The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-11-25
ncnt on each count in the indictment.


had anything to say why judgment should
not be passed upon him. Tweed said he
had already pleaded his innocence
THE SENTENCE.
Judge Davis, addressing the prisoner,
said
William VI. Tweed, you stand convicted
by verdict of jury Of twelve honest
men, Of large number of crimes charged
against you, and that verdict, in the opin-
ion of the court, could not have been other
WISE without violation OF the oaths
which this jury had taken, and in utter
disregard of the obligations under which
| they rested to speak the truth aud the
! whole truth only by their verdict. The
| proof in this case, from the moment that ii
was first presented TO the jury to the close
| of the peoples case, was simply mathc-
NAUTICAL demonstration of your guilt Hold
ing II highly responsible and honorable
public office, yourself honorcd and respect
| cd bv large class of the community in
which you lived, and / have no doubt be-
| loved by your associates, you, with all
these public trusts dcvolving upon YOU,
with all the opportunities you had-had
you faithfully performed your duties to the
| publiC-tO win the honor and respect of
the whole community, saw fit TO pcryert
the opportunity you possessed and the
power with which you were clothed. and
in manner more wicked, and more infa-
nous, and more outrageous than any in
stance of Il like character which the whole
of the civilized world contains. Instead of
Instead Of standing guard when the law
placed you over the treasury of your coun-
ly, you threw that treasury open, not
merely to your own rapacity, but also to
the ayaricc OF your associates, under cir
cumstanccs which make it transparent that
you were engaged III concerted conspiracy
to plumber the treasury of the county in
which yourself and associates in crime
were principally TO be benefited.
The evidence on the subject can leave no
doubt i'll the minds OF any. The COM
mcnccmcnt OF ii all was the entering by
you on these duties rs President of the
Board Of Audit. The very next day your
career of plumber began, and from that day
forward continued until the whole 100 ac-
counts before the board had been audited
and certified, and warrants issued and the
money paid. The evidence is conclusive
that the Whole proceedings were instituted
to carry ont Il concerted plan to enrich
yourselves and those associated with you.
If there was no other testimony. that in my
judgment, would be concusvcy establish
ed by the fact that on each of these several
claims as they were passed on and ulti-
matcly paid your share of the plumber was
clearly fixed and prescribed at "a per cent.
while the share of your associates has been
fixed by II somewhat similar standard of
| IL hi a.
the distribution of 100 cases in which the
money was received on these warrants that
Just "a per cent. of each sum should ilways
be allowed to you without an understand
ing in advance, by concerted arrangement.
that this exact sum should be your fixed
proportion of the money of which the
county should be plundered. When we
see a machine invented by some genius
turning on, II, each revolution a certain
amount of product of some manufacture we
argue that there is some mind behind it.
and we marvel at the reflection and thought
that have produced the result. The ma
chinery which you operated produced like
results in such form that it is impossible
not to see that there lay behind il a con-
ccrtcd conspiracy by which you. in COM
mon with others who shared the
plumber, were to reap the benefits of
your great and awful CRIME. 1t is vain to
suggest that your trlai anu cohVicllon mas
that this. after all, as one of the Jurors
summoned on the panel expressed it, Il
struggle between the Tins" and the "Outs =
-rlo hot,roo" hnnostv aad fr,nd hot fviu5
virtue and crime. While it is true that one
sieH' anu Po"e,lui uauins I'pei III tlls
the first to drag to light and to hold before
the public eye these infamous frauds, yet
ID I'i,S 1s ii, in"' lioi''',,uH "o' non,
to inycstlgat and develop their true cbarac-
ter. Mr.. O'Conor, who has been named in
connection with these frauds IN the course
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