New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-02-13
NE UOTLDNrY CONDONE.


blocks that he had been robbed of his watch.
He was an old person and seemed TO be very
much exercised bout It at one time he stepped
out on the platform barcheaded and held up his
right hand and swCre ne wouldn't condone II.
Several younger persons who got on the car
with him assisted in making a great row
about the robbery; one of them talked 80
lcafncdly about it that the passengers couldn't
quite make ont whether he was eXpaua-
ting on the outrage or describing the old gem
tcman as an escaped gyaSrutus; they all
agreed, however that It WIS what they called
Il " damshamc,' and that it never should
be coudoncd. Then a policeman came liz,
and the old person charged an Ohio gentle
man in the car with the theft. The young
fellows who had been fumbling round the
stranger supported the charge. and they all
went off to the statiOn-hOuSc together
"Who are these parties and what's all this
Grow about ?" said the magistrate.
'Wcll, this ere old un,n said the officer,
"is Sammy the Rcforncr : nc used to be in
"wIth Tweed, Swecny and that gang. You
"mav remember some ten years ago, we came
"ncar pulling him in with Tweed in the Scy-
"mour- Hoffman job but be got oft on an al
Obi; said he was only dummy III it. He's
"been on the Reform lay for year or two,
"nnd claims to be connected with the Society
"for the Suppression of Vice, though the con-
"pany he keeps don't look much like it,
Who are the rest of these fellows y
"WcI, they are all Tweeds old pals. This
"'crc higl-shouldered fellow with loose chin
"alwavs used to testify 10 Tweed's good char
"acter when the old man got in trouble. The
"black -whiskcred fellow lives up the river.
&" He used to help the old man in the Albany
business. The other fellow is kind of
"ncyy or something to the old party there
"And the othcr?'
"Oh, he's a stranger Never saw him be-
" fore. He says he's an Ohio man. He's the
"man those fellows charge with stealing
"Sammy's watch"
Then Sammy said: Il don't care anything
about the watch, but / do want to have
"stealing stopped and thieves shown up.
Don't ask me to condonc it, for / won't DO
"itn
Upon examination the watch which Sammy
claimed to have lost was found to have the
Ohio mans name on it; and so many passen-
gers testified to seeing the young fellows crowd
ing the Ohio man and trying to pick his
pockets. that two Of them confessed 1t, but
said they thought it was Sammy's watch, and
they wanted to get il and restore it 10 him. And
the high-shoudcred man, who it appeared
was making signs to the other fellows, said
he thought it WIS Snmmy's watch, too but
he had no idea Of getting it back in that way.
He only made signs to the ncvy where the
watch was, and how CarelcSsly the Ohio man
was carrying it, as sort of danger signal.
Ncvy said he understood the signal to mean
"go for it, and be went.
"Thcn it seems" said the magistrate, THAT
"this was only an 'inchoate offence at
tempted by these noisy witnesses in the
Interest of the person who CLAIMS 10 have
"been robbed. Was thi> done with your con-
"nivancc Samuelf'
"NOt at all, | assure YOU, Judge. Never
dreamed of It; never saw any signs pass be
tween these young men and when did see
Chem disapprogcd Of them. had 40 idea NV
"nevy would do any such thing, for I've told
" him did not IKE it, and when he was caught
"oncc or twice before, have shown consider
" able impotence. lie did very wrong. HIS
"only excuse was that he thought the gentle
"mau had my watch, which i, the fact
d" " eli, then, ~, this gentleman very plainly
ha, IN, own watch, and the attempt to steal
d" it by sammy pais-or, as the high shout
dercd man calls them. 'coparceners was
"only n mchoatc offence, we'll dismiss the
"ca,e."
"Couldn't you find. Judge said Sammy,
softly, that ~ the boys failed to steal the
watch the OHIO man must have stolen 1T I
"Tnat seems TO be Il reasonable theory
1--WE never do business here III that way
"What Neycrf'
"Wcl, hardly ever"
"Thcn,r said Sammy, Z" desire on this in
"tercstIng occasion 10 assert my entire belief,
" before God and my country, that he's got my