, 1876-10-14
TWEED AND His FRIENDS.

u tOAh W StAI51HE khC Et0Ih3ks
iss,i structure Ut the country a!ui,s The route.
TWEED AND HIS FRIENDS.
Fato of tho Members ur thn Tanm,any Ring
E e t'sagsts e sas Sa,,h A'"syican Rsste":
careers ut tllosc prominent n the history UI the
King Wglc marked by exile, misfortune, and
ruin. The way Of the trahsgrcssurA MAS hard.
F'rtt, OF Tho fur great cc,trnl figures. Uf these
Tweed passed year III a feluns cell, frUsn
which bic was rticased by drcisiun Of tile Court
of Appeals advrr.e to tlae legality Ut t'u cuElu-
latiYs sentence imposed by Julge Davis. lin
med!atciy arrested u! t,cw suits, lie lay for u
cd Its means In Litigation; and thsn, suddenly
escaping irom the Sl,crlII's hands, he followed
Swecny mud c"nnn!ly nto exile, leaving l'c-
hind him IN tinsalisIic!i Judgment for millions
even then hunted finally iu earth through the
retuuTscltss peuvtl Ut tllc carfcaturist. FORCED
to leave Lis first plu:e Of refuge
u H., Euba, lie hs tel to3S passage fur Spain,
anxious libvrty,, was idcntc.l Ivy n.cans uf a
caricaturu OIL llis arrival ut ftgn, and a, oncc
arrested. There was no rest .os peaec fur 1n
except within hts PRISONS walls. Sswecny aud
early taken refuge In flight: Tinld by nature,
and npprveating tic fury Of The stur,1, Swce,ly
l'ad, III Dctc1nl1cr, 16li, Oh prctext 81 l-,entl,
withdrawn to St.; caihcr'ne':, IN Canada. asnl
tiate ucacc, Falling in this. hr nnl,seuunutly
went to Europe, ac,o,nnauic,] Ey lis hrutht.r.
AMI the two thereafter resided exI,rs In Paris.
They were abnn'lantls supplied with nlean*, for
they had kept tHuch Of their plun4rr well In
hand but none the less they were outcasts and
plrlal,s and knew themselves tn hc sIIrTn Tnc
brother, .taucs, drank himself to death in June,
ls75, while the more astutc Peter IT,, less for
capital, stunning most Of all tne faces tf lis
rountryncn, and awaiting In sl,a,l,c and fur
tho Issue Of the suits which involve the OWNER
' 1ounullv H neI e the U rontry e;r]v in 1so M.
timliity counseled him wel. In Europe he
wandered bcipIrs5ly about. pnssInr tni,ri, r5 1,s
time at first in Egypt, where somy pasaj1g
stranger wildly tlrsrrtbed lin as sItttur rnoI,
nody. viii trrmbltnr hands ap.i yueant cvss:,,
Subsequently, he was reported US living with 6is
sor.i,,-law ai Vcyay, In Switzerland. "'''' '''
Hail alone, Of them all, attempted to re-
was mon lin. The law jjrtn Of yI!si, l,r was
a mariner dissolved. and things went hafliv viii
lin, unttl nj last, In Tie carly DAYS of 1916.
New York was astonisl,ei BY thc sudden III.
to abandon lis profession, anu to BECOME an
artor, lie ALWAYS had IL fnucy for nriyatr
thcatrirala. and had won a ccrtatn rrn,Ifn-
tiun IN them. and NOW, man Of middle
20, ant, soou ca,nc down. iIu nrrfurrne5 hnt
III d single I,lay, spectally written fUr him.
und having u very direct retcrcnce to Tic Tic
otlIun into wlliel, he had fallen as Mayor: but
his future was too evident to admit II dues.
tIon, even by himself; 90, hayn: once moro
made himself Ridiculous, be thutlleJ pfi Tie
etare back 10 hts law office. Whether ht. wnnIt1
clailgc PLACES viii, swrcny Is an opcu question
Tic lesser satellites OF thc Ring were mi,
more fortunate. The miserable de- eI,h Of Wal
sou has alrcl,ly treu described. iIis slt,.cssnr,
Woodward, lives fugitive in Turis. Ire cn1n.
1anion, il Is saki; ii Tweeds son ilirhard. ,;ho
Il supposed to Keep guntI over hiusin Tie Inter.
est OF Ills father,
Genet, W,lhout. Ftcids. anil Cook arr )lkcw,se
in exile, bankrupt and depressed, bearing as-
su,ncd names, living from Land to mouth, aud
anxiuusiy Nstut1yiur rxtradftiun trt,tic,.H 0f
tic contractors, through tlse medium Of whom
tho frauds were peri,ctruted, Gasvcy turned
iurrrso|l. ronyI,tcd III !, terlnirsj fnr,rerv IN
CONNECTION viii, tic c,ty business. was 7,n;ris.
oned, a,,d tllcn par,iuncd on condition tint hr
would furnish tie evidence necessary t., c1nv;ct
lis priucipais In crime. Tie Rin| J1,,lrrs wrr..
no ,ilorr fortunate than its more immediatc
priuclpa1s. Elected from the Hrnch and tlIs-
nnalIdcfi from prnctteo ns thn Rar. hroien T.,