Show HAS ELUDED HIS PURSUERS Convict Con Bell el Supposed to Rave Have Had Bad Assistance From the Outside Tacoma Tacoma March 21 Although the posse searching McNeils ens island for forthe forthe forthe the escaped convict Albert Albert E IS ISBell EBel EBell Bell Bel has been increased to fifty men and orders order have haAe been ben issued to brina him in dead ded or alive no trace of the daring robber lobber er has been found The ThO Th entire Island has been searched close closely closel closely ly l but there are dozens doz ns of tense dense enle places place where the thE convict might hide with se so security te The weather weather has been so su wet that the penitentiary bloodhounds can cannot cannot cannot not not pick up the scent It I is believed that Bell BeU sent St lt word Avord by l released convicts to confederates who made careful arrangements to row away from the island at some stated hour Bell Bel is supposed to have td a large sum of money secreted life He has hasin ha hasi in i recent months paid the lines lne of several federa federal prisoners thus short shortening ening their terms and Marshal Hop Hopkins Hopkins Hopkins kins says they are now paying paying their debts debt to the bank robber The prison officials were delayed in their first frt search for the convict convict owing to a shortage of oC gasoline at the pent peni penitentiary for the launches It I has been leen b en learned that Bell Bel gave ge to John M iii 11 Lesch Leach recently re released released released leased from the prison at the expiration tion of a a sentence for selling to Indians The rho rh revenue cutter cutt r Grant Captain has taken up the roan man manhunt mal hunt and has thrown thron out out a cordon of islands small smal boats on the west we t side of the |