Year: 1872

The excitement In the Court room reached It's
climax when Mayor Hall suddenly appeared during
the heat of the forensic debate in the other pro-
ceedings, and, passing through the crowd that
blocked up the passageway took his stand i'm
mediately opposite the Bench. He at once plunged
media res into business.


Mayor Hall, addressing the Court. said he had re-
ceived q very courteous note from the District At
torney requiring his attendance here this morning,
to renew bail, on charge with which the people
are so familiar. Those charges were made in the
Court of General Sessions, upon which bail was
given, and the trial


OR MIs-TRIAL


was RENTED to this Court. He waited some days
Tor the action Of this Court for it to
be made a matter OF record by the issuing
OF an order, and, failing to receive any
intimaton OF such order, he had sent his con-
sent to the District Attorney that the cases should
be remltted back to this Court. He was now in
formed that the indictment covers these matters,
and he believed, from what he heard 1t dealt with
the doings Of the Boarc Of Audit, with which, by
some inscrutabe reason Of Providence, he became
unhappily connected. He was there to renew the
bail. He was


THE THIRD MAYOR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
who had been unfortunate enough to come within
the embraces OF the District Attorney In the case
OF District Attorney Whiting who prosecuted
Mayor Morris Tor neglecting to audit the claim OF
the Board OF Supervisors for the salary OF Judge;
also the case OF Mayor Wood, who was presented
for neglect in connection with q lease
prosecution that was under the direction Of Mr.
Joseph Blunt The Court in these cases accepted
the personal recogniZances OF these gentlemen. 1t
was not for MIN to suggest in the present excited
state OF the public mind, on politics and on almost
every other subject, whether such precedent
abo ha " fria nIc IN fha
other side. He was not exactly bcllev in the
Jeremy Bentham proposition that the pressure of q
moral kind upon public officer was just as de-
sructive to liberty as pressure OF an immoral kind.
He threw out these suggestions; he was there to
District Attorney GarvinErhere is a new indict.
ment against the accused that would like to have
him plead to now.


OF the Mayor volume nearly as thick and as large
as webster unabridged"


The Mayor--Do you propose to read that book
nowY presume that WIN require some time and
suppose am not before the Court until the ques-
tion OF bail has been passed upon


The Mayor alter glancing over the volume, said
that he thought the indictments therein covered
District Attorney Garvin-There is no such thing
as quashinG an Indictment without u motion.
This indictment may be q substitute, or 1t may or
may not cover facts in connection with other In
dictments; but should like the accused to plead
II he requires time we have no objection 20 grant
It, He Is entitled to 1t as much as any other person.
The Mayor-Then II that be the rule the District
Attorney would fix the bail at $1,000.
This was accordingly done by agreement, and
the Mayor said he had seen sufficient OF the large
volume to enable him TO say that he was ready for
trial and he would plead not guilty TO the indct-
ment. Although the indictment looked voIumi-
nous 1t was substantially the same thing that was
tried before, and he perfectly familiar with IL.
There was on that trial an inquiry as TO seventy
eighty claims before the Board OF Audit. and the
question was whether they could be charged In
one count. There were four separate counts now
on each claim The first was the same as the
former; the second was that he knew the claim to
be false and fraudulent, and the third and fourth
were that he perverted and abused the ONCE OF
Mayor In doing so. He was, therefore, substan-
italy acquainted with what the Indictment really
was.


READY FOR TRIAL.


Judge Brady asked Mayor Hall II he would take
day 10 look over the Indictment.


Mr.. HALL am ready to proceed now, II the Court
please.


Mr Sparks then called the first name OF the jury.


Mr.. Hall said that he would take the


FIRST TWELVE MEN IN THR BOX,
reserving to himself Only the usual peremptory
challenges.