The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-04-26


into Madison avenue, but as they got
there a car having run off the track some
mounted police and passengers stood in
the way and the fugitive was stopped for
two or three minutes,
The wagon soon started again and
drove zigAag across the city toward
North river, which was soon reached,
and beside big truck on the pier they
stopped. The driver said "Get out on
the river side" Tweed got out, seeing
that the truck covered him from ohscr'
walton. As he alghted, man stood
near the truck also, who indicated that
Tweed was to descend into a row-boat, in
which he quickly embarked and crossed
to the Jersey side. There he was met
by another vehicle in waiting for him on
the shore road, when he was driven of
into a region beyond the river and
palisades, in direction and to termi-
nation where he never had been before,
and could not now ascertain or indicate.
AT an old farm house Tweed was re.
ceived by another of his new found
friends and in this refuge, disguised, he
continued from December 1 until the
first week in March, always under con-
troll of the two men who had managed
his escape and contracted for his safety,
He did implicitly what they directed,
and they held him in hand like trainers.
lie slept, he rose, he walked, he rode,
ate and drank only as they instructed
him, and, it may be remarked here, that
this discipline and relation was main
tained until he closed his engagement
with them satisfactorily in Florida,
On Dec, 5, Tweed left Jersey and took
up temporary abode on Staten Island,
about half mile from Fort Wadsworth,
at the Narrows, in fshcrman's hut
with his two companions. Here the
party stayed two weeks, making prepara
tions. Tweed not only lived at this
shadman's hut for two weeks, but even
made visit across the channel and stop
ped night in Brooklyn.
During his stay on Staten Island, a
light and fast.sailing little schooner was
fitted out and manned by himself and
two companions, with negro boy.
lie started at last from the pier in
front of the fort in a row.boat in the
night, and slipped away upon pleasant
breeze.
In due course, and without anything
noticeable, they reached lagoons on the
coast of Florida. AT one of the light
house stations they made a definite stop
page again, Tweed taking board with the
keeper of the lighthouse as John Secor,
an invalid gentleman, seeking restora-
ton of health and recreation of fishing
and hunting.
Here, too, he parted with his guides
from New York, closing his contract
with them at that place. Here Tweed
was Joined by the person who is known
as Hunt in the reports of his subsequent
arrest. This man was a Florida guide,
and with him Tweed spent long time
in the interior, camping out, hunting and
fishing. Subsequently he returned to st,
Augustine, which place he left in fish
ing smack for Cuba, and he and his com
panion Hunt landed ten miles outside the
harbor of Santiago de Cuba.
The remainder of the story is devoted
ia o, ,ccouut oI Twned's adventures in
C,Ln Im his ymbooonont .o;l;na for Snain
tI,o % arrost at Viao and return tn tho
iTni,ed States
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Appended to the above story is the
following letter:
ITpIOw STREET JAIL, Dec. 6, 1876.
To cr,p,rs O,Coxon ESQ.
Srp-It,ko tbe liberty of addressing
Won This letter in view Of the foct thai
y,,o,'r noo;tion 10 counsel dnsion,tod hv
;; ;;ho ., ato outhori,ies in INV matters has
mrofessed solely the public good, regard.
Ioss ronv factions or ncrsonaI interest
Heretotore have met INV troubles with
evcrv resource at nv disposal, possibIy
IN a nistokon sense of duty I have stood
m foo long to shield others az we'll rs
nrrseIf nr bnerinr mrh losses and nunish-
ment as were meted ont to nv transrres-
s;ons and INV mistortunes. Ii was truly
moro r~ in Tho interest of others than in nv
own that litigation and Resistance were
prolonged Viewing the manner of NV
retmrn 10 the wards of this prison real.
izinr the taunts in the civ, state and
nation which am brought here to con-
front il will not hone seem TO be pre.
anmnt;on or insinceritv in me to saw that
I ~ am indeed overwhelmed that ali
further resistance being hopeless / have
none now 70 make. and only seek the
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nJT whicb 7 NAV make unouaJI6ed sur.
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