The age-herald., 1900-05-23
CHARLES NELLY
 AGAIN ARRESTED Warrant Issued by Judge La Cembe in New York, COL. BURROWS STATEMENT After Making Careful Investigation of All of Neely's Records the Sum
 of $45, ,37525 is Unac-
 counted For
COL. BURROWS STATEM I

New York, May 22.-Charles F. W. Nicely, former chief financial agent of the post office department at Havana, was rear rested today by United States marshal The arrest was made on warrant issued by United States Circuit Judge La Combe in a civil suit against Nicely by the United States. He is charged with the wrongful conversion of $45, 300. .26. His bail was fixed at S50000.
 The arrest was made on information fur nished by George H. Burton and the order of arrest was indorsed by Edward K. Jones, special attorney, and Frederick P. Smith.
 The prisoner was taken to the United States marshars office and later was ar raigned before Judge La Combe. Counsel for the prisoner made application for re- duction of the bail, but it was denied Nicely was then taken to the Ludlow street jail.
 Attached to the order of arrest is the affidavit of George H. Burton, an in spector general of the United States army with rank as colonel, stationed in Cuba, and other affidavits.
 In his affidavit, Colonel Burton states that on April 24 he was ordered by Major Gen eral Wood to examine accounts and vouch- CTS in the department posts in Cuba. Colo mel Burton stated in his affidavit that he found irregularities that made it necessary for him to visit Neely's office to examine his accounts After Nicely learned that his accounts were to be examined he left Ha- vana on the steamship Mexico.
 MT. Burton further alleges that he learned from E. G. Rathbone, director of posts in Cuba, that Nicely had gone to the Waldorf Astoria, in New York cable dispatch was sent to Nicely to return, but he paid no attention to it.
 The Dulles of Nicely
 Continuing, Colonel Burton says:
 'The duties of the chief of bureau of finance, Charles F. w. Nicely, were to col feet all the revenues derived from the postal department of the island of Cuba, including the sale of stamped paper, box rents and the fees from the postal money order busi- ness, and to deposit the same to the credit of the director of posts, with the treasurer of the island of Cuba, in Havana. MT. Reich handed me a book which he stated was MT. Neely's ledger, and also stated that said ledger was all the record that said Nicely had left pertaining to postal earnings, which statement Mir Rathbone
 
 ment of the receipts for stamped paper, box rents and some receipts from the fees of the money order business, from January l. 1900, to April 30, 1900 with the exception of the receipts of the Havana postoffice from March 15, 1900, to April 30, 1900, of which there was no record
 'The ledger left by Nicely shows that the cash receipts were from fifty-nine impor- tant postoffices in the island of Cuba, for the months of January February, March and April, 1900, as follows:
 January, 1900, Neely's receipts from the sale of stamped paper and from box rents were $2S,90222; of this amount he deposited with the treasurer the sum of $17,530
 For February he received from the same source $25, ,005, to which he added the sum of $7,362 received by him from fees of the money order business for the months of July, August and September, 1S99 He took up in cash also in the month of February s4,S55 received from fees of the money or der business for the months of October, November and December, 1s99 He did not, however, deposit this latter amount with the treasurer This last amount added to the first two items, makes the total re- ceipts for February 1900, amount to the sum of s37,223 of which he deposited s24,365 Tn March he collected ST. 602 from the sale of stamps, stamped papers and box rents, of which he deposited $16926.
 Tn April he collected $29,92S, of which he deposited $l8,459.
 My investigation demonstrated that Nicely as chief of the bureau of finance has received the sum of s122,656. of which he has deposited with the treasurer of Cuba the sum of s77,2S1, and that the balance, amounting to $45, ,375.25, or any part thereof, cannot be found, and that the said sum re- mains entirely unaccounted for"