The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-03-28


CHICAGO, March 1.-THE international
chase for Taseott has ended in a failure
A. J. Stone, son-in-law of the fugitive's sup
posed victim, Millionaire Smell, returned
empty handed to Chicago after fruitless
journey OF over eight thousand miles, Mr..
Stone was accompanied by Detectives Nc.
Donald and Williams. Following clue
which took them to the Canadian North
west, the pursuit led to the Pacific coast.
there a capture was made, hut the prisoner
like so many Others proved to be the
wrong man. Mr.. Stone talked quite
freely, but remarked with significance:
alt must be understood that l choose
to reserve names for various reasons,
some bearing upon the future. About a
month ago" said Mr. Stone, II received
from alaw firm in Minneapolis II letter stat
ing that they had a client, resident o
Winnipeg, who had some authoritative in
formation as to what he believed to he Tas-
cOtt s whereabouts My inquiries following
showed the suspects description Tailed
more closely with that of TQscott than any
| have yet seen. The young man was said
to be employed in n tieing camp near Rat
Portage, u town on the Canadian Pacific
$50 miles east of Winnipeg. l left Chicago
with four Others, including Aid. Badenoch,
and three weeks ago tonight we then went
to Winnipeg and thence to the tieing camp.
We arrived there to discover that a young
man such as described had worked there un-
til about n week before He had some time
prior received n postal card from a friend,
n young man in Rat Portage, stating that
there was draft there from his
father who lived in certain town in South
ern California. The contractor held back
the card for two or three weeks, until the
young man had worked out q debt. Upon
a1HyiT I'd thn loft Mt
once. We then bore down upon Rat Port
age only to learn that both young men had
moved to another tieing camp, where we
again arrived to learn that they had
moved on to Winnipeg, stating that
the first young fellows father in Southern
California was dying, ard they
would hasten to his bedside. Now,
we obtained some of the suspects writing in
the first tieng camp, and it was Tascott's
own hand in fac smile. We hurried to Win
nipeg and there at the bank added the sus-
pect' S 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 trail at last.
Out of Winnipeg we ran the scent to a GER
tain nameless town in the Northwest Terri
tory near the American line. Thence we
pursued it hot to Vancouver, and thence by
boat to Seattle. The next jump brought us
to Tacoma, and there the twain had sepa-
rated. Our man." continued Mr.. Stone,
event to Portland by rail. and his compan-
ion shipped for San Francisco by sea. From
Portland the track ran to San Francisco,
and We reached it a week late. 1t seemed
probable then that the town in Southern
Cali i:ornia whence the draft issued was their
destination, and thither posted my COM
panions. Suspecting that this feature might
be ruse, | remained to watch the out
bound China steamer of that week, and saw
her put forth without Tascott. A telegram
reach~l me that our man was caught in the
Southern California town and was in custo-
dy l hastened thither. One glance at the
prisoner sent my heart into my boots He
was not Tascott, although he resembled
him in many points. Hewas q 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. "We were all
sure that if we could find theman who signed
the Winnipeg draft. whose description we
had and upon whose trail we then were, that
we would have Tascott. l will not say that
| think Tascott is in that country, but he
may be, l have other clues of which am
hopeful"