Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1898-03-28
He WANTED ROLL TOP DhsEs.
David Collins Ssager Prevented From To-
dulging HIS Taste for Furniture.

oulglng his iaste LOT Furniture.
David Collins Seager, Of Boston, Mass,
and later OF Bland. New Mexico. Is either
a modern Muuchausen or a "a very
much down ON his luck. lie Is In jail
charged with obtaining goods under false
pretenses. When arrested he had but hf-
teen cents.
Last tuesday Detective Emrich was
called 10 investigate a customer Of the
Casey Furniture company. Seager was
the customer, although he Vas thea tray-
cling under the name OF Porter. lie nad
ordered ten roller TOP desks, aud other
furniture for a sutte OF offices In the
Boston building. which he had leased and
would occupy may | next, ~ secretary OF
the Bland Mining company. Seager at
that refused to give n satisfactory ac-
count OF himself and was taken 10 the
police headquarters. As no definite crime
could be charged against him he was not
detained.
Yesterday the police we're informed
that a young man OF clerical appearance
was giving orders for considerable fur
niture aud office supplies around the
city. The American Furniture company
had seDt him four roller top desks, three
tables, a lounge, 80 chairs, aud other Of
ice requisites. A local statiOner had fur
nished nearly $50 worth Of stationery for
the Bland Mining company, with ac-
count books, lnk and other necessary
thugs. A new Burlington typewriter
was also part Of the furnishings. All
tue furniture was In place In rooms 6O3-
40, Boston building, where Seager was
arrested yesterday.
Seager denies any intention 10 de-
fraud. II belong 10 one Of the best fami-
lies In Boston" said he last night. II
have two wealthy uneleg named Porter
living at Brighton, "A suburb OF Boston. |
graduated Ia the Harvard class Of 'gi,
and served part Of my legal apprentice
ship with Howe Il Hnmmel, the New
York firm OF criminal lawyers. While
In New York | vas associated with Je-
rome h. Wheeler in mining deals and
helped him 10 stock the Little Nellie
and Dollie Warden, " Aspen, for $1,000
go. ] represent $4,000 capital in the
Cochiti district Of New Mexico. The
POsey. named after X. p. POsey, a we'll
known mining man, Ia the chief shipper,
and within a week a gold brick worth
5000 has been shipped from Il. | gd-
init appearances are against me, but the
fact Is | lost $4,000 In Eve weeks gam
bling In New Mexico. | am not too
proud 10 work, aud when | needed money
| was not ashamed 10 sing In the cellars
at Seventeenth and Curtis streetlfor a dol.
lar a night. | have been In the theatre
cal business before. II my remittances
from Boston, which | am expecting.
should fail ! have been promised a posi-
ton at the 0rpheum n a female imper-
senator next week"
A dispatch from Boston, received last
night. stated that the only Porter Of any
financial consequence In Brighton was
Mrs. Jennie l.. Porter. She IL not known
10 have any relations named Seager. She
and her family are not In Brighton now.
The above is clipped from the Denver
Republican OF March %, and refers evil
to J. Chandler Braman, alias
Chandler, alias Sidney Pye, the
sweet tenor warbler, the erstwhile owner,
manager and advance agent OF Pye's
might Owls" company. When the city
papers here exposed his r~ascality and
dishonest acts, strewn all along the lines
from his New York home TO Los Angeles.
thence 70 Phoenix, and from the latter
city to Albuquerque, the clerical looking
man left here, and just before leaving
the confines Of the city. told q friend
he would be heard from In Denver.
David Collins Seager" il, without doubt,
the same J. Braman Chandler with half
a dozen aliaseO.