The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-15
THE AIBERTS6N CASE
President Wallace Admits That
q Large Sum Was Taken.
eMBEzzLER's cool LETTER.
Charge Of Grand Larceny Against II d
AIbertson, ola Charge Withdrawn
-Kochsrsperger Unmarked.

The trfsi az n aihsytsou. of the Seattle law
I'm Of Preston. Aibertsop X Donwortn. wnoE
Detective sullivan. one john P. Kochersperger
special agent Of the Fidelity and Casualty Som.
pany. Of New York, together with come ~ T II.
ofiiceH 81 the Fidelity Trust company, % -
CONS. are irving 10 connect with the iooting OF
the latter institution by Edward Albertson, It's
treesufer and his cousin, on Augustzz, was cU,n-
menced at Tacoma yesterday afternoon. Ihe
trial has only begun. The prosecutor nas sos
cpmpisted its case and TIE DEFENSE nas
Introduced no testimony, jet suihcient evidence
waz brought out yesterday 70 show tnat d. D:
AiDsrtson's case 10 one that nn sppsA.
20 the syfnpathies ana o
al night . thinking men ana iurnisn
chapter TO one Of the most ofhnna'ic ssofiss
syer written In criminal snnais.
. Although the robbery occurred on August Y
and was discovered twodays iatsf, the true iaets
have only ;usf leaked cut, bus before the pres
ent hearing is over tho world viii hear story
that would furnish the thrilling plot Tor story
by Gaboriau.
IL wilfbe shown that EDWARD Ainertson was
the coolest and mos. calculating man that
ever committed a crime. The evidence in
IA SUFFICIENT 20 show his desperation,
daring and cunning. Ths letters written By
him 70 the bank officials. b. which he received
immunity from prosecution In consider
alton Of the return OF about 100000
worth OF securities anu In TACT
the whole circumstances a. already outlined by
the prosecution, indicate his deviiish In
eennlty. But rs the hearing proceeds
IL viii be shown that his plot
was carefully laid weeks before the commission
OF the crime. and that plans OF escape were
made by him and put into partial execution as
early as June IS.
To save himself be worked upon the well
known chiyalrous snstincts OF his cousin, and
drew him into the plot, 30 that he is for the
time being made the victim of . train OF I'M
fortunate circumstances.
IL wss on June Is that Edward Albertson
name to be mentioned in connection with
his own crimes On that day a stranger
called at Mr. r. B. Albertson's law Office in this
city and introduced himself as Mr.. Ross. giving
no address He claimed 10 have
come from mutual friend in
deep trouble. To show that he had come
from friend he offered to tell Mr..
r. y. Albertson certain incidents In
various stages OF bis fR- u. Albertson's) life
that only friend of the closest kind could
know. Mr.. Alberson said that all he cared to
know was that friend was in
trouble, he did not care to know his
name before rendering service. Ross went on
20 say that this friend was in position OF
trust with large company, leaving
the inference that IL was local
concern. He was short in his accounts and was
Iopelessly entangled In desperation he had
taken large sum OF money from the company's
safe, all the company's securities and
had changed the combination on
the safe. He was In place of
safety. He had informed the COM
pany OF what he had done and
had informed the company that he would
return the securities in exchange
for . guarantee of immunity from
punishment This, Ross let Mr. Albertson
understand, the company was only too glad to
grant, as without the securities and the eombi-
nation to the safe they would be ruined, Ross
asked Albertson IL, under these circum-
stances, he would not prepare an agree
Jnent 10 be used by the company
in securing the securities, and his friend in Sc
curing freedom from fear Of punishment.
Mr.. AIbertson consulted his partners, George
Donworth and George Hyde Preston about the
matter, and either with or against their
advice decided to prepare the papers. He die
tatcd the agreement TO his stenographer, who
made two or more typewriter copies of IL and
on the next day, June 10, Ross called and got
them.
Two months passed by and no corporation
was robbed by trusted agent and Mr. Albertson
had almost forgotten the matter when on
August "a IL was reported that the Fidelity
&ASSs Soihphuf Va AdNpttiht nau pSeu TODpeQ Dy
Edward Albertson. its secretary.
few days later Ross called on r. b. Albert
SON at his Office, admitted his true name
TO be Chandler, and that he was the
sccomptice OF Edward Albertxon He asked Il.
y. Albertson to carry mail to Mrs. Edward Al
bersson from her husband. This Mr.. Albertson
refused TO do and Chandler mailed the letter
from the oniee OF Preston, Albcrtson & Donworth
using an envelope and postage stamp furnished
him by Mr.. K. B. Albertson.
Mr.. r. ID. Aibertson felt the disgrace upon the
fsinily name keenly and hoped that he
would not be dragged into the
matter. Finally he went to Kochersperger In
Tacoma and told him his connection with the
matter. The agent of Edward Albertson's
bondsmen tried to force from him an admission
that he knew where the criminal and his
an acoomplice were in hiding. R. b.
Alhertson did not know and plainly
soid Kochersperger that he would not
give up his cousin. rascal though he was, if he
should happen to find out
From that time on, aud before that, r b.
Albsrtson was bounded by detectives. The SEN
sationai kidnapping of last Thursday followed.
hr. Alhertson is happy 70 have an opportunity
OF telling the full story in court
This il In brief the story of the defense 30
lar a. outlined by the testimony already In.