The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-27
VILLAIN STILL AT LARGE.
POLICE SAY THAT STEWART IS
 NOT THE MAN
Who Has Committed the Three Recent Assaults on wOmen-Man Wanted is Believed to be BowIegged-stewart Proves AIIbi-Identity of Woman Last Assaulted Not Yet Learned.

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 Proves AIIbi-Identity of Woman
 Last Assaulted Not Yet Learned.
 The villain who assaulted a woman Wednesday evening, and who is believ- ed to be the same who assaulted two other women on the streets of this city. is still at large. and as yet the police have no idea who he is although they claim to have a pretty good descrip- tion of him and are sanguine of catch ing him. Captain Cowles said last night that he did not think that Stew art, the colored man who is being held by the police, had anything to do with the affair. He said that he had con- ference with the people who employed Stewart to whitewash for them Wednesday morning and that they substantiate his story. This the cap tain says accounts for the white marks on his shoes. Young Fred Tobin tried to identify Stewart yesterday as the man whom he had seen near the spot just before the assault occurred, and who asked him for matches. After
 
 he looked a great deal like the man he had seen, he was not sure that he was the man. Captain Cowles said last night that he would hold the man un- til to-day, so as to give all the other witnesses a chance to see him and try to identify him. If they fail to do so he will be liberated to-day. Captain Cowles says that he has good evidence that the mans story that he was in the saloon all the evening is so. The cap tain also states that woman, whose name he did not give, and who saw the man at the time of the assault, saw Stewart yesterday, and said that he was not the man. While his de- scription is very similar to that of the lassailant, still there is some difference. In the first place the man who is want ted wears a dark brown checked suit. Another difference is that he is bow yet definitely settled whether the one who has committed the assaults wore a cap or a soft hat, although now the police believe that it was cap.
 There have been no more arrests made in the case yet, but the police are on the lookout and hope to land their man in the near future. All the sec tions of the city where the assaults have occurred is now thoroughly cov- cred by officers in citizens clothes and they are looking out for the man.
 The police are greatly handicapped from the fact that they do not know the name of the woman who was the victim of the last assault. They found the store where the hat she wore was purchased, but they could not learn who bought it. They are now trying to find out where the coat which she left behind was purchased, but have not yet discovered it.
 Chief Wrinn stated last evening that he had nothing to say about the pres ent state of affairs. He said that he knew of no new developments.
 Mayor Studley stated that he had heard nothing new about the affair last evening. When asked about when the next meeting of the police commissions CTS would be held he said that he did not know, but thought that it would be in the near future.
 The two Oates sisters called on Cap tain Cowles last night and said that they did not know whether Stewart was the man they saw commit the as- sault or not. They thought he looked a good deal like him.