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to Keliher, and published here. today. In the published story the confidence man is quoted as going into the details of his operations much as they were revealed in court. Keliher is in the Charlestown state prison, where he is serving a sentence of from 15 to 18 years. Mr. Bates' statement follows: "In reference to an alleged confession by William J. Keliher, published in one of the morning papers, Mr. Bates, the receiver of the bank, says that he is informed by the paper that published the alleged confession that it obtained its information directly from Mr. Keliher. Mr. Bates would neither confirm nor deny the statements made in the article, further than to say that Mr. Keliher had made to him some weeks ago a complete statement of all the facts in the case, so far as he had knowledge of them." United States District Attorney French said, today, that if any statement made by Keliher regarding the missuse of funds stolen from the Cambridge bank was substantiated he would, of course, bring any criminal action required. He added, however, that he already had in his possession two alleged confessions" of the confidence man and he would need to examine any further "confession with a microscope" before he was convinced of its value to the state. He had known for sometime, he said, of the statement obtained by Mr. Bates.
