The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-28
HE Is SLICK AS GREASE
Sensational Career Of Banker Albert
Whipple.
LONG STORY OF DUAL LIFE
Successful as Contractor and
Banker. and Then Another Ium-
bic From the Moral Piane-His
Life Story Is Romantic.

OMAHA, Feb. Developments in tho
affairs of Banker Albert Whipple, who
wrecked the Crawford, Neb., Banking
company last year, are of n startling ma
ture, and mako public IA chapter OF dual
life in the story OF n man well known IN
Iowa and Nebraska.
1t is now known that Albert Whipple,
the absconding banker, merchant ana
army contractor of Crawford and Hyan-
mis-, Neb., now a fugitive from justice,
with creditors left in the lurch for $4,000
10 10000, and Albert Whipple, who was
sent to Fort Madison prison. in Iowa, in
December, 1856. are one and tho same
man. The story reads like roe
nance, but is verified by Iowa state rec
orls.
Albert b. Whipplc, then young man
hardly out of his teens, was engaged as
agent of the Burlington road at Coin.
Iowa, early in the sos. The station was
junction of the burlington and Wabash
roads. and the Gould line was getting the
bulk of tho business before he turned the
tide of local traffic to the Burlington. lie
was popular. and he made friends in
every way, legitimate and otherwise, with
no apparent scruples. Whipple set about
getting shippers away from the Wabash TO
his road. He could get no passes to inilu-
ence business. A law against passes pre-
vented that, but he evolved a brilliant
scheme. He offered the shippers who
would bring their business to him to got
them trips to Chicago and return, or to 81.
Louis and back for a nominal cost.
The road. he said, would not stand re.
sponsiblc, or be known in the matter, so
il must be managed secretly. lie manipu-
lated tickets that were accounted for as
from Coin to Clarinda to carry shippers,
whom ho could trust, from the nearest
junction station to Chicago. lie would
stamp the duplicates to Clarinda, but tho
original, or train ticket, would be 10 some
small station on the branch north of the
main line, perhaps Geneva, ILL.,, via Au-
rora, and the passenger would pay fare
from Aurora to Chicago if the conductor
spotted him. The friend of Whpple
would then take back the ticket to him at
Coin and 1t would be destroyed, thus pre-
venting his being called to account for
moro than a ticket for IS cents to Clarlnda.
IL was charged later. but not proved, that
ne had evidently grown reckless and ac-
cepted half fare for some of these. When
he wanted an elevator built and the COM
pany declined to erect IL, no put IL up him.
self.
manager of the road in a little while If no
had staid straight" one regretting friend
observed.
After some years he was discharged with
regret, because he had proposed To neigh
boring agents to dcadhead brick. lumber
and like freight 10 himself, destroy the
wayblls and divide on the profits of what
they collected. One OF the agents. then
at Clarinda, now resident of Omaha,
and with the Union Pacific, was one Of
those who refused to go into the conspir-
acy.
Some time after the company discoy-
cred forged tickets were being used.
Pinkerton was engaged, but, after sly
weeks, advised Superintendent Dugan
that he could do no moro than "lic low
for a while in hope of catching the swim
dler. Dugau then laid the matter before
L. ). Eustis, then general passenger agent
at tins city. and ne called IN y. III. DAVE:
of this city for detective work, who
rounded up Whipple in n few days. Tit
forged tickets that brought Whipple Il
grief had been sold to Broker Bushnell IL
Council Bluffs 10y Whipple, VINO passed
himself there as Rose" and bushnell
bought them in good faith. They looked
all right and brought the usual price, bu
they were forged as TO destination. Whip
pie would take tickets from Coin TO Glen
wood and change the name "Glenwood'
by erasure TO read Denver" and thu
beat the road out of the difference IN far,
of over 800 miles.
Whipple was convicted and sent t.
prison for two years aud nine months
and pardoned out and restored TO citizen
ship in less than two years. \ young VIC
man Of Coin. who was desperately IN low