The sun., 1893-07-01
AFTER BROOKLYN OFFICIALS.
THE Grand JURY PRESENTS THE
MAYOR AND THE ALDERMEN

In Connection with Recent Rn lrond Grants
Likewise some or the Oniciais OF the
F1ntbush Insane Asylum The District
Attorney Saved Mayor Boody and the
board OF Aldermen from Indictment
The Kings County Grand Jury was dis
charged yesterday by Judge Moore OF the
Court OF Sessions. after bringing In two pre-
sentiments. one in reference to the recent dis
posal OF valuable railroad grants by the Alder
men. and the other in reference to the man.
agement of the Flatbush Asylum.
This is what the grand jury had to say about
the railroad franchises:
In the matter OF the granting OF street rail-
road franchises. awarded by the Board Of
Aldermen June 10 last. and approved by his
Honor. the Mayor. on Juno %. we find that
three or ostensibly four. companies made ap-
plication for a franchise covering about the
same route or sories OF routes; that those
franchises were awarded to two or ostensibly
three ofthese applicants. to the unfair and. in
our judgment, the illegal exclusion OF ono OF
tho applicants. We are perfectly satisfied that
this was done to the financial loss Of tho city,
and in spite Of all protests on the part Of tho
excluded company. We most earnestly CEN
sure tho members OF the Board Of Aldermen
who voted for the granting OF the fran
chisos for taking final action ut the
very first meeting that the Committee
on Railroads made their report. and
for not nffording tho dissenting members an
opportunity to carefully examine such report.
And. further. we most earnestly ccnsure his
Honor. Mayor David A. Boody. for approving
their action 80 heartily. notwithstanding 1t
having been openly charged by the excluded
company that they had been treated unfairly
and illegally. that the franchises had been
granted fraudulently. and that bad faith and
collusion between the successful companies
and the Board of Aldermen. in deprivng them
OF proper information and an opportunity Of
bidding, had resulted in tho city's financial
loss.
This Grand Jury sincerely regrets its IN
ability to present an indictment against these
Honor. the Mayor. but under the law. as in in
terpreted to US by the learned District Attor-
Gey. We find ourselves precluded from SO
=, Following, is part OF the presentment on
the Eiatbnsh Hsylum
tendent is guilty of gross neglect OF duty in
allowing or not preventing the maltreat,ment OF
Of the State Medical Board that there should
allowed twenty-three patients to be % Under . TIC
care Of one nurse in the day time and ninety
patients dt; to one NJ nurse Sc at night When
he @ faed nlHass as sSas nsas psrsona n@
have declared to have been their ,invariabie
custom. We also find tho general manage
him to haye been extremely faulty and neg
iectiu; For these reasons we recommend his
lips and Ellen Riley or gross % neglect s Of
Dr.. Philips and Nurse Riley are already un-
der indietmentfor manslaughter in the second
The Grand Jury also recommended that tho
asylum should be inereased i from from $500 50 ' to
os o Rs em
Charities Gommissioners shal! be held wholly
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some OF the supplies. and especially to that
Of fths the bread 1}s Furnished 1.-The the patients:
even indictments would not haye caused them
much nneasiness. AZ Mayor BSody has not
at Chicago his opinion Of the action OF tho
Grand Jury could not be- learned, but this is
what Acting Mayor Michael J. Cofrey had to
assnd {Hs hfs been aStps in the in
IN the granting OF these railroad franchises I
knew nothing about It II the same method
:ss s'9 s s$ se Of 1a's
It is now supposed that Mr.. William J. Gay
nor, counsel for tho Union Street Railway Com
pany fortified by the sweeping censure OF the
Grand Jury. may go to the courts to test tho
validity OF the grants
."Oi course" said Mr., Gaynor yesterday.
Grand Jury that there Is no law under which
Mayor Boody and tho Aldermen can be in
dicted for this gross and scandaloug public
express no opinion.
1.-THE amendment OF the Criminal Code. SO
that the officials Of Brooklyn may not be In
dicted for Official misdemeanors, bust M ut be
tried before police JUSTICES OF their own ap-
pointment does not startle me. as have known
OF 1t for some time: No such provision applies
To- any ether LOCALITY in the State or IN tho
New York. Tweed would never have been