Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-12-11
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mefariaud Tells tho siory OF Ms
Meeting with the TuEitive. -

mcfarIaud Tells tho story OF uis
Meeting with the fuEitive. -,
CHICAGO, Dec. ll.-H. n. Macfar.
lana IL tho name given by the man
who caused the arrest Of tbs mao tup-
posed TO DO Seely, the alleged New
York embozzler. When Mcfarland
returned " the station the second time
he consented, with semo show OF 70.
luciancr, 10 tell tho story OF his frs.
meeting with Seely anu tho results
which followed:
81 met Seely eight days ago on
Dearborn street, between Madison auI
Washington Streets" lao said, "Hs
spoke 10 me as man dors who 10
unHoquaintSd, and asked how 10 reach
this R0by race track. l had nothing 10
do anu offered 10 show him the way 10
the derot l walked rs far ne Adams
street with him aud told him 10 take
tho street cars so the Uni0u depot.
Then no invited mo TO 10 with him,
anu | accepted the Invitation, When
we started Tor the track he told mo his
name was q, q, EvAua. We went TO
the races and he iutt sos, II remem.
hor correctly. He uepmed ~ have
plenty OF money, and when we started
back 10 tho city no Invited me
to accompany him TO tue race
track tho Huxt day. That day he l0st
sixty dUllars, ana after the rnceH -
showed me n card, which he said bore
his right nams-Ffahk J. Dale. This
aroused my suspicious and l went 10
the police station to get a look NJ Seoly'a
photograph on tho circular Offering
s., 600 for his arrest. had seen the
circular before and when l got
second look 1 was sure that my now
acquaintance was seely. We went TO
tho track the third day and Seoly won
some money, but no lost again the
fourth day. We met each other every
day at tho Lincoln hotel on the north
side, aud last Friday while VIC were
talking Seoly took his pencil and wrote
his real name on caro-.
"Did you ever hear OF that maj ,
he nsked me. told him that / 4
read Ia the newspapers Of q man by
that name who had skipped from New
York with pile OF money"
lowell, Pm that man, he said, and
then no askod mo n 1 was going ~
give him up"
MsciRrland said that seoly was
pressed for money last ThurslHy aud
had 10 pawn his watch and CnGin.
The next day he received 500 by mail,
when hoEaid had been sunt by MS wile,
VINO had received II from hiu attorney.
5esley after coniessing his Identity TO
MAriarland, talked freely about his
connection with the Shoe ami Leather
bank. 10 said thTt he had been n
duFo Tor Baker, ant that he had re-
ceived but $1,000 In the nine years
during which the bank had suffered
losIsu. Baker, he said, got oil the rest
| u tho money.
Maoi4tlaud says that he will divide
tho So, 900 reward with tue two dolec-
lives,
mcfarland was employed until the
stflke 80 an assistant fptCiRl agent for
the Chicago 4 Alton railway company.
Since then hu has been without work,
| CHICAGO, Dec. 1.-THE prisoner
| ,uuto4oI to be samuel SeolOy VINO
| huitsd 10 rob the Nav YOrK Shoe anu
Leather bsnk OF 1854 QUO, was as non
communicative today as when taken
| INTO custody last night. lie insists
| that his name Is Frank j. Dale and
says no never heard OF seeley except
| Though the papur6. Lieutenant
Bant, Of tho detective department,
| declarea there Ii not the laintttt doubt
thai seeley had been caught. Ho Hays:
al have offered to send 10 any pan Of
the country iOr any one who could
| Identity him as Dale, but mo prisoner
! declared be has no Trends. We vG.
meet the New York officers here 10.
morrow"
HE ADHTs n. ..
Tho susloe, ugasg ETrgst here ed.