The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-13
Refuses to Open His Mouth in
Connection With
His Case.
MEETS PRESIDENT GRAIN.
BAKER WAS ALSO Connected
WITH THE DEFALCATdoN.
Reward Will Not Be Paid Until
seely Has Been Convicted-seely
Speaks Very utterly of McFar-
land for Betraying Him, and
Hopes All the Money Will Go to
the PoIice-Mrs. seeiy Seriously
III.

Chicago, Dec. 1Z.-At . CLOCK lAiS
evening, President Grain, of the Shoe
and Leather National bank of New
York walked into United States Mar
shall Arnold's Office.
Half an hour after. he was sitting in
Inspector Shea's office, when the door
opened and his defaulting bookkeeper.
Samuel C. Seeley, stepped into the
room. Mr.. SeeIy reached out and took
the extended hand of President Grain.
AS the president Shook Seely's hand
with the warmth of an old friend, it
was readily seen that Seely was much
affected His body trembled with emo
ton, his lips quivered and in low
and stammering tone of voice he said:
Mr. Grain, / did not think you would
want to shake hands with me-"
Mr. Grain pushed him into the chair
beside him and replied in kindly tones:
.sWhy, Sam, I am glad to see you,
sit down.
The door closed on the two men. For
half an hour they were closeted to-
gether.
Inspector Shea, at the request of Mr..
Grain, invited the newspaper reporters
in waiting to enter the room. Then
President Grain said:
Gentlemen, from the Importance of
the affair, you naturally expect some
startling developments from this con-
versation I have had with Mr.. Seely.
L have called you in that might speak
in his presence. He absolutely refuses
to talk about his case. He says he is
entirely in the hands of his counsel,
Frank W. Angel, who has requested
that he talk to no one about the mat
ter He has told me there is no one to
whom he would rather tell all than
me, but that he would obey the injunc-
ton of his counsel. He stubbornly, if
you please, but firmly refuses to talk"
Turning to Seely, he said: as that
not so, Sam?'
Eyes, sir; refuse to talk about the
matter
That Man Baker.
! At the suggestion of a reporter, Pres
ident Grain asked the following que--
ton Of Seely:
! "Was there any one else connected
with this defalcation besides Baker?"
/ "That is the man." replied Seely.
"Were there no others?"
mo one else"
As to the question of authority in the
return of Seely to New York, Mr.
Grain said that it was probable that
federal authorities.
Seely said, 81 prefer to go back with
the government authorities
There will be no clash of the author
ities," said Inspector Shea. THE New
York state authorities have advised me
to turn Seely over to the United States
authorities
| Bad for Mcfarland.
Mr.. Grain said tonight that under the
terms of the reward offered for Tie ar
rest of Seely, 1t will be paid only after
the conviction of the prisoner This WIN
be sad news for Macfar.and, who has
made several calls on the police de-
partment to see when he was gong tc
get that S., 900. He wants it all at once
and he wants it now.
/ Seely was shown the New York dis
patches this afternoon reporting MS
wife prostrated and seriously Ill. lie
was visibly agftated and eagerly IN
quired for later news from her.
81 cannot send any encouraging wore
to her" he said, but 1 nope some ons
will tell her 1 ann well. There IS noth
ing for me to say to her, for now 1 an
down. the whole world is against me-
"Did YOU profit much by the alleged
defalcation?" asked a reporter
7 can't answer that noW,' he SAID
"b1l:t I don't look very prosperous do /
DO YOU think I look as though | hat
very many thousands of dollars"
Spoke Very bitterly.
The prisoners agitation over nj nj
wife's illness had made him more tax
alive and he spoke bitterly of Mae
far:and, the man who aided in his ar
r don't want to say much about Mac
farland." he said, but I consider glv
. ing me away a low trick. L hope ina
S. 600 reward for my capture VIII g
, to the police instead OF to MN. NO,
have no idea as to how the pallk Eli pT y
t,,o5 on me or not, 1 don't care yer
r11Ich as this thing has taken the In
Terest out of life for me-