Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-04-11

front door. Not a person or sound an.
peared to respond to his appointment.
After waiting for a few moments
under the shadow of the stoop his
attention was attracted by thu
noise of wheels, and he saw
common bridesmaids wagon, such as ia
used by grocers and express drivers.
He saw also a mans arm reach ont
from cover, which was the sign that
1t was for him. AS he descended the
stoop he also saw man passing
slowly, which caused him to hesitate.
but this person said, in a low tone.
"All right. Get in the wagon" Sohe
scrambled into the covered wagon
which drove quickly around the block
into Madison avenue, but, as they cot
there, a car having run off the track,
sore 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 Zig-zag across the city toward
the North River, which VAS 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 OBJ
servation as he alighted. A 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 off into the
region beyond the river and Palisades
in a direction and to termination
where he had never been before, and
could not now ascertain or indicate.
At an old farmhouse Tweed was re-
ceived by another of his new found
friends, and in this refuge, disguised,
he continued from Dec. until the
first week in March, always under
control of two men who had managed
his scape and contracted for his safe
ty. He did implicitly what they di-
rected, and they held him in hand like
trainers.
On March 5, Tweed left Jersey City
and took up his temporary abode on
Staten Island, about half a mile from
Fort Wadsworth, at the Narrows, in
lisherman's hut, with bis two compan-
ions. Here the party staid two weeks,
making preparations. Mr. Tweed not
only lived at this shad mans hut for
two weeks, but even made visit
across the channel and stopped a night
in Brooklyn.
During his stay on Staten Island,
irl, fuc
was fitted out, and manned by himself
and two companions, with a negro
boy. He started at last from pier in
front Of the fort in roWboat in the
night, and slipped away upon a pleas
ant breeze.
In due course, and without anything
noticeable, they reached the lagoons on
the coast of Florida. At one of the
lighthouse stations they made def
mite stoppage again, Tweed taking
beard with the keeper of the light as
John Secor, an invalid gentleman,
seeking a restoration of health and the
recreations of fishing and hunting.
Here he parted with his guides from
New York, closing his contract with
them at that place.
Here Tweed was joined by 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 a
fshing-smack for Cuba and he and his
companion, Hunt, landed ten miles
outside the harbor of Santiago de Cuba.
The remainder of the story is de-
voted to an account of Tweed's adj
ventures in Cuba, his subsequent sail
ing for Spain, the arrest at Vigo, and