Year: 1875

YOU let out was not the one that Dunham refers 20 In
his statement OF tho facts Of the escapeY'


They came here 90 hnd the driver Win visw & 70
that Tweed was In Ludlow Street jail on saturday and
10 endeayor TO exonerate themselves from blame"


siYOu don't know where this dark man livesf


s.No, do not and could give Colonel Gardiner no
Information, either In fact, know nothing more
than have stated He had not the driver since


Ar rHE FIFTY -EIGHrH STREET srARLE.


visit was next paid the Fftyeighth street stable.
where young clerk was found In charge. In answer
the inquiries put him he stated that all he knew
about the was that on Saturday he found early
IN the morning a memorandum IN little slip OF
paper to send an order 70 the FORTY ninth
street stable for carriage Tor Tweed This no
sent by telegraph. The carriage had been ordered
~ the General Il had been gwen verbally He did
not know who brought the message but supposed
the man who drove the carriage. Here ne gave a de-
scription of the man, which tales exactly with the
appearance Of George Hoffman, Tweed's confidential
driver This he said in the habit Of bringing
messages 70 the stable from General Tweed HIS
first name, he thought was Jonn. That was
what he was generally called He lived with the
General at No. % West Fifty eighth colored
man had also occasionally brought messages TO the stable
The General did not have any horses in the stable ne
said The reason why the carriage was ordered ae
Fortyninth street because they did not keep any
such conveyances at the Ffty-eighth street stable


THE MANS STORY


Mr.. Lamb, Sr., the father or William ana Charies
Lamb. was also called upon at his residence on rny
eighth street He stated hat ne & Sne" os Das
at the time IL occurred seeing his son Charles on
by the steamer Celtic. He did not Know ne Sau, she
name OF the man VINO hau uINeH s"o
Mr. Tweed but he was frequently around 70 the stables
He was generally called sIweed and not john There
was nothing extraordinary in the course they nad pur
sued in hiring the landau from Kerns Mr. Tweed had
ON the first occasion-yiz, November LEX
pressed a wish 10 have landau ana ne sup
posed they wanted the Saturday. and not having
one they hadkhred IT, but not the horses themselves
furnishing The latter IN order 10 save expense he did
not know whether the carnage looked on its return to
the stable as though IL travelstaned II was or
dered TO be ready to start at noon on Saturday. Tne
order was gwen about ten O'Clock by the
DRYER General Tweed has horse boarding
at the stable and Mr. Douglass a carriage and
pair OF horses This the same carriage that
had taken Warden Dunham to Police Headquarters.
When asked why he supposed so, he SAID, warden
Dunham says so " He was next asked If Warden
Durham had described the carriage and told whether
il was q closed Clarence landau, already de-
scribed In reply he said he had not The Warden,
he continued wanted TO find the driver and get him to
verify his own story.


THE DRIVER, GEORGE HOFFMAN,


A personal friend of the ex Boss was found last
night, who described the driver Of Tweeds private
carriage his various expeditions, when in power and
since, exactly given by both the Lambs and the
clerk His name is said to be George Hoffman. This
of identity and points out, beyond question,
that the man who drove the Lamb carriage
on Saturday George Holman and no other.
He was a man, he continued that Tweed would trust
keeping when he could put confidence in no one else,
$3.50, 0O0 This man had during Tweed's reign, been
ostensby In the employ of Canary but his salary had
always been paid by Tweed, who arranged with the
former to have him drive no one else but himself


Several hackmen throughout the city also inter-
viewed ana they all gave the same identical descrip.
ton of George Hoffman had been given by Lamb and
the others He was said they, and all the most
likely man Tweed would send for II he wanted TO get
away, for he had confidence In no one else.