[8] Kelly left rather hastily for Europe, where he remained three years.

[9] Report of the Bar Association Committee on Extortions, March 5, 1872.

[10] Tilden: The Tweed Ring, J. Polhemus, 1873.

[11] “The Ermine in the ‘Ring,’” Putnam’s Magazine supplement (about 1869). It happened that a singular suit brought by Wood against the city came before this very Judge, when Wood obtained by his decision a judgment for $180,000 for the rent of premises owned by him, not worth, for any use of the city, over $35,000. The buildings, in great part, were so unfit for use that the city, although paying rent for them for years, established its departments elsewhere. Wood re-leased these unused offices, collecting a double rent.

[12] Ibid.

[13] Garvey’s testimony, Tweed Case, etc., Supreme Court, 1876, Vol. I: pp. 814-16.

[14] Document No. 8, p. 29.

[15] Document No. 8, pp. 212-13.

[16] New York Sun, February 6, 1871.

[17] Q.—“Did you ever receive any money from either Fisk or Gould to be used in bribing the Legislature?”