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Show A 3IAD WOMAN'S STORY. Claims that Her Husband Aided Tascott to M urder Millionaire Snell. Baltimore, Oct. 14. The widow of the late Albert K. Ordway, who committed suicide sui-cide here last March, was taken to the Bay View asylum yesterday. She has recently asserted that her husband was the companion of Wiilinm Tascott, the man who is supposed sup-posed to have murdered Millionaire Suell in Chicago a few years ago. Ordway was the son of a well-known clother, and she was married to him in 1SS1. Her husband, she says, soon took to drink, and began to associate with disreputable people. One night ho stood before a mirror Willi a mask un'his face, and declared that . he wa going to have money from old man Snell or kill the s of a ! . She pleaded w lib him to renounce his intention, but he persisted and left the house iu a hurry. Next morning he returned with a bloody hand-ken hand-ken hict o'.id without shoes. When questioned ques-tioned by her he said he had loaned his shoes to Tascott, who had been shot and was lving in the rear of a saloon on West Madisoir.-treet. Oil;' of the most important statements in the woman's story is that she knows Tascott Tas-cott js (,.;k1. She says she. knows that he was s-.t rankled to death and his body carried car-ried away by his pal-. In that connection hc mentioned the names of Funkhouser, Martin and Reynolds. Subsequently to the murder of Snell, she says, her hesband was crmtiinially nervous and' always seemed anxious to have the city, although, he was in business with his father. After u great d-.tal of persuasion, she agreed to uecompany him to Bu'.'iiiiorc. After they arrived here she mad - up ii,.r mind to expose the crime, but ho induced her not to do so. Finally, as the rc-.uiloi' drink, he suicided. |