Year: 1876

WOODWARD TURNED STATES EVIDENCE.
THE FULL STORY OF THE RING FRAUDS 10


BE TOLD.


THE SIGNIFICANCE OF wooDwARDs RETURN 10


THIS COUNTRY AND OF TIE EAsY WAY IN


WHICH HE WAS ARREsTED-wHAT HE HAS TO


TELL-THE PROOFS IN HIS HANDS, CHECKS


SHOWING THE DIVISION OF THE WHOLE OF THE


RING PLUNDER-RUN IMPENDING FOR OFFICIALS


PRESENT AND PAsT-TwEED's PURPOSES UNcER-


rArN-How his TINE IN PRISON is SPENT.


As intimated in yesterdays TRIBUNE, Elbirt A.
Woodward, seeing the hopelessness of any defense.
has turned States evidence. 1t is known that his
testimony win be accepted by the counsel prosecut-
ing the Ring conspirators and the State officials
laboring to thoroughly reform the State Govern
ment in all its branches. What action William n
Tweed will take for his own safety under tho
changed circumstances is not definitely known.
Many persons not hitherto named will probably be
exposed by what Woodward has to say, while the
evidence against Sweeny Connolly. and others
under indictment will be made conclusive.


olAhlLING hEfELAllONo FRObABLE~


1t was intimated at the time of the arrest Of
Elblrt A. Woodward that his coming back to this
country his apprehension at Chicago his return to this
city and confinement in the Tombs were simply pre-
minary to full confession on his part of the entire
transactions of the Ring and all its adherents great and
small All the circumstances Of the arrest the with
which it effected, the willingness with which Wood
ward came to this city, and the quiet satisfaction With
which he has endured his confinement in prison
frmed the suspicion that his return was prearranged


Yesterday morning THE TRIBUNE in its account OF tn
arrival of Tweed still further alluded to the possibility
of Woodward and Tweed also giving the benefit of fher
knowledge the State they had been largely inst
mental in robbng. To-day it is uncertain what
Mr.. Tweed may pursue. but it is beyond any doubt
that Mr. woodward has resolved, the only safe
open him. reveal all he knows relative to the frauds
committed against the county and State not only In ths
matter Of healse vouchers for building the Courthouse.
but in the fraudulent election OF of State, legs
latve county and city officers, many OF whom retain
the positions thus corruptly gained, and many Others Of
whom have since been returned to Office His reVela
tions will involve many Republican well Demo-
cratic officials and the particulars of the dividends Of s
fund raised in the Courthouse frauds will involve
of persons who have been hitherto unsuspected.


Woodward, the manager OF the pool, was ntrusted
with the custody OF all the checks which passed between
all the consprators, and these he has carefully pre
served During his six years of voluntary banshmenr in
other lands these checks the most valuable property
which he probably had in his hands.
remained in this city, and it is a proof Of
the gross ignorance the strong friendship existing
in persons that the man to whom they
were intrusted returned them to him in the Tombs
disturbed with the accumulated dust of five years upon
them. Not a single one was missing and the oaths Of
than witness in past trials thap such checks
had existed will fall to the ground when woodward
takes the stand.


1t is impossible to any Of the many persons Who
will be involved in ruin If Woodward and Tweed Join
hands in establishing finally the truth of the great
spracy of Tammany against not merely the county bat
the whole commonwealth of NewYork 1t is possible al
present positively assert only what many must have
long since suspected inevitable, that the full expOss
is coming.