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ABSCONDER SEELEY IN CUSTODY. BUTCHERLD A FAMILY MET IN A TUNNEL Shoe and leather Bank Clerk Arrested T. F. L. & L. Chicago. CO., Chicago, Dec. 11—The prisoner sup- posed to be Samuel C. Seeley, who helped to rob the New York Shoe and Tragedy Enacted by a Cable Cars Collide Under Wash- Terrible Leather bank of $354,000, was as non- Maniac in Missouri. ington Street, Chicago. communicative today as when taken Into custody last night. He insists that his name is Frank J. Dale, and says he never heard of Seeley except through the papers. Lieutenant Haas, of the de- STOOD IN THE DOOR WITH A GUN OVER TWO SCORE WERE HURT tective department, declared there was not the faintest doubt that Seeley had been caught. He says: "I have offered to send to any part of the country for Line He Murdered His Wife mod Four eh id. Grip on the Milwkwukee A v euue any one who could identify him as Dale, TIIOMPSON FALLS he has no rein end Then hkw 0411 Broke and the Brakes Would but the prisoner declares friends. We expect New York officers His Braise. Not Hold. here tomorrow." AND The man admitted shortly before noon today that he is Samuel C. Seeley, the absconding book-keeper. He declined Ridgeway, Mo., Dec. 11.—The most 11.—In a collision be- Chicago, Dec. to talk, but said he was ready to go horrible human butchery ever recorded TTE, MONTANA. cars in the Washington tween cable back to New York and would make no in this section was committed five miles one man was street tunnel this evening trouble. southwest of this city this afternoon. hurt fatally hurt, 15 others seriously Seeley's remarkable coolness and per- David Cl. Spragg, in a fit of insanity, !ITIMITITTMMYTTITITTTITTMMIMI bruised. The and a score more or less sistence in denying his identity had murdered his wife and two children and and for cars were set on fire by a stove completely baffled the detectives, and wounded two step-children and then around a time there was a fearful panic they had determined to wait for officers took his own life. The weapon of death the scene. from New York before making any ef- which the maniac wielded with such ap- The seriously injured are: forts. About noon the prisoner wished palling results was a large butcher John Smith, internally injured, will to see the man in charge of the detec- knife. tives. Inspector Shea and Lieutenant The nearest neighbor lived almost a George Newman, face badly cut. Haas promptly responded, entering the mile distant and it was some time be- William Joyce. right leg broken. inspector's office, where the suspect had fore the news spread. In a few hours James McDonald, left side of face been confined. "Be seated, gentlemen," numbers of people arrived from town crushed. Seeley said affably, as the officers ap- and an investigation of the scene was John Frems, leg twisted and nose peared, and somewhat dazed at his made. broken. nonchalance, they sat down. "Now, gen- A most sickening sight met their gaze. James McGinty, seriously bruised tlemen," he continued, "I wish to thank Lying in the yard near the gate were about the face. you for your courtesy and kindness the remains of Mrs. Spragg, mutilated di- Mrs. Thomas Beeman, seriously since our meeting last night. I have almost beyond recognition, and her in pool of blood bruised. told you repeatedly that my name is shevelled hair floated a In the little dwelling, in Mrs. George Reiss, temporarily de- Dale, but I have become tired of decep- about her, one corner of the sitting room, lay the ranged by the shock. tion. I had no sleep last night. I am lifeless body of little Caley, 6 years old, Mrs. William Parker, both ankles weary. My name is Seeley. Samuel C. and in another Albert, a 4-year-old boy, broken. Seeley, late hook-keeper fur the Nation- LUMBER ad BUILDING MATERIAL Albert's head, resting on the slate with John Donahue, head and face cut. al Shoe and Leather bank of New York. which he had been playing, was a mass William Maloney, jaw broken. That is what I wished to say to you." of blood and brains, while blood still face crushed. "Do you care to say anything about J. B. Burtle, oozed from gaping wounds in the A. Aikens, nose crushed. your case?" asked Inspector Shea. willing throats of each. On the kitchen floor, Mrs. Estella Viamen, injured about "Not a thing; I am ready and trouble with blood besmeared all over his hands the shoulders. to go back. I will not make any plop- and face, lay the author of the awful face cut. about extradition. As soon as the Harry Goddard, go." scene. Two step-children of Spraggs', intern- em- New York officers arrive l will T. H. Moran, gripman, injured both under 6 years old. were taken to the The officers endeavored to get a state- ally. of a neighbor, where they are dy- ment in regard to his connection with home Nellie Schott. badly bruised. ing from dozens of cuts that cover their the steal, but he carefully avoided mak- G. J. Barnes, face lacerated and teeth little bodies. ing any admissions or denials. The in- knocked out. DEED. spector had the man taken to the Har- DORA TOLD OF THE Miss Olga Schroeder, head cut. -daughter if rison street station, where he was lock- Dora Onstatt, a step Largest and Most Extensive N. Peterson, arm broken. eluding her ed up to await the arrival of the Ness' Spragg. 