Morris tribune., 1886-02-24
SHARP In A BAD LIGHT.
STARTLING DEVELOPMENTS IN THE
BROADWAY RAILROAD MATTER.

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Two New York Aldermen Confess the
+ Whole scheme. and duplicate Many
- others-How Many Were Bribed-seil-
ing the Surface Franchise.
NEW YORK, Feb. IA great sensation
developed Friday night IN the Jake Sharp
Broadway railroad matter, when it became
known that Alderman Fullgraff, who was o
member of the city council when Jake
sharp was granted the Broadway fran
chise, had voluntarily appeared before the
grand jury and confessed the entire scheme,
from beginng to end, duplicating many al
dermen. & as{-..4 HyYr
Another alderman, whose name has not
been made public, is also said to have 'testi-
fed before the grand nry hast how many
aldermen were brised d the amounts they
received Roscoe Conf ing has a copy OF
the confessions in his possession, but refuses
to say word about them When the state
senate Investigating committee meets again
Mr.. Conkling says, the truth will come out
The secrets of the grand jury room have
been guarded so closely i'm this matter that
not whisper has escaped The extraordi-
nary disclosures made, however, are less
significant now than they would have been
q few days ago, for the senate COMMITTEES
has unsarthed and woven together an un-
broken chain of evidence, which would have
proved beyond any doubt the facts con-
tanned in the confessions Of the two alder
men. The committee as in a position to
crush the ring and punish the culprlts be-
fore these disclosures were made. There in
in existence proofs so clear and strong that
all the cunning of counsel, backed up by
wholesale and trained perjury, can not
overthrow them. The great ring
completely surrounded Flight is now
impossible, for a movement to
leave the state would probably
be met by instant arrest That
Jacob Sharp and his friends are now in an
iron cage is realized fact The two alder
men who have unboson2ed themselves were
led to do SO in order that they might claim
the immunity which the state filings around
its own accepted witnesses No mercy will
be shown to those who have sullenly and
doggedly chung to the stained and lawyer
haunted ring When the day of Judgment
comes Nj. Sharp will have to fight hard
enough for himself, without trying to help
his dupeS and allies The evidence now in
the hands OF the senate committee shows
that the big railway ring has ramifcations
and connections o. the most startling
nature. The aldermen seem to be the least
lulpoILdAG fSISoHdSeS uuplASdLSu wow
York is now upon the threshold of another
Tweed earthquake that will startle the city.
The Broadway & Seventh Avenue rail-
road, which practically owns the Broadway
surface railroad the granting of whose
franchise is now under investigation, has
been sold to a syndicate Of Philadelphia
capitalists, Switch pays from s2S5 to $500 per
share for the stock The transfer is alleged
to have been made with view to prevent
ing, if possible, a forfeiture of the Broad
way roads franchise.
Later in the day, on behalf of Edward NJ
Knox, who owns twenty five shares of the
stock of tbs Broadway and Seventh avenue
railroad, an injunction was obtained in the
superior court restraining Jacob Sharp from
disposing of $4,000 worth of bonds of the
Broadway Surface railway company, James
A. Richardson S135. 900 worth, and James
W. Foshay $4,000 worth. The facts Oh
which the complaint is based have been
mainly taken from the testimony given by
the defendants before the senate investigat-
ing committee.