The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-27
ON RADLOFF'S TRAIL.
Chase Growing Hot After the
Arch Cremationist.
HIS WIFE sETRAys A SECRET.
one Admits Receiving Note From Him
neiisvsd to Be I'm the state--An-
other Arrest Expected.

ruftner Developments in regard to the Rad
ION conspiracy now depend upoa the capture of
.ns arcn-couspirator He ia believed to be in
TINS state and Mrs. Radloff is still in commune
CATION with him and evidently knows his where
aoouts. Meanwhile the arrest OF Dr.. Frank r.
another
The dootor's arrest was still the talk Of the
toWn Yesterday. and it il said that the police
are seriously considering the sdvisability OF
bringing similar charges against an
otner prominent resident of Fremont.
VINO q known to he a warm friend
Of Dr.. Ballard. The chief of police declines
70 disclose any OF the evidence hs has collected
against the doctor, and the latter's friends
nrmiy believe that the arrest was made on Mrs.
hadlohs unoorrobnrated story.
there ID one man that the authorities now
want above all others aud that man is william
Radon. They not only want him because he
Is criminal but because his story can either
confirm or explode the charges of completely
preferred by his wife against Dr. Ballard The
authorities have grave doubts es to whether
kadlof has ever bsen out OF the state of WASH
ington. The cipher letter sent to Fred N. Fos-
ter, the alias adopted by Kostrauch, dated Port
land, and signed by Radloff, is now believed
% nave been merely q blind to throw the de-
tectives OF the scent. About the time the letter
was written Radioff was sea at Puyallup, and
the question now is whether an eccnmpliee did
not go to Portland, mail the other letter and re
turn to Seattle. 1t could all have been done in
day and night 1t Is known that since the ar
rival of the cipher letter Mrs Radlcff has re-
ceived letter from her husband. 1t ives sent
to one OF his friends In this city who delivered
1t to the woman at the county Jail
A Posi- -INTELLIGENCER reporter called on Mrs
Radon yesterday and Questioned her regarding
Dr. Billiards. arrest, but she said she did not
care to say much about it; that he had caused
the whole trouble between hei self and her hus-
band and that he was one of the instigators of
the dark plot OF which Kostrauch made a con-
fessiou
at is sal that unless Radloff can be caught
Dr.. Ballard cannot be convicted" remarked the
reporter.
Mrs. hAdlof studied q moment and then re-
piled:
well. he will have to leave town, anyway.
If ever Radlof comes back i. will be to kill DR..
Ballard"
..rhe police say that they are hot on your
husbands trail and that he's bound to be run
down"
81 hope they won't catch him: but IL he wants
to escape hos foolish for writing to me-" re-
marked the woman Inadvertently, giving valu-
able pointer.
"Then you have received letters from himr'
"No, no." she cried, and then in . laughing
manner added, "You just wait. didn't say
it."
"Oh, well. 1t is believed By the police that you
have received letters from Mr. Radlon and also
that you know where be it,"
81 do know where he is and have received
word from him, but would die before would
tell what know" Her words were spoken al.
most passionately. She then drew a small.
square piece of white writing paper from her
bosom, on which q note was written in pencil,
and, holding it up, said:
"You see that? Well, that will tell the police
where my husband is. He wrote that note, and
upon it 10 his address,"
"Why do you keep that note; are you not afraid
OF losing it?"
"No. l want to keep it; won't say why"
and she smiled in q mysterious way as she
tucked the scrap OF paper safely out of sight.
Mrs. Radlof was allowed to walk from the
woman's department. OF the Jail into the north
corridor, where the hard criminals are kept In
passing . cell she caught sight of Kostraueh,
and, stopping, said:
Hello, Louie, how do you like your new
homer
Kostrauch growled out reply and the young
woman passed on down the corridor, and in Q
few moments returned to her own quarters.
Detective Cudihee has not bean in Seattle for
over q week. He went to Tacoma to shadow
Mrs. Radlof and never came back. He must
have discovered clue to Radlofs whereabouts
and has since been camping on his trail
gentleman who knows Radof well and who
has aided the police in ferrsting out the true
state of affairs in the case is confident that the
fugitive will be captured