11 years old, after juhn Speth, nose smashed flat. grasp, escaped York officers. His vocabulary became step-father's muraerous M. Nelson, knee cap torn off. and gave the alarm. She very limited as soon as the cell door to a neighbor's In addition to these, there were a Spragg complained of an ach- closed behind him, and to all questions said that large number of people who sustained to ing head and his nearest neighbor, Mr. he simply replied: "I have nothing painful injuries, such as smashed fin- Meyers, was sent to Ridgeway for a gers, knocked-out teeth, sprained say." depart- THE INFORMER. physician. Soon after Meyer's LUMBERING COMPANY ankles and wrists. ure Spragg tied Caley's hands behind H. E. MacFarland, the young man THE CARS JAMMED. him and deliberately cut his throat. whose information led to Seeley's arrest, Both the West Madison street and Mrs. Spragg rushed into the room at slow in following his conquest to- Milwaukee avenue cable lines run was point and attempted to interfere, Although anxiously awaited by this through the tunnel, and at the time of day. when Spragg made a lunge at her. She authorities, he had not put in all ap- the accident, 6:30 o'clock, all the west the ran into the yard, then into the house up to noon, and no one knew bound cars were jammed to suffocation pearance again, closely followed by Spragg. In In whereabouts. Seeley's action in vol- Western Montana. with people, returning from business. his the house he caught her and a desper- untarily confessing his identity to a A Madison cable train, consisting of a ate struggle ensued. He literally hacked passing acquaintance after having dis- grip car and two trailers, were two- her head and face into slices and then, such keenness in evading arrest, thirds of the way down the incline to- played cutting her head almost from her body, the subject of much speculation. ward the tunnel, when the train on the was dragged her by the hair into the yard. MacFarland had said that Seeley met Milwaukee avenue line, also consist- Covered with gore, and every minute on the street, invited him to the ing of three cars, entered the tunnel. him becoming more frenzied, the human races and after several days' compan- Almost immediately after starting monster returned to the house to con- ionship, had calmly informed him that down the slope, Gripman Moran of Mil- tinue his work. Dora, who was sick in he was Samuel C. Seeley, wanted in waukee avenue lost hold on the cable bed, had climbed out of the window in New York for the theft of $354,00. The and the car slipped forward down the the meantime and escaped. police were inclined to the belief that steep grade. Moran rang his alarm bell ' When the people first began to arrive Macrarland's story might he subject to and the conductor set all the brakes, they were deterred from entering by variations. It was believed that the in- but were unable to hold it and just as Spragg, who stood in the door with a Extensive Saw Mills, formant was an old acquaintance of the bottom of the tunnel was reached, loaded shot gun. Finally he locked the the fugitive and that the allurements the runaway cars struck the Madison door. It was then that he butchered the the $5,000 reward had got the bettor street train with awful force, smashing of step-children. Just as the crowd was his friendship. Planing Mills, its car Into splinters and demolishing of preparing to break into the house, two Mammoth During the afternoon, MacFarland the Milwaukee avenue grip car. Both shots were heard, and when the door put in an appearance at detective head • trains were piled up in a heap, frem was finally forced open. Spragg was quarters. He was apparently laboring which such passengers as were capable dead and the scene us described was under a heavy burden of intoxicating of moving crawled out, battered and presented to view. The two step-chil- fluids, and his conversation was not bleeding. Each of the two wrecked cars., dren who were still alive were cared for, particularly lucid. He was able, how- held about 75 passengers, and that a but cannot recover. ever, to make his hearers understand number of them were not instantly that he was hot after that $5,000 and in- killed was a wonder. ENGINEER 'YOUNG WAS KILLED. tended to have it all. He would, he de- CARS CAUGHT FIRE. clared, divide with no one. The de- Shot During a Quarrel With Conductor To add ti the horror, one of the Barnes of Butte. tectives who were sent out to look up wrecked cars caught fire and began to the informer's record reported that he Denver, Dec. 11.