The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-01-21

Seattle, Wash. Jan. 90 - W. l.. IL
Seeley an attorney and former ma
tional bank examiner for Illinois, un-
der Comptroller of the Currency Jas.
II. Eckels, his wife. Mrs. Kate NJ
Seeley, a member of the national so
ciety OF the Daughters of the Ameri- !
can Revolution and his daughter |
Miss Rene Seeley, a student at the |
university of Washington. and a mem. |
Der of the Delta Gamma society, !
were found dead in a bath room of
their home, 81 Eighteenth avenue, in
the fashionable Capitol Hill district, !
at / o'clock this afternoon. They had
been dead since the previous Thurs
day.
The women, each of whom was clad
in her night robe, had been murdered
by being struck on the head, evident
~ with a hammer and drowned in
the bath tub. There was no mark of
violence on Seeley. He Is believed to
then drowned in the bath tub
All three were kneeling at the side
of the bath tub with tehir heads sub
merged in the water.
That Seeley killed his wife and
daughter while insane over financial
worries and then committed suicide.
is the theory fthe coroner and the
police. He was clothed in his under
wear. shoes and trousers. His might
gown, which was bloodstained from
bodies of the two women, was found
beneath Il clean pillow in the room
occupied by Seeley and his wife The
| pillow on which Mrs. Seeley had been
sleeping was saturated with blood.
Seeley came here less than two
years ago from st. Joseph. Mo lie
moved there from ottawa, H., and
had engaged in the practice of law
where he had been for the past thirty
years Seeley was 50 years OF age
his wife about three years his junior,
and his daughter 22 years of age.
The bodies were found by Guy NJ
Smelzer, affianced husband of Miss
Seeley, and +. r. Seibell, a friend of
the family.
The family could not be communi-
Gated with after o'clock Thursday
night when Smelzer talked over the
telephone with Miss Seeley Efforts
to get into communication with them
after that were unsuccessful
The only living thing on the prem.
ises was a huge black cat which was
locked in the basement, and which
had since Friday been fed by neigh
bors.
Although keeping up the appear
ance of prosperity, Seeley had been
forced to borrow money for his last
months house rent from w. w. VIII
shire, an attorney from whom he
rented desk room in the New York
building
Police detectives searched the
house for weapons with which the
murders had been committed. but
were unable to find any blood od-stained
implements. No article of jewelry or
anything Of value was taken from
the house, Every window and door
was found to have been securely
locked.
Seeley is an uncle Of VI. f. Gose
of Pomeroy recently appointed by
! The governor to the Washington SUI
preme bench He has brother
Charles. at Pomeroy, Wash, and an
other, Frank, at Hood River.
Charles dlscredited the theory that
his brother was in financial straits
by saying that recently he had receiv-
ed $4,000 from the settlement of his
fathers estate. His brother knows no
motive for the crime and thinks the
man must have been insane. VIII It
has become of his money is not
known.
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