| Show EIGHT THOUSAND That i the Number of Miles Traveled After Tascott THEY COLLARED THE WRONG MAN AJ Stone Tells the Story of theTrip and How He Was Disappointed When He Thought He Was Right CHICAGO March 17The chase for Tas Ojtt ended in a failure A Stone son in law of the fugitives supposed victim Millionaire lionaire Snell returned emptyhanded to Chicago last night after a fruitless journey of several thousand miles Stone was accompanied by Detectives McDonald and Williams following a clue which took them t the Canadian northwest The pursuit led t the Pacific coast There a capture was made but the prisoner like so many others before proved to be the wrong man A CLOSE BESEMBLAJiCB Mr Stone estimates the length of his trip at 8000 miles He talked quite freely but remarked with significance Itmnstbe understood that I choose to reserve names for various reasons some bearing upon the failure about a month ago I received from a law firm in Minneapolis a letter stating they had a client resident of Winnipeg who had some authoritative information as to what he believed to be Tascotts whereabouts where-abouts My inquiry following showed the suspects sus-pects description tallied better with that of Tascott than any I had yet seen The young man was said to be employed in a tie camp near Ros Portage 250 miles east of Winnipeg I left Chicago with four others and three weeks ago tonight we went to Minneapolis thence Winnepeg and thence to the tie camp MOVED TO ANOTHER CAMP arrived there to discover that a young man such as described had worked there until the week before He had some time prior received a postal card from a friend a young man in Ros Portage stating that there was a draft there from his father who lived in a certain town in northern Cali fornia a contractor lie had held back the I card for two or three weeks while the young man had worked out of debt Upon receiving the card the young man left at once We then bore down upon Ros Portage only to learn that both the young fellows had gone to another tie camp where we again arrived to learn that they had moved on to Winnipeg saying that the first young fellows father in northern Cali fornia was dying and they would hasten f ijtnR ds to his bedside Now we obtained some of the suspected writing in the first tie camp and it was Tascotts own hand in fac simile sim-ile We hurried to Winnipeg and there added the suspects signature to our stock of evidence THOUGHT THET HAD HIM I seemed certain that Tascott had written writ-ten that name and no doubt remained in our minds that we were on the right track at lastJgOut of Winnipeg we ran the scent to a certain nameless town in the Northwest North-west territory near the American line Thence we pursued it hot to Vancouver and thence by boat to Seattle The fri brought us to Tacoma and there the twain separated Our man went Portland by rail and his companion shipped to San Francisco by sea From Portland the track ran into San Francisco and we reached it a week later I seemed probable that the town in southern California whence the draft issued was their destination and thither I posted my companions SUSISCTED A RUSE Suspecting that this feature might be a ruse I remained to watch the outbound China steamer of that week and saw her put forth without Tascott A telegram reached me that our man was caught in a southern California town and was in custody I hastened thither One glance at my prisoner sent my heart into my boots He was not Tascott though he resembled him in many points He was a young fellow of good family and wo released him without the satisfaction of knowing for whom he was suspected It was the disappointment of my life We were all sure if we found the man who signed the Winnipeg draft whose description de-scription we had and upon whose trail we then were that we would have Tascott I will not say that I think Tascott is in that country but he may bo I have other clues of which I am hopeful |
