The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-02-26
FROM PRISON TO PRISON.
Hopeless Future Remarkable Criminal
ing as an Evangelist Bgams andHo

nnrsh part OF this county for horsetheft.
He was caught while sleeping. and the
horses were ia his possession. HE had
been brought 10 this city and before plead
Ing guilty had asked to make u statement
which So affecteG. the court that he was
let of with TWO years. WelkeE paced the
scrap II paper In hin pocket and the next
day took the train 10 Anderson. He
found The prisoner gone TO Michigan City.
The description was Disappointing as the
fellow had q sandy rgasEache and no
beard Weiker returned home, bat being
bothered be- at last went to Michigan
city io satisfy his own mind. and az least
dispose OF the forebooins which had so
p1Fssstsnt.y held onto him. Whrn he was
ushered into the cell occupied by W Il ans
he found himself face To face With Rev.
Amos 7. Whitman. whitman was game
10 the last. He did no. finch or turn q
hair. He maintained he was Williams
SO Well did he act the part that the prison
officials believed him, and after Welker
had labored in vain two days in trying to
dent his man, they rather Insisted that
the prisoner be spared further sweating"
IL Was on the third and last day that We.-
ser az last teule9 aud broke down his gnan.
Whitman told the story of his Affairs and
told Welker where he could get SONS. of
The horses stolan last, when he did the
stealing himself. his gang having gone
of horseaesh- In the prosperous days
there were as many twenty-five per-
soHs connected with the gang-three OF
them fashionable women. who worked the
c.tfss in the role OF ladies going away
FOR the season and DESTROYS OF a.spoxng
Of their family horses There were men
to do the stealing. working eu; on his
plans, specifications ana maps. others 10
handle the horses and get them 60 differ
ent points after they had been turned
over. There were groon1srs trainers and
ia Illinois there Was a bleaching establ sh-
ment, unearthcd By the officers some tina
ago. where by process involving chemi-
Gals the color OF the animals could be
changed. A black could easily he changed
into roam After turning these b.eached
animals over "a grouuS. boabers aud
trainers, they would come forth in
month entirely different horsss. IL WAS
the plan OF the organization 10 take only
horses which were diamonds IN the rough.
instead OF weli-greomei animals in
which little change could bs made Thus.
after a months grooming train ny am,
feeding. q is not at all improbable that
as claimed. horses were even sod back
20 the men from whom they had been
stolen. Above all things Whitman kept
clear az the horse markets. which are
under The eye % police constantly.
Scores OF the animals were placed In the
German army through the German agents
In this country. who asked no questions.
scores 81 others found their way into nv,
United States army, others were solf by
tue women, and others We're easily ham
died In other equally safe and move. MAN.
ners. Whitman WAS the brains aud the
head Of tae whole machine Though he
IL "a scoundrel of the worst stripe. he has
points 10 Ia admired. Hir fidelity 10 those
associated With HIN has been praisewor-
thy. HE has gwen no one away 10 the
officers, and Is content 70 shoulder ali OF
the punishment himself