St. Paul daily globe., 1894-07-16
WHITEMAN A RASCAL.
AlonZo j. Forgets His Re-
cent Resolutions
TO TURN OVER A NEW LEAE
Into the Forgery Business
Up to His Eyes.
WRITES CHECKS FOR THOUSANDS
Which Pals Get Cashed in
Various Places.
WHITEMAK NOW LOCKED UP.
Talks Behind the Bars at
Detroit, Mich.
WFITEMAN NOW LOCKED UP
Talks Behind the Bars at
Detroit, Mich.
HE EXPECTS TO GO TO P7IS0K
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
DETROIT. Mich, July IA. j.
Whitenan, an ex-member Of the Mime.
sofa senate, the son of a millionaire and
at one time himself worth half a mill
ion, is locked up tonight at the central
police station on charge of
forgery. Tonight he confessed to
Detective Baker that he was tile
Whiteman who fiourIshed six or seven
year ago in Duluth. He said
he once hadeverything within his grasI
but that now all he had in view was a
long term of imprisonment in soma
penitentiary. 1t is possible that he
cannot be held in Detroit. where his
offense consists in drawing the cneck
that James K. Dewitt passed OH Quartus
Il. Greaves, Of the Cadillac hotel. lie
says he did not draw the check in
Michigan, even if Dewitt did pass il
here, and that the Detroit authorities
cannot hold him. This Is
ADMITTED BY THE POLICE
made to turn him over to Chicago, where
he Is wanted badly. Detective Baker
says Whiteman and his allies passed
something like $4,000 worth of bogus
paper OH the Corn Exchange Bank of
Chicago, and that he understood the
Board Of Trade bank was burdened
with considerable of it. OF course, il is
not known to what extent Whiteman is
involved in this way. as it seems that
he has been the head of a gang Of
forgers that has worked all over the
United States. His part of the work
has been to draw checks and his ac-
completes cashed them. sending him
! his share of the money obtained. White
mans mission in Detroit, Detective
Baker declares, was to get rid of 4 lot
| of crooked checks. and he Intended to
| use some of his old college chums, of
whom there are several in the city, to
help him do 1t. He is graduate of the
Columbia law school in New York city,
| and when he was there Assistant Pros
ecuting Attorney Mandell. Assistant
District Attorney Wilkins and Fred
erick w. Whitney, Of the law firm of
Douglass, Bowen & Whitney, were his
classmates. There are others who ars
PROMINENT IN DETROIT
business and social circles, and White
man depended upon his conduct during
the past few years not beinG known to
any of them. Whiteman was locked up
Friday, but maintained silence until to-
night, when he unboSomed himself to
| Detective Baker. He confessed his
connection with Dewitt, and said he did
not draw the check in Michigan, and
| therefore could not be held, but
the detective had learned there
were other checks in Detroit that
had been forged by Whiteman and ac.
cused him of having written them.
II am a moral and physical wreck"
he said to the detective. Gambling
has ruined me. 1t Is mania with ne,
and every cent can get my hands on
goes over the card table. Daring the
past nine months have made out of
this nefarious business over Sl6, 900, and
| today | have not cent of it. have
cost my sister OH the average of
| $1,000 PER MONTH,
and she has paid up more than one OF
these checks.
"How about those checks at the Corn
Exchange bank, in Chicago?' asked the
detective.
"rhey will be taken care OF. My Sis
ter will put up tine money"
He said he did not want to go to Chi
cago. 1.-The trouble with Whiteman, ~
said Detective Baker. "is that he talks
too much. II he is left alone
he will tell enough to put
himself behind the bars. When
he saw that his arrest here was serious
and he was not to be turned out, as was
first intended, he offered TO buy his lib
erty with money. and seemed surprised
when we refused to be bribed.'
Wniteman's sister is the wife of a
banker at Dansville, n. Y, and it IS
through her that he has not been
brought up with sharp turn long bs
fore this.