The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-12-15
TWEED ON HIS TRAVELS.
How He Escaped and Speculations
as to His Whereabouts.
OTHER HEARTS TO ACHE.

OTHER HEARTS TO ACHE.
| GOV. TILDEN ADVISES THE SHERIFF THAT
1 SOMEBODY Is GOING TO sUFFER-THE JAIL
| WARDEN CREDITED WITH DIRECT CoMPLIc-
TIT IN TIE PLOT.
The Chicago Tribune's New York CORE
spondent telegrsphs the subjoined gossip
concerning the flight OF Boss Tweed: 1t Is
the opinion OF the oldest police detectives
that Tweed left his house by the front door.
and stepping into the carriage waiting,
drove to a tug in waiting. IN half an hour
he could have been on his way down the
| bay. In spite of the heavy fog prevailing,
on q fast-sailing vessel he would
be comparatively safe as there
Be the T nSssne Be TO might thu. 'ss
landed in Cuba or any port of the South
/ American repub lics with which we have no
| extradition treaty. IL Is not believed that
| he got away soon enough 70 take passage In
the outward bound ocean steamer, or tha.
he has gone to Canada, because, In either
| event, he would be almost certain OF capture
| before be could reach a country whence be
could not be reclaimed as a criminal. All
the outgoing trains on Saturday night were
searched before leaving the deposs
here and in Jersey City. The steam
ers will be watched on reaching their
destinations abroad. That Tweed is
still in the city is not believed by any con-
cerned in the search. Up to the latest hour
| no intelligence of Tweed's place OF hiding or
the precise manner In which he effected his
escape had been learned. Tweed's private
| secretary, Foster Dewey, lett the city on
Saturday morning, ostensibly for Boston.
He paid bis hotel bills. bought tickets for
He might easily have gone aboard tug and
waited the coming OF his master.
WOMAN IN IT.
Among other houses searched last night
was palstisl residence on Fifth avenue,
which, few years sgo, Tweed presented TO
q very handsome lady, with whom he is
alleged to have been greatly enamored. OF
course she was not there, and it is rumored
tonight that the lady, too, Is missing. She
had great influence over him, and those
familiar with both say that Tweed would
never have LETT the city as long as she stsid
] in it. The following is a detailed narrative
I OF TYeed's escape, from the fullest informa-
ton aysilable. There Is little new in the
case to-day. Immediately alter the release
of Tweed from the Blackwell tsispa penl-
Tertiary, on June NEh, ne was taken u 'po
Ludlow street Jail and held a prisoner
in default of 100000 bail on civil suits
/ AGAR st him. Here ne bad waited
| 1t will be imagined impatiently, the decision
| OF the Court of Appeals upon two points of
the case-the reduction OF bail aud the ap-
4
which resulted adversely to him about a
| week or ten days ago. While in the GUS
tody of the sheriff. Tweed had lived in what
is called the "parlor of the Jail" 1t is
large apartment in the wing Of the building,
with separate private entrance, by which
visitor or occupant may avoid the large re-
eeption-room and Office common TO all
prisoners and visitors. It Is well, even
handsomely, furnished with mahogany and
black walnut furniture, covered with heavy
1 hlrnn and a rot cd xuift oil md
pictures, which gave 1t an appearance OF
| COMFORT AND LUXURY.
Mr.. Tweed had added to the other engrav-
ings belonging to the room the picture
clipped from an illustrated paper of himself
entering the portals ofthe prison; pen-snd-
ink cartoon by some friend representing
Judge Davis, who sentenced Tweed to the
penitentiary, being extinguished by a huge
pair OF shutters marked court of appeals,
aud promine emily displayed above his bed a
motto worked IN silk, Sin God we trust"
For the privilege of this apartment Tweed
of course paid to the jailer, TO whom the
law allows, or at least does not forbid, per-
quisits of this sort. Tweed had other privi-
leZes, also, tor which he also paid, and these
led finally to bis escape. The sheriff is not
forbidden by law to allow the prisoners on
civil suits TO leave the prison in the custody
. OF one or more officers, and the warden
seems on several occasions TO have accom-
panied Mr.. Tweed on drives through the
and, on one occasion at least, to a
banquet at a hotel. Two officers appear to
have always accompanied the prisoner
D Tweed was last seen at the Jail about 1880
| o'clock Saturday morning by Deputy
| Warden Gardner who, as a notary, certified
: his signature to a legal paper which his la y
yer, Mr.. Edelsten, had brought him. David
Z Dudley Field also saw Tweed the same
morning, so that he could not have been
gone days ago, as some have supposed.
/; About o'lock Tweed was let out at the
public door by Hughes. q keeper, and accom-
: panied by Warden Durham and Edward
Hogan, az officers, and by William NJ
D Tweed, ir, his son. He entered a carriage
which latter bad besn brought to the door
The driver was unku to the officers, one
of whom stated last night that he did moi
know where to find him. The party wss
4 driven through Filth avenue and Contra
9 Park TO the upper part OF the island and bach
r again to
f TwEED's RESIDENCE,
No. 647 Madison avenue, between Fifty
ninth aud Sixtieth streets. They reached
this point at about 1880 O'Clock in the after
D noon and all entered. How they occupied
a themselves from that time until about 6:3I
NJ. is not vet known, though the officers
!, claim that theyt were with their prisoner
4 his son and son-in-law. Mr.. Douglass, in tn,
8 back psrlor of the house. Mrs. Tweed snC
two other ladies were above stairs on th'
y second floor. Shortly before the last named
hour, Twesd suggested that he would slip NJ
o stairs and see Mrs. Tweed. To this the Off
t GERS gave assent. Tweed, leaving his ba
Q and coat on the rack in the hall, started NJ
r the stairs, as Hogan says, but he does moi
! appear ever to bsve reached the top. HI
, wore thick rubber overshoes, which muff1ed
his otherwise heavy tread, and, if he turned
9 as the officers think, and deliberately
/. walked through the ball and ont Of the
front door, his movements were un
) heard as well as unseen by them. He had
been gone from the parlQr about ten
J. minutes when Warden Durham suggested
= TO William M. Tweed, jr., TO call his father
az the officer wished To return early to the
II Jail. The con assembled the sssirs, ADD, in