St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-26
He CAME BACK ALONE.
SHERIFF EcE RETURNS FROM TIE
CHASE F03 MENACE.
BRACKETT GOES TO THE COAST

The Flour City Sleuths Receive
No Definite Information From
Washington Officials Concern
ing the Whereabouts of the
Fugitive-small Prospects for
His Capture.
There arrived in Minneapolis from
the south yesterday a weather. beaten
and sun-tanned man who eluded the
reporters and other prominent citizens
by making short cut for home, where
he, esconced in the bosom of his family,
partook of nice brown turkey and the
legendary plum pudding that is sup
posed to go with it. The gentleman in
question was Sheriff Eye, one of the
Minneapolis sleuths who started out a
few.M ago on the scent of Menage.
Mr.. Eye came back alone, his side
pany with him at st. Louis, and from
thence he went to California, presum-
ably on private business.
Mr.. Eye is especially sore on the
Washington officials, who be thinks
have never had any dednite Information
concerning the whereabouts Of Menage.
In speaking of his bootleSS quest he
said:
eff sufficient information as to the
whereabouts of Menage could be OBJ
tanned. intended to go in search of
him aid bring him back. Then L re-
ceived positive information that Slim
supposed to be implicated in the Harris
murder, would be i'll New Orleans Old a
certain date, and | intended to be there
right man l expected to make the ar
rest, turn my man over to deputy and
stars Oh after Menage. However, | re-
ceived Ito information regarding
Menage'S whereabouts that l thought
sufficient to go to the expense of taking
the trip to the Central American
countries, and SO, after eXEauSting
every avenue of information that wa S
open to me. gave the matter up and
came home.
1--WE were in Washington from Thurs
day night until the following Monday,
and could gain no definite information.
don't believe that the Washington
officials know anything more about
Menage or his whereabouts at the pres
ent time than you do, and perhaps not
state and his department furnished all
of the information that lay within their
power. and rendered us all Of the as
sistance possible. All of the avenues
of direct evidence as to his whereabouts
seem 10 be closed, and it is almost I'M
possible to get positive or accurate i'll
formation.
IL don't think he is in the Central
American countries at the present time.
He is too shrewd for that. AS soon as
he learned that people " ere looking for
him, he probably got out of the part of
the country in which he was suspected
of being. 1t is pretty hard to say where
he is at the present time, but | don't
think it is in Central America. Ii he is,
without Information as 10 his where
abouts, it would be impossible to find
him without spending two or three
months in the search. In the first
place, the steamer leaves for those
countries only once week, and
seven days would he taken up in the
ocean voyage. Then another seven
days would be required to 20 from the
coast muleback to Guatemala city, and
it Is 10 telling how long 1t would take
to get track of the man and follow him
from that point. All those Central
American countries are so situated that
HAL cdll Ill ii SHOT, GIiuG 30 from OIl6
to another, and before you could get
track of your mall he might be in some
other country, or he might have left for
the coast and taken the steamer for Eu-
rope or South America. Then, again,
in Honduras, where Menage was sup
pose to be at the time we went, we have
no treaty, and if little money were
paid to the natives and their good
graces obtained, it would be impossible
to secure man. The population con-
sists largely OF criminals who have left
their own country for fear of punish
ment, and they are for the most part
hard class to deal with. The difficulties
are great, and to take the trip and run
the risk of paying the expenses out OF
your own pocket. if the man was not
captured, would be out of the question.
Of course, the reward is only paid to
the person who will return Menage to
this country and secure his conviction"