The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-02-04

| III Mile Lacs County.
About a month ago Detective Rice, of
this place received word by letter from
man in Milaca, Mile Laos county,
stating that he was certain that he had
a clue to the whereabouts of the much
sought-for murderer Tascott, for whom
detectives have been searching for
years. =. .......g -
William B. Tascott, it will be remom-
bered, is accused of numbering the
Chicago millionaire, A. J. Smell, in
February, 1883.
The Milaca man asked that a descrip-
ton be sent him at once of Tascott. as
furnished by the Chicago police. He
stated that there was living in the
woods Of Mile Laos county strange
young man, who, so far as he was able
to judge from the newspaper descrip-
lions of Tascott, correspondent with
that individual exactly !, s. 4 = 2'-'=5
| Visions of the $50, 900 reward began
to dance before the eyes of the Mime
apolis detective, and he at once sent
the necessary instructions to the man
IN the timber regions, telling him to
watch his man closely, and make a re-
port when anything important turned
up. Since that time the agency has
been on the qui vive for further news
from Milaca, but the Informant evil
IDENTIFY had no further information, or
else was still on the watch for some
confirmation of the suspicious.
To-day, however, the agency received
visit from the correspondent, who
had taken the trouble to come all the
way to Minneapolis to look the matter
up. He first produced a photograph
OF man, taken with kodak, which,
upon comparison with the photograph
OF the long missing Tascott, bore "a
striking resemblance. His description
OF the suspect is that of man about 90
years of age, 5 feet 8, $50 pounds, slim,
erect, full face, heavy eyebrows, fair
complexion, light brown hair, dark blue
eyes, small mustache, teeth projecting,
with gold filling, and lower jaw reced.
ing. The balance of the description
being almost exact with the printed
one. T. . ....#..-
The man suspected of being Tascott
came to- Mile Laos county about a
year and a half ago, and, taking up a
claim about 10 miles from Milaca, built
him a log shanty and has been there
ever since. The men of the vicinity
soon began to notice his peculiar &C
lions and watched him narrowly. He
is solitary and makes friends with NO
one, Keeping his own counsels and act
ing surly and forbidding. He is handy
with a gun, and the Indians, who form
the only inhabitants in the Immediate
vicinity OF his claim, fear him, attribut-
ing TO him a supernatural power for
evil. The men in that part of the
country are wild lot, but thev seem to
share some of the superstitions of the
natives and give him a wide BERTH
Minneapolis Evening Tribune.
The wide-awake Milaca correspond
ent of the UNION, after diligent in
curry, pronOunces the above a s'fake''-
the evening newspapers Of Minneapolis
are great on fakes There is no sin
gle man that would answer the de-
scription of the I1ibuae's Tascott 10.
Gated on claim within ten or fifteen
miles OF. Milaca. The dispatch to a
Chicago paper denying the 71ibune's
story is also a ''pure invention" Nc
such dispatch was sent from Milaca.
The metropolitan journals must be hard
up for sensational news.
All kinds of fruits, nuts and candies
at the Bakery.
a No. feed constantly on hand, at
Estes Feed Mill. Lowest prices for
cash. Free delivery in city.