Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-02-25
ERASTUs WIMAH OUT OF JAIL


Ills Sons FAther-in-LaW Puts % Twenty-
i've $1,000 Bulls, ana Wiaan Coca TO
His Family.
New York, February 24.-Perhaps
the cold wave which reached the great
metropolis last night penetrated TO the
cell in the old Tombs prison, where,
restless and anxious, Erastus Wiman
lay confinad, but, If so, it did not chill
the heart Of the inmate, and to-day he
was as cheerful and apparently con-
tented as a man could be under such
circumstances. The knowledge, how
ever, that he was to walk forth from
his prison before another sunset may
have had its influence in raising his
spirits, and when at 11:15 he emerged
from the prison door into the cold,
crisp air from the west his eyes
frightened and his step Quicksned, max
Ing the deputies who had him In
charge hasten to keep up as they moved
towards the general sessions building,
where his bondsmen were waiting be-
fore Recorder Smyth. A reporter
joined the party and as they hurrledly
walked alonF he said:
"Your friends have been working
hard to secure your release on bail. Do
you know who 1t is who has succeeded
In procuring your release to-day"
mo; l do not" said Mr.. Wiman, "but
my boys father-in-law, Mr.. c. 81. Deere,
showed me a check for S25, 900 when he
visited me in the Tombs yesterday, and
told him not TO be too precipitate. My
hesitancy about procuring bail will be
exp lined later. All l shall say 10 you
now IS that man should not be judged
by what he does for himself, but by
| what he has done for others"
Recorder Smyth was in his chambers,
and when everything was in readiness
be signed the bail bond.
Mr.. Charles II. Deere, who Is a rich
manufacturer at Moline, H., and who
is the father-in-law Of young VIM. D..
Wiman, who is lying seriously i'll, went TO
the City Chambertain's Office this morn
ing. He was accompanied by Mr.. AL
bert c. Cole, OF the firm OF Tracy,
Beardman & Platt, and there deposited
twenty-five 81 900 bills. Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Unger, as soon as DO re-
celyed word OF the deposit, made out
the necessary papers.
When Recorder Smyth signed the
bond the party went TO Clerk CARROTS
and there Mr.. Deere answered num-
| Der OF questions. As soon as he had
answered them satisfactorily Clerk Car
roll said: "You are discharged Mr. VII
man"
The released man hurried from the
building, accompanied by Mr.. Deere
and another gentleman, and fastened to
his home on Staten Island.
Mr.. Cole informed the reporters that
! Mr.. Wiman will be called on to plead
to the Indictment for forgery, on which
he was arrested in Part ! OF General
Sessions, on next Monday at II o'clock.
The following letter in relation to the
charges against Erastus Wlman is sent
out by his counsel, Gen. Benjamin f..
Tracy, ox-Secretary of the Navy, in
vindication OF that gentleman:
NEW YORK, February "a.
have seen for the first time this
morning the indictment against Mr..
Wiman, and have learned the history of
the case, and the facts upon which the
indictments are founded. I am en-.
trely satisfied, after such exam
nation, that Mr. Wiman has COM
mitted no crime, and unless am
greatly msinformed the trial will de-
velop state OF facts which will show
that Mr.. Wtman is not only not a Grim
inal, but that he has done nothing that
can seriously reflect upon his honor or
! integrity as a man.
am not 10 the habit OF trying my
cases in the newspapers, but in view
| of the extent to which this course has
been taken by Mr.. Wiman's enemies
and certain of his supposed friends,
think it only just to him that l should
make this statement.
[Slgned. BENJAMIN 3. TRACY.