The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-01-17

by them to the property, funds or estate OF
the county and city, and all loss which |
may nave been occssioned by their default,
and all money and property which they |
might have obtained for the said county |
and city. The said conspirators have had, |
ever since the said frauds, aud still have
each of them, as the plaintiff Is informed
and believes, large estates, from which res
titution of the money and property so
fraudulently obtained conld, with reason
able diligence, have been procured, and
could still be procured, TO the full extent at
least OF three or four millions of dollars.
In the year 1872, as the plaintiff is informed
and believes, an assignment of a large
amount of property was made by the de
PENDANT John IL. Keyser to the defendant
Jackson s. Schultz, IN trust TO collect and
con vert the same into money, and pay the
me to the said county or city in sstisfsc
ton, wholly or partly, for the sad money
and property SO fraudulently obtained,
which assignment was accepted by the SAID
Schultz, ard he has received a large
amount of money and property Hereunder,
At has paid over nothing to the county or
ciGy. A Ter the perpetrstiOn OF the said
frauds, and before the discovery there I, as
aforesaid, the said Watson died, and, IS the
| plaintiff is informed and believes, a suit was
commenced in the Supreme Court OF this
& te during the yesIilS75, ia the nsme OF the
people of tbs state against Margaret Watson,
a. administrative of the estate of the said
James Watson, to
RECOVER MONEY so FRAUDULENTLY Oh
| TANNED,
as aforesaid, aud thereupon a judgment
was obtained for the sum of S64S, 932 80,
which, or the greater part thereof, has been
paid by the said Margaret Watson, but no
part thereof has come into the possession of
the county or city. AS the plaintiff is in
formed and believes, the said Keyser, Gar
vey and Ingersoll have ell admitted and
avOwed, in different legal proceed iDgs, that
they participated in such fraudulent acts as
aforesaid, or some of them, but although
such admis sions were known to the officers
| whose duty it was to prosecute, no action OF
any kind, except as in this complaint men
toned, has been taken by them or any of
them against the persons making the sdmis-
siOns and svowals. The neglect to call the
said Schultz to account, and the neglect to
prosecute each and all of the said coDspira
tors and the omission to obtain restitution
from them or their estates of the money
| ana property thus fraudulently Obtained
as aforesaid, has been owing, as the plaintiff
is informed and believes, to the gross Neglect
| of the county and city, and the proper off,
| GERS whose duty il was to prosecute the
| claims of each, and TO collision between the
said officers or some of them, and the said
conspirators and the proper officer whose
duty it is to prosecute the said claims and
to procure restitution, as aforesaid, are COM
PEELED speedily to prosecute the said con
spirators and use all reasonable diligence 20
obtain re titution to the tressurers of the
| county and city respectively, there Is great
and imminent danger OF several m lions OF
dollars being lost to the city. And the
| plaintiff is informed and believes civil &C.
tons having been once began against
the said Connolly and the said In
gersoll, have been discontinued or sban-
| dOhed, pa don has been procured for the
| said InU0TSOll who had haan iU6QtPH and
| convicted for transactions conn ected with
! the said frauds, the time for finding indict-
ments against the said Garvey and Keyser
| has been
PURPoSELY LEFT 7 o ELAPSE,
some of the claims against the said conspi-
rstors capable of redress by civil action have
been already barred by the statute of limi-
tstions and the rest will become barred in
the course of a few months if no action be
In the meantime commences; therefore the
plaintiff demands judgment
| l. That the said board of supervisors OF
the county OF New York, the said mayor,
i aldermen and commonalty OF the city of
| New xork, and all officers whose duty it is
TO prosecute the said claims and to cause
restitution IS aforesaid, be by inju nction
prevented from doing or suffering any waste
/ or injury to any property, funds or estate of
the said county and city, aud restrained
/ from giving any release or discharge to any
of the said conspirstoTs or any portion of
their estates respectively, or making any
agreement or compromise with them or any
of them, except under the direction of the
court.
2. That receiver be appointed OF all the
said claims against the SAID cOnspirators.
| Charles Devlin swears to the truth ofthe
above dec arstions in the usual form, and
! his attorneys, Field and DeyC, are to proceed
with the case against the parties named, as
| indicated In the foregoing statement.