Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1888 — THE SNELL MURDER. [ARTICLE]

THE SNELL MURDER.

The Chicago Police Think Tascott Is Safe in China or Australia. [Chicago special.] Sergeant Charles E. Aldrich, of the city detective department, has returned from a six weeks’ chase after the elusive William B. Tascott, who in February last murdered millionaire Snell. Detective Haines, who went with Aldrich, is also on his way back. Both men return under orders, and when Haines shall have added his report to that : which Aldrich gave Inspector Bonfield ■ terday, the police department will have dropped the case. There are other city officers working on it now, and Inspector Bonfield, who has hod charge of the case, is satisfied that it is useless to try further, i unless a fortunate accident turns up some new clew. Aldrich has traveled over7,oUo miles during Che six weeks, and chased down everything tangible. “Where do you think Tascott is now?” was asked of Sergt. Aldrich. “The most probable theory is that he went direct from St. Paul to Vancouver, and then by steamerto China or Australia.” “He was in St. Paul, then?” “Not a shadow of a doubt about that But there the trail ends. Haines and I bad plenty of steers to work on, but they developed nothing. I don’t see how Tascott could have remained in the Northwest and not been caught, for the whole country was alive over it and looking out for him and the SIO,OOO. He's out of the country, I “How far West did you go?” “Clear to the coast. We went carefully over both the Canadian Pacific and the Northern Pacific. I was in Portland, Vancouver, and Tacoma, and many other places along the coast. So was Haines. The greater part of the time we traveled separately. “We are practically no further along.” said Lieut. Henshaw, “than when the search began. There is hardly a clew as to which point of the compass is the proper direction to look.” A. J. Stone, a son-in-law of the murdered man, says he has organized a private detective agency of his own, and will continue the hunt for Tascott until he succeeds in arresting him, if it takes twenty years./ Judge Lacomb, in the United States Circuit Court at New York, decided that George Benson, who swindled the Mexicans out of $20,000 on bogus tickets for Patti concerts, must be surrendered to the Mexican authorities. A stay was granted pending an appeal to the United States Supreme Court. Heavy rains Tuesday all over Illinois will prove very beneficial to spring farming operations, says the Chicago Times. The rain stopped seeding for a day or two, but will settle the ground, start pastures, and greatly revive winter wheat. Tlffi prospect for the winter wheat crop in Illinois ia very good.