Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1904 — HEADED A BOODLE PLOT [ARTICLE]

HEADED A BOODLE PLOT

Distinction of a Citizen of the Eastern Metropolis Who Has Just Died. New York, Murch 4.—John Keenan, known in the days of the famous “boodle” boardof aldermen as the “Bismarck of the County Democracy,” is dead at his home in Hollis, L. I. Keenan was head and front of the great boodle conspiracy by which the board of aldermen of 1884 was bribed to give the Broadway railroad franchise to Jacob Sharp. He was the man who held the bribe fund and apportioned the money to the members of the board. He was one of the famous “boodle” colony in Canada, whither be fled just before his indictment.