Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-04-18
.TWEED'S CONFESSION.
lie UnbOsOms Himself and
Tells the Names
Of All Confeaeratcs In n.
Steal.
A. Oakley Hall Got 10 Per
Cent Of all the Plumber.
Numerous State Senators and
Representatives .Impli-
Gated.
And Now there viii be q 6hak-
ing up Of Dry Bones

Gated.
And Now there will be a shak-
ing up Of Dry Bones
Among Rotten New York Politicians
New YORK, April l7.-Wm. M.
Tweed, from his quarters in Ludlow
Street jail, sends the ATTORNEY Gem
eral q proposition. It recites that in
return for the favor of liberty and
rest he will yield up all his property
and be faithful witness in behalf Of
the people. He says he has suffered
much and suffered long in silence.
and has borne the burden of what
others should have shared. Afflicted
with disease, feeble from age and
confinement, and ill at ease in mind
he sues for the rest and relief he so
much and 80 sorcly needs. He adds
that the only basis upon which he has
q right to apply for leniency and par
don is that he will make complete
surrender of his property and full
disclosure of his criminal companions,
The proposition is q long and exhaust
I've document and assumes the nature
of q confession, which goes back as
far as 1867, when the ring first began
to assume form. He gives in detail,
the story of the various conferences
between the writer aud Peter b.
Sweeney, Richard Connolly, Henry
Genet, A. Oakley Hall and others, by
which Tweed was elected to tho State
Senate, Connolly as Comptroller in
1867, and Hall Mayor ON January LIST,
1869. Tweed, according to the story,
transferred to State Senator Winslow
in person
TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS
to secure for the charter of 1870, which
gave to the ring control Of the city,
the support of several influential re-
publican members of the Legislature.
It was Tweed's understanding with
Winslow at the time that the money
was to be divided between Woodin.
Sam'l II. Frost, Augustus II. Ellwood,
VIM. II. brand, Norris Winslow,
James Wood, Isaiah Blood, George
Morgan, all of the Senate, and also
with Van Pelton, Williams, Crowley,
Morrison and Beaman, for their in
fluence in the Legislature. The con-
fession gives the circumstances Of the
division OF the spoils between HIM
self, Sweeney, Hall, Connolly and
Woodward. 1t duplicates Garvey,
Ingersoll, Davidson, Watson, and a
majority of the Board Of Supervisors.
MAYOR HALL's PROPORTION WAS TEN
PER CENT.
He shared throughout in all the
profits and was in full collision with
the various details of the fraud and
was fully aware of the fraudulent
nature of the contracts presented for
his signature.
In regard to the document purport-
ing to be record of the proceedings
of the Board of Audit Of May 9th,
1870, by which A. Oakley Hall in his
trial secured acquittal on the ground
that he acted only In a ministerial
character, Tweed says that ii was
MANUFACTURED
afterwards.
The exposure of Hugh Hastings
of tho
COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER
is mentioned as having received a
check for $50, 900 and checks for small
amounts at various times. Mr.. Hast
ings is also credited with the diplo-
matte achievement of having brought
JAY GOULD
and Tweed together, by which an
alliance of the
| TAMMANY AND ERIE RINGS
were operated to their mutual adj
vantage.
Tho confession also, according to
the World, says that all the paintings
and book cases in
| RECORDER HACKETT's
house were paid for by the city. lie
gives the names of
FIVE PERSONS,
who he promises, if immunity is Civ.
eli them, will swear to the truth Of all
his statements. He also presented
all checks and kept memoranda of all
his transactions, all of which will be
placed at the disposal of the State
The five persons named are K. ID. Bar.
Der, ex-senator Jas. Pierce, Alexan.
der Frear and William King, Twced's
former Deputy Commissioner Of Pub
lie Works.
Shortly after the publication Of thu
secret accounts in July, 1871, Tweed
says
FRANCIS N. BIxBY AND Ey-sHERIFI
JAMES o'BRIEN
came to him and offered to secure
him against any further investiga
ton of his bank accounts, his rcla
lions with the city, or indeed from
any further trouble, if he would pa,
| $4,000
towards O'Brien's claim against tn,
city for $4,000 for unpaid fees
The two represented to him that the!
had such
i INFLUENCE OVER Mr.. TILDEN,
Judge Barrett and VIM. G. Barret
as to Immediately quash any further
steps in the pending investigation
| Tweed says he
PAID THEM $4,000
in cash and mortgages, which the,
afterwards collected, and he under
stands they afterwards secured the
| SAME AMOUNT FROM CONNOLLY
upon the same representations. III,
says he does not consider O'Brien'
claim to be of any real merit.
HUGH SMITH,
Sweeney's particular friend, attend
ed to all the transactions with
JUDGE CARDoZo
by which judicial action was takel
in behalf of the ring.
| Tweed says the
NAVARRO CLAIM OF 100000
against the city, for water metres, il
q fraud. He mentions
| THURLow WEED
by name but does not connect hin
with any cquivocal transactions
He mentions
JUDGE FOLGER,
of the Court of Appeals, and
| GEO. II. PURsER,
of New York, as persons to whom h,
had paid money.
The confession concludes with ,
promise that the writer will be {
witness for the city in any snit fol
the recovery Of moneys from any OF
the persons mentioned. He docs mo-
ask that the suits against him hi
quashed, but that he be released from
confinement without bail.
Tweed's counsel says since hi
troubles most of those whom no hat
looked upon as
HIS FRIENDS
had held themselves aloof from him
| while many of them had been loud
est in their dcnunciations of him
He asks nothing further from then
and does not propose to recogniz,
any further claim upon him for ST
lencc.
TOWNSEND
further says that if the ATTORNEY
General accepts Tweed Ms a wit