The New York herald., 1874-07-18
THE MiYOR'S PREDIClNlNT.
Gardner and Charlick Again at
the Front.
INDICTED BY THE GRAND JURY
Fhe Charges Against the Commissioners Of
Charities and Correction.
GREEN ON THE SALARY QUESTION.

According TO City Hall ofncial Mayor Have
meyers answer TO the Governor Will be ready for
yhe Governor on Tuesday-that is 1t is to be sent
~ MIN on Monday and 1.-The newspapers win be
permitted 10 have copy the day afterward," to
use the expression OF the ofncial himself. Still,
the Mayor does not seem to know exactly himself
when 1t Will be ready, and when questione ed about
the matter he prefxes his promises with so many
.'iisr and "buts" that many persons have been led
~ believe that he has not had as much to do with
she preparation or the answer as certain
gentlemen OF this city whose names anu
actions have, OF late, been the town
iak. He, however, persists IN asserting
shat when the answer is once made public people
will see that he has been condemned wrongly, and
lhat instead OF censure, he should have been
awarded praise for doing what he dld
.'PoR The SAKE OF THE clTY's wELFAREW
IL may be that the three additional indictments
which the Grand Jury Of the General Sessions
brought in against Gardner and Charlick yesterday
will have some influence upon the Mayor and pos
slbly convince hun that Gardner and Charlck were
not Indispensable to the city's well being The
indictments found by the Grand Jury are
three In NUMBER and are based upon their
violation OF the election laws, and, except
In the matter of details, are similar in language to
the indictment found against them in the sheridan
case.
one indictment concerns the removal OF two
Tammany inspectors OF election in the Ninth
Election district of the Eighteenth Assembly dis
trict, and in order that
THE OFFENCE COMMITTED BY THE TWO CoMAs-
SI0NERS
may be the better understood, 1t must be borne in
mind that the Apollo Hall and republican tickets
were Identical; that Is the two factions by COM
bination had agreed before election TO support the
a
that wherever a Tammany inspector was removed
and an Apollo man was put IN his place the act was
equivalent to making the Board OF Inspect ors stand
three republicans to one democrat. The two lnspec-
tors IN the Ninth Election district alluded TO were
James Mccartney and Daniel Hughes. The former
removed ON the 2sth OF October He was, in
accordance with the law, given due notice OF his
removal. On learning OF his removal he went TO
see Charick and found tnat he had been removed
tne strength OF afidavlts made by men OF bad
character. who had made false charges against
HIM. He was unable to get any redress, although
he offered to make an AFFIDAVIT that the charges
against hlm were hes One Thomas Barrett an
Apollo Han man. was put in mis- place. thus lesv-
ing only one Tammany Inspector, Hughes,
IN the Board. But he. 1t se seems; ss,ovsa was
but did not, accordance with law, get the proper
notice OF his removal on the day before election
An Apollo Hall man (WIlllam J. Boyian) was ap-
pointed In his place. and thus the Board was really
made up four inspectors VINO were partial 10 the
THE DoUBLE-HEApEp TICKET
called Repubncan-Apolo Hall He was removed
been made by one Jonn j. Dawson, an inspector
in the same Board with him. 1t turned out after
ward tnat there was no such Inspector, thus prov
ing that had the Commissioners given Hughes the
usual legal notice OF hls removal they would nave
been cognizant OF the fraud that had oeen COM
mitted, and 10 which, by negecting their duty,
tney became party.
The second Indictment was found because OF the
Illegal removal OF John J. Welsh In the Fourth cleo
lion district OF the Eighteenth Assembly district.
II from this district that sheridan was re-
moved his place and that OF Welsh being nlled by
Apollo Hail men, IL will be remembered that Sher-
dan was removed on the receipt by the Commis
OF an affidavit signed by DR.. Parker Woos-
ter, be having been requested to sign it by that
honest man, Jimmy O'Bren. The Doctor did not
he was signing an afidavit. He believed 1t to be
petition OF some kind. The affidavit whicn caused
Welshs removal was made by one John f. Mur-
phy, who, by the way, was indicted on the I'D Of
FRAUDULENT PRACTICES AT rHE, ELECTION.
and which Indictment Mr.. Honesty Phelps, the
District Attorney, apparently cares very little for,
as he cannot be prevailed upon to put Murphy on
trial.
The third indictment was based on the removal
OF John J. Crowley, Tammany inspector OF the
Fourteenth Election district Of the Eighteenth
Assembly district The atildavit on the strength
OF which he was removed purported TO be that or
Charles Woodruff, another inspector in the same
ZION, heard about the matter he called upon Crow
ley and told him that he would make his ardavlt
that ne had never made the affidavit which mad
caused his (Crowley's) removal. OF course an
Apollo Han man CThomas +. Bagnenl was put In
kis place.
The Mayor, when spoken 70 yesterday concern
tAem,n and, IN answer 10 question as to whether
they would nave any effect upon his answer 10 the
Governor, replied with the question, why should
theyYn
THE NEXT MOVE.
No Official notice OF the indictments was sent
TO Gardner or Charlick yesterday afternoon;
hut they will be notified to-day, when IL Is ex-
pected they will appear and give bail to stand
trial. Assistant District Attorney Lyon, who Is
now doing the work OF Mr.. Phelps, seemed TO be
quite put out by the finding OF the indictments.
AT least he re fused to give any Information as 10
the exact facts upon which they had been based.
The HERALD reporter, therefore, had TO 20 else
where for the desired information
Revenge Frustrated.
The friends of Messrs. Gardner and Charlick
have Deen unceasing IN their efforts to drag Com
missioner Duryee INTO the same mlre In which
they themselves have foundered ON Thursday