Deponent further says that at the time he began to transcribe from said book, Justice Robert Taylor commenced the examination of John Bogart, a deputy keeper on said Island, and having sworn him to tell the truth, and the whole truth in relation to the matters upon which he, the said Bogart, was to be examined, said Justice put several interrogatories to him, which were answered by said Bogart, and the substance thereof written down by said Justice, until about the time said Brown forcibly took the book from deponent, as above stated, which appeared to be a signal for breaking off the examination; for said Bogart then refused to give any answer to the questions put to him by said Justice, and also refused to sign his name to the written examination, so far as it had been taken by said Justice, who thereupon issued a subpoena requiring the attendance of said Bogart at the Upper Police Office, corner of Bowery and Third-street, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of the 23rd April instant, to testify and give evidence according to his knowledge. And the said Justice and this deponent thereupon left said Island, being prevented by said Brown from further pursuing the examination of said book, and the said Bogart refusing further to testify before said Justice. Deponent says, that he has read the written examination of said Bogart, taken by Justice Taylor this day; that deponent was in the room with said Bogart and Justice Taylor, during the examination of Bogart, and distinctly heard the questions put to Bogart by said Justice, and the answers thereto given by Bogart ; and deponent fully believes that the written examination read by him, is correct in every particular, so far as regards the statements therein said to have been made by said Bogart, in reply to the questions put to him by said Justice. Deponent further says, that Alexander Parker, a City Marshal, went with Justice Taylor and deponent to Blackwell's Island, and was present while deponent was examining and transcribing from said book, in which the names of male vagrants are entered, and saw deponent attending to that business; and said Parker also witnessed a part of the examination of Bogart by Justice Taylor; and after the investigation was broken off, deponent saw Justice Taylor put in the hand of Mr. Parker the subpoena for Bogart, and heard Justice Taylor direct Mr. Parker to serve said subpoena on Bogart. Deponent says, that the annexed schedule is a correct transcript of the names of prisoners discharged, dates of commitments, terms of commitments, names of committing magistrates, dates of discharges, and names of magistrates who discharged, as appeared on said book, as far as deponent was enabled to proceed in the examination thereof; deponent being directed to go as far back in reference to discharges as the 20th of March, 1842. |