Evening journal., 1890-03-15
sharIg rIac,,,s Arraipnment.

NEW YORK, March 10. The ufSt Eun IN |
the trial OF Sheriff Flack, his son, win, and
Referee Meeks, for conspiracy in fraudu-
lently procuring a divorce for the sheriff
from Mrs. Flack, was fired by District At
torney GoH yesterday. Sheriff Flack, for
whom the speaker showed not the least con-
sideration, sat stolidly in his place and list
ened to the merciless exposition Of the
methods alleged to have been employed by
him 70 defraud the helpless woman who for
forty years had called him husband, and
whose love for him has survived even the
great wrong done her.
The sheriG's Alleged Motive.
Mr. Goff began by showing tine motive
Sheriff Flack had for desiring divorce
from his wife. His intimacy with Sarah
Cherry; the fact that he had at various
times and places lived with her as her hus-
band; that he had passed under an assumed
name, and finally that he acknowledged to
various persons that he was anxious 70
make the Cherry woman his wife, we're
forcibly presented
His affection for Eddy Raymond, Miss
Cherry's son, and his desire to clear the lad
from the stigma Of fillegitimacy were brought
out, and his private life up to April l, 1889,
clearly depicted. Upon this date the divorce
proceedings we're instituted in the name Of
Mary e. Flnck by Ambrose Mcneil, her al
legged attorney.
Flack and Sarah Cherry.
He described how Mcneil had always been
Sheriff Flacks attorney and intimate fr end.
/ How he had been with the sheriff at the
home Of Sarah Cherry and knew that Flack
| lived with her as her husband. Mcneil, he
said, was never authorized to act for Mrs.
| Flsck, who knew nothing Of the proceedings
| until long after the decree divorcing her
/ from her husband had been granted by
| Judge who was hand ia glove with the other
conspirators. He described the manner in
which her only son by specious falsehoods
induced her TO sign petition for divorce by
making her believe that she was signing a
paper that would result in her husbands
transferring certain property to her.
Then he described the manner in which
sheriff Flack and Sarah Cherry induced the
witnesses 70 sign afiidavits prepared in ad-
vance by Mcneil, and swear TO matters Of
which they had no knowledge
Meeks' Part in the Conspiracy.
He dwelt upon Meeks' appointment as ref.
cree in direct violation Of the law which dis
qualified him for such service, and told how
Meeks. knowing in advance that he was to bt
appointed, wrote his own oath Of office and
swore to it before he received official Motif.
cation of his appointment. The active part
taken by Meeks in Flack's interest, when hs
should by law have been an impartial judge
was then shown and the case brought dowr
BY degrees to July 2, 1889, when Meek
handed the papers to Judge Bookstaver, O.
the court Of common pleas, for Judgment.
A Startling Period.
Then came, according to Mr. Goff, thu
most startling period in the conspiracy
Judge Bookstaver, upon looking over th'
papers, concluded that he could not Will
propriety grant the divorce so long as Am
brose Mcneil appeared as her attorney. Th'
inconsistency was too glaring. Some othel
attorney must be substituted. Referes
Meeks suggested the name Of Benjamin
Wright, his lifelong friend, and Judge Book
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