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Show The New York Times criticises tho Tweed statement, clmractcritiinE it aa a romance It allows discrepancies discrep-ancies between tlie story of Tweed's escape and the (acta as published at the time, and ridicules the idea of Tweed's residoDce in a Florida Hghtbouso. The presence of northerners io lurgo numberi in Florida would havo exposed ex-posed Tweed to detection; his only sure hiding placo would be bouio of the faatnesaea orevorgladesof Florida. The statement about Hunt, the Florida guide, is ridiculed, and the fact that the distance from St. Augustine to the Cuban coast is GOO instead of forty miles diitant, noted. These mistakes might easily have beon made by the person writing up the narrative or in haalily transcribing it, and they do not necessarily affect the main features fea-tures of the statement. The Times regards tho narrative ai entirely fictitious. |