| Show Three New Storio3 About Tascott CHICAGO Sept 29 Three brand now Tascott stories made their appearance today to-day They all purport to solve the mystery mys-tery of Millionairj Snells murder but agree only in conveying the Impression that Tascott was not the real criminal The most important of the three narratives narra-tives quotes as authority an alleged well known lawyer whoso name is withhold He says he was consulted professionally the day after the murder by one of the two men who did the killing James Gillau an exconvict now dead Tascotts connection with the case is explained in this version by statement that Gilhin had hidden hU plunder ia Tascotts room during the lat ters absence from the city Tho sensational sensa-tional feature of the story is the unqualified unquali-fied statement that Gillan on his deathbed at the county hospital six months ago made a full confession of the crime to Father J Sullivan of St Jarlaths Catholic church A dramatic account of the alleged details as to Father Sullivans honor and stricken appearance after learning learn-ing the secret are given accompanied by descriptions of the holy peace that immediately imme-diately appeared on the face of the dying convict Father Sullivan was seen today and emphatically denied the story in toto One of the other two stories had it that the millionaire was slain by a pair of toughs who were hired by a mysterious third party The third tale is to the effect that professional pro-fessional burglars whose identity has not even been hinted at killed Snell as an incident in-cident iu the course of their professional career and have since disposed of Taocott against whom suspicion was unjustly directed di-rected The triinnitiirs of this article are that Tascott was an illegitimate son that after the tragedy he was hidden for months in his mothers house disguised as a servant girl and was taken by her to the Pacific coast The conclusion is in the nature of a vague suggestion thatho was subsequently killed by the real criminals in Alaska Tonight the Gillan story was exploded even more thoroughly than it had been by Father Sullivan A sergeant at the West Lake street police station showed by reference ref-erence to his records that the man said to have confessed the murder was at thes titian of the crime safe under lock and key in a cell many blocks from the mansion of tho illfated millionaire |
