New-York tribune., 1875-10-13
STATE INVESTIGATIONS IN THIS CITY.

STATE INVESTIGATIONS IN THIS CITY.
EXAMINATION OF CRIMINAL COURTS AND THE TX
CIsE COMMISSION BY THE ASSEMBLY COMMIT
TEE-sEssIoN OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE.
The Assembly Committee on Crime cOntin-
ued s session the City Hall yesterday James Cox,
public accountant testified that he had examined the
records OF the Courts of General Sessions and Oyer and
Terminer from Jan J. 1873 to June 80 1875. The num-
Der of indictments found in that period was 7147; in
dcted persons not arrested 1922 otherwise discharged
without trial, $50; in which mol prosequi was
entered AL number Of arrests 479s trials, 1908;
dsagrceuonts, IL acquittals, 712; convictions, ZIG;
pleas OF guilty accepted 1917; indictments pending,
1891 O6l of which missing from the Clerks office;
sentences 3,Gl1; fines, 9, amounting to SS,O5O.
Excise Commissioner D. ID. L. Marshall testified that
be considered his duty 10 ascertain the character Of all
applicants for licenses This learned from informa
ton furnished by the Police Board and from personal in
spectons The Board refused licenses to persons known
10 possess bad characters When person applies for
license lie paws his fee which is deposited TO the credit
of the city, though the license is not granted until some
time afterward the time the character Of the
applicant is examined. The witness thought 1t might be
better accept the fee until the question OF granting
the license decided. lie presumed 1t was true that
licenses were sometimes granted TO persons who ought
not 20 receive theu and also thought il likely some per-
sons had been refused who not Objectionable. The
Excise Board had ~ 900 $4,000 in fees which had
deposited upon applications for licenses and never
refunded after the license was refused witness did
rot know that these fees had been withheld when
spplcaion was made them When he had applied 10
the DistrctAtOrney's Office 10 learn the cause OF the
delay In the Excise department. he had
been told that first duty to held in prison
lie thought il popular error that the liquor sold in
low places was poisonous. He bad been In
formed that in an examination OF several
samples of liquor that obtained from a bucketshop
was the purest He would consider it cause for
reyoking license II man sold poisonous liquor,
.od strong drink Of Kind minors He had heard
complaints that inspectors had been brbed, but the
charges had not been proved. Excise Commissioner
william H. stner said that no thought every man.
whether his character good or bad, should have a
license he wished II and able TO pay the required
fee did not think the lqnOr sold in New YORK con-
taned great amount OF deete1ous matter lie ana not
asree with who assert that go or 20 per cent OF the
crime in Scw-YoTk IL due 20 bad whisky.
WORK OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE.
The Senate Committee for the investigation OF the de-
paments Of this city called Margaret Haviland as their
nrt witness yesterday at their session in the Fifth Ave
nue Hotel testified that her boy had been taken to
the smallpox hospital last Spring Though the Health
Board had been promptly Informed that her boy had
smallpox yet be not taken from her house for four
days efterward He kept IL hours In the Reception
Hospital at the foot Of East Twenty There ne
had mo medical attendance Her daughter afterward
attacked with smallpox, and then she was permitted 10
accompany her child 10 the hospital There she took
care OF her children while they were SICK remaining IN
The hospital for three weeks During that time Mrs Hay
land said that did observe medical attendance
worthy OF the name There was no physician on duty
there night. The food was bad IN quallty ane lne
purses were taken from the Workhouse and PeD
tentiary Mrs Havland said also that she knew OF In
stances who're patients were removed 10 the
,neFed 10 remain In use for two OF three weeks uses
money Paid for the privilege OF a change Joseph