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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. IN 1895-6 Colonel John R. Fellows was District Attorney of the City of New York, and it just so happened at this particular time that he had an assistant named Weeks—Bartow S. Weeks—who had formerly been employed by me as a bookkeeper, but whom I discharged. I quote from the Court Record:—[Weeks: "Mr. Flagg, during what years were you engaged in the wholesale provision business?" Flagg: "You ought to know, you were my bookkeeper until I discharged you for incompetency."] This young man Weeks, it appears, entertained a secret grudge against me; he also entertained a desire to make a record for himself as a prosecuting attorney, and by some hook or crook when he discovered that the "pigeonholed indictments" were to be resurrected and placed on the calendar, he induced the District Attorney to deputize him to aid in working up the case against me. In justice toWeeks it can be truthfully said he aided. He worked against me as he had never worked for me, and with all the venom, hate and malice of a disgruntled and discharged employe, racked his brain in formulating the indictments which were secured against me by false swearing, perjury and lies. When Judge Newberger, before whom my case was being tried, discovered that Weeks had formerly been a clerk of mine, he excluded him from the case. But prior to the time my case was brought into court, all during the shameful destruction of my furniture, Weeks was the most accommodating ally the police had in the District Attorney's office. Time and again I endeavored to explain to the District Attorney the cause of Weeks' animus, but it did no good. Colonel John R. Fellows is now dead, and as it is against my principles to attack a dead man I shall not explain why it did no good. The offense charged against me was a mi...
