The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-20

who was lodged JAIL mere on Wednesday, and
escaped in a few hours by cutting through the
wall, is the man wanted in Chicago for the MUIR
der of A. J.. SMELL His description talles with
that given in Associated Press dispatches pub
The foregoing dispatch was eagerly perused
tonight by Inspector Bonfield, and detectives
Aldrich and Elliott. to whom it was shown i'm
mediately being received. The de-
teetives exchanged significant chances, and it
plain from their manner that the news
was in line with one OF their principal theories
as to the direction of the flight of the murderer.
This much was later virtually admitted by de-
tective Elliott, who said Tascott was known to
have previously been iE California and to have
expressed more than once marked inclination
tn return there at the first opportunity. De-
tective Elliott showed dispatch just received
from the warden OF the Kentucky penitentary,
that the fugitives body was peculiarly
marked, affording certain means
of Identification. The young fellow
has a the right hip, where he was shot
when attempting to escape from Frankfort
prison There were also scars some perhaps
yet unhealed. on the right leg and on the knees.
and both elbows the result of having to wear q
ball and chain. The detective was anxious that
the information should be spread. and especially
to California and the Southwest. that Tascotts
upper front teeth exhibit gold filling, a line or
surface of the metal extending along the edge.
The filling seems to be from the interior, but
shows prominently. the upper lip being slightly
drawn back.
Considerable speculation has been INDUCED in
as to how the police managed to make sure that
the mysterious ledger at Mrs. Wicks was Tas-
colt The point was cleared this evening by
the dem mon aine. Jennie Clifford. who said she
had given the information to the police. Tas-
colt had talked in his sleep. and not only had
told his own name in his mutterings. night
or two before the tragedy, but fire.
quenty made reference, with oaths,
to ''old SHELL" and gave inklines
OF a still moro horrible purpose than the rob-
berry and possible killing of the fated million
aire This nothing lass than an attack by
Tsscott upon his father. Miss Clifford
gathered from the disjointed expressions of his
troubled sleep that Tascott. failing TO realize
sufficient funds from the raid on the Shell resi-
dence. proposed to force Colonel Tascott to give
him 80 900 cash and an immediate interest IN
the fathers business, and, not succeeding, he
would plumber the family residence, taking the
same desperate risks that led to the Staying OF
SMELL
1t was ascertained, this evening, that young
Tascott, after leaving his lodgings the morning
of the murder boarded a train for Oak Park.
suburb the Chicago 81 Northwestern railroad,
where his brother lives He remained there all
day, saying nothing to his brother about the
tragedy, and departing in the evening. IL Is
quite possible that he boarded the Omaha ex-
press at Oak Park. and made his way direct to
the Pacific slope The detectives at headquar-
ters to night were sitting these circumstances and
computing the time it would have taken him TO
reach California, and about what would be the
utmost distance he could have attained east had
it been he " no concerned in the Los Angeles
episode and had taken back track.
Tascott is not old frat reported. He is
only twenty-one, and instead OF being i've feet