The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-04-18
THE GREAT ROBBER
Longs for Freedom of Person.
Age and InNrmlIy Bring Him to Time.
III at Ease In Mind He Seeks for Rest
He will Surrender All and Tell All.

He will Surrender All and Tell All.
His Proposition to the Attorney General.
NEW York, April l7.--William NJ.
Tweed, from his quarters in Ludlow
street Jail, sends the Attorney General
proposition reciting that in return for the
favor OF liberty and rest he will yield up
all his property and be n faithful witness
on behalf Of the public. He says he has
suffered much and suffered long in ri.
lenCe, and haE borne the burden OF what
others should have shared. Afflicted with
disease, he feels his age and confinement,
and i'll Ht ease in mind he seeks for that
rest and relief he 20 much and sorely
needs. lie adds that the only basis upon
which he has right to apply for leniency
and pardon is that he will make com,
plete surrender OF his property and full
disclosure ui hi. criminal COMPANIONS
The proposition is u long aud exhaustive
document, and assumes the nature OF Il
when il began 10 assume n form II
piyea in detail the slory of vorion, cop.
ferences between the writer and peter
Sweeney, Richard Connolly, Henry Ger.
ret, A. Oakley Hall, and others, by which
Tweed was elected TO the State Senate,
Connolly, Comptroller in 1867 and Hall
story, transferred to STATE Sen,tas Win.
slow. in person. 5000 600 10 SECURE
the charter of 1870 which g,vo IN tbo
ring the control of the civ and the snn.
mort of seyeraI influential Rennbl;car
npmbcrs of tbe Iscisls,rrc II w",
Twos6'. understanding viii W;,aIo,, -,
the time tb,t tLe nnrev va 10 ho Jir;1oJ
hetwsar Wood;n San n ~, 49,,
nsR ErwoOI lvm II t.snJ NS9ss;.
Winslow Lac WonJ iso;ah pi10j Gao
Mor,or ali nf tbs Sen.te onj % "is" ,ri,L
Van psIt Williams CrnwIaw W.s.i,na,,
and Re,mnn f,r ,hair ;rnnn"na
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ons anu ,;ms' G M NJ p T"atir. aHouh'S % i " TaIli
III, ~" tss 20 a'so ILeuI:eu f,I!
.cnaL' II" Gn"tJ "enieT GUY T. SuleI' u natLns
Sr S;oh 81; SU"a 80" ~ ,ITH Ta meeu aoSeSHes
m"rn ,ra.a a'ace naoseI eIe A.Iuany anu Erie
ag,a" "g "S TIra Tyr'a T asIu ~ u''eif si nusuat au
" ,ho IvorH ooUa ,Sn, Iii T'I H. s;n,;s uims
srS III booI $40. Pa Paoo.da- ot 'H' uaono,,G stu'
Son,a n ~" U,n,a '' I'll TO- ~. t,a . nisn u,
n;wa, H"S ,ba ro,I"a r'H - e. e. 'nu rut3' i'e
nrom;Sas # ;mmHni,v il 1o' n;van ,"ouo " Iii IN
s,roor +o ,ho trr,L ~ .II IL, sta,on,,,a
ia has nro.orvoJ oil obaois. ," anJ Lon,
,no,n"r,nJvm n @ % " ali liz .S"o anG AeP
~ wS;cb viii bo rI,caJ -, ,Ia 'I;.r1aai al
NJ tho S,,,o Tba % e. no.son. @ "s ,,,oi niVo"
r ~ n % P"rbor "vSeI",nS 80 ptHo"T Taa nSH piatoo ~
AieY Ere,r ond Wm Kin, Tw.oJ,s ~
m"r @ 6aNn,v Comm;.a;onS,, , AT W p,bJio Nh
Worka Shor,Iy af,or ,ba nrbi;c,tion @ of
,bo socrs, % acconD,s ~ LII LII fS""m iSTi T,"0o% VI
Save Froncis X P;rhv 3nj sr' 'SLoseG
ItIen state SenotorS lanes O'Rrisn
came to him and offered ,o sernro
him AGAINST anv frrtber irves,igo,;on
of b;s hank accounts Lis rcIa,ions viii
the city. or indeed from arv fnru"r
trouble, If he would INV sI5O Oiil toworJs
OBrien's claim against tbe citv ior
S996 600 for unpaid feps The two ron.
resented TO him that thew had snrb inGr.
ence over Mr.. Tilden. JndOe Barrett on1
William c, Barrett as 10 immediateiv
ouash any further steps in tho nanJ;ng
invpstigation Tweej s,vs be MIA ,Lo,
500 O06 in cash and mor,yogas wL;oh
tbey ,f,erwsrJs coIIoc,eJ os ,Io 49, "a..
and understands that they ai,ewnrds so
cured the SANG amount from ConnoIIv % ' liz
ON the same renresentation He S"ys hs
does not consider that 0ipr;an,s cIo;n,
bHs onv re,l merit Hugb Sm,,L S~an
news 1articuInr friend attended to .II
The Transactions with JpJos CSrdo1o M Lv
which iudicial action was tsken in boboif
of tbo ying TweeS saws Navorroi, "Ia;n,
Of SlO0O60 against The citv for water
metres is n fraud. lie mentions Thur
low Weed by name, but don't con.
meet him with any equivocal transaction.
de mentions Judge Folger, OF the Court
| OF Appeals, and George III, Purser, of