Note 700 — Chapter XXIV · TILDEN DESTROYS HIS OPPONENTS 1873-4

"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.