[695] October 30, 1874.
[696] New York Herald, July 7, 1873.
[697] The Nation, October 29, 1874.
[698] April 16, 1874.
[699] Until then Croker had been an attaché of Connolly's office.
[700] "No law authorised Kelly to include convictions in the Police Courts, yet he did include them, thereby robbing the city of over thirty thousand dollars. He charged, at one time, double the rates for conveying prisoners to and from the Island; at another, 133 per cent. more. He charged for 11,000 vagrants committed to the work-house, a clear fraud upon the treasury."—New York Times, October 20, 1875.
[701] New York papers of September 18, 1874.
[702] New York World, September 10, 1874.
[703] In 1872 Dix had 55,451.
[704] Tilden, 416,391; Dix, 366,074; Clark, 11,768; Dorsheimer, 416,714; Robinson, 365,226; Bagg, 11,310.