Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-04-22
THE "BOODLE" GANG.

All Within Reach of the New York Board
of Aldermen of 1884 Except Two, Who
are Known to be Innocent. Under Arrest
on Charge of Receiving Brides In the
Broadway Surface Road Matter.
NEW YORK, April 1.-THE New York
board of aldermen of 1884 consisted OF
twenty-four members. Two of them are
dead OF the remaining twenty-five,
three are fugitives, namely: Thos. Roth
man, who has returned to his former
home in Germany; Robert e. DeLacey,
who has gone to some unknown place
to Join his sick wife, and Charles Demp-
sey, who, after short stay in Florida,
eluded Inspector Byrne's detectives by
members of the board-Hugh Grant and
J. c. O'COnnor, Jr.-who have never
been accused or even suspected of brib-
cry. They alone voted against the
Broadway railroad franchise. All the
members who voted for the franchise and
who are living and within reach have
been arrested, namely: Kirk, Jaehne,
Pearson, Miller, (who were arrested at
different times within the past few
weeks,) Cleary, McQuade, Duffy, Full
graft, Sayles, Wendell, Farley, McCabe,
O'Neill, Reilly and Fink, who were all
arrested yesterday.
All the men arrested have been re-
leased on $4,000 bail each. The only
member not named above is Chas. B.
Waite, who has turned States evidence,
and will probably get off easy, though he
is under police surveillance.
The arrests made Yesterday were most
" upon Conformation and belief" the
affidavits being subscribed to by the dis
trict attorney. Mr.. Shells took advan-
tage of this fact to procure a writ of
haheas corpus, returnable before Judge
Barrett, of the Supreme Court, directing
that the persons. having him in custody
bring him before the court and explain
his detention. But at 2:15 p m. the
grand jury came into the Court of Gen.
eral Sessions and handed to Recorder
Symthe indictments for bribery against
twelve of the suspected aldermen, in
Guiding Shells, McQuade, Cleary,
Duffy, McCabe, Sayles, O'Neill, Wen
dell, Farley, Reilly, Finck and Fullsraff.
This will make Mr. Shiels' writ of
habeas corpus useless.
Recorder Smyth has rendered deci-
sion on the application of couns ell for a
bill of particulars as to the charges upon
which the grand jury found the indict-
be made public to-day. Several aldermen
of the board of SS4 are members of the
present board, but Mr.. Cleary was the
only one of those who attended yester-
DAVIS session of the board. His COL
leagues regarded him with curious
chances, and he seemed i'll at ease.
Ex-Alderman Waite was taken before
the grand jury again yesterday, and it
is supposed that he continued his revela-
tons AS to the "Boodle" transactions of
1884, All sorts of rumors are afioat as
to who will be the next victim of Waite's
''sQuealing."
Now that all the aldermen are gathered
in. the men suspected of doing the
bribery are thought to stand good
chance of receiving visits from the police.
No one would be surprised to see Jacob
Sharp invited to call at police headquar-
tiers, but some smaller fry are likely to be
summoned first. Billy Maloney, reading
clerk of the board of 1884, and John
Keenan,, liquor dealer, the two men al
legged to have been distributors of the
"boodle," are still keeping at safe dis
lance from New York jurisdiction--Ma
loney in Canada, and Keenan, either in
Canada or on his way from Montreal to
Europe.
The State Senate yesterday extended
until May the time during which the
Senate investigating committee may take
evidence in the Broadway franchise mat
ter. 1t is expected that this will result
in obtaining information upon which to
base the arrests of several well known
persons of higher grade than the alder
men. Hitherto the committee, for lack of
time, has been obliged to confine its in
quiries to the quarters where suspicion
was most plainly directed. The excite
ment in local political circles is of course
very great in consequence of the events
of to-day.