |
nate made in 1871. It is understood |
hat it has been the intention to present |
he facts given here in an official form. |
nd it is believed that the public will |
'e astonished at the disclosures when |
hey are made.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Comptroller Green has sent to Mavor
1avemeyer report on the recent dis
overy of more frauds In the construc-
ion Of the court house. A list of ex-
enditures is given, extending from
Zee. 20, 1870, to March 4. 1871,
to S59S,215. OF this sum
305, 1913 is traced directly to Inger-
oll's private bank account IN the Bow
~ Bank, and an additional sum of
lbs, 1lS to the same account after GO