[527] Subsequently the charred remains of these accounts were discovered in an ash-heap in the City Hall attic. Myers, History of Tammany Hall, p. 387.
[528] Hall was indicted and tried, but the jury disagreed. The second grand jury did not indict.
[529] Sweeny afterwards compromised for $400,000 and returned to New York. Connolly, who was reported to have taken away $6,000,000, died abroad.
[530] Myers, History of Tammany Hall, pp. 297-298; New York Herald, January 13, 1901.
[531] New York Tribune, November 10, 1870.
[532] Ibid., April 4, 1871.
[533] "Mr. Murphy's 'weeding out' process is exactly the one which the devil would use if he were appointed collector of this port, and that he would perform it on exactly the same principles and with the same objects and results as Mr. Murphy performs it, we challenge any one to deny who is familiar with the devil's character and habits and Mr. Murphy's late doings."—The Nation, January 19, 1871.
"No collector was ever more destitute of fit qualifications for the office." He made "three hundred and thirty-eight removals every five days during the eighteen months" he held office. Report of D.B. Eaton, chairman of the Civil Service Commission, p. 23.
[534] Stephen Fiske, Off-Hand Portraits, p. 58.
[535] "Mr. Conkling had already had much to do with the appointment of this committee, but it is worthy of note that several changes in the federal offices were made almost simultaneously with the vote of the committee for Mr. Murphy's reorganisation, and that the men who voted for it got the best places. Addison H. Laflin was made naval officer, Lockwood L. Doty was made pension agent, Richard Crowley was made United States attorney for the Northern District. It will be seen that the committee were not disinterested in trying to please Conkling and Murphy."—New York Evening Post, September 29, 1871.