The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-04
HE'S OUT OF SIGHT
Z. B. HOSiOrd Too Clever for Those
Who Ire After Him.
BOUND TO GET FAR AWAY
Plenty of Proof That He Seems
Sane-Omaha Police Ready to
EeCeiVe Him. Eut re Had
Left the Train.

The telegraph wires were kept hot
all day yesterday by the friends of E.
! T. Hosford ia efforts to locate him in
| his strange flight across the continent.
Several times 1t seemed impossible that
| he could escape, but at midnight last
| night he mad given those who had him
in sight the slip and his whereabouts
are as much a mystery as they were
the day after he went away.
The first news that came yesterday
was from c. II. Holmes. who is fol-
lowing the trail. His message came
from Pocatello after the Standard went
to press and was as follows:
"Hosford bought a second class tick
ct. No. $4,000. to Omaha. lie arrives
there tonight at 4.45 O'Clock. He is
clearly demented. | leave now on No.
.. Wire chief of police at Omaha full
description with request to hold him
until ] arrive. G. X. Holmes"
Upon receipt of this message the
conductor Of the train which Hosford
was supposed to he on. was wired ask
ing if he was there. An Affirmative re-
ply was received from the conductor at
Columbus. Nebraska.
Another message was sent telling the
conductor to take charge of HOsford
and an answer come from him from
Fremont, Nebraska, saying, Party
left train at Columbus"
1 Ht tlitl VI BOIltt III IildI city WAS
notified to arrest Hosford for insanity
and hold him until arrival of c. r.
Holmes.
The Standard received the following
from its correspondent in that city:
Columbus, Neb.. Feb. 4.-Police are
looking for +. b. Hosford; have not yet
been able to locate him; think he did
not stop here. Any further develop
men,s will be wired"
Columbus is a small city OF about 4, 600
population % miles from Omaha, and is
situate IN the midst of a farming dis
trict on the Union Pacific and c., b. e.
@. railroads. Here the trail is los; at
this hour, o'clock a. m.
Late yesterday in reply to a tele-
gram. the conductor on the Union Paci-
iic train on which Hosford was an east
bound passenger. wired, several hours
after his arrival In Omaha that he talk
ed with several passengers who had
been all day IN Hosford's company and
that he showed no signs whatever of
the slightest mental arrangement. The
Intention of the conductor was to de-
liver Hosford TO the police at Omaha,
but, of course, this plan failed, as the
Anaconda man dropped quietly off at
Columbus. out of that town several
rains leave in different directions
shortly after the hour when Hosford's
train arrives there.
Meanwhile. the Omaha Authorities
are ".sinformcd. From the Standards
CORE pendent i'm That city "a message
came last might saying:
Omaha, Ncb.. Feb. 3.-Chef of Po-
lice Sigwart received a telegram to-
day from Anaconda, Mont, telling him
TO arrest one T. b. Hosford, who was
insane on the Union Pacific train. The
officers went down to the train but the
man did not appear and it was learned
that he had been raising very much
trouble all the way and had become
so unmasterable that he was elected
from the train at Columbus, Neb.,
about 100 miles west Of here. 1t is pre-
sumed that the local authorities there
have taken care of him"
Thus the Omaha police is altogether
in the wrong. Nothing of the kind
happened at Columbus, but the facts
show that Hosford adroitly gave
everybody the slip. He had several
available routes out of Columbus, and
apparently he awaited himself of one
OF them, as, up to midnight, the Co
lumbus police had not been able to dis
cover him. The conclusions TO be
drawn from yesterdays experience are
that Mr.. Hosford's mind is not i'm any
way unbalanced and that his persistent
purpose from the start has been to get
away from Anaconda. keeping his
whereabouts in the dark. The mo-
tive? That has not yet developed.