Excerpt from A Guest at the Ludlow, and Other Stories
Tweed was once placed here in Ludlow Street Jail in default of bail. How few there are Of us who could slap up that amount Of bail if rudely gobbled on the street by the hand Of the law. While riding out with the sheriff, in 1875, Tweed asked to see his wife, and said he would be back in a minute.
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