St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-14
The New York Grand Jury Finds IndiCt-
ments Against a Dozen of the
Aldermen of 1884,
And Eleven of Them Are Immediately
Taken Into OustOdy-They Are All
Bailed Later.
Ex-Ald. waite's Evidence Used in
Each Case--Talk OF the Arrest
OF Philadelphians.
Three Atrocious Murders in Kentucky
Excitement over a Small Bank
Defalcation.
A Net Full of Aldermen.

NEw YORK. April 13.-ThOmas Cleary,
Michael Duffy, Louis Wendell, Rudolph
Fullgraf. Arthur j. McQuade, Thomas
Shells, Patrick Farley, John O'Neil and
Henry l.. Baylis, members of the board of
aldermen of 1854. were all arrested this
morning between and 9 o'clock. Ex-Ald.
OReilly and McCabe were arrested later.
The charge is that they accepted bribes IN
the Broadway franchise matter. Aid.
Fink IS now the only one in the city
not arrested. As the aldermen of 1884
were marched through ''the aldermanic
gate" one after another in quick succession
1t looked as though the board had suddenly
come to life again and was about to hold
another early morning ''snap" session.
Recorder Smyth fixed the bail at SIS, 900.
AT 1:SO o'clock the grand jury entered with
indictments charging twelve of the board of
aldermen of 1854 with bribery. The in
dicted aldermen are those mentioned above
and one other, whose name was not made
public, as he has not yet been arrested.
ALL BAILED OUT.
Messengers were sent to all quarters of
the city in search of bondsmen, who quickly
appeared. As the news spread through
the city personal and political friends of the
victims hurried to police headquarters. and
the corridors were rapidly crowded. Re
cOrder Smyth in the court of general ses-
sions fixed the bail at SIS, 900 in each case.
Michael Morley, contractor. was accepted
as bOndsman for Tommy" Shells, Aid.
Cleary was bailed by John Dollars, dealer
in grain, and Sol SayleS was accepted as
bOndsman for his brother, Henry l.. Sales.
Bernard KaSh, jeweler, became bonds
man for ex-Ald. Wendell Ex-Ald. Nc
Cabe offered John L. Farlsy, builder.
who justified IN S155. 900, and was accepted.
Ex-Ald. Patrick McQuade had hard time
in securing the SIS, 900 bail. He finally
secured it in the persons of his brother,
Bernard McQuade. Stephen 5. Ferry, John
Hainsback, Dennis Smith and John Nc
Crystel. Aid. Duffy furnished as bonds
men George Haggerty, Robert Doyle and
Thomas Hogan, who were duly qualified
and accepted.
THE NEXT
to give bail was Rudolph l.. Full
graf. His bOn1smen were John G.,
Faile. his son-in-law, and Charles Jones.
Ex-Ald. Farley, after some delay, pro-
duced John W. Gillig. manager of Rup-
pert's brewery, and who offered property
worth 500, 900. He was accepted. John
Tiernan, Broadway oyster merchant, and
John Donley, retired merchant, justified
Il
0'Reilly. who had been arrested, were
brought to the district attorneys room.
The bOndsmen for the former are Charles
Van Hof, milk dealer, and George Both
len, piano action maker. The arrest of
all the aldermen was precipitated by the
fear that they might run away and become
Canadians. The indictments are identical
with those for JaehRe, Kirk and Pearson.
In the indictments the day for the payment
of the bribes is set down as Aug. 90, 1884,
The day before the memorable special
meeting. Charles B. Waite was the sole
witness of the indictments. The full list
of the members of the board of 1854, who
have been thus far arrested on charges of
bribery in connection with granting of the
franchise to the Broadway railroad is as
follows:
THE LIST COMPLETE.
Jaehne, Kirk, Pearson. Miller, Cleary.
O'Neill, McQuade, Shiels, Sayles, Duffy,
Fulgraff, Wendell, Farley. O'ReilIey, Me-
Cabe and Finch. EX-Ald. Waite has turned
states evidence. and De Lacy, Dempsey
and ROthman have left the city. Kenney
and Mclaughlin are dead. Grant and
0Connor voted against the bill, and are
safe from prosecution. 1t is rumored that
McCabe may also be used as witness for
the state. The Post says:
1t is said by friend of one OF the aldermen
that the arrests were made this morning in
order that the senate investigating committee
might have an excuse for winding up its
work. but the characters of many of the
members of the legislature of 1854 should be
smirched.
A special from Philadelphia to the Post
says:
Rumors are current here to-day that Messrs
Kemble, Wiedener and Elkins, the Philadel-
phia purchasers of the stock of the Broadway
and Seventh Avenue Railroad company, are
TO be arrested on the charge of completely in
the bribery OF the New York board of alder
men. The gossip is very vague, out the re-
port is that these capitalists will be accused
of furnishing good part of the money with
which the bribery was accomplished. Mr..
Wiedener denies that any one of them ad-
vanced a cent for the purpose, and says that
the rlnmnrs haze no fnnndatinn