Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1895 — STOLE A BIG SUM. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

STOLE A BIG SUM.

Samuel C. Seely, Who Robbed the National Shoe and Leather Bank. The robbing of the National Shoe a>d Leather Bank of New York of $354,000 by Samuel C. Seely, for fourteen years a

bookkeeper in the bank, in whom unbounded confidence was placed, iy one of the greatest sensations in financial circles in recent years. Samuel C. Seely was a prominent Brooklyn church member, has a wife and two children and enjoyed the respect of all who knew hip. He is a weak-minded man, however, and

in an evil hour, either intentionally or unintentionally allowed his friend, a lawyer named Baker, who has committed suicide since the exposure, to overdraw his account. From that time on he was completely in Baker’s power, not daring to expose him for fear of prosecution, and for nine years Baker drew money weekly until it has amounted to $354,000. ' The swindle was only discovered when a new system of bookkeeping was introduced in the bank. A man supposed to be Samuel C. Seeley, the absconding bookkeeper of the National Shoe and Leather Bank, New York, who embezzled $354,000, was arrested in Chicago at 10:30 o’clock on Monday night by Detectives William O’Donnell and J. Almandinger, of the Central Station. The prisoner was taken to police headquarters, where he gave the name of Frank J. Dale, but refused to give any further information concerning himself. His appearance corresponded exactly with the description and picture sent out by the police of New York in a circular asking for Seeley’s arrest*, save that the prisoner’s mustache had apparently been trimmed and dyed, and his hair also trimmed and combed down over his forehead instead of being pushed back as was Seeley’s habit.

I. C. SEELY.