The New York herald., 1877-07-05

ana we aa V oa"no y
appcin. Andrew Green a!s deputy and give him the
thing was dxod up that day q clean as = whistle.
Mark ths signincance OF the words, al found him
What was he ready to give ups and what was tn
pressure which is here referred tos The pressure was
and Connolly was ready ITO give /, up" when thai
fussy old fraud. Havemeyer, 'hunted him up" and
'pui little more oask6onsin him" by assuring him
Of the protection OF Tlden. And yet this unique
specimen OF an Attorney General has the impudsnce
10 pratc about the 'mora effect" produced by Tilden
and his facile tool Peckham But lest may DO said
Havcmeyer may have misreprcscnted the facts. or
may not have been correctly reported give tho fol-
lowing extracts from the testimony OF Tilden In the
Tweed six million suit and from pamphlet which he
published Tor gratutous distribution in 1s73:--
r4xrMLnr,rAcs xs; xxrnAcr FROM TESTIMONY.
In the morning Mr., Have. O. In the autumn Of 1871
syss isasasss H. 60 E
r. pss nm x 70 Gs:sa sas IN As
MI. Green exercise MT car.er-I. that of soms
% % 4: y: s::s s rs:s ss.S % e.
IS .'sS$ s.:is
pass him and beat upou tho Mr Conn:ly somewhat
AprEsD,x-rAGE g. Q. You helped TO obtain
cnno had sGssh. so.a sp;s tss 'en'g%s1 % M
srs Mcclellan would have no ssfsemsn..
not have aaasriasen the He r.sHssd Seoss 80
ssEsm'n' sss offered TO Con- ''; 'hs By sSSs' ssss advice
not COnnoly's adviser.
Tho concluding words OF the passage IRON tho
pamphlet amount simply to this:-That General Nc
Clean, being an honorable man, would not "under
take the engagements with Connolly which Mr. Tildcn
was ready to enter into Being lurthcr examined Mr.
Tilden testified as loiiows:-
In 1873 Law passed to enable the people OF this
Of money and property You remember that of courssi
O. The fourth section which is as folIows:-Ths At.
.orney General on his own motion Whenever he shall deem
may and st the Of the Governor snall
have aqao.seS or dsessd any per-
% AA s sSoS Of @ ta & q as
gave no direction g 20 prosecute an any Of them:
trolers Office when Connolly arrested did you not
npo .s be DO So
saying . he was y., in my sS.rgs ant. =. a
the law authorizes PROCEEDINGS IL cree1 countries As
Pecshsm objected but the Court allowed the quss.
The Su.h m s1S"a &c Sqaes s'; ss rsau"s Of tho
Ies IN 10 ssy s sss % MI Twsss e any
q Have yoa made any request in r.ereaee to the
ia With in writing
Have .ep "S IN
Q. Have you given instructions verbally A. have
Now tho statements contained in these extracts arc
not susceptible OF any nisnterpretation. They
nero assertions. They are the statements Of
Tden and Of his friends. What do tnoy prove?
TILDEN's BROKER suoP.
They prove that Citizen Tilien entered into bar.
gain with a thief In order get possession VI the
Comproler's office; and that Governor Tldeh took
steps 10 bring any Of the thieves who had roboed the
city 10 justicc-arst compoundiBg felony and then
violating his oath of once. Let Il DO borne in mind
that during tho entire struggle struggle that seemed
hopeless and hazardous Tor those who engaged
in n-Mr Tilten kept studiousy alool; aud that It
was not until September 10, eleven days after the
mtee OF Seventy was iormed. tha. he made his FRS.
appearance as 'Reiormcr," and then, as have
shown, he came rs the ally and protector Of thief
This was the initial step In long seres of dsgraceiul
bargains between the thieves and those who pretended
TO represent the peoples and IN this connection deen
proper to state that a tho period named Mr. O'Conor
had not received any authority iron the Attorney
General, and had nothing whatever to do with the
bargans TO which have referred Having got possession
OF the Comprollcr's Office and all the evidence II
contained Tilden 0btruded himself the Broad
way Bank, not Tor the purpose OF serving any
public interest, but in order TO prevent an
honest examination OF the books and that
institution Previous to this ION September 81 had
puUisned q card In the principal morning papers, In
which offered to point out evidence enough IN tho
books and records OF the Comptrolers office. within
two hours, to subsantiato all that had boon
against the Ring. was nevcr cailcd upon do SO,
but WIDEN TiIden commenced his Investigations he
whom had been even remotely connected with ex-
posuro OF tho frauds, aud one OF whom. Henry 4.
city treasury for collecting sucn evidence Tilden
wanted. And having possessed himself Of R tho
misnamed "Tho Bureau Of Municipal CorrectionS-
where other thieves could follow the example Of Con-
molly and purchase immunity IRON punishment But
Ia order 10 secure tho success ot this
essential that some man OF unDlemshed character
should DO connected with H. SO as to aay the
the suspclons oil the public. Tden applied 10 Mr..
Charles O'Conor, and induced him to act the
representative. Of tho Attorney General and
TO engage Wheeler II. Peckham ns his assist
ant Tho first judicial inquiry into the frauds was by
the Grand Jury oil which George }. Forrest was the
foreman and which commenced on October 10, 1871.
This distinguished body connucd It's labors in
vestigation-wnere they knew they would get no In.
iormaton-into tho charges against Mayor HALL Sew
cral reiormers" werc examined, including Samuel J.
Tiiden, jackson 5. SCHULTZ. Henry q. Stebbins aud
James OBrien. Tilden stated under oath that ho did
not know how or by whom the frauds had been ex-
posed, ami that he could give the jury tho of
any could givo them any Information, s.as hts
attention had not been called TO the subject and he
had made inquiry about II" Two years Inter,
when he published tho pamphlet from which have
quoted he know all about 1t, stating tnat no had
"thrown himself into tho breach" !" that he had 'ed
the revolt OF 1000 democrats" &c The testimony
OF Mr. Schultz developed the interesting TACT that Til
sa nes s 81 that a' wps
band he admitted that he mad assisted getting ono
OF the thieves out of the way, and mad taken pos.
session OF o considerable amount OF the stolen prop
pcrty.
Not dollar has ever been returned 10 the city
on account OF this transaction, which Of the
most disgrnccful episodes In tho history OF that dis
graceful epoch. James O'Bron was examined with
the following result
Go on and state r. you please Mr. o'Hrisn. whether
have read it, and what It Is from the
w siss 3 ny s on any h. S
we'll do not know any real facts-ony what you SEQ
every day IN the newspapers.
u. Have rsonal knowledge Of these
affairs (? a. No, sir t.Is...
O. you give the Jury any light on tho subject
In amy way with your personal inform alton
A. No, sir; do not think can
You do not know any fact about It a. No; do not
O. Can you give the name OF any witness who could
give any information do NOT know as | can.
These were tho statements under oath Of OBrien in
October, 1871 Need revert to tho iact that O'Bren
has been masqueraiing before tho public ever since as
the man who broke the ring, or that In mpudence
and mcDdacy IN connection with this subject, has
been the rival OF Tildeny
THE UxIMPRIsoSED THIEVES
spasm OF virtue had seized upon the people Re-
morse or shame or fear impeed them TO 20 to the
polls at tho November elections and defeat all the
avowed adhetenis OF tho Ring. tho exception oil
Tweed. On November ~, Peter b. Swceny and Henry
Hilton resigned tner places In tue Board Of Commits
sonors OF Parks, aud lew days later Connolly was
lodged in Ludlow Street Ja-he being the only man.
w,t ho oA Troo