The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-09-28
THE BOSS THIEF.
He Makes More Revelations and duplicates His
Friends.
NEW YoRK. Sept. Is. 1877.

New YoRK, Sept. Is, 1877.
William M. Tweed was before the Alder
man Investigating Committee to-day. Fl
produced the assignment of half of Jane
O'Brlen's claim against the city to him il
the name Of Foster Dewey and the assign
ment of Dewey to him. The assignmen
was conveyed for one dollar, paid by Dew
ey, to James O'Brien, all the latter's claim
not less than $4,000 are against the cit.
and bear the signatures of Joseph A. Mol
heimer, Tweed and Jas. O'Brien, datee
1871. Witness gave $4,000 for it. HI
gave an assignment of real estate, fo
$l78,000 to William E. King, in the pres
ence of Dewey for claim. Regarding tht
charter of 1870 almost every one connected
with the Tammany Ring had something tt
do with it, Being asked if the members
of the Assembly were bribed to vote for it,
witness answered they were paid for it
He could not tell that the members of the
Assembly were paid, but knew the Senators
were, and various tradesmen furnished
money for bribing the Legislature of 1870
Among the tradesmen were Garvey, Inger.
soil & Keyser E. A. Woodward, James
Watson, Ed. Boyle, Ed. Marin and most
everybody who had dealings with us.
Henry Smith, police commissioner, con-
trlbuted, also the Erie Railroad, through
Jay Gould, When he said Gould he meant
Fisk, and vice gersa, for they spoke and
acted as one man. The money for the
Assembly went through Ed. Barbour He
gave Barbour 100000 for that purpose,
and he himself personally paid Senator's
Hall, Connolly and himself had an under
standing when they were made board Of
audit, that parties doing business with the
supposition was that the bills were to be
bona fide. Watson s Woodward were
suggested by witness as parties to prepare
bills, and then they were to be paid by
Connolly, which was agreed to. Sweeney
and Hall got their percentage. Connolly
was not satisfied with ten per cent, and
wanted twenty, and he got it. Hall COM
planned of slowness in settling up, and
witness made them hurry up, and after this
Hall signed the bills. They all got ten per
cent. at first, and then twenty. They
agreed on Sweeney, Connolly and Hall 10
divide up ten per cent. each and two and
half per cent. was reserved for election
purposes. The prominent men to present
bogus bills were Keyser and Ingersoll.
There was split in the Democratic party
about that time, which Hastings and other
Republicans were anxious to keep up.
Witness sent around for Hastings, and he
came and suggested seeing the Senators.
Witness saw Senators Winslow, Woodin,
Jas. Wood, Bowen and Maurice. The
gentleman introduced him to Winslow,
who wanted $780, Witness told Woodin
that he was willing to pay him witness
also told Hastings, and he said, "stick to
the old man, guess we will get him."
Wooden asked witness for $4,000, and
witness said no. A few days after, Hast
ings told him that the Republican Senators
had had q caucus and they all voted for the
bill when it came up and all the Democrats
except Genet. Besides the Republican
Senators, he approached Democratic Sem
ators about the bill. He gave place to |
Senator Frost and put his friends ON the
pay roll. He agreed to vote for the bill,
and witness put several of his friends ON |
the pay roll. The other Senators ap-
preached were Samuel Fl. Frost and Mi
,hael Norton. I promised to help him in
business in New York. T. J. Cleaner had
with Connolly, and I gave $780,
700 place TO his partner as consideration.
[ gave VIM. M. Graham money all the
lime. Winslow, Elwood and VIM. Fl.
Brand got money. Parmenter got $5, 900.
gave Winslow $50, 1000 to be distributed
him and Woodin and other Repub-
leans named, at $4,000 each. Some of
he money was paid by our notes. O'Brien
Bryant has some of them. offered Sena-
;or Manierre 10000; he asked ss25, 1000,
aging that we were getting rich in New
York. Had the same talk with Bowen
md Wood, and finally they settled on $40,
100. Bowen came to me and said he un-
lerstood was anxious to pass the bill,
md asked me SIC, 900 for his support. The
lext day he asked me $4,000. I said that
vas impossible. We fixed on $40, 900, and
Winslow paid him. Bradley was as anx-
GUS for charter as was. Senator Wood
got $4,000 through Winslow. Hugh
Hastings was valuable on the floor and had
control of newspaper, so I employed him
20 procure votes for me for the bills which
wished to have passed. Witness employ
ID him as lobbyist to persuade certain
parties, and employed him in regard to
his charter; witness paid him well for his
services and gave him $4,000. He advised
witness to get up Republican caucus, and
le must have known witness was paying
Senators. He knew of witness paying in
,ther matters. The $40, 600 witness paid
lin was for this charter. He called upon
witness after the Legislature adjourned,
was generally the time witness paid
hese gentlemen who had done as he wish
ID. He talked the matter over and finally |
gave him a check for $4,000. Ad-
burned.
TESTING IRON WIREs.--An interesting
experiment. was recently tried in the way
IF testing the wires of the suspension
,ridpe across the Niagara river near the |