New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-15
ACCUSED OF MANY CRIMES.


mere according TO Pinkerton's men. was 10 ue
9osit 81 900 in cash in the Tradesmens Na.iona'
Bank to open an account ana give the eans
standing This was done pogus uiaat 10 "a
81 o0O was 10 follow and then an EFFORT mace 10
draw $500 Stewart. alias Ward, 1t Is alleged,
was TO do all the work. lie IL seVen'y-'"o ''
o' Srh. hsnE oficals were quietly tipped off" by
Pinkertons men. and plans were maoe ~, 80, ene
arrest of the entire lot when tney came Oh III
dav 70 draw the $4,000 The plans mlscarrieo,
and stewart alone was caught. The other three
escaped. Stewart will be held in Plttspurg iTr
,be Woonsocket (R H. authorities. who have al
ready started after him.
wHIrEMANs ALLEGED PART.
wh,teman came from Dansvie to New-York
last Saturday and went to st. Mares Hotter,
Fifth-ave and Thirty-ninth-st he registe'eo
az c. W. Caldwell. of Philadelphia
The hotel authorities said Caldwell had plenty
q, money. When his room was searched, noth-
ing was found save small vaise ana SUM
iinen ana an open telegraph message lnWunB
him 10 luncheon at the Down Town Cup. Inc
clerk said somebody had telephoned an INVITA-
ton to whiteman on Sunday to OCCUPY '"e''
hox at the Horse Show or Nj onday nlsnt' =,
Canfain McClusky declares that Whiteman Is
,ented In chicago He was tried there year ago
for grand larceny and sentencea a 10 and
he was released bail. He jumped ms Vai
when he learned that the Illinois Court or AZ
meals had affirmed his sentence ne VIII NC
their way here to get him. -, ,o ~,
Thompson will be tried here on the charge OF
rwindling the Central Trust Company OF brooh
jyn, while Edmunds and Knox VIII oe sen" Ito, AZ
Woonsocket in all probability to stand 30 p non
there with Stewart for the theft OF the Fo'VoV
spoken Of 49,. .,.,rd,ad the fol-
lowing INSTITUTIONS with bad checks: Bar1holdii
Hotel in May. 1898. $3.50; Grand PaGlnc no. 8os'
1Ihica,yo in Nav 1898 $3.50: Parker House, KOS
ton in June 1895. 500; the Isleworth Ho'e''
Atlantic city. in August, 1898, 500 rho
Thompson is credited with the io o',nt 1905
Hollywood Hotel. Long Branch Angus. I9oo,
soo0 an attempt TO victimize the HopoKeh
Trust and Savings Institution. HopoKeh uhsuo
eessful: the Narragansett HoteL froY VIZ, 10
p I September Of this year. $50; on July 10,
1898 he secured three steamship tickets No Lt
$3.50 from David Terrence Il Co., steanship
agents OF Montreal IT is charged vs srs bypothe
Gated at the Murray Hill Hotel here tor Dii,
of $40 so and finally seized by the MOn.I et,
concern; $50 from the Russell House Deuol''
Mich and $3.50 from the Spaulding HOTEL Du-
luth, MINI.
RECORDS OF THE MEN.
Frank Edmunds is No 1925 in the Rogues'
Gallery. sentenced in 1879 to the Elmira Re-
tformatory under the name Of Walter Edwards
for grand larceny paroed after serving nfteen
months; sentenced TO Sing Sing for two years
ON May 3. 1882 for grand larceny under the
name of George Roberts, got two years in sing
Sing in 1886 for stealing watch on car ,,os
John Thompson, alias William ttartey' aiiae
p Lawton. alias Dr. George w. Johnston, is NO
663 in the Rogues' Gallery; sentenced on jan gu
uary p. 1891 TO three years IN Sne t ne the
safe Of the Cosmopolitan Hotel; only recent!
released. Said TO have done time IN Meatnei'
field. Conn. and Moyamensing Penn Prl aud e
Charles +. Stewart. alias Charles WaIo 10
No. 1.476 in the Rogues' Gallery he was s sen
fenced in 1877 to serve five years IN sing oiis
for forgery in 1881 he got eighteen 9aea IN
fences; in 1889 he stabbed a woman III III
cinnati and served four years Tor IL IN the
Columbus Pententiary; in 1894 ne store
satchel in the New-York Central Railroad Com,
pany's waiting room at Rochester. and served
three months for that offence. In 1890 ne sIoie
an oVercoat containing some thousanus Oh uoi-
lars worth Of bonds and other papers from me
Waldorf 1t was the property Of John C. CAL
houn. He got three years and three months lol
that offence and only recently was released
Robert j. Knox; Captain McCusky says ne
knows nothing at present of his record ,os.
AloHzo ]. Whteman Is NO. oZof III the Eos ues
Gallery He has been arrested score OF tlhes'
but only in the Chicago case was he convicted;
He has travelled the world over; He inherited
100000 from his father in 1888 after leaving
He led his class in the Columbia Law School.
and after graduation and being admitted 10 the
bar he went 10 Duluth. 1t Is said that ne mace
81 600 600 there in the boom" times. He served
in both houses Of the Minnesota Legislature
drafting the Whiteman Election law; unoer
which that State voted for years. when ne
was defeated for Congress he began to lose
money and his downfall was fast He lost his
fortune on the Chicago Board of Trade within
year
He then turned to the racetrack. AS a book.
maker he made money, met a bad streak or
luck, WEIGHED and was ruled of the track Tor
passing bad checks He sentenced to serve
nine month for forgery in San Francisco in 1879.
appealed, got reversal and was set free. In
1851 he was arrested charged with swindling
the Columbia Bank, of this city out Of $3.50.
He got out Of II. He next arrested, charged
with passing bad check for S93 80 upon Martin
Mahon Of the New Amsterdam Hotel
Magistrate Pool in the jefferson Market Court
accepted $500 cash bail from Whiteman, and
he walked out Of court laughing at the detec
tives Until his arrest on Monday he kept out of
prison.
Whiteman is said to be a most attractive man.