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cd, and was Immediately taken to jail, where

cd, and was Immediately taken to JILL where
he rtmains for the present -, -.
Knowing the public curiosity to ,aseertain
the facts of his FLIGHT and subsequent Alreu.
tures, .we visited him at the jail last evening
for the pnl pose Of obtaining i correct state:
ment; which be frcelygave us as It noWisc
affects the merits of:his case sit now stands.
he left Hudson, rs all know, between: tTn
and three O'Clock On the morning Of January
G1st, By the might e.9reks tsnin for Detrois,.
: made connection at'thc Graul Trunk juno
,tlon and tCoh ttriea1s for Port Huron. He.
thinks liz bought his TICKET On the; cars, but
is hot CERTAIN. Al Iult Safni4, on ;1le Can
ada eide Of st. Clair inTcr, OPPOSITE Port HUI
ron, he purchased n Ticket for London, on the
Greet Western railway ''
Here WAS his Arst mistake, as be did not
p l=l1 to 70 there at'all. He snys that when
he landed on the Can1la side, the f4cts OF Ills
situation flashed upon bis nllud In a mauner
appalling aud Overwhelming: :He ielt that hs-:
was 1eaving lo1nc anu friends, reputation and
country, and was Iow among strangers in u
foreign la1d and aniontlaw. Flo said he would
bere given anything to have been placed back
In Hudson once more
Treadwen bad not gone far On the cars he
fore he discovered his mistake, hut it was too
late to remedy It; Ht happened, however, to
young mon who had i ticket to Toronto, but
wanted, to branch otf ut Sttutfora. This
ticket he purchased for half 8 dollar, and
went on TO Toronto, passed directly through
and left the cars >thEt night at Port Hope. a
email but entcrpr1stng town on Lake Ontario,
some si2tr-threc miles beyond Toronto. This
'was the night Of his t1st days absence from
He remained in PORT Hope four days, put
ting up ut the hotel, walking about the town,
reading I'll tue papers, evidently undecided
what to do. Here, about the third day after
y. A+sml
newspapers: 4, Toronto daily contained
paragraph announcing that "a1r. Treadway,
Of the Peoples Bank Of Michigan, had ab-
seconded with some 500, 600 in funds" and
adding some. comments on tho curious name
by which he Mas announced.
On tho e5th Of January, he went to small.
town called Lindsay north Of Port Hope
comes into the Grand Trunk. He then went
to Toronto; where he stayed over night, and
tho nnxt day. he Wcns to portE, where the
Grand Trunk. crosses. the Great Western go~
ing on to Buffalo. wqesc he remained another
night, The. Bext day lie went down the
he again remained o::sr night. The tne1t day
he crossed to tue Ase;y's!can side, took, dinner
at small hotel, wEA> Interested in discover
ing the name OF a Hudson friond on tue regis
tel five days before, took the cars for Buffalo,
where, after waiting q, short time, he Eaa en-
abled to get on to IN accommodation train
for pnnk!rk, where he remained that night.
The following day he went to Salamanca,
OH the New York nnd Erie Road, where he
connected with train on the noW broad
guage Atlantic and Great Western Road on
which he came as far es Akron, Ohio, where
he remained for dag, He then went to Or
I'll, snlnli station OIL the Pittsburg and
Fort Wayne Road, where he connected with
t1ain for Mansfield which place lie Ieac1isd
last Saturday nfternOop Feb 9Th, Here he
put up at 1lotc1 and managed to get word to
bis wife, who was ut her fathers residence,
a few miles down the railroad to Sandusky.,
She visited him, as did also her f:ather, and
arrangements were mulo BY thcm to 80 to
Cleveland. ~.
On Thursday morning. Feb. 11tn, they took
the omnibus from the hotel for the Cleveland
train, md while in tt1aawas nrrestel through
the cxertlons of Mr.. Eeech, who happened
to ncet hin, that morning and instantly rec
o.,nizcd him. - Mr. Keech was greatly sur
pTised ut sceiug him, ss he did not suppose
he WAS; in this part r. the country, but
promptly took tile ste,I to secure his deten-
lion. The rest nc have already narrated.