Year: 1877

as is used by grocers and express drivers


He saw, also, q mans arm reach out


from the 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 low tone, "All right


get in the wagon" So he scrambled
into the covered wagon, which drove


quickly around the block into Madison


avenue, but as they got there, a Car hav-
ing run off the track, some mounted p0-


lice 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 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 obser-


vatiOn as he alighted. A man stood near
the truck also, who indicated that Tweed


was to descend into rowboat, 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 region beyond the river and the
Palisades in a direction and to termina-
tiOn where he never had been before and
could not now ascertain or indicate. At
an old farm house Tweed was received by
another of his new found friends, and in
this refuge, disguised, continued from
December 4th until the first week in
March, always under the control 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,
He 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
tanned until he closed his engagement
with them satisfactorily in Florida.


On December 8, Tweed left Jersey and
took up his temporary abode on Staten
Island, about half mile from Fort
Wadsworth, in the Narows, in fisher
mans hut, with his two companions.
Here the party staid two weeks, making
Mr.. Tweed not only lived
at this shadman's for two weeks, but
even made visit across the chanpel and
stopped night in Brooklyn. During
his stay on Staten Island light and fast
sailing little schooner was fitted out and
by himself and two companions,
with a negro boy. He started at last
from the pier in front ofthe fort in a row.
boat in the night, and slipped away upon
a pleasant breeze. In due course, and
anything noticeable, they
reached the lagoons on the coast of
At one of the lighthouse
stations they made definite stoppage,
again Tweed taking board with the keeper
Of the lighthouse as John Secor, an in
valid gentleman seeking a restoration of
his health and the recreations of fishing
and hunting. Here, too, he parted with
his guides from New York, closing his
with them at that place.


Here Tweed was joined by the person
who is known as Hunt" in the reports
If his subsequent arrest. This man was
| Florida guide, and with him Tweed
pent long time in the interior. camping
,ut, hunting and fishing. Subsequently |
,e returned to st. Augustine, which
place he left in fishing smack for Cuba,
ind he and his companion, Hunt, landed
.en miles outside the harbor of Santiago
le Cuba. The remainder of the story is
devoted to an account of Tweed's ad-
ventures in Cuba, his subsequent sailing
Tor Spain, the arrest at Vigo, and his re-
turn 70 the United States.