The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-12-08
WANT A SHARE.
8Ietims Of Whites Famous
forgeries Sue Two Banks.
!. olssaATEo CASE RECALLED.
~~~afss . Co. wasn't the Psgst DssDa
- FIRST National Bssks 20 Divide
the Money Recovered.


1.des Langley was yesterday engaged
Z srying one Of the most remarkable gar
.iuAuent suits on record, II being the ont
s,~vth Of the celebrated forEsries By
80 W. II White obtained over 9i3.o 600
J. rnissd drafts from the Puget Sound
xs<Iensi and First National hsnks, snd
70 C. 7. Wooding 4 Co.. bankers. Of
iserdsen, In the spring of 1884, wooding
8 G.. are trying 20 compel the two Seattle
kesks 70 share with them the money re-
3 ervered from White upon bis arrest the
- sfter be obtained II.
Is the spring Of 1859, White, who wss
~ Of the cleverest forgers ever in Seattle,
esersted extensively al around the Sound.
IL principal Seattle victims wers the
pueef Sound National and the First Na-
ticnai banks. from which he on May ..
80, obtained nearly $1,000, by raising
usegsl smsIl drafts. c. 7. Wooding d
Co, Of Aberdeen. he had previously
yietimized to the extent Of @2, 430 by
means Of four raised checks. Tho
bfreries were discovered, and on the fol-
jcuing day he was arrested In Snohomish
eounsy by the sheriff Of that county and
brought to Seattle. tried, convicted and
ernsenced to imprisonment for fourteen
years. This term he 10 now serving at
Walla walla. Gov. McGraw. who vas tho
sheriff OF King county. recovered the
money from White and Whites mother
On the day Of the arrest.
After he had been convicted Woodine q
Co. brought suit In the superior court
against him to recover the money he OBJ
tsined from them BY the raised checks.
At about this time the garnishment
end First National banks now on trial
were instituted. wooding claiming that
they had in their vaults large sums OF
money taken from White at the time Of
his arrest, and applied to the satisfaction
d their own losses without any regard for
those Of others. The banks denied hav.
ing more than they were entitled 20 and
% answered. In tho meantime wooding
rot Judgment against White for the full
amount of his claim.
The garnishment suits we're to have been
tried last May. but Whites deposition had
not been obtained and they were con-
tinued. One OF the first things done yes
terday after tho formal proving Of the
Judgment against White was the intro
duction in evidence Of this deposition. II
was taken at the penitentiarv in Walia
WaIla on May l6 1898. In IL White states
that on May rs. 1889, he was arrested by
the sheriff of 6nohomish county and
Sheriff McGraw, of King county, on q
charge of forgery. He says he bad in his
possession at the time $3.50 in bills and
gold, a gold watch and chain valued at
$50. diamond ring and pin worth SIZE
and ST. Bernard pu, valued
o. $50, oil OF which wers
taken from him by the sheriffa
and never accounted for. Sheriff Mciraw,
be declares. took 81. 500 from him when he
was brought to Seattle and never returned
II. and also took from his (the prisoner's)
mother 81. 600 without warrant of any kind.
OF this money he declares that $3.50 was
his own. and hsd not been In the pos
usssion Of either Of the two banks he had
defrauded, but had been obtained by cash
ing genuine checks and drafts on Eastern
banks. Yet this money had never been
returned to him. and hs had never had an
accounting with the sheriff or either Of the
banks. He also alleges that at the time Of
his arrest he had on deposit with the First
National bank s.. 100 in good drafts. which
had never been returned TO him. collected
or unsolicited. These drafts were yet in
the possession Of the banks, according to
the best kno Wedge of the prisoner.
Jacob Furth was placed on the stand ia
testify rs to the truth of the latter asser.
ton. lie admitted that he had received
the money from Mr. McGraw just ~ soon
rs II had been taken from the prisoner and
that he had also received the money Mr..
MeGraw said had been taken from the
prisoners mother. Altogether he had re-
eeived nearly enough to make good the
loss to the Puget Sound National bank. OF
which he was then cashier. and to the
Erst National bank. In fact the money
was most of IL identified by him a. the
very money he had on the day before paid
out 10 the forger for forged drafts
wooding's attorney asked Mr.. Furth
how IL was that he knew the paper was
forged since ID appeared that none Of II
had ever been sent East to be presented
for payment Mr.. Furth's reply created
great amusement
"why." he said. II knew II vas forged,
and that II would not be paid"
How did you know that IL was forged p
asked the attorney.
1T seems to me that white being sen.
70 the peuiten,iary 10 pretty good proof, "
replied Mr.. Furth.
Gov. MeGraw then went on the stand
and testified that when the prisoner was
turned over TO him by the sheriff Of sno
homish county he had him searched by
Sheriff Woolery. who was then his deputy.
Mr.. Woolsry took from him s.. 600 Ia
rold and bills, which the witness gave "a
Mr.. Fgrth. together with diamond pin.
on the same day. Sunday. May n. lssa
he also received from the prisoners mosher
eoa in bills. This also he gave 90 Mr..
faFth. The rest of the governors testi'
nonywss unimportant, and Judge Langley
ruled cut all unnecessary reference 10 tho
arrest Of White. saying that 10 was very in
ssrestins history but entirely inmateraI,
The case was then postponed TO Mon
day, when il viii 10 finally determined
whether the money recovered by the
banks is subject 20 Aarnishment for the
Judgment
MADAM BLANeHARD's BOND