The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-09-05
THE PROSECUTION OF FRAKER.
He still Insists That He Did Not Try 10
Cheat Insurance Companies.

lie >I1ff lDSlSrS nat ne Dfu wv AAy ~
Cheat Insurance Companies.
Kansas City, Sept. AFTER a night and
day spent in the county Jail. DR.. George
". Fraker was taken 10 Richmond on the
s O'Clock train this afternoon. He left IN
charge OF Sheriff Holman. Of Bay county.
and City Marshal Byers. OF Richmond. and
In that city Fraker will finally be brought
into court TO meet the charges against
him While some authorities saw the now
famous doctor cannot be sentenced Tor
any part he has taken In the crime. the
attorneys for the insurance companies IN
terested have relaxed none Of their yigor,
and declare as strongly that the -prosecu-
ton will be quick and positive. and that
they have the statutes to back the charges
they will make.
DR. Fraker spent restless night in jail,
owing to the excitement of the journey
from the north and the ordeal passed
through In meeting former friends and
answering the questions fired at him, ana
today was none the less severe on him.
Photographers eager TO get a crack at
the resurrected man bored him In their
efforts TO get him 10 cit for a picture.
while reporters, friends and a string OF
curious people kept him busy answering
numberless questions that be had parried
many times before In all his interviews
last night and today Or. Fraker stead
tasty adhered TO his former statement
that he did not conspire 20 defraud the
insurance companies, nor did any OF his
relatives This claim, however, has APP
parently been set at naught by little
inadverfence on the Doctors part
In a conversation with several reporters
in his cell today ne stated that while in
Kansas City shortly after his supposed
drowning in 1898 he bought the suit OF
clothes he now wears at n local clothing
house. The admission was a joyous one
for the insurance attorneys, who state
positively that the suit was bought by
George Harry. the convict whom they
have all along alleged was the doctors
oceompice. II is now believed that Fra
ker never came 20 Kansas City at all. but
that Harry bought the suit and trans
ferred IL 10 him al some outside point
DR. Fraker when asked II IL did not look
queer that he could travel so far away
as Minnesota without receiving aid from
outside sources. said: when l went on
that fishing excursion I was preparing 10
take a trip TO California TO bring back
my nephews. 7 had collected some out
standing debts. and had $40 In my pockets
when fell into the river"
Mrs. Addie Randall a dermatologist has
added peculiar phase to the case by de-
claring that a person who visited her
rooms when Fraker was supposed TO be
in Kansas City and who asked TO have
some superiuous hair removed from his
face was none other than the doctor.
travelling in the guise OF woman. Her
description OF her would-be patient. who
she says left without finally receiving
treatment tallies exactly with that OF the
doctor. Mrs. Randalis suspicious OF the
sex of the person decided her 10 call
policeman but the patient left Not until
| his arrest did she realize that he might
| he Or. Fraker. II will be remembered
that AT the insurance trial Il was proven
| that Or Fraker changed his sex ar stated
! periods The douhters have all subsidized
| and now fully admit that Fraker has
been caught. Interest ceaters to a great
| extent I'm Fraker's young Minnesota COM
| panion. and many believe the detectives
made a mistake I'm letting him go. State
| Senator n l.. Lyman has been retained
| 20 defend Fraker. What his course of
| tactics will he Is not known.
| St Louis. Sent Al. s. Hackley. one Of
| the best known drummers In the United
! States whose territory extends from
| ocean 20 ocean and from the great lakes
10 the gulf. whose business Is in Louis
| Vile XIV and whose residence is IN Mo-
| berlv No Is thu man who outstrpped
I the best detective talent I'm tho country In
/ turning M the big life insurance swim
/ alsr. DR. George w. Fraker. Mr.. Hack
/ lev arrived in ST. Louis today and regis
| tered a. the Planters In speaking OF the
| case Mr.. Hacklev said: "Onc OF the most
| important witnesses T. dead. He was
/ drowned IN Kansas on August Is. the day
! after the insurance companies paid the
/ money over 70 j. r. Lincoln tuE ANe TAN
| or estate on the order Of the court. An
! other IS now in Jail nj Springer. awaiting
/ trial for burglary.
The frst man was drowned under the
/ nauc OF Phillips. 7 nave excellent rea-
sons for believing. however. that this was
/ an alias and that his real nanc was Jim
Triulett TriDlctt. George Horrie, who is
/ now In a New Mexico iail charged with
| burglary and an old negro. who has since
! died were with Fraker when he was sup
| posed 20 have been drowned 7 have
] known both FRAZER and Worrio for nearly
/ twenty years. and when I read the story
/ ~ Frakers' drowning while on a fishing
! excursion with such a crook Eorrie. ]
/ was AZ once struck with tho strangeness
/ OF his companiorship IS evidence OF ras-
! rattty. have been quietly at work on tho
! case since. From the fret l was con-
/ WINGED that Fraker vas alive.
IT came 10 that conclusion. and thcuEht
| George Worric was tho only one with
/ koovlefsC o. the affair from whom
I -r.9F force definite and conclusive .nfar.
! matter, 80 NeSsn % track HIM After
/ locating him ( 3sccvc5 bin from Noberlv.
/ eu1 without letting him know that had
+ ANYTHING % 40 with Il I had the marshe
+ ~ TIE town arrest him for carrying o.
/ t>raicd weapons ! called on him iu g."
I ne recognized me az oucs. and after hours
a. persuasion ans threats / got from him
/ not only al tho details OF the c00sp5rac y
/ ~ f~raker 10 swln1ie TIE Insurance com
! -antes but also the exact location ~ the
/ Doctors hiding place in tho woods % Min
/ -e<ofa Taen I hurried 20 Topeka Kan.
/ and tol1 the officers % the Kansas Mutual
+ LIE Insurance ST. I knew. Eraker's ar
rest econ followed. ana that's al 7 VII
/ cav about the matter a. present"
Had not the Insurance companies hem
/ after Norrin ana Trfnletts" ne was asked
/ or course they had hu: they could get
/ r,ethinS from him. know positively that
t-fr sr,- q
! teal nos SO long ago offered 10 tav SIS aga
/ in Horries lap AMI guarantee sim inn
r,.teaity II 30 would tell HIM Fraker's
| Whereabouts
Further .han th!s uark,ey would saw
/ nnthinE That feature Of TIRE story which
/ uar<lev refuses % disclose IS pronounced
/ NV others who have given the case close
+ attention from the start ard VINO have an
! sekiIrg of What & IS 10 pc the most sersa-
I t.-~aI % all the elements which COMPRISE
tha conspiracy. II is hsnted thai ir Sd ara
/ involved the names of two or three verv
/ ofcuirent citizens % Missouri. which. f.
/ mentioned. would shock the STATE. L is
! u~cbaole 50 e Is said. that the Insurance
| companies themselves have made such
/ terms with these men Tor obvious reasons
| mat there wi-i be To SOFT OF action against
! them Which would reveal their identity
/ ara the important part they took "a the
! conspiracy.
James West. s4usuasth. "a Yesler avenue.