The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-04-02
OAKEY HALLERY.
Arrival Of the Fugitive Ex.lIayor
In LiverpOOl-I1OW he Was Re-
e0gnixed, and the Story Of His
Eught-Hc Makes the Voyage
in o Freight steamer, Under
the Name Of w. 4, AuteliHIe-


LrvERrooI, March 3l.-The Liverpool
steamer Victoria, from Boston, March
| II, has arrived. A representative OF The
Associated Press, acquainted with A,
Oakley Hall, boarded the Victoria at Q
O'Clock this morning. He learned that a
passenger answering Halls description
was aboard. This passenger arose at
daylight, and was found little later In
the cabin examining the log. Hall was
Immediately recognized in the passenger,
who was known on board as Mr. sutclihe.
He has about fortnight's growth Of
mustache and side whiskers, and was
dressed in old clothes, dark blue shirt,
red scarf, small, common cap and spec-
tacles, instead OF the customary eye.
glasses. The reporter adds: l asked to
see him privately, and he led the way to
his stateroom. said "a. Oakley Hall
disappeared from New York fortnight
ago, and was believed to be on the steam.
er Victoria" Hall replied: "Well, what
Of that" told him l knew Hall per.
fectly by sight, and he was the man. He
replied that was mistaken. l told him
Hknew he was Hall, and that his family
were terribly anxious, and that his friends
in New York were much excited about
him. He asked why they should be ex.
cited, and then made remark about the
weather in an unconcerhed way and
went out to breakfast. He repeatedly
denied he was Hall, and told me hO was
on his way to Bristol. After breakfast
We left the ship. As helped him down
the ladder, he asked me il | had found
my friend yet He now wore an old ulster
overcoat. On landing he went 10 the
office OF Warren & Co., agents Of the
Victoria, thence to the telegraph office,
and finally to the Northwestern Railway
Station, where he took a second. class
ticket and left by the noon train for Lon
don, and ia due at the Euston Station at
$50 P. NJ.
New York, March 3t-There is
hardly room for doubt that A. Oakley
Hall, Of New York, is the passenger, SUIT
clifie, discovered to-day on the steamship
Victoria, arrived at Liverpool. He en-,
gagged passage on Monday, the 12th inst. ,
and on the same evening attended the
opening performance at the Globe Thea
tire Of London Assurance" During the
day he called at the Office and asked
whether he could take passage on the
Victoria, and how soon she would sail.
Mr.. OHara, clerk, told him she would
probably sail the 18th, and that che was
only freight ship, but il he liked to 60 as
a passenger he could be accommodated.
Hall expressed desire to engage pas
sage, and the transaction was completed
by his paying the price, $50, giving his
name as W. E. Sutcliffe, from Quebec.
The clerk thought it queer that gentle.
man should choose freight ship, when
he could have easily taken passenger
steamer, and subsequently, when the
newspapers gave publicity to Halls
flight for Europe on the l7th, The date Of
the Nictoria's departure, he was natur-
ally reminded Of the solitary passenger.
Seeing picture Of the ex.Mayor, he de-
clared that W. Z. SutclIffe must be Hall.
The murder and suicide and financial
embarrassment stories, coined in turn to
account for his disappearance, are now
dispelled. 1t issaid, by one who knew
Hall well, that his on ntstanding liabilities
will not aggregate $3.50. He was not be-
fore his departure disposed to suicide
and he was too good.natured a gentleman
to invite murder.
The stewards statement, telegraphed
from London, about the disposition OF
the Victorias passenger for punning, is
strong confirmation that the missing ex.
Mayor has been found.
The Express says that %he ex.AIayor
left the city and country as he did and
when he did on account OF the Tweed
trial. We think it will be made evident
to all when the full exposure OF names
and dates are laid before the public"
The statement is made that as much Us
$50, 900 was paid for getting through the
Tweed charter, and that the members of
the Legislature, Democratic and Repub.
lican, shared alike. We hear also OF
drafts as high as $4,000, and running
down from $4,000 TO 5000, having
been paid by roundabout process
through parties who may not have been
directly interested, and every draft must
have borne the signature Of Mayor Hall.
What has delayed Tweeds release has
been the necessary feconveyance of the
transferred property back to himself and
by him to'the city. It is understood the
Putnam county property ia included in
this transfer, and that water privileges
Of the lakes under contract are also TO
be transferred"
LONDON, March 31.-A Telegram lust
received from Liverpool shows that A.
Oakley Hall, the mfssing ex.Mayor Of
New York, is in that city. The telegram
is as follows, ..
LINE STREET. RAILWAY STATION,
LIVERPOOL, March Sl-11:l0A. N.
"A. Oakley Hall has taken a ticket TO
London. He missed the Z o'clock train,
and will-probably go by the next, at
noon,'
Mr.. HALL m LONDON.
When Hall (Sutclife) arrived at Eus.
ton Station he employed porter, who
took two black japanese leather carpet
bags marked "G," and a roll Of rugs.
TheyIwalked tothe Cover Street Station
OF the Metropolitan Underground Rail.
way, where the porter left the traveller,
who took third.class ticket for Noting
Hill Gate Station. BE was evidently
unacquainted with the route, for he in.
quired frequently OF his feilow.passen.
gers, and seemed nervous. At his desti-
nation he took d Hanson cab and drove
TO asmall, quiet, private house near BY.
He was eyeidently expected, as the door
opened without ring or knock, and he |
passed in Immediately with his luggage,
He was not met at the station by an &C.
quaintance, at least he was not recog.
nized BY any one 50 far o could be seen,
The Victoria's passenger is above me.
dium height, dressed as described in a
Liverpool dispatch, and walks with
q swinging gait. His face, recently clean
shaven, is now covered with rough, gray
stubble. He strenuously denies he Is A.
Oakley Hall.
The steward Of the Victoria volunteers
the statement that Sutclihe was the great.
est fellow for making puma he ever met,
and an attache Of the Associated Press,
who saw and conyersed with Sutclifle al
Liverpool, afrms his confidence there ia
no mistake about him being A. Oakley
Hall.
Weather Indications.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
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