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, AS soon as the Mayor was advised of this dis
graceful proceeding, he caused warrant to be
Issued against Burke, and in the meantime made
the following affidavit, which was last night read
to the assembled multitude at Masonic Hall;
! city and County Of Neao Fork, ss-Aaron
Clark, Mayor of the City of New York, beinr
duly sworn, doth depose and say, that every part
of the above affidavit of Edmund Burke, is false
in every particular; and this deponent farther says,
that he never knew such man as Edmund
Burke, and that he never held any such CONVEX
sation as is stated by Burke; that he, this depo-
nent, never had any interest whatever in any pro-
perty or premises in Broome street; and that he,
this deponent, has not been in or near any private
dwelling in Broome street for several weeks.


AARON CLARK.


Sworn before me this lth day of April, 1888.


Signed, John NJ Bloodgood


Burke having been arrested and brought to the
Police Office, utterly denied any knowledge of
the transaction, and promptly offered to refute it
by giving counter affidavit, which was accord
ingly taken, and is as follows:


City and County of Ne,o Fork, ss.-Edmund
Burke being duly sworn, deposes and says. that
he resides at No. 2l9 Broome street, and is a
CRATE setter, by profession. and that he has
sign over his door expressive of his name and bu-
siness, and that he has heard, with surprise, the
affidavit purporting to have been signed and
sworn to by him, which is hereunto annexed, re-
lating to conversation purporting to have taken
place between himself and Aaron Clark, Mayor
of the City Of New York, and that the deponent
never or heard of said affidavit until shown to
him in the Police Office on his arrest, and that
said affidavit, far as it relates to having come
from him, is false and untrue in all its parts. De-
ponent farther says, that his apartments are hired
from VIM. McCool, of the said premises, that he
pays for said apartments the yearly rent of fifty
two dollars, that this deponent had never, to his
knowledge, seen Mr.. Clark, before seeing him in
the Police Office this evening, on being arrested
by officers Sparks, Homan, and Gilbert F. Hays.
Deponent farther says, that he is not yet natural
lied, and never has voted nor been solicited to
vote at any election and farther says, that he
never has sworn to any written or verbal affidavit
in this country, except his declaration Of intention
of becoming citizen. Deponent farther says,
that he has no knowledge of any person Of his
name, residing in or near his neighborhood.


Edmund Burke, 2l9 Broome ST.
Sworn before me, April IL, 1898.


JOHN M. BLooDGooD.
Mr.. Warner, the commissioner before whom
the slanderous affidavit had been taken, having
been sent for, stated he could not be certain as to
the identity of the person who made the affidavit
before him, but believes that Burke, the person
then present, was the man--that the party swear
ing was brought to him by Mr.. James t. Brady,
and that he administered the oath without exam
ining the contents Of the affidavit.


Mr.. Brady was then sent for, who promptly
made oath that Burke, who was then present. was
the same individual who had made the afidavitbe-
fore Mr.. Warner, and that said affidavit was in the
handwriting of James B. Cheys Burke was
thereupon committed, and has since confessed
that he is the person who made the original affi-
davit, and that he was persuaded to do SO by two
persons unknown to him!