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Show NEW. YORK POOH-BAHS. Aldermen Insulted by Very Considerable Consider-able Bribes, and They Rather Liked It. Banquet to Pastenr by the Americans in Paris. Terrible Sufferings of a Pretty Girl Kidnapped by a Romany Bye. More Aldermen in the mess. New Yobk, March 19. Police Inspector Byrnes was Been at his office this morning, preparing to go ont, when a reporter asked him if he was going to drag the net for more Aldermen to-day. He smiled at the question ques-tion and replied: "That is a matter I would rather not talk about. I am in hopes the eyidenoe will be sufficient to warrant the arrest ar-rest of some guilty ones, but that is for the District Attorney to decide," He is going ahead cautiously to get . EVIDENCE THAT WILL STAND IN COURT. To me it looks as if he would oome pretty near getting it." "Is it true that all aldermen of 1884 are involved?" "Nearly all. There are two," the Inspector Inspec-tor spoke calmly and with earnest emphasis, "of whom I can say, here now, that they are not tarred with that stick Aldermen Grant and O'Connor, one a Democrat and the other a Republican. Of them it caa be positively and absolutely stated at this stage of the inquiry that they were not bribed; as to the rest you will know shortly who were bought and who were not, or perhap3 1 might better say of whom it can be proven that they were bought; let it rest till then." No allusion was made to THE SILVEBWA.BE SCBAP2 OF JAEHNE'S In the role of a f enoe that dragged Inspector Inspec-tor Byrnes into unpleasant notoriety. ''Everything in its turn," said the Inspector Inspec-tor calmly; "before we get through with this I will come pretty near showing up some things in connection with that matter that are not as plain to the publio as they might be. That attack on me I believe was1 made by parties who were cognizant of what I was doing wiTh Jaehne, to throw discredit on me, or turn off the wrath to come. It didn't work, and it won't now. When I am through with the mqre important work on hand there will be time enough to show up that little affair and its bearings on me." Speculation was rife at police headquarters headquar-ters as to the identity of the lawyer employed, em-ployed, according to Jaehne, by his fellow Aldermen to COVEB UP THEIB TRACKS By overhauling their private books and papers pa-pers and fixing them up to bear the scrutinizing scruti-nizing gaze of the Senate committee. Inspector Byrnes would not tell who he was, but said significantly that his turn would also come in its season.. Alderman Jaehne, with his counsel, Richard Rich-ard Newcomb, walked down Broadway at 11 o'clock to-day, and went into the postoffice building to attend a session of the Senate Broadway Railroad investigation committee. Jaehne looked very meek, and seemed anxious anx-ious to avoid notice. The arrest of Jaehne seemed to greatly increase the interest in the investigation of the granting of the franchise to the Broadway Broad-way road. A mnrmur spread throughout the conrt-room as Alderman Jaehne entered, aocompanied by ex-Alderman Cleary. His counsel followed, and Aldermen O'NeU, DelaCey and ex-Sheriff Bowe secured seats within the inner railing. Alderman Jaehne, far from trying to avoid the gaze of spectators, stood up by the judge's bench, in full view of all, chatting cheerfully with his friends. For the day he promised to be a bigger man than Conkling. |