The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-26
TROUBLES OF WHIPPLE
SOMETHING MORE ABOUT THE YOUNG
MAN FROM PROVIDENCE, n. 1.
Appears to Have Had Dealings with
Butler COIIege-He Is Re-
leased ON Bond.

The ramifications of the law on obtain
ing money under false pretenses have been
pronounced to many times be dangerous
and, whether innocent or guilty, Frederick
H. Whipple, whose case is now attracting
great deal of attention, is caught In
peculiar position. His case will be tried
this morning in Police Court Last night
he was taken out of Jail on a $500 bond
by Patrick "A. White. OF the Spencer House.
Yesterdays developments in the case give
1T little progress, being both for and against
Whipple. He and his wife spent last night
at the Bates House Whipple is a we'll
dressed, suave business man and his wife
is well-looking, sensible and displays great
loyalty to her husband. She seemed on the
verge OF nervous prostration when he was
committed to jail yesterday. Yesterday a
telegram was received by the police depart
ment from the chief of police of Provi-
oence, X. l., saying that no such firm as
the Whipple Manufacturing Company is
now in existence there and that when 1t was
in operation 1t seemed to be a fraud. Last
night Whipple received a telegram from his
brother, George +. Whipple, dated at New
York, saying that he had notified ten of
the Providence banks to honor the draft
which has caused all the trouble and has
also instructed L. H. Carpenter 531 Banna-
gan building, who, the Whipples claim, is
their Providence representative. to meet the
draft, and that it has not been presented
Another telegram was received from the
cashier of the National Exchange Bank of
Providence that Whipples check for 500
would have been honored if it had been
presented at the time the telegram was
sent. Whipple says he has had an account
with this bank for several years. The bank
which refused to honor the draft and re-
turned 1t with the notation that there was
no Whipple Manufacturing Company there,
was the National Bank of the Common
wealth. Whipple hopes and says he believes
that at his trial this morning he will be
exonerated.
Whether from a policemans or business
mans point of view Whipples case is in
teresting. He came to this city two weeks
ago and put up at the Bates House. He
said he was member of the Whipple Man
ufacturing Company, of Providence, manu-
facturer of celluloid goods. He has since
said that the company has no factory at
Providence but had its headquarters there.
its business requiring no factory. His home.
he said, was in that city. His wife and
mother came here with him. He went to
Butler College and made a proposition that
two substantial boards covered with adver-
tlsementS set in celluloid of handsome de-
sign, be put up in the rotunda of the main
building. He was to solicit the advertise
ments and after the boards had been set
up they were to belong to the college, The
college accepted the proposition and
Whipple set out armed with note signed
by Chauncey Butler, authorizing him to
solicit the advertisements. He was success
full in securing contracts The price ne
named to advertisers was &c. with the privi-
lege OF changing their advertisements when
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was one who made contract with
Whipple. After he had paid the so he
grew suspicious because, as he said, he had
rapher to have an advertisement on the
board and he found that was not the case.
Brown went to his. bank and ordered that
given Whipple, should be refused. When
Mhdipple learned arr, Of this he went to Brown
asking that he instruct the bank to pay
the check This. Whipple claims, Brown has
not done. Thus, Whipple says, he is out
$40 on the deal with Brown, because Henry
w. Lawrence, of tie Bates. cashed the
check for him. Mr.. Lawrence cashed sim
liar checks for Whipple given by advertis
been denied Whipple finds an explanation
of this in claiming that Brown went to
other advertisers and denounced him as
fraud. One of the advertising boards was
set up at the college Some of the adver-
Gsers allege that when Whipple came to
them he said he was connected with the
cOileSe ana lnVlISu tHeIIl 70 Soclsi diLdirS
at the institution. This Whipple denies and
excuses those who charge him with this
by saying that they probably misunder-
stood his statements. Whipple says he has
been treated fairly here. He seems conf
dent that when he is free he can soon
straighten out the tangle over the adver-
tisement scheme and set himself right in
the eyes of those that have dealt with him.
He says he thinks the reason the draft for
$50 was returned dtshonored was that there
was a blunder on the part of the people at
the bank to which 1t was sent in their
not searching thoroughly for the repre-
sentative of the Whipple Manufacturing
banks in the city as to whether Frederick
H. Whipple had an. account: If the bank
had done So Whipple says, it would have
been easily discovered that he had an ac-
count at the National Exchange Bank.
Whipple says his business is profitable and
last week $14. Superintendent of Police
Qugley is not ready by any means to say
that he believes Whipple to be innocent.
Whipple SAYS he is losing a considerable
amount of money by being forced to stay
here. but he has not yet threatened to
bring suit for false Imprisonment; on the
other hand, he talks amicably about the
whole complication except when he speaks
of photographer Brown. The manner in
which Whipple tells his story tends to i'm
press those who hear it that he is telling
the truth.
He was arrested at Louisville. where he
had gone as he says. on business. he PAID
the expenses of two detectives who brought
him here. He left his aged mother at LOUIS
willie. The local police department made
mistake in telegraphng to Louisville that
Whipple was wanted for forgery instead or
on q charge of obtaining money under
false pretenses, as the warrant set out.