New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-08-11
BLACK SECURES COUNSEL.
Cx-UDGBs WILLIAM FULLERTON WILL
CHAMPION HIM.
Vow WILL THE BURDEN BE SHIFTED FROM
THE sheriff. ADVISED NOT TO

THE sheriff. ADVISED NOT TO
RESIGN HIS OFFICE.
Sheriff F1ack spent most of yesterdays business
hours at his Office, but he was as inaccessible as
ne has been since the disclosures connected with
the divorce scandal began. The little gate which
bars the passageway to his private Office had an
additional bolt upon it yesterday, placed that
no outsider" could reach it and let himself in.
hhe guardian of the gate, BESIDES was extra vigi-
lant and appeared TO be acting under instructions
which allowed him no discretion. Under-Sherh
Sexton said that the Sheriff had nothing whatever
10 communicate, and declined 60 be disturbed on
any preteSt 1t was soon learned that eX-Judge
William Fullerton had been retained as Mr..
Flack's counsel and was with the Sheriff and
Ciyil Justice Mcneil in consultation regarding the
saSe in tho inner Office. 1t is understood that
,ftar carefully going over all the facts and phases
bf the case with his client and his counsel In the
divorce proceedings, Mr.. Fullerton advised Mr..
Fhck not to resign the Office of Sheriff.
Mr. Flack's defence is said TO be that he
placed the divorce matter in the hands of his
counsel, and knew nothing of the means made
use Of for obtaining the decree; indeed, that
he took no part personally in tine routine of the
case. When the decree was granted he supposed
that the usual forms for obtaining divorces had
been followed III there anything unusual
or improper about his case certainly it was no
fault Of his Whether this sort Of defence
will avail remains 10 be seen when it is tested.
Civil Justice Mcneil is said TO excuse his part
In the unsavory transaction by saying that he
placed the case in the hands Of Referee Joseph
Meeks. who attended TO all the details If all
the crool1edness which resulted can be shoudered
upon Referee McelIs, with the simple result OF
bouncing" him out of the County Clerks office,
Al al 41a opiH anH Mn
from obloquy, this course may be pursued. IL
Is hoped on the part of the Sherif's friends that
ex-Judge Fullerton will be able to invent some
more ingenious mode of escape.
The Sherifs office was open to much later
hour than usual yesterday. and it was said that
Mr. Flack would not 90 TO Great South Bay as
has been his custom on Saturday, but will remain
N town with his counsel and assist in preparing
for the reopenng of the case.
1t is not believed that there viii be special
meeting of the Tammany Society to act upon Mr..
Flack's resignation as Grand Sachem. The next
regular meeting occurs on the first Monday in
September. The Tammany leaders will be likely
TO let the question rest to who shall be Mr..
F1aclIs successor as the head of the Columbian
Order until that time Those most prominently
named for the place are Commissioner Thomas
f. Gilroy. Dr. Charles f. Simmons and ex-Judge
John McQuade They are all eligible, being
sachems
The next regular meeting Of the Yammsny Hall
General Committee will probably be held early
next month. To this body Mr. Flacb's resigna-
ton as a member of the same Will be presented
BY resigning the Sheriff also vacates his place
upon the Committees Of Organization and Finance
and of the Executive Committee, or Committee Of
Twenty four, rs it, is called. Whoever is chosen
TO succeed him as leader of the XNth Assembly
District will take his place also on these com
mitteeS.
Though Sheriff Flacl refused absolutely to see
reporters, he did one man, however, and he
was an employe of the firm of EvartS, Ch0ate
d Beaman. who Mrs. FlaclIS counsel. The
Sheriff was expecting this visit, undoubtedly,
for the lawyers clerk had no difficulty in getting
30 him. The clerk served on Mr. FlaolI notice
that application would be made for a reOpennc
of the divorce case. The notice turned
20 the Sherifl's new counsel, who with his assist
ants went at once to work on the case At Mr.
Fullerton's office in Wall-st. nothing would be
said regarding the case, and il almost i'm
possible TO get an admission that Mr. Fullerton
had been retained.
judge Bookstaver. of the Court of Common Pleas
was at the Court House for a couple of hours yes
terday. To a Tribune reporter he said that no
further application had been made to him the
Flack divorce case clerk from the Office of
EvartS, Choate Il Beaman, the counsel of Mrs
Flack. compared with Mr.. Jarvis, the clerk Of
the court the copy that he had made OF the testi-
mony in the case and obtained certificate that
il was correct copy.