The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-04-15
TMEED,S TRouRI.Es

TWEED'S TROUBLES.
THEY DO NOT END IN THE PENITENTIARY-
OTHERS OF THE TAMMANY TRIBE IN PERIL
OF LOSING THEIR STOLEN PRoPERrY-IHE
PARDON OF INeERsoLL.
Concerning the Tammany troubles aud the
present status of some Of the suits the New
York Sun has the following: The old suit, in
which Ingersoll and others were implicated
with Tweed, was discontinued upon the affi-
davit of Wheeler H. Peckhsm, in substance
tnat Tweed had answered, but that he lad
set up no cross-demand or cOunter-clsim or
claim for affirmative relief. Further that
the action against Tweed has net passed to
judgment as between him and any
other party. Judge Noah Davis's name is
attached to the order of discontinuance
filed April 6, which directs payment by
plaintiff to defendant of the costs of the
action. A new suit against William Nj.
Tweed has been instituted to recover So OO0,-
coo. Ingersoll was pardoned TO become
witness in the suit. The undertaking on
the order OF arrest in the new suits runs in
the name OF Theodore K. Studley, of IL West
Fifty-ffth street, and he engages to pay
costs and damages, not to exceed 81 600 in
case the defendant receives Judgment
Among the politicians the topic yesterday
was
THE PARDON OF INGERsoLL.
Many doubted whether he would testify
against Tweed and ether members OF the
ring. 1t was generally believed however
that his release has been secured on his
promise TO tell what be knew, aud no ono
doubted that he would keep his word HIS
friends say that he should not be blamed if
he testifies against the men who deserted
him when he needed help. One of them says
that Ingerson lent Mr.. Tweed more than
500, 900 when he was in want of money, and
that when Mr.. Tweed had been asked to re.
fund the sum he had pleaded poverty al
though he owned considerable property
The gentleman adds that Ingersoll vas
compelled to pay most of the costs of the
suit against him, Tweed, Connolly and
others. Mr.. Ingersoll has been con-
fined to his bed since his arrival in
this city with bilious complaint
with which he was attacked before
he started from Auburn. Hedeclines to say
definitely whether he intends to testify
against the ring, but intimates that there
may soon be new developments in the ring
suits. 1t was said yesterday that attach
meDtS were cut against the property of
William NJ. Tweed, Peter b. Sweeny, Hugh
Smith, George S. Miller. Rose & Monaghan,
the estate OF James Watson, and others, who
have heretofore not been touched. IL is be-
lieved that certain funds belonging to Mr..
Watson are in the United States Trust Com
paDy, and that that institution has been en-
joined against paying out any part Of them
Neither Under Sheriff Cumming nor the
Orde r-of-Arrest Clerk. Maj. Quincy, denies
that these attachments have been issued,
but they say that the ends of justice might
| be defeated II their cortents
were given to the public before the
service. The papers in several of the suits
are to be presented in court this week.
Politicians were
sCAMPERING ALL OVER THE CITY,
asking each other who was to be arrested
and whose property was to be seized In con-
4 of III %
Nell-known public resorts there was a meta
bic absence of those who prominently fig
| ured in the merry days of the ling An
Albany lobbyist, who has had much to co
with legislative affairs this winter, says Gov.
Tilden granted the pardon because be was
| satisfied that the prisoner had been con-
Weed upon perjured testimony. The testi
! mOny of Heath was particularly dwelt
| upon, and the lobbyist said that The gov
ernOr believed all that to be untrue. jim
my Ingersoll," continued the lobbyist, twill
not go back on Tweed, altho ugh it is SAID
| that the Boss treated him shamefully and
is much in his debt. Jimmy is not the boy
to peach on his fellows, and be would be a
| fool If he did. There are several indict-
ments still hanging over his head,
aud he might be tried on them
if he failed to disclose what it is said
he agreed to reveal in the event of his be-
ing pardoned." The rumOr in the morning
that the detectives were in possession OIL
warrants Tor the arrest OF certain politicians
excited some alarm. II was discovered,
however. later in the cay, that there was no
truth IN the rumor. District Attorney
Phelps said that he had taken no action.
He was not consulted by the governor
concerning the release of IngersoI,
and under. TODD that civil suits only
were to be instituted. Whether
any person not he etofore known to the
public in the ring frauds were to be impli-
Iao@ I'd hxr Ttarwn oil Nv
Phelps. visitor TO the penitentiary yes
terday said that Tweed was at first much
excited on bearing that the governor had
pardoned ingersoll on the condition that Il c
chairmaker would tell all be knew. Poll
ticians last evening were willing To wager
money that Ingersol would
NOT Go en- THE WITNESS STAND.
A dispatch from Albany of the same date
the Sun, says that it is said here on good
authority that all the property of Peter B.
Sweeney, James Sweeney, and Hugh
Smith, which can be found in the city
of New York, is to levied upon
tomorrow. This action is ia.
ken in consequence of developments
made by Ingersoll, who, il is said, divided
the stolen money with the various persons
who participated in the robbery. There is
good reason for believing that Ingersoll has
also implicated many persons who have not
heretofore been supposed to have had any
connection with the ring frauds.
A leading politician, one who stands high
in the confidence of the governor, said TO-
day. that Ingersoll would implicats at
least fifty persons, some of them
prominent in the city of New
York, and that the first notification they
will receive that their SINS have found them
out will be the attachment of their property
Woodward, too, it is said, is to tell ali be
knows. AS clerk of the board of supervis-
ors, he is perfectly familiar with the new
court house and various other frauds in
which the city fathers got their "ralzs," and