The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1914-06-26
Burglary Is Charge
Against Dan Seeley
From Tuesdays Daily.

From Tuesdays Daily.
George e. Schaus, employed at the
Clements Automobile garage, played
the pat OF a copper" yesterday aft
ernoon. A man who was somewhat
under the influence of liquor, accord.
ing to Mr.. Schaus' story, hired him
to drive him in an automobile to
dwelling on the poor farm road about
eight miles from the city, and back.
They reached the dwelling, where
there were no living creatures in
sight, except dog and a few chick.
ems, and the man, still laboring
somewhat under the influence of
liquor, pulled open the screen door
OF the house, walked in and then
walked out again, got into the auto
mobile and requested to be driven
back to Mahkato.
Refused to Pay.
This was done and on reaching
the heart OF the city, the customer
refused to pay for the trip he had
had Upon this Mr. Schaus would not
let him out OF the automobile. but
brought him over to the police sta
ton, where, still drunk, the man was
locked up, the police saying they
would look into the case. Mr. Schaus
said he did not know whether the
man drank any on the trip, but he
said he had three bottles of beer with
him when they started out and when
they got bck he had only two. The
dead-head customer sat in the rear
seat.
Donovan Alias Seeley.
The man who employed the chauf-
feur to take him out into the coun-
try yesterday afternoon proved to be
Dan Donovan, alias Daniel Seeley,
who had been employed on the farm
of John ID. Little. This was the
place where he went with the auto
mobile and forced open the screen
door to obtain entrance.
Mr.. Little yesterday paid the man
$50 for the full month that he work
ed. Seeley, that being the name by
which he was known to Mr.. Little,
had said that he wished to come to
town to get some teeth fixed and
make some purchases. II was ar
ranged that he should return to the
farm that same day with Mr.. Little
and their little girl who were also in
Mankato yesterday,
Mr.. Little saw Seeley about half
past eleven o'clock yesterday morn
ing, and it was arranged that Seeley
was to 60 home with the Littles,
meeting them at the Minneopa barn
at 1880. Seeley then fastened to
employ the chauffeur and auto, and
they sped to the Little farm.
Check Book on Person.
When Seeley was arrested, a check
book, that had belonged to Mrs.
Little, was found In the seat of the
auto, which he, had occupied. In IL
was $40 check that had been drawn
by Mrs. Little on the Citizens Ma
tional bank in the sum of $40 in
favor Of Fred Hunter a neighbor,
to pay him for work done for a
Cemetery association of which Mrs.
Little was the treasurer. Seeley was
accused today Of taking this check
book but he denied It. He said he
had hired the auto to get back to
the farm to go to work, because he
had failed to find Mr.. Little as he
had expected to, and when he found
there was nobody in the house, he
had the chauffeur drive him back
to town. He said he had offered the
chauffeur dollar for the service
thinking that was enough, and then
the chauffeur had had him, locked
up, because he would not pay more.
Seeley said he had been working
court this morning on the charge of
burglary in the third degree. He de-
clared that he was innocent of any
wrong doing. His case was passed
to two o'clock this afternoon to
give him a chance to decide whether
he would insist on an examination,
or be bound over to the district
court without It. He was told that
his bail was fixed in the sum of
$500 and he remarked, 81 believe I
will stop here a while" -
Seley said he had been working
on farms around Mankato for the
last wouteen months. He. said he
recently worked on a farm near Ka-
sofa. There he was known by the