The New York herald., 1877-10-10


Mr. Twecds once In Duane street by himself assisted
By his soa william. M 8. y. Dewey, .. Kuhn. John
c. Haiigau and w. Edelston, all OF when wore con-
nsc,sd with NJ. Twssd, Ia his employ and pay
The comparatively few papers which wcro NOS shss In
the ONCE and Immediately accessible are The cnIy
data from which Mr. Tweed has been enabled TO make
up the schedule hereto Anssssd
WILLIAMS n xiso.
II william u. King, who vas Deputy Commissioner
OF Public works under Mr. Tweed, and who was Mr..
rwsed's right hand man, and through whom most Of
tho iesitimats business in the Departments si Public
Works was transacted, could b promned immunity
no would DO sblo and willing 70 corroborase Mr..
Tweed In most OF such transaosionA He ID In
France ~ the presens time, and NJ. Tweed can
apd means Of communicating with bin. In the cases
Of Nelson against tho city Jones and Rogers against
the city, Navarro wAser meter f more - rcquiredl
and the O'BrIsn claim, Mr.. KING would Ds Of great
value also IN many cases whore individuals have
been illsgitiuassy paid money BY hr Tweed through
Ms Kisg, by checks payable 70 bearer Or cash. and
wnich ohsoks IN M rwecd's posssssob, bus which
he can furnish no slbsr corroborssvs evidence pres
ept.
[Nors. The following sentence was erased In sh
original manuscript
"whiie ne was In confinement on Blackwell's Island
Mr. Tweeds friends destroyed the OF his check
books and ns psnk books, but copies Of his bank ac
count can, OF course, 10 procured from the bank,
which Mr.. Tweed willing furnish.
coESELiUs coRsos.
Cornelius Corson, who 10 now under indictment, wns
clerk TO Mr.. Tweed when Mr.. Tweed was Chairman OF
the Committee on Municipal Affairs At Albany, and
vas Of the manasIsg directors In the New YORK
Company. corson is not possessed OF
any morsy, but in fact. rs very poor. II promised
Immunity, he would bs OF Immense service by
members Of the senate aud Assembly
with whom Mr., Tweed hsd uuanoiaI relations. and
also be able probably 10 state specifically tho bills Tor
and particularly In regard members paid passage
,f what was known The Tweed Charter snd the
OF 1870 and 1871.
SEw YORK rEISriso conrAxx
rom the Transcript Association, and was formed BY
no stockholders OF that association, who W. N.
Tweed, Peter B. sweeuy, Hugh Smith. James o.
Taylor tnow deosassdl, Cornelius Corson and Charles
ng members OF the company. II was formed
or the purpose OF having control Of tho
printing for the city government ana its de-
,artments. Mr.. Tweed thought that each Of the
The bills made up by corson and wilbour, were
fraudulent In amount aud well understood by every
member OF the company to bs 20, upon which very
arge amounts OF money were received By the CON-
,auy out OF the city treasury for which little or no
confederation was given. Aiter The bills wsro made
ip they wero submitted TO Mr. Peter B. swesny, |
Who made the arrangements with Richard h. Connolly
or thoir payment for which IL understood
" all that Mr. Connolly received consider
lt,on. After the pay mcnt OF such bills checks
generally given in payment TO the stockhodsr above
dividends upon the stock they held and
were signed by wilbour a. president, no meeting of
ne directors being nsid for such purposa In iacs
no meeting Of tho directors (who consisted Of tho
above named members) was held for the purpose
II determining the OF dividend 10 DO paid, but
such dividends were paid directly from the
surplus moneys in tho hands OF wilbour l. carson,
who performed all the financial duiics Mr.. Tweed
thinks tnat the greater part OF those bills II not all
we're never audited but paid By the Comptroller
upon the application Of Mr.. sweeny, and the amounts
were paid by the Comptroller directly to Csrson
w,lbour. Mr. Tweed thinks that tho books and bank
account OF the New York Printing Company and
was another orshoot OF the Transcript Association
and formed OF the parties, VIII show the truth OF
part OF tho above statement The accounts were kept
in tho Ocean Bank the National Broadway Bank, the
Tenth National Bank and Guardian Savings fnstltu-
tiou. All OF the above facts be corroboratcd
by Mr.. Cornelius Carson, who, Mr. Tweed thinks,
II immunity were promised him, would
bo willing SO to do Mr. Tweed has not secn Mr. Car
son or had direct commu ncation with him for some
years. but knows OF his through others.
Mr. Tweed says that such stocknolder received very
large amount OF dividends during their brief exist
onco-uot less, he thinks, than from $4,000 TO
500 900 per annum during the three years.
SINCE ls6s--ciRcLE PROPERTY