The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-04-20
What John Reilly Says About the
Tweed Confession.

NEw YORK, April l9.-John Kelly
Comptroller OF New York, who has seer
the confession OF Tweed as prepared for
and presented to Attorney General Fair,
child, says the publication the other day
was a correct abstract in 40 far rs il goes
with the exception Of the reference tc
Judge Folger. Mr.. Kelly added that the
confession stated that Tweed gave the
100000 to WinsloW in 1871, to be used
for procuring the passage OF a charter
That Winslow afteFward told him that
this money was divided between the per,
sons named. Tweed also says he paid
various amounts to Wood, Frost, Nor
gan, Blood, Bevis and the others men,
toned. These sums, ! understand, were
exclusive OF the 100000 named above
In the Assembly Of 1871, he says he paid
various amounts to William D. Muir.
ply, William c. Jones L. Nelson,
aud one Crack, as we'll as to other mem.
bers Of the House, whose names are
given in the document. These are all
the names that are now made public.
The names OF between $50 and 800 per.
sons to whom he says he paid money for
corrupt purposes are given in the con.
tcssion. They embrace the names Of
prominent persons Of both parties in this
city and in the State, many Of them not
heretofore suspected OF any completely
in the frauds. The confession will ena.
bic the counsel who are defending the
suits against the city TO successfully re.
sist the payment OF several claims founded
on transactions OF the broken Tammany
ring, and amounting to between S25, ,00O,.
600 and $4,000, ,000,, one.half Of the total
amount received by the suits against
Tweed. He proposes to return every
thing hc holds, but it tNpparently amounts
to comparatively little. lie says his pro-
perty, which consisted almost entirely OF
real estate, has been almost entirely dis
posed Of by fees to lawyers, the expenses
of his long imprisonment and escape, and
the depreciation in value OF real estate.
He says he transferred large part OF his
property to his son to enable him to go
on his bond, but he subsequently sold it
in his behalf to pay the expenses emu
merated, and much OF it at one.third its
value. He gives a detailed list of what
he now has, including his Lake Ma
hopec property and several lots in
Brooklyn. The estate on the Sound,
he says, was bought entirely in
his wlle's name long before these
fraudulent transactions, and that it has
since stood, and now stands, in her name,
and over it he has no control. lie can
not say what the value OF the property
which he proposes to turn over to the
city may now be.
Comptroller Kelly says that the con.
iession was not submitted to l.. c. O'Con.
ner before being sent to Albany. MIR.
OConner retired absolutely from the case
some time since, and the whole RESPONSE
bility now rests on the Attorney General.
There il another information that some
person has approached several Of those
named in the confession, both in this
city and Albany, and has exhibited some
OF the original checks which have since
been transmitted to the Attorney General.
Mr.. Hastings, in an interview, referred
to this person, charging him with attempt
to blackmail, and the same charge is un.
derstood to be made by others approach.
ed by him.