New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-22

! since there is such strenuous objec-
tion | must endure the penalty, and |
/ am now ready for it.
Promises to Pay All.
! "If had my way this fund would
have been paid to the depositors long
( ago But not a dollar of it is mine,
and the people who put ii up did so
for the purpose Of getting me free in
/ order that might enter business.
B Some of the depostors have seen fit not
to accept it, and their objections simply
result in its being withdrawn by the
/ people who put il UP. Over this |
/ have no control But it is still my
firm belief and unalterabln de!ermina-
/ ton. as soon as | am free to engage
in business again, 10 devote the rest
of my life and whatever | can earn
toward paying depositors.
"My ambition is not killed. My
hopes and my determination will sur
vive. If my health Is spared | am
sure that can still win out for them"
Sheriff Root asked Siegel If he wished
to have lunch before he started.
"No," said he, unless it puts you
out. Let's get this thing sterted as
soon as possible
OLeary, V. C.'s Kin. in Guard.
So at 1890 O'Clock Sheriff Root, Dep
uty Sheriff Con OLeary, a cousin, by
the way, of the famous Sergeant Nj
ehael c. OLeary, V. c., and the Sher-
IFS midget stenographer left the Jail
for the hotel, where Siegel paid his bill
and got his little handbag. He was all
smiles 10 mis- friends-aoout every one
IN Geneseo is his friend who wished
him luck and expressed sympathy.
As he left the hote! Arthur Train
came along in a motor. For more than
a mile beyond the town limits Trains
course was Siegeps, and ii looked for
q time as though the prosecutor in
tended following him clear to his cell.
He stopped, however, at the Buckley
place. Siegel's route lay through the
beautiful Geneseo Valley, he calling
attention as he passed to this or that
place. In Avon, where a stop was
made, Siegel showed his first sign Of
nerves.
"Are you going direct to the JAIL"
reporter asked Sheriff Root.
Don't say jail-say farm" corrected
Siegel with an attempt at a laugh.
Say farm"
Arriving in Rochester. Siogcl and his
party walked TO the Powers House:
The doors OF the mems grill are Of
heavy lattice work.
Suggestive, that" said one Of the
party, pointing to the bars.
my. but you are tactful," SAID Sic
gel. with another forced laugh.
Siegel's lunch was mainly coffee and
a big cigar, which he consumed while
he glanced over the reports OF his case
in the New York papers, one of which
contained an old cut Of him.
as that the best vow could do?' he
twitted the reporter.
Will Help Depositors.
Becoming serious, Siegel told the
group that he hoped 20 use the $780,
COO the depositors might have had 20
90 into business on when freed.
"Of course, there's nothing settled
now" he said but III be in business
again. You can depend on that.
81 mean to help the depositors.
feel sore toward nobody. ! don't blame
ANYBODY, not even those few depositors
who, through a mistaken sense OF the
situation, have bounded me. II they
knew things exactly rs they are they
would do and feel differently, am
sure, for they arc honest"
Sicgel, with the Sheriff, left the ho--
tel, saying they were going out, and
package under his arm.
Your WARDROBE" he was asked.
mo: something TO smoke
Outside Deputy Sheriff OLeary was
waiting. lie carried the black var
nished cloth dress suitcase that Siegel
used on his flying trip 10 Europe last
summer, the White Star labels of that
trip still showing. Siegel. it will be
remembered, was we'll at sea before the
authorities learned. through william
c. Reich, a fellow passenger, that he
was on board. The District Attorneys
Office charged that he was trying TO
escape to Germany. whence he could
not be extradited. and Scotland Yard
was asked to arrest him If he sought
10 leave England. He insisted he
merely wished to visit his only child.
and as he returned on the same boat
he was not moested.
Then siegel started on the last leg