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FOUND THE LETTERS. Chief Jackson Has New Evi dence Against Radloff. STILL AT SEA AS TO FUGITIVE. He Obtains Ballard’s Letters and the Registered Insurance Policy— Vain Show of Secrecy. The police have not yet captured William Radioff, and it is now believed that they have never had the right clue to his where abouts. They have given out from day to day that they were giving him a “hot chase,” and Mrs. Radloff has claimed that the fugitive sent her letters, and she also says she knows where he is in hiding; but the statements are so inconsistent with theft that little credence can be given either the police or the woman. Chief of Police Jackson returned to the city yesterday morning at 10 o'clock, after an absence of two days. He declined to say where he had been, and also denied the re port that he had accompanied Mrs. Radleff and her sister, Mrs. Wright, to Tacoma for the purpose of gaining possession of letters alleged to have been written to Dr. Frank R. Ballard to Mrs. Radloff. The fact remains, however, that Chief Jackson did go to Tacoma Wednesday, and he met the woman Thursday morning at 7:30 o’clock in Chilberg's restaurant, and from there they went to the Northern Pacific wharf, and at 8 o'clock took the steamer Messenger for Henderson bay. On Thurs days this boat does not go direct to Lake Bay, the family home of Mrs. Radleff and her sister, but they were put ashore not far from home and walked the rest of the distance. Besides some letters alleged to have been written by Dr. Ballard, the chief secured the much-talked-or regis tered letter mailed April 15, the day before the burning of Rad loff’s house. The letter was mailed by Radloff at Fremont and it was sent to Mrs Virginia Radloff at Lake Bay on April 16. It remained in the Lake Bay post office until Thursday. The letter con tained several tax receipts signed by the county treasurer of King county and an insurance policy for $10,000 with the New York Life Insurance Company. It was in favor of William M. Radloff and made payable to Virginia Radloff. When asked what the letters alleged to have been penned by Dr. Ballard contained, Chief Jackson replied that it would injure the case if he said anything and would abolt even say whether he found any letters. Mrs. Radloff also returned to the city yesterday and took up lodgings in a quiet part of the city. Mrs. Wright remained in Tacoma and will take care of her sis ter’s year-old child. Mrs. Radloff said to a Post-INTELLIGENCER reporter that she had just returned from a ride out to the site of her husband's burned house, but she declined to state whether an officer ac companied her. “Did Chief Jackson get Dr. Ballard’s let ters?” she was asked. “Yes, he got them.”” “What did he think of them?” ‘He didn’t say whether they would aid him any or not. I think maybe he is in doubt. * The woman still adheres to the statement that she knows where her husband is, but she says she couldn't turn him over to the police for all the money in Seattle. A Post-INTELLIGENCER reporter, who was in Tacoma Thursday, called at 508 South Seventeenth street, and interviewed Mrs. C. Reed, another of Mrs. Radloff's sisters. She says that Mrs. Radloff is merely throwing the police off the scent; that she does not know the whereabouts of her husband at all. She very much inclines to the belief that Radloff has been murdered, but she does not think that his wife is aware of the crime.
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
Seattle, Washington, US
Sat, Apr 30, 1892
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