The New York herald., 1875-12-09
STEAM TUGS AND CARRIAGES
What a Broadway Clerk
Saw on Saturday.
BLESS NE, THAT LOCKED LIKE TWEED"
Apparent Ignorance of the Police
Officials.

theories that have advanced TO the method Of
escape have all along been most conflicting, and
those formed yesterday BY the police excep-
tion The supposed cews their hands have been
traced the uttermost bui far without producing
any result and the way when the tight was
accomplished and The OF the accomphces
in the transaction involved in much mystery
ever The clews followed BY the police and sherin7s
officers, well as their opinions the taken
BY Tweed, have already been referred published
In ths HERALD, to whom eft point for the
beneGt OF the detectives and other police officials the
probable method or escape and the present where
abouts Of the ex-"Boss"
That these HERALD cews more the truth In
the than OF the others originating with the
thorities they themselves have been compelled to ad
nit and they following many OF these out,
with what ultimate result has yet TO be determined.
But that Tweed viii he caught by the police il
every day becoming more doubtful One Of the
shrewdest detectives in the city yesterday emphat-
cay declared hts belief that Tweed would never
be recaptUredn fact that he had gone to some for
eign place where his would be impossible. The
reward offered by the Sheriff Of $40 ooO although
tempting would he thought, have effect securing
bis arrest ''The longest pole knocks the persrn-
uons' said he, "and should any
discover the fugitive, in hope Of securing
sum- the old fellow would Immediately 60 ten
pretty certainly him continued
IMMUNITY
oy the concealment Of his hiding place. That any
offer Of reward would be likely TO tempt any OF those
who actually know either where he has gone where
ne Is hiding is not probable, for
has been intrusted with the secret who
not bound 70 the fugitive by the strongest
ties of gratitude and affection His adherents in this
city are still wonderfully numerous, and it a nearly
certain that large proportion Of the people would
rather assist him euding his pursuers than aid in
his capture Such is the generally expressed opinion
although it shows somewhat of a loose idea OF moral
ty prevailing IN the community. These people
now giving vent to their belief that W. NJ. Tweed is
still In the city house either in the
Fourth Seventh ward but probably the latter; for
the reason that Of all places for to lilo concealed
in, there can be no better than the city OF New York
Here II IS thought he may stay until the present
element has died and his almost forgotten
when he would be able quietly slip away some foggy
night without the slightest fear of pursuit. rot 70 say
capture.
This is the manner, II is said, In which Prince Harry
Genet avoided when escaped from the Sheriff
PoLIcR
The latest developments which we're obtained yester-
day point to the fact that the escape most de-
nberaely planned one and that four carriages
ordered simultaneously from as many different
stables Already has been discovered that one car
riage came from the Lamb stable, which was prob
ably the which took Tweed from the jail
and afterward TO the point where he either
embarked on board small boat tug else drove
to the house, wherever 1t may be- he concealed
In The second carriage ordered from Elderd's
stable, Sixth avenue between Forty NTH and Forty
sixth streets, by General" W. NJ Tweed, Jr, which
vehicle was used BY hs wife on general shopping
tour the particulars OF calls being given elsewhere
The time at which this carriage was ordered
viii be found, from a reference 10 the ticket
OF the American District Telegraph Company,
also published, correspond very closely 70 .he
time that the Lamb carriage taken from the Lamb
stable py George ". Hoffman The third carriage,
although has yet been discovered where it came
from was used by Mrs William NJ Tweed sr. This Is
proved beyond doubt By the story told by the
Park Tnford's Sixth avenue store well their
cashier, who gives description Of lady resembling
IN particular Mrs Tweed, He also il will he
observed, questioned closely upon the subject,
and had his mind exercised, stated that he had
noticed gentleman in the carriage SAID 'sBless
me- now think oft,
THAT LOOKED LIKE BILL TWEED
The time at which the call was made al the store he
could not exactly fix, further than that have
been after one O'Clock, for he had but a few minutes
since returned from dinner Mrs Tweed il will be re-
marked, vas IN great hurry % effect her purchase
which another singular circumstance
This cham Of circumstanual evidence fully proves
the existence Of three carriages ordered by the
eral. less the driven BY George W. Hoffman gas
the which took Tweed from the Jail dropped war
den Dunham, Hagan and General Tweed at some
place near by. What is wanted Is 10 discover the
one that was used by Durham and party the time
they visited Tweeds house n this can 10 traced as
some hope yet OF calculating the present mystery
The story told by the ladies' living In Fiity sixth
street yesterday about the driving Of coach about
halfpast i've O'Clock on Saturday by lveried coach
away from Tweed's residence IS also important
element in the case for " either proves that another
carriage was used ''bnd." that the which
brought Dunham aud the others 20 the house
starred OF with the drver to lash his
aorses to theif utmost speed 10 deceive the
people In the ncghborhsod and thus tend further 70
mako confusion coniounded
That this sas the more than probable, FOR it
viii be remembered that al persons who have been
questioned n the vicinity o the Tweed mansion agree
that but carriage seen on Saturday after.
noon at the Tweed house on Madison avenue between
Fiftynin aud sxteth Tho testimony Of the
ladies' ID Fifty street. taken in conjunction with
the answers given BY George Hoffman 70 the HERALD
reporter a. Greenwich Tuesday, 20 70 show beyond
toabt that the Lamb carriage uot .he one that went
20 Tweeds house The lyered coachmau must therefore,
De the one, and he must be found i ought also 10 be
possible 20 hnd out whether the carriage that visited
Park 4 Tford's tho one thai hoffman drove
or whether II another The probabilities are how.
ever, that Hoffman was the driver
OTHER FACTS
The story also given elsewhere Of oysterrnan rom
Staten island. who met strange looking steam yacht
without lights, going at full speed 10 another
point tending 70 show that the escape
OF Tweed had been affair Of long
and deliberate preparation. Il would seem from the
number Or steam tugs and boats which were started al
about the same time and the multiplicity Of the car.
rages the evident purpose has been TO confuse
the police and Others interested TO set them travel
hng In all directions except the right ono