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Tweed Makes Another Statement

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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
May
Year
1877
Copyright
Public Domain
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William M. Tweed has supplemented his confession with additional revelations touching the operations of the ring of whieh he was the chief. The statement, which is in the hands of the Attorney General of New York, is a very longthy one. It gives the exact narrativo of how the ring was fornied. The statements begin with the manner in which Tweed, John T. Hoffman, Georgè W. jtfcLean and Connolly, back in 1865 or 1866, were accustomed to meet daily at lunch in a littlc room attached to the kitchen of theoldCourt House to disctiss political mntters. This coterie finally dissolved, and then the corrupt ring wni formed, consisting of Tweed, Oonnolly, Sweeney, Hall and Woodward,with other minor allies, which also met daily in the same room, and later in Tweed's office in Duane street. The statement also shows in detail the manner in which bilis were doctored by the ring after coming from the Board of Supervisors, and afterward from the Board of Audit, already fraudulent in inany of the items. New charges wonld be interlmed between original items, and the totals changed to correspond, so that a bilí of #100,000, as certifled to by the clerk and the boards named, would be sent to Auditor Watson raised to $400,000 or $500,000, and this duly certifled to by him.

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Old News
Michigan Argus