The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-30
FOUND THE LETTERS.
Chief Jackson Has New Evil
dence Against Radlof.
STILL AT SEA AS TO FUGITIVE.
He Obtains Billiards. Letters and the
Registered Insurance Policy
Vain Show of Secrecy.

The police have not yet captured William
Radioff. and it is now believed that they
have never had the right clue to his where
abouts. They have given out from day to
day that they were giving him ''ho
chase" and Mrs. Radloff has claimed that
the fugitive sent her letters, and she also
says she knows where he is in hiding; but
the statements are so inconsistent with
the facts that little credence can be given
either the police or the woman.
Chief of Police Jackson returned to the
city yesterday morning at 10 O'Clock. after
an absence of two days. Hedecline to say
where he mad been, and also denied the re-
port that he had accompanied Mrs. Radloff
and her sister, Mrs Wright, to Tacoma
for the purpose of lining possession of
letters alleged to have been written to DR..
Frank R. Ballard to Mrs. Radloff. The
fact remains. however, that Chief Jackson
did go to Tacoma Wednesday. and he met
the woman Thursday morning at $50
o'clock in Chilberg's restaurant, and from
there they went to the Northern Pacific
wharf, and at O'Clock took the steamer
Messenger for Henderson bay. On Thurs
days this boat dees not go direct to Lake
Bay, the family home of Mrs. Radloff and
he, sister, but they were put ashore not
far from home and walked the rest of the
distance. Besides some letters ALLEGED to
have been written by DIR. Ballard. the chief
secured the much-talked-of regis
tered letter mailed April Is, the
day before the burning of Rad
lofts house. The letter was mailed
by Radloff at Fremont and it was sent to
10
April Is. 1t remained in the Lake Bay
postoffice until Thursday. The letter con-
tanned several tax receipts signed by the
county treasurer of King county and an
insurance policy for $4,000 with the New
York Life Insurance Company. 1t was in
favor of William NJ Radlof and made
payable to Virginia Radloff. When asked
what the letters alleged to have been
penned by Dr.. Ballard contained. Chief
Jackson replied that it would injure the
case if he said anything and would not
even say whether he found any letters.
Mrs. Radioff also returned to the city
Yesterday and took up lodgings in quiet
part of the city. Mrs. Wright remained
in Tacoma and will take care OF her sis
ter's 2-year-old child. Mrs. Radloff said to
a PosT-INTELLIGEScER reporter that she
had Just returned from ride out to the
site of her husbands burned house; but
she declined TO state whether an officer &C
companied her.
Ibid Chief Jackson get DR.. Billiards. let
tiers ?" she was asked.
eyes, he got them"
''What did he think of them?"
HE didn't say whether they would aid
him any or not. think maybe he is in
doubt"
The woman still adheres to the statement
that she knows where her husband is, but
she says she wouldn't t1rn him over to the
police for all the money in Seattle.
A observation-disclosures reporter, who
was in Tacoma Thursday, called at sos
South Seventeenth street, and interviewed
Mrs. C. Reed, another of Mrs. Radlof7s
sisters She says that Mrs. Radloff is
merely throwing the police off the scent !;
that she does not know the whereabouts
of her husband at all. She very mnch
inclines to the belief that Radloff has
been murdered, but she does not think that
his wife is aware of the crime.