The record-union., 1893-03-30
The TOLO TRAGEDY.
Still No Trace of Young Louis Tod
hunters Murderers.
Belief That They Have Perished-A
Man Arrested at Oak Hall, But
Released Again.

Ihere were various rumOrS afoat
yesterday on the other side of the river,
as well as in this city, relative to the sup
posed whereabouts of the murderers of
young Louis Todhunter, the brave boy
who lost his life on Tuesday evening
While assisting his father in an attempt
to arrest couple of counterfeiters who
We're coming down the river in a boat.
One of the stories was that man was
seen in the brush where the murderers
had landed and that men on the shore
were shooting at him. Various other re-
ports were atloat to the effect that the
men were at bay.
y RECORD UNION reporter visited the
other side of the river and found that all
these stories were exaggerated, and some
OF them had little or no foundation eX-
cept in the imaginations of certain excit-
able persons.
AT one spot in the brush, however, near
the place where the men were last seen
after the shooting, some ashes were found
where fire had recently been burning,
and there the searchers also found por-
tions of mans beard, as if it had re-
Gently been clipped from the owners
face.
One of the men is described by Mr.. Tod
hunter as being about 40 or 10 years of
age, with a full dark beard, while the
other was smOoth-faced youth of some
20 years. The latter is the one supposed
to nave been mortally wounded by young
Todhunter, and who, it is believed. has
since died and is at the bottom of the
river.
In fact, the general impression last
fIot H.
suggestion of the mOrning-that both men
had perished while trying to reach the
\ Golo Shore-WaS correct.
SUSPECT ARRESTED.
New interest was given the case last
night, however, by the arrest of man at
Oak Hall, five miles south of this city,
on suspicion of being one of the pair and
the man who killed Louis Todhunter.
Early in the evening a strange man ap-
peared at the house, and his actions eX-
cited the suspicion of +. w. Bush. the
proprietor. The visitor was found en-
deavoring to trade hats with an empIove
of the place., and as he answered the
somewhat meager description that had
been given of the murderer, Mr.. Bush de-
termined to arrest and hold him.
When he attempted to do so, however
the stranger started on run up the road
He was pursued and captured, and word
thereof telephoned to Constable Todhun-
ter in Washington. He and a few friends
fastened to Oak Hall, where they were
soon confronted by the prisoner.
Constable Todhunter was so strongly
impressed by the resemblance of the
prisoner to the man Who killed his brother
that the party returned with him at once
to this city. He is man about 40 years
old, five feet seven inches tall. and wore
dark suit Of clothes and black slouch
hat. His beard, which is black, tinged
with gray. has recently been trimmed,
and the trimming was a very poor Job
just such as man might have been ex-
pected to do without looking-gIass to
aid him.
NOT TEE MAN.
| Constable Todhunter returned after
midnight with the man, but the latter
/ proved to be one Mcclure who has fire.
| quently been arrested here and Jailed for
| drunkenness. He was in his normal con-
| dit!On last night, and declared he was at
! Oak Park all day. Richard Todhunter
said, however, that Mcclure resembled
/ the man in the boat.
/ Thus another possible theory has been
/ exploded, and again it looks as if both the
| cOunterfeiters had perished on Tuesday
night,
A SUSPICIOUS PAIR.
About half-past S o'clock on Tuesday
| evening, about an hour and half after
! the Tragedy an the river, TWO men who
appeared to be quite nervous entered
! Iemansky's cigar store on Second street.
and asked if he could provide them with
/ cartridges for big 44-caliber pistol. He
, could not. and they hastened off to an
other store. Zemansky said one was A
! rather tall man and the other consider
ably shorter. He was satisfied he would
! be able to recognize them.
THEIR OPERATIONS.
/ The counterfeiters, it appears. have been
operating along the Sacramento River
north of knights Landing. Their custom
was to stop at places along the river and
/ buy few bits worth Of eggs, etc., and
/ give bogus dollars in payment, receiving
| good silver in change.
After they passed Meridian. Constable
/ Gibson of that place, Deputy Sheriff
! Dinwiddie and two other men started af-
ter the counterfeiters and followed them
to Knights Landing One of the party
says he can identify either of the men at
sight.
TODHUNTER's DENIAL.
Richard Todhunter, father of the mur-
dered boy. said yesterday that the pub
lished statement that when one of the
men in the boat pulled his shotgun away
from him he called on his son to shoot.
was mistake. He says he did not tell
/ Louis to open fire on the men.
Dumas attributed Ewes sin to a love