The sun., 1890-01-26

WASHINGTON, Jan. %, - Ex-Sergeant~at-
Arms Leedom has become satisfied that GER
tain influential men In this city do not want
the defaulter Sicott captured, and that they
have thwarted all his efforts to capture the
fugitive Leedom returned from Ohio to-day,
and tells ali interesting story OF his search for
the absconder. Without consulting Leedom.
the United States Secret Service Department
learned from correspondents at Montreal that
Scoit arriNe cd there on Dec. with the Barrett
woman. and another woman too well known to
Congressional Lotharios and lobbyists about
Washington. The party Of three went 10 the
house OF the Barrett womans sister, and re-
malned there until Dec. % On the night Of
their arrival all three we're very drunk and In
dulged in a general debauch.
On Doc. 20 acting under teleRrsphio instruc-
tions from United States Secret Service men.
the Montreal detectives swore out warrants Tor
the arrest OF kcott and his two female friende.
There was no doubt as to the identity. oi Sil.
cot and the Barrett woman. and the Montreal
police sent back word that the entire outfit
same u ght Sicott and the, women disappeared.
and the Montreal police teleRraphed that they
OF Ihis to-day Mr.. Ieedom said:
Stree sicott skipped have had no faith t6,n In
han t6s and 8ee game ae SnoSnf thS
to demand twice the reward and lot him ss-
since that time Mr.. Leedom has heard moth
ing. However he has had 200 letters from al!
dsssIes G@fss snS who ali say that they know ust
where Silcott is. hut must have 500 for ex-
ponses at tho start, and that they will repay 1t
ont OF the $4,000 reward whom they deliver
Mr.. resdom says he exnecte letters like these.
but he does not like the conduct OF many pro-
fessod friends in Washington, who. come TO
him and demand money, saying that they viii
use it 70 find the delr ilter; II refused they
s.lIl Lon do fl1nt hn nan M
his man. nnd that he dare not;
II don't say that this is blackmail." said
keew e%I mo- more about 20 It Silcott than child. and
ihev arc only stretching their pockets wide
oGen TO receive my moIney: y.:,ro, ooorr-od tbro.
came came rom rom Rochester: N y. asking 4 siicott
was signed Mary Stotts., As Silcott was away
that day. ieedom and hIs German a &C. cashier; ;
train train for Dr. Rochester. They learned that Mary
Stotts lived six miles in tho country; and thoy
got an idea that scott must be there IN hiding.
rope at, a hardware store with which
to bind Silcott when caught. and ineisted that
drver thf 6n srrvnG at the sots house,
Leedom and Seller were made unhappy by the
Information that man answering Silcott,s de-
Stott's sister in Rochester with a, woman. Then
there, was hasty return trip; but, the sistoE
his com nanion as sicott and Herminie.
Mrs. Silcott has returned to Ohio. and letters
from there say that she Ia still hysterical. and
threaten ed with melancholia- She went there
to thwart the designs Of a BcheminR creditor.
who had sought to obtain her homestead. It
is IA Suspicious fact that on the day of her de-
parture rom Washington che, was visited by
the man reported to have assisted Sicott in
conrealing his escape from New York. The
woman who was with tho party In Montreal iS
lations with eminent men In this city she
would be forced to give more definite pRrticu-
lars