The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-03-07

freauentcd the billiard room on account OF
the wonderful game he played. Finally Dough-
eriy walked np To him and said:
Hello. Whiiemnn' What are you doing
here, thought you were In the Vest"
According TO Dougherty's statement. White
OH. I'm Stopping here for a whilo. I am
not doing anything crooked, and want u 10
AN right" DouGherty. Rays he answered,
~ shan't bother you but ] want you to under
stand ono thin. IL we ind that any trick in
your, line ha, been turned. we'll look Tor you
tho first thing"
reported. the Iinkcrtons. having compared
the handwriting or the check win spccimens
OF whi,eman's handwriting which they had.
and remembering that Dongnerty had seen
Whiteman In Lakewood. concluded that White.
man was he swindler. A photograph OF
Fox and Cashier Griiiiths OF the Columbia
Bank. and :hey said that 1t was the photograph
Of the man who had 1windled the bank under
An indictment was found. so the Pinkertons
say. against Nhitcmn" On Friday. Then De
%tectivc Oouglcrtv was sent To Lakewood TO
Ind out " Whltem,n was still there. lie
learned that Whttcman had left Lakewood
suddenly on the evening o. Fob. u. the date
of Ia" SwIndlc. From Lakewood the tinker
tons traced their man To DnnsNille. y. y. his
native town. where his mother now lives. They
t%ective sergeant McNaurht. who is attached
10 the District Attorneys office. was cent to
Daneville on F-Idny night TO arrest White
man IN n bench warrant.
Meantime che Piukcrtons learned that
W~hi,eman.hal lctt pnn,riile for New lorS and
50 informed McSaught. communicating with
him bv telegraph after he reached scranton.
IA. Mcknight Immediately started to re-
turn 10, New York. aud, ov a strange coinci.
dencc. boarded the train from scranton TINT
Whiteinan had taken from Dsn.villc Me
NaugHt rccog.iscd Whiteman from n photo
graph he nah. and kept an eve on him, during
bokrn Mt 40 o'clock yesterday morning and
Whi,emhn. too. the hrst ierrrloat for New
York. McNnught was Mt his heels, and when
whitcman's feet touched the scilof. the state
In which the crime was committed he was
placed under arrest.
whit.man fatty denies that he had anything
whatever to % with I'll" crime with which lie
is charged. To understand his exact position
mRrkable career. lie was born in Dansyilie
IN 1851, His father. Renhcn W~hiteman.wa
President OF the Whitemsn PUN and Paper
COMPANY, President of the Merchants and
Farmers National Bank. and the oyner OF
died. In lsSs. he left an estate valued ut about
S5OO.OuO. BY tho terms " the will his two
caiidren Alonzo J. and Clara j.. were 20 re-
left to toe widow for life. Al her death It was
obe divided equally between the two children.
preparatory education he was sent 10 lila mil
ton College. whore he was graduated In tho
class OF 1881. lie did httle work in college.
lie was known rs tho best poker PLAYER In col
legc. The story IL >till told AT Hamilton how
Whlteman. while still n freshman. went down
rooms kept by David Usher, and began to
play. When play stopped tho freshman had
broken the bank.
After his graduation white,nan entered Co
lumbla Law school. from which he was rradu-
nted. After being admitted u the bar. he went
to Duluth. Mimi. where his father was we'll
known. lie made friends FOR himself rapidly
and his fathers wealth helped him along. In
1854 he was nominated for he LEGISLATURE.
and carried the city OF Duluth by the largest
majority ever given In that city To any candi-
date To- an elective ofice.. In 1856 he was
nominated and elected to the Minnesota SEN
the youngest m ever cleo ed to tho Senate
of tina, State. While In til" Senate he drafted
and secured the passage OF what was known
as the Whiteman election law. which was
used In Minnesota until the adoption OF the
Australian ballot system. He was also Chair
man or the democratic state Central Gem nit
Convention in lSss. and . candidate for menu
Der OF Congress from the Fiftn Minnesota
district In 1880. Al this time he began specu-
lnting In wheat, and so extensive aud daring
wero his operations that when no went down
Hoard OF Trade everybody waited to see what
Whitenian was doing. and then tried To fol-
low SIT. In lSSD he WAS married. for the Sec
ond time, to The daughtc- OF Gen. Nettleton OF
~ Paul. who. after h. was arrested the first
tinie. went back 10 her fathers home. where.
II Is understood, she still livcL
His defeat for Congress Sas the beginning
of Whitcman's financial downfall. Before.
ho wa supposed TO he worth anywhere from
Der market turned against him.. aud he be-
came so much involved tina; lie put bis prop.
erty in the hands. OF his sister. Mrs. Clara J.
Gibbs, the wife OF \. Leicester Gibbs OF this
city. Auerwnrd Mrs. Gibbs accused her
brother OF passing notes upon his fathers es-
tate, OF which he aud his mother were the oX-
ecutors, for $50. 900. Waterman denies this,
aud SAYS that the nc ;~usntioa was made simply
because his sister and her husband wished 10
keen the control Of the entire estate. Nlrs.
Gibbs. by nm agreement tetwern herself. her
mother. ana her brother. having become the nd
mlni5tratrix OF the estate.
The rlrkcrtun agency makes tho following
statement regarding Whlteman:
,,"Alnnzo !. Whttcinnn;, Nl9s a. nclaneld.
iurgrr. swindler, AMI racr-track 'welsher,' he.
came. IN 1880. n bookmaker. failed IN this
business. and 'wclshed' from several of The
race tracks. passed i0rped checks on other
buOkmakrrs. and perpetratcd swindles by
having counterfeit pool tickets printed. In
fact. lie did everything In the way Of race
finally refused him admittance to the large
Eastern and Western track Nhi,eman has
and wealthy relatives who have, in the past.
paid most Of his undertakings. During 1880
lie visited the Nashville. Tenn, rae" track.
and whiIc there swindled Frank Shaw, a we'll
known st. Paul lurkinHker, cut OF 81, 900 by
means OF n forged telegram. Whiteman never
deuied this swindle. but on the other hand
bonstingl told how easy IL was to perpetratu
the swtndle.
In 1892 Whltcmnn swlnd,cd Joseph Ull-
man. "a wcll'known b~ookmakcr, by means OF a
forged telegram. purporting to he signed by
y. Gideon. asking lllman, TO pay Whitrman
$500. 'gnich ne did; William a. rinkerton
Ing from tue BROOKLYN race track. and nc
cuscd Inn Of swlndltng UIlmnn. ,Whiteman
did not deny this swindle, aud laughiugly told
Mr.. PInkurtou how he had destroyed tn. proof
OF the crime l., stealing the bogus telegramg
while Mr.. I ilmnn wac busy AT the track.
Whlteman VAS arrested on July 10, 1893. AT
the Monmouth Park race track by Detective
Sergeant Armstrong on tho charge. OF passing
II worthless check Tor $50 on purdy +. Case.
l55 broadway. New York city. lie was brought
10 New York, but the Indictment against him
WAS dismissed on Nov ~, 1888.
I'm September. 1903, Whiteman was ar