The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-02
THAT EXPRESS PACKAGE,
Which Contained $500, and was
Finally Returned,
Stirs Up Damage Suit for SO. 600
A Spencer House Scene, which
Broke Up IN Bad Blood.

Interest in the disappearance and recovery
of the money package intrusted to the Ad-
ans Express Company in the latter part OF
December, and which was revived few days
ego By the discharge of number of the
compsny's employees, is once more revived
by the fling of damage suit by John W.
O'Harrow against the Adams Company,
in which he charges false imprison-
ment and demands $4,000 as a
recompense for the bodily and mental sn.
guish, humiliation and shame which ne
suffered in c0nse Ouence thereof. The com.
plant states that on the SOih day of Decem-
Der, 1884, the defendant caused his arrest
without warrant or authority OF law and
falsely imprisoned and detained him against
his will. This is understood to have refer
ence to the time when OHsrrow was under
surveillance at the Denison, prisoner in
fact, in charge OF Larry Hszen, the Cincin.
natl detectiYe who was called into the Gaze.
A second paragraph in the complaint al
Ieges that IL January the defendant c. ussd
tho arrest CT the plaintiff on warrs
charging him with grand lsrcsny: that be
Was taken 20 the Station house aud thera
lmpIisoned; that tas arrest vas without
cause. and thst the proceedings were 6aaiiv
dismissed without trial.
A Sentinel representative called uDOn
Superintendent Henderson yesterday sf1er-
noon and informed him of the fling OF the
suit, asking If ne had any statement TO make
in connection Herewith. He replied that
be was not surprised that suit for damages
bsd been fled, indeed he had been expect
ing such gu event. He declared that be had
no statement to make whatever IL the
premises, and said that ell the tscts con-
Dected with the mysterious affair you'd be
brought out IN the trial Of the cause. He
further stated that no agreement had been
made with o Harrow when he was reinstated
IN the employ of the company. When told
by the reporter that the public regarded
az very strange indeed the statement at
,ributed to him that ne knew who took the
50 500 package and who returned il 10 the
safe" while sE the same time the party was
allowed TO have bis liberty, and other en-.
ployes were thus left under q cloud OF sus-
picion, Mr.. Henderson said that the mean.
ing OF bis remarks WIS misinterpreted, and
the reporter inferred that he was morally
satisfied as to tbs guilty party, but was
osrdIy N possession Of sufficient facts 10
warrant an arrest
Whether the officials of the Adams Exa-ass
Company have any positive Information
with reference 10 the disappearance and
restoration of the package Is Ia The minds
Of many who are familiar with the trAngac
tons il connection with the same a highly
problematicai question, and in Tins
connection story is related
which would indicate that they
a'e as much at ses In the matter as the gem
ersl public. Just prior TO the wholesRle dis
charge OF the employees. Sam Neaile, one of
the men on duty at the depot office, was
taken TO the Spencer House by Pinkerton
detective, and there, in the presence of Mr..
oil he,
ing stolen and afterwards replaced the pack
sge. Vesile denounced the accusation as an
infamous lie. You stole the package and
we can produce the witnesses in five min
utes," said the detective. You are az in.
famous liar, and you know il" responded
VeSile. I'VE have the witnesses at hand"
was the rejoinder. and Veaile, after demand
ing that they be produced, swore that be
would orive the accusation down the
throste OF bis tormeniors il they would give
him fair play and come at him but one a
time. Wien this proposition was not &C.
cepted, Veaile swore that the express
company had no evidence against him; that
they wanted him to accuse him
self, and that he could whip the man who
would iDsinuste that he was guilty of the
theft. After some hours of controversy
which failed In getting a confession from
VI ale, the Spencer House party broke up in
anything but q pleasant mood.
When Mr.. Henderson's attention WAS
called to this story he ackno Tiedged that he
was at the Spencer House on the Oocasiol re-
ferJed to, but denied that he was in the room
when Veaile was accused by the detective of
having stolen the package. When asked If
ihe ciroun ances Of the interview were
not reported to him by the detec-
tive. he declined to make any
fuuher statements regarding the Spencer
House meeting Referring to the proposi-
ton made to Canada bv policeman that il
Can ada would accuse Veaile OF being respon.
sible for the disappearance of the package
then he (Canada) would be retained in his
position, Mr.. Henderson, said that the com.
psny had employed no policeman whatever,
and ii such proposition was made to Cana.
ds the company knew nothing about 1t. He
said that the matter had been given into the
HANDS OF the PInkerton agency, and that the
police CT this city were at no time oDsaited.