St. Paul daily globe., 1886-12-14
THE NIcQUADE TRIAL.
Considerable Evidence on Behalf
of the Defense introduced at Yes.
terday,s Hearing.


terday's Hearing.
NEW YORK. Dec. 13.-The trial of eX-
Aid. McQuade. charged with receiving a
bribe in connection with the passage of the
Broadway surface railroad franchise, was
continued to-day with the hearing Of evil
dence for the defense. W. S. Williams,
president, and Hon. n. A. Nelson, vice
president of the cable road, testified that
they did not know of any offer having been
made by the cable company to the alder
men, either directly or indirectly, for the
Broadway franchise. The company was
authorized to issue SIS, 600. 900 in stock
and in the latter part of 1884 did issue S2,-
coo. 900 or So, 900. 900 worth of bonds, con-
verted them into cash and deposited it with
a trust company. The company also
offered the city 81, 900, 900 for the franchise.
A number of witnesses testified that Nc
Quade
FAVORED A STREET RAILROAD
on Broadway before he was chosen an al
derman. EXPresident Andrews. of the
cable road, said he knew of no offer to the
aldermen for franchise. The bid of
81, 000,00 by his company was intended to
cover not only Broadway but total of
witness acknowledged signing some bonds
late in 1884. Mr.. Williams had some. and
Mr.. Shaw mad some; about 200 or 500 bonds
of 81, 000 each. The last was in payment
for legal services, according to contract.
Witness also had some of them, and these
were on deposit with the Farmers Trust
company as trustee. About So, 600, 900
worth of bonds were divided among several
men. To account for McQuade being
flush" of money, it was shown that he
had been left legacy of So, 900 in 1884.
: his was followed by evidence as to the
prisoners good character.
Testimony was introduced to show that
McQuade had been
MAN OF PROPERTY
for years. The cashier Of his bank testified
that McQuadeS transactions for several
years had aggregated S120 600 to $3.50, 900
per year. His bondsman testified that Nc
Quade had indemnifed him against loss by
making over to him property valued at
$40, 900 to $4,000. The secretary of the
cable road testified that the bonds were
signed in December, 1884, but were
not issued till the spring of 1885.
John O'Neill, one of the indicted alder
men, denied any knowledge of the ''com-
bine." He denied attending the meeting at
Fullgraff's Office or either of the four meet
ings at McLaughlin'S. Never before heard
that any amount OF money had been offered
for a franchise. With Fullgraff witness
once called at McLaughlin's house, when
the latter was sick in December. 1884, or
January. 1885. Did not know the street.
In cross-eXamination ONeill said that
BILLY" Maloney told him in the
city hall park in the summer of 1854
that there was a combination of aldermen
on railway matters. He could remember
Maloney's message, that he believed 81, 000.-
900 could be had for the franchise. Wit
ness reluctantly admitted that he attended
the secret o'clock meeting of the alder
men. MalOney brought the call to him at
O'Clock in the evening. Did not know or
care what the object of the meeting was.
When he went into the meeting he asked
and was told the injunction had been dis
solved, and that some one else was trying
to get another injunction. Never knew the
names of the combine" Did not know
that q circular printed as having been
SIGNED BY SAMUEL j. TILDEN
and others. recommending his election as
alderman had been distributed in his dis
trict lie said the names read were the
names OF the general managers Of the dis
trict organization. Witness explained that
tHIOtiguOuI lOct tllcfe WAS persistent Ell
fort to have morning sessions of the alder
men. Joseph Steiner, member of the Tam
many hall general committee of the Fif-
teenth district i'll 1884, testified that Nc
Laughlin was chairman of the Democratic
state convention in June, 1884.
Several conferences were held with
Mclaughlin. at the latter's house. before
the convention. Other members of the
committee met there to arrange for the fall
campaign and to attend the national con-
vention. The meetings were held even
ings in May and June, 1884. Mclaughlin
! had many callers. Witness had found
crowds of men there several times. They
were some times in the area and gen
orally about the basement door. Never
met any of the aldermen there.
DR.. James W. Lyman. who attended Nc
Laughlin in his last sickness. was called.
He said Mclaughlin was taken sick Jan.
8, 1884. Witness performed an operation
on him Feb. Is. and Mclaughlin was con-
| fined to his bed till March 1. Mclaughlin,
after the operation, had to have an attend
ant wherever he went. He went to Sara
tago June 10 and returned June II. He
MADE A SECOND TRIP
and spent few days at Saratoga, then
went to the north part of Long Island June
20, remaining there till September The
doctor then outlined McLaughlin's life
through 1885 down to his death on Long Is
land Aug. 2, during which time the patient
was at his own houca on THIRTY four+t,