The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-06

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 81. s. Hackley,
tho liquor drummer who says he
turned up" DR. c. w. Fraker, after
the best detective skill in the country
had been two years in fruitless
search for the gigantic insurance
sWindler, is indignant that the Kansas
City attorneys interested in the case
should attempt to cast doubts on his
story as published yesterday. Mr..
Hackley is still in ST. Louis and he
was more inclined to talk today
about details of the case than he was
day before because of the language
imputed to Lawyer D. j. Haff, of
Kansas City, in the morning papers.
The Drummer's story.
In regard to the statement of Mr..
Half that the insurance people had
made all their plans for the capture
and knew of the whereabouts of
Fraker before Mr.. Hackley informed
them, the latter said:
The whole story Of my part in
turning up DR.. Fraker, so far as my
connection with the attorneys of the
insurance companies is concerned, is:
On August "a, l wired Mr.. Herrick,
the general attorney Of the Kansas
Mutual Life Insurance company ask
ing for the names of some of the Of
ficers of the companies most involved
by Frakers rascality.
Il thought Herrick lived at Kansas
City, and so sent my telegram there.
In few hours it was answered by D.
1J. Half, giving me the name of j. F.
Davis of Topeka, as president OF the
Kansas Mutual. On August 26, L went
to Kansas City and wired President
Davis to meet me there that evening;
Instead of Davis, Herrick came and
we had long talk. After Herrick
satisfied himself that L was all right
and that l was really in possession CT
knowledge as to the whereabouts OF
the genuine Fraker, he telephoned for
Half to come to the hotel Immediately.
In a. few minutes Haff's partner, Van
Yandenberg, came out of the New
Albany, and [ repeated to him what L
had told Herrick. When they lett me,
l agreed to meet them that night IN
Haff's office for further conference.
We talked fully till midnight InQugh
the information L gave them was
specific, the lawyers for a long Whlle
seemed to doubt my story.
The Plot to Rob Him.
"Finally they asked me how much
Horrie wanted to peach. l told tnem
SIC. 1000 Then they requested me to go
hack to Moberly, see Horrie again IN
the JAIL stand him off in his demands
until Saturday, August 81, and get all
I could from him. This l did, and on
the evening of August 81 l received a
telegram from Herrick at Kansas
City, reading:
Have written you a long letter.
81 got the letter Sunday morning. 1T
consisted of two and a half pages of
typewriter matter, contained an of
fer of 81, 900 in cash and per cent of
all money recovered for what L had
done. and was signed by the three
attorneys whose names l have men
toned. This was on September L. On
September 2 l received a telegram from
Herrick telling me to let the matter
drop That evening DR.. Fraker was
arrested in his retreat in Minnesota "
In speaking of another claim made
by the Kansas City attorneys in their
apparent determination to rob him of
the credit due for turning up Fra
ker, Mr.. Hackley said:
II will give 1000 for every letter of
an discriminating nature which the
Kansas City lawyers and detectives
have of Horrie's ALL such letters ia
ken from Horrie are now locked in a
vault at Moberly, and [ have read
them all and know their contents. 1t
was these, more than Horries con-
fession, which convinced me that he
was telling the truth, and that Fraker
was still alive