The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-18
ANOTHER TASCOTT FAILURE.
The Chicago Detectives Return and Report the
Result Of the Trip to the Far Northwest.

CHICAGO, March 1.-THE international
chase for Tascott has ended in failure. A.
j. Stone, son-in-law of the fugitive's sup
posed victim, millionaire Smell, returned
empty-handed to Chicago, last night. after
a fruitless journey of several thousand
miles. Mr.. Stone was accompanied by de-
tectives Mcdonald and Williams. Follow
ing clew which took them to the Canadian
Northwest. the pursuit led to the Pacific
coast. There capture was made. but the
prisoner, like so many before, proved to be
the wrong man.
Mr.. Stone estimates the length of his trip
as 5000 miles. He talks quite freely, but
remarked with significance: "It must be
understood that choose to reserve names
for various reasons, some bearing on the
future. About month ago." said Mr..
Stone. II received from law firm in Min
nG;spfs n;sppf Letter Letter stating ia that they had
some authoritative information as to what
he believed to be Tascott's where
abonts. My inquiries following showed
that the suspects description tai
than any had yet seen. The young man
was said to be employed in tieing camp
near Kat Portage, a town on the Canadian
Pacific, 25O miles east OF Winnipeg / left
Chicago with four others, including Alder
man Badenoch, and three weeks ago to-
night we went to Minneapolis, thence to
Winnipeg, and thence to the tieing camp.
We arrived there to discover that young
man such as described had worked there
until week before. He had, some time
young man in Rat Portage, stating there
was draft there from his father, who lived
IN certain town in southern
California. The contractor had held back
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young man had worked out a debt. Upon
receiving the card, tho young man left at
once. We then bore down upon Rat Port
age, only to learn that the young fellow
had gone to another tleing camp, where we
again arrived to learn that they had moved
on to Winnipeg, saying that the first young
fellows father In southern California was
dying, and they would hasten to his bed
Z side. We obtained some of the suspects
writing In the first tieing camp, and it was
Tascotts own hand-in fac-simile. We
hurried to Winnipeg, and there, at the
bank, added the suspects signature to our
stock of evidence. 1t seemed certain that
Taseott had written that name, and no
we were on the right track at last.
Out of Winnepeg we ran the scent to GER
tain nameless town in the Northwest Ter
ritory, near the American line. Thence we
pursued it out to Vancouver, and thence by
boat to Seattle. The next jump brought
US to Tacoma, and there the twain had sep
arated. Our man, continued Mr.. Stone,
went to Portland by rail, and his COM
panion shipped for San Francisco by sea.
From Portland the trace ran to San Fran
cisco, and we reached it week later 1t
seemed probable then that the town in
southern California whence the draft is
sued was their destination, and thither
fastened my companions. Suspecting that
this feature might be q ruse. / remained to
watch the outbound China steamer of that
week, and saw her put forth without Tas-
colt. A telegram reached me that our man
was caught in the southern California
town, and was in custody. / fastened
thither. One glance at the prisoner sent
my heart into my boots. He was not Tas-
colt, though he resembled him in many
points. He was a young fellow of good
family, and we released him without the
satisfaction of knowing for whom he
was suspected. 1t was the disappointment
of my life" said Mr.. Stone; I'VE were
all sure that if we found the man who
signed the Winnipeg draft, whose descrip-
tiOn we had and upon whose trail we then
were. that we would have Tascott We
avoided everybody, taking no one into our
confidence. We consulted none of the au-
thOrities in the numerous places we visited,
and left all we encountered in a state of
mystiticatiOn. We were given a number of
hints that Manitoba was a good refuge for
'boodlers,' and for any man in hiding; in
such trackless waste of mountains. for
ests. lakes and big rivers it would be hard
to find anyone. l will not say that think
Tascott is in that country, but he may be-
! have other clews of which am hopeful" J"