The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-12-19

Iants at the Police Headquarters,
Claiming the Reward of $5,OOO-The
Police Unable to Ascertain Any
thing of Importance Concerning
Him.
CHICAGO. Dec. 11.-Samuel c. Seeley,
the absconding bookkeeper of the National
shoe and leather bank Of New York, is
safe behind the bars of a cell in the Har-
rison-st. police station. The police have
never since ne was first arrested entertained
a doubt of the identity of the man, but his
calm demeanOr and his cool and positive
denials that he was not Seeley had begun
to make them anxious to secure somebody
who could say definitely whether ne was
or was not the man wanted. Messengers
We're sent to all the banks in the city this
morning in the effort TO secure somebody
who had known Seeley and could Identify
him. No such man could be found, how
ever, and the police had made up their
minds that the only thipG IT, x ~,.u :,
was to wait for the arriiI' rom Sen. Ne~ orr
Of those who could ~ff penn without ia
whether it was seeiey 9r not No'his
could be got from & Hs1h IN any wayto
the remarkable res m0l3cse Zee of the prisoner
to the photos sen s(LrOm New York.
When the officers offered to send for any
body in this city or elsewhere who could
identify him as Frank J. Dale, the man ne
claimed to be, he replied that he knew no.
body in Chicago who could do him such
a service. and said that he knew nobody
here. He could not give the name Of any
person in any other part of the country who
would identify him as Dale. When he
made this declaration he was informed by
Inspector Shea that the police knew him to
be Sesley, ana there was no further necessi-
~ Of talking over the matter. He would
be held until the arrival Of the officers from
New York and under no circumstances
would he be released until they had seen
him. After being told this Seeley was
taken below and locked up He stood the
confinement fer about an hour, and at II
, o'clock he sent word to Inspector Shea and
Lieut.. Haas that he would like to see them
for an Interview. Ten minutes later ne con-
feSsed he was the man they had said he was
and stated he was anxious for them to
hurry the arrangements to take him back
TO New York
He was trembling and filled with nervous
excitement when brought TO the inspectors
private office. Inspector Shea, Lieut. Haas,
Detective Almendinger and a number of
newspaper men wele present when he was
brought in. The Inspector asked him what
he wanted.
"Al l want to say is, gentlemen, that
you have the right man. There is TO use
Of my attempting TO conceal it any longer.
! am Samuel c. Seeley and l am the man
wanted in New York"
Nothing more was said until the prisoner
spoke again and said he was ready to so
back 10 New York as soon as the officers
could arrange II. He said further that
a ..aI~s. eff.
lease from the Chicago officers, and did not
want an attorney, but preferred to wait un-
nj he reached New York, where ne could
consult his own attorney.
United States Marshal Arnold was noti-
fled by telegraph this afternoon that federal
started for Chicago. Seeey will also De
held under United States process. The
marshal promptly took out a warrant for
the arrest of Seeley. No conflict between
the state and federal officers is expected
MacFarland's Part.
H E. Mcfarland, the young man whose
information led to Seeley's arrest, was
slow in following up his conquest today.
Although anxiously awaited by the au-
thorities, he had not put in an appear
ance up to noon. and no one knows where
ne is. Seeley's action in invountarily con-
Tossing his identity to a passing acquaint-
able keenness in eluding arrest, was the
cause of much speculation. MacFarland
had said that Seeley met him on the street,
invited him TO the races, and after sew
eral days companionship had calmly in
formed him that he was Samuel c. Seeley,
wanted in New York for aiding in the
theft of 1854, 900. The police were in
clined to the belief that MacFarland's
story might be subject TO variations
1t was believed by many of the de-
quaintance of the fugitive and that the
allurements Of $4,000 reward had got the
better of his friendship. on this subject,
however, Seeley was as silent as clam,
and the officers were forced TO be content
with speculation pending the appearance
of young MacFarland.
Whatever evidence, if any, had been
found at 496 LaSalle-aVe, the fashionable
boarding house at which Seeley was ar
rested, the police refused to say. 1t was
known that no papers of Importance and
a solitary S100 bill were found on his
person, and it was not thought that any
discriminating evidence had been dis
covered in his room.
During the afternoon MacF'arland put
in an appearance at detective head
quarters He was apparently laboring
under a rather heavy burden of intoxi-
cants, and his conversation was not par
ticularly lucid. He was able, however, to
make his hearers understand that he was
hot after that $1,000 reward and that he
intended to have it all. He would, he de-
clared divide with no one. After making
something of a scene at headquarters,
MacFarl3nd left, but returned several
times during the afternoon and made
numerous demands for the reward. De-
tectives who We're sent out to look up the
informer's record reported that he had
for a week been boasting 10 his friends
that he knew where TO find Seeley. Mac
Farland, accorslng to the officers, is an
n~la 1f,af~ of q
many of his acquaintances say that he
frequently during the last week, while in
toxicated, had declared that he would soon
clear $1,000 by a clever bit of detective
work.
man, perhaps twenty-five years old,
dresses well, though fiashily, and is said
to frequent the race track. Owing to his