"Q. Well,  then,  it  was  not  until  youi  had  left  Leairy  that  you
had  said  that?  A. Oh,  yes;  we  said  that  to  Leary,  too;  and  then
we  said  the  same  thing  to  him  when  he  said  to  us,  '  See  what  you
can  doi;'  and  we  said,  'AH  right;  we  wUl.'"

Now,  without  going  through  the  evidence  of  Shaw,  which  is
of  similar  import,  it  is  evident  that  John  McCabe  and  Leary
had  a  deal  together,  and  that  the  developments  upon  the  wit-
ness stand  by  Crokes  and  Shaw,  of  the  transactions  which  had
occurred  between  Leary  and  McCabe  piroved  McOabe  to  have
endeavored  to  put  up  a  corrupt  deal  between  Leary  and  the
fire  department  officers  of  the  city  of  New  York. Those  words
which  John  McCabe  uttered  to  Fergus,  "  Croker  and  Leary  are
going  on  the  stand  and  I  am  ruined;"  substantially  establish
the  proposition  which  I  started  out  to  establish,  that  John
McCabe  was  a  guilty  man  in  the  transaction  which  he  had  with
Leary,  as  would  appear  by  the  testimony  of  two  honest  firemen,
Croker  and  Shaw,  upon  the  witness  stand. Mr. McCabe  was
called  to  Mr. Eoot's  office  and  had  a  conversation  with  Mr. Boot,
and  then,  for  the  first  time,  it  dawned  upon  him  that  the  letter
from  Shaw  to  Leary  had  been  given  up  and  the  whole  trans-
action with  Leary  had  been  exposed. And  it  was  exposed  by
whom?  By  the  men  with  whom  he  had  been  dealing,  and  the
result  was  his  declaration  on  the  morning  of  his  suicide:  "Leary
and  Oroker  are  going  on  the  stand  and  I  am  ruined."

I  regret  very  much  that  I  have  not  had  the  opportunity  of
presenting,  except  in  this  desultory  manner,  the  facts  with  re-
gard to  these  men  going  upon  the  stand,  and  with  regard  to
McCabe  committing  suicide,  in  the  presence  of  Mr. Boot,  who  had
such  unlimited  confldenoe  in  the  character  of  this  man,  and  of
Mr. La  G-range,  who  was  so  confident  that  this  man  could  not
be  an  infoirmer,  when  he  took  dbwn  on  paper  three  specific  acts
of  bribery  informed  about  "by  this  man. If  there  is  something
peculiar  in  the  antagonism  of  the  Msh  people  toward  informers,
he  had  done  the  act  of  the  informer  in  private,  in  the  office  of
F. 