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warning threw my office into the hands of a sher- 

 iff and his confederates. 



The safe was opened and gone through as lit- 

 erally as if by a burglar. The firm's cash was in 

 the bank but among packages of securities be- 

 longing to customers was several thousand dol- 

 lars in bills. These were quickly pocketed. A 

 package of diamonds worth three or four thou- 

 sand dollars was pocketed. The office of the 

 sheriff of New York City had stolen six or seven 

 thousand dollars and there was no redress. Ex- 

 cepting for the satisfaction of doing it, it doesn't 

 pay to fight Tammany. I have even employed 

 an ex-Tammany judge at a large fee, only to be 

 betrayed by him just prior to his again becoming 

 a Tammany candidate. Twice I have been to 

 the Court of Appeals fighting against a promi- 

 nent Tammany lawyer, counsel for Richard Cro- 

 ker, for the archbishop in New York of the 

 Catholic Church, and for a Trust Company with 

 Standard Oil affiliations. Each of these cases 

 I lost by a single vote, my only consolation in 



