New-York tribune., 1874-01-01
which be reiterated h,, pledge, TO pro..su.e .se.e


Nothing done between the time tn. wses.ns v:s
Brtton o letter "a the Committee In which ne
AGAIN reiterated a m promise Ire and said 'ea, ne ssd hs
passed conGratuiatory e1pressDg their sa
ing in these cases and rendering the aid ot add
uonal counsel On the ith OF April, Mr. BrItton
sent the Committee another letter, In which he
treats them very cavaeriy, but again reiterates hi,
pledge stating that he intended Ia few days or tue
following week TO procure other indictments. His let
ter referred to Special Committee and I'm their
rspST upon shey went SyeI tae whole 10 a do
anything giving their 20 discourteous did
they consider his letter and his treatment Of them that
they passed resolution that IL Incompatible with
the seifrespect of the Committee TO make any reply
whatever 10 the letter.
The first suggestion would make here is. was u Ia
the power OF the District Attorney 10 prosecute these
partesf IL the witnesses were absent; OF course ne
could not III the parties could not be found, OF course
be could not prosecute them. But what did he do IN
order to ascertain where these parties weref In the
City OF Brooklyn we have poceforce m the neighD0r
hood of 800 at expense OF nearly 100000 year; ana
yet Mr. Brten in his evidence that he has adopted
the of criminals. II Is proven by Capt Ferry,
VINO had a bench warrant for some OF these parties
prior To the lst OF December. that after Mr..
Britton went into his Office he never was requested
TO procure one Of these parties rites Mr. Campbell, a
intnated TO him that he wanted any OF these parties
arrested and that the police force
to up arrest one OF them. Nor II there par
tce OF evidence IN this showing that single step
was taken oy any Indvidla looAIhg Iowsrd Inc arrest
directions Mr.. Farron 10 make out bench warrants
FaTTOn,
bench warrants and gave them to the officers IN his
office appointed to serve subpenas but not a single
officer il put upon the stand 70 swear that ne TOOK one
step looking toward the arrest OF these parties.
Mr.. BrGton admitted that as TO Ford and Phsps Two
OF the parties indicted, members OF the Fire Depart
ment they ought have been prosecuted and that the
evidence against them was clearly conclusive Twas
also admitted that exAlderman Dunn and Mr. Camp
bell accessible, admission entirely unnecessary
because ex-Alderman Dunn aud Mr.. Campbell we're In
the building with ar. Brttou Mr. Campbell was,
tried during the month Of January but lie soon took
his position there sns na sse 4as facts are s
mtted. One word more, while IL occurs To me, IA
this letter After his letter of the 29tl OF March ma
letter OF of April reiteratng the fact that ne
mad made the investigation personally n connection with
his assistants that he eyiaeIre S. Iss. & .Sse
his knowledge as to the evidence IN the cases
No reference was made IN these etsefs nor ~as ~
the Academy OF Music speech 10 the aet OF te recep
ton this letter. Before he received the letter, Ae
states that he made personal examination, and was
acting MS own Judgment and AFTER he received IL
he made the same statement
EX-Alderman Dunn, az the evidence shows, was not
indicted IL ranspred the trai OF the Inspectors OF
Ist District OF the Sixth Ward that there were 500
the pOlist at the commencement, IN UNIFORM hand
writing and each OF the 800 were represented as
voting the entre ballots. The name OF the hrst
man voting there Is recorded on the pol.-list
as 50l. names commencing about one-thlrd
the evidence IL clear and positive here mat
ex- Alderman Dunn and John j. Campbell the men
M the opening OF the polls Campbell and man by
the name OF Matthew McKenna were appointed as poll
where the election held, and told them he could not
attend until he had been on mis- paper route. de was
told that Aldermen Dunn would take his place
He did so, and kept IL tai the afternoon, and
Jhen Mr Dunn gave the place up To SIR. Mchenna.
But at that tune the fraud WAS completed.
John McKenna subsequently made an affidavit ia which
detailed the precise facts is to the manner OF com
hitting the fraud In that he says that Patrick Keenan,,
a ward pocien OF some nOtorety, well az exAlder-
man Dunn went McKenua's place the night before
tDe election where the UaOtbOxes kept, got the
kew from him. went In put these ballots In the boxes
and nut the boxes in position for the next morning
placing them with the glass sides together and the
wooden ends to the street that the people could
see into them That appears clearly the also
Mr. Weldon one OF the parties who has served hls
term n ;the Penentary, procured afidavits showing
that he had nothing do with the frauds OF which he had
been convicted and Mr. Norton, lawyer, went with
lively called Mr. Brttons attention 70 the matter and
wan.ed him 10 read them. Mr. BrittOn declined
10 do so, saying he had heard enough OF the
afifavits, and II he mad anything ~ do with
them any more he would be blamed. Mr.. Nor
ton told him If the afidaVits were true, they
disclosed who parties were who committed the
frauds and that Mr. Weldon not one OF them. Tue
twice presented 10 the Court To see II some
reief could be had To Weldon, and after their
publication Mr. BrttOn became frightened, and made
formal complaint before Judge Nelson that ina Nc
kenna could noe DC FOUND.
Judge Morris then aladed briefly TO other charges,
and closed with forcible application OF the testimony
as proof OF the uniathfuness OF the DstricAttorney