New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-03-09
DITVER PROLONGS HIS STAY
HE ASKS JUSTICE KOCH TO DO HIS WORK
THROUGH MARCH.

I,:pIGHATION RCUsED TO WHITE HEAT ~ HE
nm nIsTRrcT-TIioMAs FOLEY. ONE OF THE
ABSENT LEADERS LIEUTENANTs.
LEAVES TAMMANY.
aa,ouncern Mt under big headlines was MADE the
other day that P5ica Justice Patrick DIVER ram
r,ar,, loader Of the Id Assembly District was IN
,, rsy hack n New-Y6rk and would socn face the
mon /, his f)llowicg who mad become disguised win
him .cr what they called his c)ldb0oded cowarace
{, leavifg his unfortunate heelers t. get cut OF eir
troubles as best they could. Knowing ones witLi'
tee Wigwa N shook their heaGs when they neard tnS
ron RI talked about and lyy cffered wagers in df-
fersnt amounts that G1Cd Friday ard Easter "'uid
come and 60 without sgnt q Diver in inc Ia
District Diyvor had then been gone five weeks, al
though he had fixed the period 4 r5 absence a. only
four.
Easter falls this year on March y. and II seemed
n good way off anxious fathers mo'hers'
brothers. sisters. wives and children OF the men
who had gone to Sing Sing FOR the sake OF PADDY
Diver Yesterday it became known that these
who predicted that Diver had no intention Of re-
turning home just yet had good reason Tor "hat
they said Their Judgment was vindicated by a
statement made by Police Justice horh, VINO tod
confidential friends that he had received letter
from Justice Diver asking him TO sit for the
absent Paddy" and perform his Judicial iufctio"S
through March.
This report showing that DIVERS stay may be
prolonged indefinitely. sent the feeling against him
III the ia District up to white heat last night M"a
and women who had said little about Diver and
his course heretofore broke into the severcst de-
nunrjation of him. while those who had been freely
conforming ard threatening were unable to ma
words to express their feelings Diver was cursed
I'm all known and many unknown languages from
one end Of the district to the other and former
threats of Burning his house and hanging the fugl-
tive if he should be caught ana brousht
back heard again in many PAGES;
Little groUrs OF Indignant people. composed or az
ages and aexes and different nationalities. talked
eActeliy about the way he was using those who
had gone to prison for rim. until far INTO the hight;
Ruinors rife that some Of the men VINO hal
suffered for doing the district bosSs dirty Worf
to be found against him and his extradltion papers
applied for These rlmors were followed 10y, others
that Diver had already taken passage from
Pacific port for some distant cline. ana tlat ne
would be many leagUes out at s"1 before the uc-
tectives could start after him. . r.
Thomas Foley, of the most prominent IAN,
many Hall men of tho HI Assembly District ana
for years Paddy" DIVERS rght-hand man. mas
announced his purpose II resign from the 1amfnany
General Committee. He Is particularly down on
number of the HI District inspectors ana othsr
election officers under Indictment for frauds
committed in the Interest Of "the organization
some Of the convicted and imprisoned men were
the bitterness with which Foley speaks of DIVERS
Il IS believed In the iii District that Alderman
Brown pad the fines imposed upon the Tammany
ont Of the charity fund raised by the Tammany
district organization This fund. IL ig said. VIII be
still further drawn up)n ~ support the families Of
the impris )ned election officers.