Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-12-10
The Escape of "Boss" Tweed.

NEW YORK, Dec. A.
This evening, about TIA, VIM. nj,
Tweed escaped from the custody of Off
GERS while on visit to his wife at his old
home, corner of Madison avenue and FIT
tenth street.
1t seems that for several weeks back
Mr. Tweed has been taken from Ludlow
Street Jail to his house, about six O'Clock,
where he remained a short time with his
family On this occasion Tweed asked the
officers to permit him to have few mo-
ments' private conversation with his wife.
This privilege was granted him, and he
went upstairs. After he had been gone
about fifteen minutes the officers con-
cluded that it was about time to start for
Ludlow, and asked son of the Boss TO
step upstairs and call his father. The
young man went up, and after few mo-
ments returned, and in the coolest man
ner possible told the Sheriff:
PA is gone. He is not upstairs.
Then ensued a scene. The officers
rushed up and down stairs, searched every
possible spot where the burly form of the
g Bossn could be concealed, but all 10
vain. He had broken from his tolls and
was making one bold effort for liberty.
The telegraph was set in operation, and
men dispatched in every direction in
search of the fugitive.
Sheriff Conner joined in the hunt and
had men sent to cover every possible place
of exit from The city. Matsell and Wall
ing Joined the party and assisted in devils
inc means to secure the capture OF the
noted criminal. But it was the unani-
nous feeling that all their efforts would
prove futile, and that even then he was
far beyond their reach.
The police called at the residence OF
the notorious Mrs. McMullen, but, as was
anticipated, no trace of him was found in
that quarter.
The precise manner of his escape is
still unknown, but it is thought that it
was done through the sanction of the Jail
warden and of friends in league; that he
was at once taken to the bay and placed
ON a vessel that is now bearing him away
TO some South American State where no
extradition treaty can modest or make him
afraid.
NEW YORK, Dec. 5
The papers, editorially, to-day are loud
in their denunciation of Sheriff Conner
for his gross and culpable negligence,
The Sheriff is holden to the State for the
full amount of the pecuniary damages
which may be sustained in the suits
against Tweed, but his official bonds are
only for $4,000.
The Herald says the escape OF Tweed is
the browning shame of long series OF
.disgraces. Nothing new could excel this
in infamy but the failure OF the police to
retake him. Tweed must be retaken or
American Justice will be the laughing
stock of the world. His escape was pre-
cisely similar to that of Harry Genet's.
He was driven to his house by a Deputy
Sheriff, asked permission to see his wife,
left the deputy cooling his heels in the
parlor, and walked off, too safe to run.
The World intimates its belief that the
custodians of Tweed connivcd at his
escape, and says it is probable that they
have been stipendiaries of the prisoner for
months, granting him, for a consideration,
those favors which are always for sale at
a debtors prison. Whether captured OF
not, his property will serve to
satisfy the judgments against him
in the suits to recover the plumber taken
from the city. The World says that
Sheriff Conner and Warden Durham are
liable to a fine of $1,000 and one years
Imprisonment for their neglect, and II
Tweed is not forthcoming they will be apt
to get the full benefit of the law.
The Times says that whatever penalty
can be exacted from Sheriff Conner ought
to be insisted on to the uttermost.
A report has been in circulation all day
today, but cannot be verified, that Tweed
escaped week ago and is now well away
from the country.
There is no cessation to-day to the ex-
element created on Saturday night
throughout the city by the announcement
of the escape of Tweed. Police-Commis-
sioner Matsell has no theory in regard to
the escape, but said emphatically that in
his opinion there was collision some
where. Supt Walling at late hour this
evening stated that thus far not the slight
est clew had been obtained by him
which might put him on the track of the
fugitive, as the police were unable to find
any person who saw the coach which is
supposed to have carried Tweed off, or the
driver of the coach, who had been LETT at
his residence by the Sheritf's officers.
The Sheriff's deputies are securing the
CITY also without any result. The police
are still of opinion that Tweed passed out
of the front basement door and was taken
to Sixtieth street and East River, where