The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-06
WHO MURDERED SMELL {?
-scorr DECLARED To HAVE
BEEN ONLY a SCAPEoOAT.

.na Million eire-Tale From SPOKANE
About the Missing Mans Being in
Alaska and Having Declared That
ge1s Suffering for Others.
FROM the Baltimore American.
spoxANE. WASH, Jan. 2.-The where-
.1onts OF Tascott, the alleged murderer Of
u,ovsr Smell of Chicago, whom detectives
s.vs unsuccessfully sought for years, has
,,doubtedly bssn located in Alaska.
IrIas Besuvais, we'll known and rslia-
Ma mining man and owner OF several rich
mines in SLOGAN county. is stepping in this
.sv for q few days, having recently re-
mined from Alaska, where be is interested
h several mining properties He said he
rent all last summer in Alaska. On va.
riops occasions in Sitks. Juneau and other
,l,ces he saw and converssd with Will
IAN B. Tescott, accused OF the murder Of
SPELL
MUTUAL RECOGNITION.
81 knew him personally while living in
Chicago" said Beauvais, land when | first
rst him IN Sitka he recognized me and
dNhim. / had quite g talk with him on
ysrious subjects, and when mentioned his
sprsc.ion with the murder of Smell and
how detectives were searching for him
sverywhere he appeared to dislike TO talk,
and while he answered questions on the sub
i.ct without hesitation he would quickly
chsnge the cow ersation into other channels"
/ Besuvais related further that Tascott had
hesn in Alaska nearly all the time since the
| murder and makes no peetense of conceal
ing bis identity. He has made q little money
a. times prospecting and dabbing in min
iug property, but during the past summer
vas hard up and drinking heavily. Beau
ysis gave him money on several occasions.
Tascott said the mystery OF the murder
would soon be cleared up and then he would
Lave plenty OF money.
MAY HAVE BEEN A sCAPEGoAT.
Tsscott and his connection with the MUIR
| der is we'll known to many miners in
Alaska, and with conversation at various
| times with different men he has, when
| Questioned on the subject, always intimated
| that the murder was perpetreteo by per-
son OF wealth and influence. and the general
| inference is that Tascott was heavily bribed
to take upon his own shoulders the odium
Of another's crime. ......
Beauvais, when asked IL it was not posi-
he that he was mistaken In Tascott's iden-
tity, said: cit Is impossible for me TO be
mistaken in the man, for know him quite
we'll He has changed very little in appear
ance, only he is slightly more rugged from
exposure. and shows some signs OF disslpa-
ton" Beauvais is a well-known man in
this city and all vouch for his reliability and
truthfulness. A talk with him iuapresses
one with the conviction that he tolls the
truth and knows what he is talking about.
NOT THE MAN WHO KILLED SMELL.
CHICAGO. ILL. Jan. 2.-"W neither Will
lam B. Tascott is in Alaska or not he did
not murder Millionaire A. j. SMELL The
man who murdered Smell lives in Chicago
and is well known. He does not want to
have Tascott caught. and he is furnishing
him money all the time to keep away from
Chicago"
So said Deteetive John A. DER, after
being shown the dispatch from Spokane,
Wash, to the effect that Jules Bsauvais, a
miner, recently returned from Alaska, de-
clared that in Sitka, Juneau, and other
places he saw and conversed with Tasoote.
Detective DER, perhaps. knows more
about the famous Smell tragedy than any
other man in Chicago outside OF the par
ncipants in the bloody deed.
He passed more than two years in max
Ink Investigations OF the mysterious rob-
berry and assassination. and in searching
Tor the murderer. He is confident that Tas-
colt was not the slayer Of millionaire Smell,
and is equally positive that the deed was
committed by man still living in this
/ city.
TX IaScOCL is IN Alaska, S6lQ Mr. Dier,
"he went there after March last, for at that
1 date he was in certain town in Manitoba.
But there or elsewhere there is little dan
ger Of his apprehension aud return to Chs
cago. AS matter OF fact, the offer Of a
reward is no longer in force and il any one
should arrest and bring TascoGt to Chicago
be would have his trouble for nothing.
BEAUvAIs KNEW rAscorT.
Jules Reauvais knew Tascott in Chicago
and should therefore be able to recognize
him In Isska, although Tascost 10 much
thinner faced than he was when the murder
vas committed"
You have seen him, then since the MUIR
der Of SnellT' ...-
Il did not say 50, did IF' laughingIy re-
piled Mr.. DER.
81 have kept pretty close track of him,
though, and he could have been arrested q
dozen times within the last two years IL
anybody had wanted him very bad; but. as
l was saying about Beauvais, he knew Tss-
colt in Chicago. Beauvais was a bartender
and an all round sport. He has been miss
Ing from Chicago for couple Of years. /
have no further interest in the Snel-Tascot5
case than desire to see the right man
brought to justice for that murder.
u worked two years on the case and spent
FlbOO OF my own money in following up
Tbs matter. ASS result am enabled to de-
care that Tascott never murdered Smell.
ile man who did the killing lives in Chi
cago and has spent a fortune keeping
isicott out Of the way aud in covering up
nsown tracks.
STORY OF THE MURDER.
There were four men implicated in the
ROBBERY and murder-the man who did the
sllllng, two other men aud Tascott. Tas-
cot was taken into the scheme under the
pIetsnse that robbery alone was contem-
plated He was placed on watch on the
ol'tlde OF the house, and the other three
men entered. After rifilng the s4fe of val
Saoe papers they made a Eoise which
brought old man Suell into the room, and
him.
Al the sound II the shots Tascott. ac-
ulqng to his own story and from other
sneace have secured, ran away. Tascott
olialheo IN town day or two, and then
nsn.to st. Paul, where he remained three
"ssAs' during which time he received by
press big package of money from Chi
'a asy, with instruction to leave the country.
me man who did the killing went to a
slg store on West Madison street shortly
S.'st the killing and had wound in his leg
st.sSed The drug clerk who was on duty
,Sss night was green boy who had been in
r ao store only few weeks and knew COM
sstsaOVeiy nothing about the business. he
~ 10 means and was working for 9 pit
auCe. ILlraa fOttr tUaaLs altar tha rnnr,