The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-07

When opened the front door the carriage |
we had occupied during the day still stood |
at the corner. The keeper and !, after |
making q thorough search in the house for |
Tweed, entered the carriage and drove as
rapidly as possible TO the police station in
Fifty-ninth street, where, at our request,
general alarm was sent out Both young
MIR. Tweed and Mr.. Douglass manifested
great excitement when apprised of the fact
of Tweeds escape. After our departure
from the station men drove to the Central
office, and they there learned that the news
had been transmitted from Fifty-ninth
street. We afterward visited Sheriff Con-
ner's residence, and, failing to find the
sheriff there, proceeded to club in Third
avenue, but he was not there. have no
theory as to the mode of Tweed's escape,
and am quite bewldered by the occurrence.
In abiding to the incidents in his house,
l forgot to state that l almost distinctly
heard Tweed's step as he was going up
stairs, after we had been informed by Mr..
William M. Tweed, jr., that his father had
not gone up stairs saw Mrs. Tweed stand
ing at the head of the flight, and upon
questioning her, received similar answer.
She appeared to be greatly excited at the
time. last saw Tweed at @. 80 p. m.
WHAT SHERIFF CONNER SAYS.
Sheriff Conner was asked whether
Tweed had left the Jail with the warden by
his permission. To this question he re-
piled that Warden Durham had gone to
him on Friday, and had asked his permits
sion to take him out to stay. He, the
sheriff, had objected to his going out, as
he did not think it advisable. He told
Durham that Tweed had been out the week
before, and the papers had spoken of 1t,
and he thought he had better not go. Dun
ham said that Tweed had not asked per-
mission to be absent often, and he thought
he might be allowed to go, especially as
there was no danger of his getting away,
as there would be two men with him. He
| then asked Durham in whose carriage he
was accustomed to take Tweed when they
went out, and Durham told him that they
always went in a carriage that he dun
ham) hired and paid for. Finally, after
much pleading on the part of Durham, he
consented that Tweed might be taken out
yesterday. The reporter then asked the
sheriff whether he knew the pretended OBJ
| ject OF Tweeds temporary release from
| confinement, and he said that he did not
know that Mr.. Durham had not told him
| anything about it, but he supposed that it
| was with the object of finding some one
who would go bail for him; 1.-THE fact is"
continued Mr.. Conner, "Dunham did not
believe that Tweed had any desire to es-
cape. He thought that the interests he had
at stake in this city were so large that he
would not want to abandon them. In fact,
Durham thought" said the sheriff, "that
Tweed could not be dubbed away. But
was always uneasy. / felt from the first
that it was great responsibility, and
| always wished they would take
him away. did not want him on my
hands. ''But he could have escaped long
ago." added Mr.. Conner che could have
got out of that Jail at almost any time.
Everybody knows it is unsafe, and why he
did not go before | cannot tell. He could
have done so, IL he had chosen. Why he
has gone now, | am at loss to imagine.
He could have easily escaped when he was
on Blackwells Island, and am surprised
that he did not go when he was there" In
reply to question as to whether he had
any idea where Tweed would go, he said
he had not the slightest, but he feared that
he had everything so arranged that it would
be impossible to find him.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PLACE FROM WHICH HE
MADE HIS ESCAPE.
The house from which the escape was
made is built of brown stone, four stories
high, with stoop and basement. 1t is il
the middle of the block, on the east side Of
Madison avenue, with but one house be
tween it and Fifty-ninth street, and thre,
intervening between Sixtieth street. AL
of these houses are unoccupied except thu
one nearest Fifty-ninth street, in which il
a small family who take care of the proper
ty. The interior of the house Is modelled
after the stereotyped modern pattern fol
dwellings on the first floor two parlor
and a bay window in the back on thu
and closets, and the third and fourth
mostly closets and bedroom. Separating
the yards are three fences-a little one Mint
feet high, and on Sixtieth street large
formidable looking iron fence, through
which the rear of all these houses may b,
seen. On the corner of Fifty-ninth stree
and Madison avenue is vacant lot which
is very deep, having been at one time
part of Beekman's pond, and never having
been filled in. Across the street is row
of fine brown-stone houses all occupied
the gentleman residing in the house op
posite to the Tweed mansion sale
that none of his family had noticed any
thing strange in the neIghborhood, and haC
seen Tweed but once since his imprison
ment in Ludlow street Jail. The police
man on post also said that about the tim,
of the reported escape he was in the neigh
bOrhOOd, but noticed no carriage about
either on the side streets, or on the avenue
The family moved into this house abou
one year ago last spring, for four month
they resided at Greenwich, Conn.,, and re
turned on the 1st of November to the city
KEEPER EDWARD HoGAN's VERSION OF TIL
| ESCAPE.
| AS Mr.. Durham concluded his narratiy,
of the escape, Edward Hogan, the keepe
came in the parlor, and, being asked to CIV,
his version of the affair, repeated substan
TALLY the particulars related by Mr.. Dun
ham. 81 saw Tweed go up stairs" sait
he, "and soon afterward heard the wardeI
say to young Mr.. Tweed, You had bette
go up stairs and tell the old man we hat
better CO. When informed that he haC
not gone up we instituted a search in tn,
manner described by Mr.. Durham, search
ing in all the rooms, closets, and cellars
On reaching the hall of the first floor,
looked at the hat rack and noticed tina
while Mr.. Tweeds hat had disappeared, hi
overcoat, heavy beaver, was still wher,
he had left it. Young Tweed excitedly
pulled his hair and cried out IN evident an
guish that his father had ruined him anC
his family. The son-in-law acted like al
insane man went with Mr.. Durham t.
the station house and central office, an(
also to the Occidental hotel, where tel
egraphed to the chiefs of police of Phila
delphia, Boston, Brooklyn and New Jer
/ sew"