New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-05-07

position. His wife was a woman of great sweet
ness and beauty. supcrlatively loyal to the man
who had brought her so much unhappiness She
mad thousand excuses for him, a thousand
pleas, but never a complaint She was now
seeking to obtain his pardon. He had served
about half his time. His prison record was
good The men whose money he had taken. the
jury that had convicted him, the Distrct-Attor-
ney who had prosecuted him and the Judge who
had sentenced him had all joined in petitioning
the Governor to give him his liberty. But there
had been delay. AMI his treess, ever-hOpeful,
cver-imporiny wife was now asking MIR. Nlcolls
more active assistance. Would he not see the
Governor Would he not at least write to
him? Would he not say this? Would he not
say that? Would he not ask Mr.. So-and-so to
write-anybody whose influence could DE OBJ
tanned and might DE effective? She told the
old story all over again. how kind and gentle he
had always been how happy was their lilo
until this trouble came. how faithfully he had
supported his parents now old and helpless ard
in utter want, how she and her chill had reached
the very last of their slender resources how they
could not keep their home if he was not allowed
10 come back, how his old employers acknowl-
edged their blame and promised to give him his
old place-would he not could he not save them
all?
Mr.. Nicoll had tried to speak and to say some
thing to console her, but adequate words he had
none and those he did manage to utter came with
| effort The scene was all the more affecting be-
cause she had restrained her tears, and the deep
| intensity of her emotion expressed itself In
| nervous trembling most pitiful to see. when she
| had done. he started to reply but little voice
| broke in: Cant my papa come nome LOT
| Christmas sir, only just for Christmas ms ms
| was too much for the mother, and too much Ior
| Mr.. Niroll. too. -, D.;.
| In the hands of a politician the District
| Attorneys Office is one Of great power; IL can oe
| used to make thousands OF votes: mat part Oh
the population which lives on the fringes OF crime
hut marriages TO keep ont OF prison ana retain l,S
right 10 vote is numerous enough TO make iho.1
lists anxious There are 1900 Sil3ons III , ine
| city of New-IOrk. there are pool SHOPS pol's
| shops gambling houses and other Vicious resorts,
no one of which is wholly beyond the reach OF
| District Attorney who chooses 10 look upon MS
| Mace AS Il means OF promoting political interests.
| If any one were TO ask him whether or not ne WAS
| = politician Mr.. Nicoll would tell him No. :. ne
would say it in a hopeless sort OF WAY as II Rmt
meant that he feared he never coulo p' pu'
| otbcrs do not take 50 hopeless view OF II .tr-
tainly it is true to say that under ms s admins, HIS
traton the Office has not igured III poii,i', not
have politicians figured in the Office to any grea
" "%n Sill il has not in all respects been
concealed that Mr. Nicoll is Talnmany man;
The requests of politicians are numerous tr a,i
| often audacous Sometimes they VAIL . .ii,.s
oo",nonnd sometimes they even want indictments
dismissed. The same politician however, rd han
makes these sorts OF requests W.T. at Tho nmds
| nAnL
ps iust;ce Sometimes he briggs the lnorihat'T2.1
| of an indicted PERSONS whereabouts I'm,
w';,i' on exclamation of the crime thit SHOWS cA
tonm,tino conditions and often with an oiiei 10
| nIn"d ruilty if the offender can DC sen. w ~
| EImirl RcforratOry receive Il dcer'1f' vi , "s
mpnt less than the may iinuin 10 .lldS NOT
visits from politicians MI ''''
unwnlcOmc front. 49,. A., n,os,nt ad
There * ore respect in which the p les'mio d" i
| ministration of the District-Attorney VIII I'm Ar
| notoble and deserving of great circuit =" rndor
Xicoll was an Assistant District ;.h con-.
| Mr. MARITIME he was maze acquai.nnt ,xcited his
| dition of affairs III the Once t""' Tr,da,
u Ian and his Great desire to amend IT, inoei
| ;"has Of dust and stained with the hiaiNS vi ~
~ tberc were thousands upon thousands oi %,
nJictment, on which the Offenders HAD h"Ver pt,I
brought to trial The courts We're congv n,i, tr;cd
| non-baiable cases that had 10 W. "rG;ripntly
| so that the city prisons conid pe s", ;or
emptieJ from week to week 10 receive L em ~ =.
| ore and il was found practically lmpossioicr m, ~
NV tho cases i'm which bail had been given In,
,roofer mart of these were eNcis" cases. Nh1:.
iarge body were offences against the ga'h"lii4
ar,, ojJ. in some eases the witnesses had dls
| apneorcd and "A trial impossible All now
orrr reouIred attention, and every days deia.
rordercd thn attention less likely to carry WIN
n result When Mr.. Nicoll became Dl,trict-Al
| tornpv he determined that the eros" OF Ms W.,
should all these indictments 'i,p Snal Vi T
the office at work on current nisihe's. he
has been accomplished. The excise eases laI'
| boon t,ied in the General Sessions where tllei
imnort was grave. sent TO special Se'Sion ~
where they were of minor concern i1os' II
which the witnesses were no longer avaiapIe.IaN'
| boon dismissed Before Mr.. NicOlrs term ha
expired there will bc no case on hand w'ici cail
INTO his office as an Inheritance, nor VIII there
be many that date beyond tine sitting OF CRANE
juIieS now AT Woih