Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-12-01
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Tweed Tells His TaIe-His Talk Dur
ing the Voyage HOme-He VIII Make
TIIden Sick.
The New York Tribune has got great
lead on its rivals by publishing on Thurs
day morning two-column letter from an
officer of the Franklin. 1t is dated at st.
Thomas. November 9TH, and relates
Tweed's talk during the voyage as follows:
During the voyage Tammany's fallen
chief spoke freely of his plans. 81 was in
doubt, he said, "what to do. asked my
self and trusted friends at home before
fed, and friends and Judgment both alike
said Fly But, whittier shall l goT 1
asked again. One said TO Turkey, where
you. soon can be beyond the reach Of tele-
graphs;' but both Turkey and Egypt SEEM
ed too far away. Ny most trusted adviser
said Spain was the place, for there is no ex-
tradition treaty between the United States
and Spain, and Kent has clearly said that
where there is no extradition treaty it would
be violation of the law which custom
makes to surrender any fugitive. Then,
too, Spain is much easier to get to, and IS
somewhere when you get there. Then |
thought of my old friend Connolly, who IS
in Spain, and what good time we could
have together there. Then, too, it would
he near Dick, who am starting in business
in Livesnool, and still nearer Bill, who l
shall set up ir Paris, where he'll have the
friendly counsel o. my old companion Swee-
ney. Spain is the plaee for me, I said and
laid my plans accordingly. Fhen' stoo' II
is so easy to get there. III were 70 IaAe
passage on an ocean steamer they woGu p0
on the lockout for me, but I can stow AVA
on one Of these coasters that run down to
Cuba, and o1ce there will be as safe as
though in Spsin, and can make the voyage
over at my conFapienee. In the neighbor-
hood Of Seville, co1nolly says, is the best
place-good climate fertile country, and
good old sherry, very cheap. I'll go to
Spain, and buy or build myself castle
there, and then and there THspend my life
at ease. So Ireasoned; so ny fFiends-my
trusted frieads-advised; andlss believed.
To this end 1 Land my plans and made my
arrangements. could have fAft q year
and more before did, but was not ready.
/ had not then completed my arrangem'S SRts.
Ny time came. left; went to Cuba. J
got in trouble about passport, but fixed
thst-not very satisfactory to the Spanish
authorities, that is true; but I fixed it, and
though they made fuss about it, I got
through, and that was all that was neces-
sary.
mo sooner had I got to Havana" con-
tinued Tweed, ''than old Jovellar learned
in some way that was nice fat goose that
he could pluck to feather his nest He
made me pay pretty dear for my stay. there,
but don't begFudge it, for he was neces-
sary If an expensive convenience. But l
found it better to use my wings to fly with
than to let him pluck me any more, and so
| flew again. And now here l am. Here
Where? A prisoner on board an American
ship of war! This cabin is roomy, to be
sure, but, after all, it is prison, and 1 am
here on purpose to be taken back, and put
into the hands of my worst enemies. Yet
there is hope. These processes of extradi-
tion are irregular. They can't surrender
me, l know, for inquired particularly into
this before I left New York. BRIT, d--n it,
they have done it. I'm another case of that
man whose lawyer told him they couldn't