The Trail of the Tiger
Tammany: 1789-1928
Being An account of Tammany from 1789; The Society of St. Tammany, or Columbian Order;
Tammany Hall; The Organization; and the Sway of the Bosses

By Allan Frankin

Originally published 1928
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whose intelligent cooperation and loyal assistance contributed very largely to final success.

Justice requires the furthur statement that from the very inception of the investigation down to its close the district attorney acted in entire harmony with your committee, voluntarily placing at its disposal his own services and those of his assistants, together with the facilities and authority of his office, while the higher criminal courts aided in every proper way to facilitate our work.

These important auxiliaries very materially strengthened the hands of your committee and increased its influence in the community, until as a consequence your committee was enabled to accomplish results which under other circumstances would probably have been unattainable.

The second branch of the investigation was under the special charge of Hon. John W. Goff, now recorder of the city of New York, ably assisted by William Travers Jerome and Frank Moss. The services of Mr. Goff called for special commendation from your committee. At every stage of the inquiry he proved himself fully equal to the laborious task imposed upon him and prosecuted the examination of witnesses ably, relentlessly and fearlessly, bringing to the service of your committee a zeal and devotion to duty, a tireless industry and a degree of

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