The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-16
GOT WHITAKER WRIGHT HERE
LONDON,S FUGITIVE PROMOTER
NABBED ON Ia LORRAINE.
Traced by . Banknote He Paid for Tickets
Ludlow Street jail Now the Abode
Of the Man VINO Made . Hole Of From
sss, 900. 600 to $50. 600. 900 In London

Ludlow street jail Now the AbsAs
Of the Man Who Made . Hole Of From
ssS, 900. 600 to $50. 0OO. 900 In Tendon
j. Whitaker Wright. for a dozen years
or more the best-known promoter In London.
not excepting even the great Hooley. wac
arrested on his arrival here yesterday morn
ing on the French liner La Lorraine, charged
with swindling shareholders in the London
and Globe Finance Corporation Of London
out Of sums aggregating, according TO vsri-
Gus estimates. anywhere from $4,000 900
to $50 900 900. Somebody who evidently
wanted to make an especially accurate
estimate Of Wright's, alleged swind'ins
operations put the amount at just tiii ,o0o.-
0Oo
The arrest was made by Headquarters
Detectives Leeson and Moody at the request
OF the London Commissioner Of Polios.
from whom. on last Thursday, Commits
sioner Greene received a telegraphic de-
scription Of Wright, together with the state
ment that Wright was an absconder and
charged with fraud. The London police
learned that a acknowledgement note,
known 70 have been in Wright's possesSion.
was given in payment for passage for two
persons on La Lorraine who were booked
as NJ. and Mile. Andreoni. So the police
were looking for tho Andreonis.
other persons had evidently been asked 70
arrest Wright, for two Pinkerton detec-
tives were at the pier looking for him, a.
we're also United States Marshal William
Henkel and his deputies, John McAvinsy
and Michael H. Blake.
Marshal Henkel was armed with warrant
issued by United States Commissioner
Alexander. That warrant charges that
Wright, as director Of a company known
as the London and Globe Finance Company.
did heretofore, in and during the year 1901.
at the city OF London. falsify or cause TO
be falsified the balance sheets Of said COM
pany; that said Whitaker Wright IL fugitive
from the Justice OF the Kingdom OF Great
Britain and Ireland. and is now within or
on his way to the territory OF the United
States, and that the crime Of which the said
Whitaker Wright has so, as aforesaid. been
guilty is an offence within the treaty be-
tween the United States and Great Britain
Lesson and Moody were the first Of
the man hunters 10 board the ship and,
by a few inquiries, they learned tina,
under his own name Wright with
Miss Browne, booked as the promoters
niece, occupied the finest suite on the ship,
rooms iio, Ils and 40 on the port side.
The men from Mulberry street hunted
up the suite. and. through the open door
OF one Of the rooms, saw a man and woman
sitting. The man was bald. thick-set.
with small, dark eyes and black murtache:
What hair he had was dark brown. streaked
with gray. He wore business s'nt Of
mixed gray and tan shoes. The young
woman was about rs years old. tall and
slight and clad in dark blue tailor made
suit The detectives took in these details
OF personal appearance as they lounged
near the open door Of the suite. Finally
Lesson said to Moody:
That's our man. all right. but he doesn't
look much like ready money.
While the sleuths were sitting near the
door Wright came out into the saloon and
Lesson acco-ted him and told him that
h. must consider himself under arresl
The prisoner took the news quietly and
said
Il will. Of course, 60 along with you'
but tile affair in connection with vhlci
! am arrested war a legitimate business
transaction and ] SUPPOSED II had all been
settled in Parliament. let us get awsv
with as little notice as possible and s~e To
j, that the newspapers don't get hold OF IT.
The promoter took a very casual fare
well 81 Mis- browne and left the ship with
The DETECTIVES Going down the gang
plank, the parry ran into the United States
Marshal and the Pinkerton men. par 81
whom made demands for the prisoner
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I.-e~,n lold him that all Muli"rry street
wanted sas to have IA. iasn long enough
a. got . record at the case and then. he sup
pyssd. the tnitsd States authorities could
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