Los Angeles herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1890-1893, 1891-10-09
WHITTIER-DENSON.
w. F. WHITTIER REFUSES TO MAKE
ANY STATEMENT.
81 Have Nothing to Say" His Only Re-
sponse-Denson Said to Have Threat
ened Murder and Suicide.

Perhaps the most important event in
the Whittier-Denson scandal that oc-
Cured yesterday, was the return to the
city of William f. Whittier from Los
Angeles. He left the city on Sunday
morning last for the place named on a
business trip. When seen at home last
night, he had nothing to add to the
statement he made to the Examiner
correspondent in Los Angeles, on Mon
day, which statement appeared in these
clumns yesterday. He refused to dis
cuss the case, and replied to all ques-
tions put to him by repeating the words,
81 have nothing to say"
Denson's friends are still confident
that he will come out all right, and deny
the statement that has been made that
he gave, over his own signature or in
any other way, any particulars OF the
alleged conspiracy against young Fuller.
To the newspaper reporter who saw him
yesterday he refused to talk.
Franklin P. Bull, the attorney who
has acted in the case, was seen, and he
Mr.. Fuller, but had merely stood by
continue to do so. He said
81 have known Mr.. Fuller for long
time, and when first heard the charges
that were made against him knew that
they were not true. 1 went to him and
consulted with him as a friend, and
counseled him to be cautious and there
would be a chance of finding out how
the rumors emanated and who was re-
sponsible for them.
SIN that respect he has followed my
advice and by the caution he has dis
played he has succeeded in unfathoming
one of the blacklist plots that was ever
made against the character of any man.
Many persons regarded his reticence as
an admission of his guilt, and his enc
mics have not been slow to take adj
vantage of this, some of them going so
far as to allege that he admitted it. But
knowing as much of the case as l do l
have only to say that it will not be long
before every charge that he has alleged
in this case will be proven"
When ex-Judge S. @. benson had
made his confession of guilt to those
present at the market street episode and
declared that his statement was true,
and that Whittier was alone to blame
for the action he had taken in the per-
secution of Fuller, he made this threat /:
"What have told you (referring to
Whittier's guilt is true, and will be
prepared to prove it when called upon il
what has happened in this room re-
mains secret. Ii anyone here mentions
the circumstances l will shoot him and
then shoot myself, and" he added, 81
don't know but l will shoot myself to-
night, anyway"
There was wild determination in his
eye when he said this, for dispair had
given way to desperation. The next
day, it is alleged, when Fuller and his
friends called upon him to receive pa
pers which he said he had in his safe
and was willing to give up, he repeated
his confession and renewed his threat OF
murder and suicide.
In the face of this benson is declaring
his innocence among his friends, says
that he will be able to prove that the
affair is fabrication resulting from a
conspiracy on the part of every one pres
emit. and threatens TO take the matter
into the courts and prove his story.
1t was stated yesterday that as legal
adviser of the Southern Pacific railway
company, he had secured the services OF
some of the detectives of that corpora
ton, and that they were already atwork
on his case. Whether this is or is not
true could not be ascertained, but up to
late last night the parties to whom they
would naturally go for information had
not been called upon by them.
Fuller's attorneys are silent, and say
that they are now waiting for something
to be done by Whittier. They are as
confident as ever that they have an in
vincible case, and say that they can af-
ford to wait a reasonable time to hear
from the other side, but that some de-
velopments must come soon.