The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-04-20
TWEED'S CHANCES OF FREEDOM.
THE EFFECT OF OTHER INDICTMENTS, IN CASE
THE COURT OF APPEALS SHOULD DECIDE
IN TWEED's FAVOR.

THE EFFECT OF OTHER INDICTMENTS, IN CASE
THE COURT OF APPEALS SHOULD DECIDE
IN TwEED's FAVOR.
From the New York Tribune, April AL
The rumor that the Court of Appeals had
arrived at decision on the appeal in the
Tweed case, and that the decision was favor
able to the prisoner, though not yet an
nounced, gave rise to much discussion as to
the immediate result of such q decision,
should it be rendered. In conversation with
prominent lawyers. the following opinions
were expressed:
The case of Tweed is not before the Court
of Appeals in the ordinary shape of an appeal
by writ of error, but by an appeal by certio-
rari from Judge Barrett's decision on habeas
corpus proceeding for his release On that
proceeding great deal Of testimony was
offered to the Judge, and rejected by him,
and number of minor law points were raised.
While. therefore, it is probable that which
ever way the Court of Appeals decides, it will
be on the main points involved, it may decide
that merely technical error was committed
by the court below. which will not, for that
reason, necessarily require the court to re-
lease him.
If the Court of Appeals reverses the deci-
sion of Judge Barrett for any reason, Tweed
will have to be again brought before the Su-
preme Court on habeas corpus for its further
action. Another possibility should not be
lost sight Of. The Court Of Appeals may af-
firm the decision of Judge Barrett and Of
the General Term of the Supreme Court,
on the ground that proceeding by habeas
corpus is not the proper way to review the
questions presented, and yet express such
an opinion on some of those questions,
as for instance the right Of Judge Davis
to impose several sentences, that any Judge
of the Supreme Court, and there are thirty
three, or any Judge Of the Court of Appeals,
will feel justified or even required to admit
Tweed to moderate bail, pending his regular
appeal, in the assurance that the present SEN
tence will not be sustained.
If Tweed is discharged from his present
imprisonment he will be met by the order OF
arrest in the new suit by the State for &c.
| OOO 600, on which bail is required in So, 600,
600. That order of arrest has been lodged at
the penitentiary to detain him until the
sheriff can be given notice Of his release from
his present sentence. He will not however,
in that case be kept there, but should be
taken by the sheriff to Ludlow Street Jail,
that being the place for the confinement of
debtors held under civil arrest It does not
follow that he will be locked up there.
There is an impression quite general among
lawyers that the Sheriff may allow a prisoner
in civil suit his freedom, the only result to
him being that the Sheriff thereby makes
himself personally liable as bail for him.
But behind this are the various indictments
against Tweed, thirty or forty in number
some for felonies, others for misdemeanors
similar to those on which he was convicted.
On each of these bench warrant may issue
for his arrest and commitment in the Tombs,
except in SO far as the bail already given on
| some of them may interfere.
It is q question of some doubt whether,
when person has been indicted for several
crimes and convicted of one, his imprison-
ment ON conviction does not relieve his former
| bondsmen. This, however, is Of small i'm
poftance, as bail in such cases is required to
| be moderate, proportional rather to the
grade of the crime than to the greatness Of
the offense, differing in that to some extent
from the rule Of civil cases, where the proba-
bic amount of recovery is an element in fix
iry The amount Of bail. It Tweed escapes
his present imprisonment and the other ar
rest, he will have little difficulty in furnishing
bait on the criminal charges.
The Baltimore Bulletin says of Lester Wal
lack: "Wallack is the Guy Livingstone, the
Chandos, the Ouidean ideal Of the stage. His
magnificent insouciance, his lawfully jolly
and quite debonnar superiority, and the con-
spicuous Poole-and- Buckmaster air of his
raiment, constitute him one of those modern
diyinities whose mission on earth appears to
be to inspire insanity in the fair sex, and
raging envy among the men. What is more
charming than to see Elliott Grey take of
his gloves and proceed, with the nonchalance
OF a statue in q shower OF rain, to knock
down Miles McKenna.
A perfect master of the noble art he con-
descends to admit himself for the moment to
the vulgarity of momentary excitement, and
after he has quite annihilated the ruffian he
relapses into correct ennui and takes lady
into breakfast His life is drawl and yawn
showing one, BY doing it occasionally, what
he could do all the time il he would. he
makes love on the stage just as all women. il
they had their choice, would like to have it
done off it; his provoking apathy and his
sympathetic laziness being the thorns that so
enticingly beset the rose of his attractiveness.
He is magnificent. He is Lester Wallack.
1--WE, William, by the grace Of God, with