—A special to the Re- blaze furiously. All the people injured been for a week boasting to friends publican from Butte, Montana, says two on both cars had been removed before had he knew where to find Seeley. Mac- railroad men, William Barnes and M. the fire became dangerous, however. that Farland, according to the officers, is an C. Young, became involved in a quarrel A number of people were pinioned in the admirer of the flowing bowl, and in a saloon this evening and Barnes Manufacture and Export wreck and others were held fast be- ardent many of his acquaintances say that fre- shot and instantly killed Young. Barnes tween the wreckage and the walls of during the last week while in- Is a conductor on the Great Northern the tunnel. All were quickly removed quently MI Classes of Lumber, he declared that he would railroad and Young was an engineer. and the fire extinguished by an engine toxicated soon clear $5,000 by a clever bit of detec- Barnes escaped. company. work. The cause of the accident was the tive Rough or Finished. PRESIDENT CRAIN EN ROUTE. EVIDENCE IN THE GING TRAGEDY. breaking of the grip of the Milwaukee New York, Dec. 11.—President Crain avenue car. Adry ilaward Repeated His Confession of the Shoe & Leather National bank to the Grand Jury. this afternoon for Chicago. where 11.—The grand jury FEARFULLY WOUNDED A NEIGHBOR left Minneapolis, Dec. is under arrest. in the Seeley _— put in the day hearing evidence A Michigan Farmer Also Burned Ills Ging murder case. Mayor Eustis re- Another Robber Arrested. House and Himself. lated the story at length to the jurors. Dec. 11.—John Phil- Southaven, Mich., Dec. 11.—Robert Fort Worth, Tex., Later in the afternoon the sheciff ap- man arrested for complic- near lips, the fifth peared with Adry Hayward, who re- Webber, an aged farmer living robbery, was ity in the Benbrock train peated to the jury the confession as to here, set fire to his barn this morning, He is a broth- lodged in jail here today. his brother's schemes, which he had shot and fearfully wounded Eugene also arrested er-in-law of John Ward, given the officers. Keasy, a neighbor, and then attempted for this robbery. The officers are con- to committ suicide. Keasy discovered Sullivan and Phil- fident that Ward, MONTANA MURDERER CONFESSED. the fire, and after liberating the animals lips did the robbing. and Gardiner and from the barn, went into the house to others were only accessories. Bill Gay Told of ills Crime to a cantor. All mptly and Filled. notify Webster, when the latter sudden- nia sheriff. Orders Carefully Counterfeiters' Gang. ly opened the door and poured a charge Trapped a Needles, Cal., Dee. 11.—Bill Gay, who of shot into Keasy's face. He then satu- Guthrie, 0. T., Dec. 11.—United States is held here for murder in Montana, Send For rated the house with oil, and after ig- marshals have trapped a dangerous male a full confeseion today to Deputy Estimates. niting it lay down on the floor and was gang of counterfeiters in an under- Sheriff Keys. Keys knew the prisoner fatally burned. Both of Keasy's eyes ground cavern near here, and captured 12 years ago in the Black Hills country, are shot elean out, his nose is shot off Guy Harper, L. Crawford, J. Tillery when he was worth over half a million. They and one side of his face is nearly gone. and James and Sam Lackett. He says that he never intended to be ta- His scalp is full of shot, but his wounds have been operating with considerable ken alive, and was completely taken by formerly employed .41W - are not fatal. success. Tillery was surprise when captured. -41/. • • in the Philadelphia mint. THE STATE WILL LOSE NOTHING. TILLMAN ELECTED SENATOR, • To Contest Tarsney's seat. Mrs. Cobientz Will Reimburse Iler Ibis- Washington, Dec. 11.—B. T. Vanhorn, Represent ine south Carolina in Plata: of band's Bondsmen. But ler. editor of the Kansas City Journal, has Walla Walla, Dec. 11.—There are no served notice upon Representative Columbia, S. C., Dec. 11.—B. It. Till- new developments regarding the pen- Tarsney of the Fifth Missouri district man was fleeted United States senator itentiary. Mrs, Coble!"tz and children of his intention to contest the latter's at noon, reeelving 131 out of 155 votes will accompany the remains of her dead Thompson Falls Land and Lumber Co., seat in the house. cast. He succeeds M. r. Butler. husband east, leaving via the Northern tomorrow morning. The body Pacific smothered by Illuminating Ga.4 Iteseued a Prisoner. taken to the penitentiary this after- was Francisco, Dec.10.—Charles John- Atlanta. Ca., Dec. 11.—A body Of where services were conducted by Man noon, Gustav Wennerberg, owners armed men held up Marshal Kelly and A/Liin Office: Dr. Law of the Episcopal church. son and Rev. on Fourth street, were Thomas D. Woods in Dodge county and now looks forward to the ex- of a cigar stand Everyone by Illuminating gas made them surrender L. Williams, a of the exact condition of smothered to death pert's report Stev- prisoner under arrest for violating the roblentz states that she this morning at their lodgings on affairs. Mrs. land laws. BUTTE, MONTANA. will reimburse the bondsmen. enson street.