A warrant was issued for Leadley's arrest, but he fled to Mexico City as a fugitive where he lived for at least the next ten years.

[1] He moved to Detroit where he worked as an accountant and also managed the Cass Club baseball team in the early 1880s.

[1] At the end of the 1888 season, the Detroit Wolverines left the National League, and most of the players were sold to other clubs.

[5][6] The 1889 Detroit club compiled a 72–39 record,[2] and was, according to its star outfielder Count Campau, "one of the greatest minor league teams gathered" and "won the flag so easy that fans stopped going out to see the games.

The Sun newspaper from New York wrote at the time: "In Bob Leadley Buffalo has secured a shrewd and able manager.

[2] In November 1896, Leadley and Glenalvin purchased the Western Association baseball franchise in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

[14] The two owned the team, known as the Grand Rapids Bob-o-links, during the 1897 season and hired Count Campau as player-manager with Glenalvin playing at second base.

[2] In the late 1890s, even as he was the owner of the Grand Rapids baseball club, Leadley continued to serve as the clerk of Detroit's Police Court.

[18] In January 1899, Leadley was removed as the Police Court clerk after an investigation revealed a new shortage of approximately $10,000 in his books.

[1] According to California death records, he had been living in Los Angeles since 1922 with his wife who was identified as "Matha" Leadley.