The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-04-19
JOHN KELLY HAS SEEN THE
TWEED DOCUMENT,
What He Says it Contains

NEW YORK. April l9.-John Kelly,
comptroller of New York, who has seen
the confession of VIM. M. Tweed, as pre-
pared for and presented to Attorney Gen
eral Fairchild, says the publication the
other day was correct abstract in so far
as it goes, with the exception of the refer
ence to Judge Folger.
Mr.. Kelly added that the confession
stated that Tweed paid the 100000 to
WinsIow in 1871 to be used for procuring
the passage Of the charter; that Winslow
afterward told him that this money was
divided between the persons named.
Tweed also says he paid various amounts
to Wood, Frost, Morgan, Blood, Bem:s
and the others mentioned. these sums, it
is understood. being exclusive of the
500, 900 named above in the assembly Of
1871.
He says he paid various amounts to
VIM. D. Murphy, VIM. G. Jones, James
E. Nelson and one Crack, as we'll as to
other members OF the house, whose names
are given in the document These are
all that he now recoilects, but the names
of between 250 and 800 persons to whom
he says he paid money for corrupt pur-
poses are gwen in the confession. They
embrace the names Of prominent persons
Of both political parties in this city and IN
the state, many of them not heretofore
suspected Of any completely in the frauds.
| The confession will enable the corporation
council, who is now defending suits against
the city, to successfully resist the pay
ment of several claims founded upon trans
actions of the broken Tammany Ring and
amounting to between two million five
hundred thousand dollars and three mil
hon dollars. one-half of the total amount
recovered by suits against Tweed.
| Tweed proposes to return everything
he holds. but it apparently amounts to
com paratively little, He says his prop,
erty, which consisted almost entirely OF
real estate, has been almost all dissipated
| by tees to lawyers, expenses OF his long
Imprisonment and escape, aud deprecia-
ton of real estate, He says he trans
ferred large part of his property to his
sons to enable them to get signers on bis
bond, but that they subsequently sold it IN
his behalf to pay the expenses enumerated
much of it at one third its value. Ht
gives a detailed list of what he now has
including his Lake Mahopac property anC
special lots in Brooklyn. The estate oil
the Sound he says was bought in his wife
name long before these fraudulent trans
actions and that it has since stood ant
now stands in her name and oyer it b.
has no control. lie cannot say what tb
value of the property which he propose
to transfer to the city may now be,
Comptroller Kelly says the confession
was not submitted to Chas. OConnor be
fore being sent to Albany. Mr. OCouno
retired absolutely from the case some tim
since and the whole responsibility no'
rests on the attorney general.
There is authentic information tha
some person has approached several {
those named in the confession, both in thi
city and Albany. and exhibited some {
the original checks which have since bee
transmitted TO the attorney general. Nj
= Hastings, in an interview, referred to th
I, person, charging him with an attampt
= blackmall, and the same charge is unde
d stood to be made by others approached
d him.