Wichita eagle., 1889-03-19
TAsCOTT NOT TAKEN.
His Pursuers Again Disappointed in the
Last Capture.

Chicago. March 1S-The international
chase for Tascott has ended in failure. A
7 Stone. son-in-law of the fugitlve's sup
nosed victim, Millionaire Smell, returned
empty handed to Chicago last night after
fruitless journey Of several thousand
miles. MIR. Stone was accompanied by
Detectives Mcdonald and Williams. roll
lowing a clue which took them to the Ca
madam Northwest, the pursuit led to the
Pacific coast There capture was made,
but the prisoner, like SO many pelore,
proved to be the wrong man;
Mr. Stone estimates the length OF his
trim as 3 600 miles. He talked quite freely,
Int remarked with significance: ut must
be understood that L choose to reserve
names for various reasons. some bearing
upon the future. Gu. q,
received from law firm i'll Minneapolis
letter stating that they had client, res
ident of Minnesota, who had some author
itatiye Information as TO what he oeleveu
TO be Tascott's whereabouts. My lnqur-
les following showed the suspect descrip-
ton tailed more closely with that OF Ias-
colt than any / had yet seen. The young
man was said to be employed In tlelng
camp near Rat Portage, town on the Ca
madam Pacific 30 miles east of Winnipeg.
left Chicago with four others, including
Alderman Badenoch, and three weeks ago
tonight we went to Minneapolis, thence to
Winnipeg, and thence to the tieing camp.
We arrived there to discover that a young
man such as described had worked there
until a week before He had some time
nrior received postal card from friend,
n Young man in Rat Portage, stating that
there was draft there from his father,
who lived in q certain town in southern
California The contractor held back the
card for two or three weeks, until the
young man had worked out debt.
Upon receiving the card the young
man left at once We then
bore down on Rat Portage only to learn
that the young fellow had gone to another
tieing camp, where we again arrived to
learn that they had moved on to Winni-
peg, saving that the first young fellow s
tather in Southern California was dying,
and they would hasten to his bedside. Now
we obtained some of the suspects writing
in the first tieing camp, and it was Tas-
rott's own hand-in fac smile. We hur-
ried to Winnipeg, and there at the bank
ndded the suspects signature to our
stock of evidence. 1t seemed certain that
Tascott had written that name,
and no doubt remained in our
minds that we were on the
right track as last. Out of Winnipeg we
ran the scent to certain nameless town in
the northwestern territory, near the
American line. Thence we pursued 1t out
TO Vancouver and thence by boat to Seat
tie. The next jump brought us to Tacoma,
and there the twain had separated.
"Our man." continued Mr.. Stone, went
10 Portland by rail- and his companion
shipped for San Francisco by sea.
From Portland the track 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 Suspect
ing that this feature might be a ruse, re-
NAMED to watch the outbound China
steamer of that week and saw her put
forth without Tascott. A telegram reached
me that our man was caught in the South
srn California town and was i'll custody.
FASTENED thither. One glance at the prls-
oner sent my heart into my boots. He was
not Tascott, though he resembled him IN
many points. He was young fellow OF
good family and we released him without
The satisfaction of knowing Tor whom be
was suspected.
1T was the disappointment of my life, >
said Mr. Stone. I'VE were all sure that Il
we found the man who signed the Winni-
peg draft, whose description we had and
lpon whose trail we then were, that we
would have Tascott. We avoided every
body, taking no one into our confidence.
We consulted none OF the authorities IN
the numerous places we visited, and left
all we encountered in state of mystifica-
zion. We were given number OF hints
that Manitoba was good refuge fol
'boodlers' and for any man in hiding
Such trac&less waste of mountains, for
Est, lakes and big rivers 1t would be hard
to find. | will not say that | think Tas-
eott is in that country, but he may be-
have other clews, of which am hopeful