The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-27
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,,mc wear. bcfore that he hpi married
Mia. smith. daughter ~ Bryan n. Smith,
no.iIcnt II the Brooklyn Savings Bank
who Itves at 70 Pierrepont street, They
I.aI NJ tho Hotel Touraine. Later teavitt
A., ~ be- prominent In certain Tammany
c,r.lo-. Martin Engrl bcing among his
inmates. IL was at first stated that Engel
had furnished bail that Leavitt jumped
after his civil arrest here growing out Of
,he suit Of Robvrt a.. kelsey Of Brooklyn,
but Engcl denied this. 10 IA understood,
however, that Engel furnished The bond
Ing company with indemnity before IL
bailed Leavitt out and that the attempt
10 capture Leavitt was really ~instigatsd
by the Tanmany men. Thus doth Martin
Engcl cry havoc and let loose the dogs Of
war.
When Gen. Beardsley moblllzed his
forces aud moved on York Harbor he knew
the strength of the enemy. Admiral Leavitt
is about 35 years old, stands Q feet 4 inches
In his stockings, has shoulders like the
back Of a hack, fists like sacks Of coffee and
weighs $50 pounds. Moreover, as will ap-
pear, he is passing guileful, is the Admiral.
That the wisdom Of the serpent is his would
at once appear II all the judgments and
suits be has left behind him were catalogued
in this place.
Wherefore Gen. Beardsley stopped of
In Boston last Tuesday and recruited his
forces. The that followed
are thus described by one Of the attacking
party:
we first got to York Harbor about 0
o'clock on Wednesday morning. Leavitt
lives about four miles up the river in q big
old house that's been In his family for gen.
e~rations. All the Leavitts have lived In
York since Heo was a pup. He's torn out
the insides and put In hardwood floors
and costly rugs and open plumbing and built
a big, wide piazza around it or all four sides.
| s'pose he finds the piazza useful to take
observations Of approaching forces.
We had to drive up to his place. We got
there about quarter after ten. There were
come men working about the lawn. l
heard afterward he hires five OF EN- to keep
busy about the place. Itook one man up to-
the front door and rang the bell. Leavitt
opened the door. He knew me at once.
He'd seen me in New York the time he
was pinched. I went inside and left my
man on the piazza. I wasn't armed.
Neither wal my man. The most danger
ous weapons we had were a pair Of
handouts.
1eavitt,' I said, you know what I'm
here for. I'm going to take you back to
New York-right this afternoon. I'm going
to take you, all right. The only question
is, Will you come peaoeably or will you make
a row.
"Beardsley looked down on me a minute
and then he said;
"'You talk foolishness. If l want to go
back with you I'll go and if l don't want to I
won I. You can't make me 60 and you
know it, l told him / was wishful to have
a try at It anyhow and that II he didn't
come along quiet at once I'd call my man
Then he sort Of Gained down and said
be was sorry he'd allowed the thing to drift
along the way it had and that OF course
he'd go back to New York with me. Only
he didn't intend to spend mucht time in Lud-
low street jail. He had plenty Of resources,
be said; .'
1T hogan to look easy. Then Leavitt
said
It's going to be pretty tough to tell my
NV Iou hUON INV WoIlCh olo
Il said | did and then he went out to tell
her about it. When he came back he aid
that Mrs. Leavitt wanted me to stay to
lunch. | said | wasn't hungry but he
wouldn't near Of anything else so / finally
said I'd stay. Leavitt said I'd better send
my team back to town as we could all 20 to
the station with him in his team. But /
didn't do it.. was glad Of that afterward,
" would have been a four mile walk.
When luncheon was over leavitt said
he'd have to go and pack up a few things
to take with him. He went out into the
hall and ] heard the sound Of feet tramp.
ing upstairs. / talked with Mrs. Leavitt
foi a while and then l began to smell a rat.
| could still hear a man moving around
upstairs. but it seemed to take him the
deuce Of a while. l went upstairs to in
vestigate. Ieavitt was gone. In his room
was a hulking big Swede making as much
noise az he could. according to Instructions,
by throwing stuff around the room. Leavitt
had escaped by a back door. Mrs. Leavitt
said he had gone to take a walk in the
woods. Doctors orders, she said. She
seemed rather pleased about 1t.
Il went out and told h man on the
piazza.
'Stung!' says he.
That's about the size Of it, says l.,
and We went back TO Boston. That ended
the land campaign. -,
Thursday we reinforced Some more and
We started back on Friday morning. We
drove over to Leavitt's place as before,
but somebody had tipped him OIL the