The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-06-21
On the same day Bryant telegraphed
Foster Sweeney, formerly Tweeds secre.
tary, IA follows:

ALBANY, March 90.
To L. FOsE Dersy, Hoffman House,
shall close the first Of next week
See that no word Is said to sorl until
get back tomorrow.
LSigned BRYANT,
In order that Il might not become ,
matter ior reporters comment that TweeC
was receiving frequent kilograms ant
correspondence the name Of Luke Gran
was selected as the one under which L
address him, and on March eth he 70
ceiVed from Bryant the following;
BucKISGHAM HOTEL, March 81, 1877.
TO Luke Grant, 10 L,ltllOW Street:
Solid. See me at II; the General later
g. UNION.
Sure enough on the same day you ap
peared al Ludlow street jail with your
fdeS ackaieJ (Bryant). This was an in.
terview impressed by Bryant on Tweed
as one l was 10 know nothing Of, and
you never alluded to 1t yourself
until subsequently expressed my
NotVhAnhAASAk W lOA bAht hud
not informed Of your intention. Their
you pretended that you knew nothing Of
Bryant, and had thought he was Tweed'a
friend. To use 4 vuigarism, the expla.
nation was "too thin.n How odd your
conduct Oh this occasion looks when con.
tracted with the high.toned views you
expressed when Peckham and first ac
companied you to the Jail, to the effect
that you must receive everything from
Tweed through counsel. Tweed, as he
Informs me, had expected at this inter.
view a full examination. lie says thai
your curfOusly cast your eyes over his
mass Of papers, then in confused condi'
ton, but manifested no interest except on
the subject OF Senator Woodin and to ia.
certain the name OF the editor oil
Ipaper. At these you grasped
eagerly and took a statement from
him In regard to them, which you
carried of, and, by the way, as you have
not returned il, he would be glad to have
you do so at once. The proposition that
Tweed offered was made as an absolutecon.
ditiOn Of his release. He was an inform
er, in the ordinary acceptance Of the
word. Hemade ii not to injure any par
ticular individual, but to save himself, as
he thought, from perpetual imprlson.
ment. It was not intended for a political
sword, to be used by any one, and twas
prepared, IA you we'll know, utterly re.
gardless of political parties. lie was
not pleased that this interview with you
could only assure him that you wished 10
make political capital. He was in your
hands, however, and he had TO sub.
init, but not content with this interview
without my knowledge, you called again
and carried away some papers with
you, which you have never returned
Tweed cannot particularize them, but
would feel obliged il you would return
them; also, not carry out your cx.
pressed intention of having nothing moro
10 do with Mr.. Tweed until you have
done 80. On the same day, as
Tweed informs me, Mr.. Bryant
called on him and wrote a fuller
statement in regard to Senator Woodin
and an editor mentioned, which as,sworn
by Tweed ,as Bryant told him, by your di.
rection; this he carried away with him as
also very large amount Of checks which
he said were needed by Mr.. O'COnncr,
and you. O'Conner informed nc the
checks were never exhibited to him and
he had never asked to see them, and Bry.
ant has said, both TO Tweed and myself,
and l believe to others that you
and Tilden had them on the same day
with your last visit on Tweed, and after
Bryant's departure Tweed received a lei.
egram Of which the following is copy:
GRAND Union HOTEL, March oS, 1877
To Luke Grant, 70 LudloW Street:
Solid. Again accepted and secure.
(Sighed) c. o. BRYANT.
On the 39lh Of March received note
from Bryant, from the Grand Union Ho.
tel. The following is copy OF that por.
ton Of il which associates him with you
and furnishes hint as to what disposi.
tion was made Of the checks and papers
taken from Tweed by you and Bryant:
GRAND UNION, Thursday Evening.
My DEAR Mr.. TowNLEND-I have q
growing assurance that you will not be
called upon to make out any schedule oi
the surrender Of values in our case. The
precedent in Ingersolrs and not Wood.
wards enlargement, win be the model oi
our party. He has borne his punishment
which cannot be repeated. The surren.
der Of values affords so poor an excuse
that the thing will not be exhibited un.
duly. Yet as something fully commen.
surate is necessary and the forthwith in.
formation, not property, will be taken
OF this the mine is q golconda indeed
and our General has taken great loads
with him 10 Albany Of the ore. This Il
all. We fly by night.
Yours truly,
(signed) COBB.
| was determined about this time to meet
you il possible. Accordingly ! tele.
graphed 10 you at Albany and you rc.
piled TO me by telegram, dated April ID
that you would be at the Buckingham
Hotel Wednesday morning, which was
the 4th. | AIN not certain whether you
kept your appointment that day, but
met you there abont that time. Our
interview was short. At that time
asked youif you really desired Tweed to
make full and complete statement OF
his association with Ring matters.
stated 10 you that Tweed was in such a
condition Of mind that he did not appear
10 be aware OF what course would meet
your approval. You then said you
wanted 10 know all, and that il he made a
full confession, and restored what proper.
ty he had LETT, he would be released, and
not otherwise. Having heard that Kelly,
Comptroller, had an interview with you
about the same time called upon him
and learned that you had made about
the same statement 10 him, and being
impressed by Kelly with his belief, you
were sincere in your promise. l set to
work Immediately with Tweed 10 pre-.
pare statement Of his offer. In spite oi
your assurance, Tweed was in doubt
as to whether you intended good faith
and this uncertainty was not lessened by
the apparent intimacy kept up by you
with Bryant On the 9th Of April he
telegraphed to Tweed as follows:
GRAND UsIoN HOTEL, April 8, 1877.
70 Luke Grant, 20 LUDLOW street;
Buckingham all right; I took my papers
Inwn thiu MN rrinR