New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-04
T. A. WHITNEY UP AGAIN
FIGURED IN DEVERY DAYS
old Police GO-BetzCeen Noe
Charged 9th Big Szandte.

Edgar A. Whitney, a former Parkhurst Society
agent and alleged poolroom keeper and selt-coh-
fessed go between for the police and the pooliool
keepers during the Devery regime VINO mas hsu'eu
several times the courts in the last nVe years
was arrested again yesterday on two grand lalcen9
complaints and held in $4,000 at Ponce f1e0
quarters. Samuel Roller, son-in-laW Oh Noti0'
Mandelbaum the notorious East She ieice ~
a former East Side concert hall proprietor wa
implicated, but complaint has been mace as<'ii
him because he has consented to act as Wlthe9s
against Whitney.
The complaints which resulted In Whitneys ar
rest yesterday made by Bruno heiheiei
machinst of No. 3l5 East f6th street and by 0aiii
mel Siesenbaum a ieweller of No. 81 Maiden Lane
Kemerer told Assistant District Attorney hihuei
berger that he had met Whltney anu
through an advertisement Of the SUBURBAN Nun
builders Company, printed in a German ne"spaPc'
last winter He talked with both men III ti'',
Office In the Shubert Building, Broadway anu
39th street and they told him that "hluieS 40,
a large cement plant at Third avenue an
street Brooklyn. which could be developer with "
little more capital. He invested Sl.Vo ana was ~
receive one-quarter of the earnings Vi t''e
and salary of SIS week -,
Upon investigating he found that Nhlthey ~
not own the plant and when he DEMANDED %
Element Whitney gave him draft Tor 'z'''V Or ~
Nassach usetts Loan and Trust company 'i'
amount of his investments profits and salary
When the draft proved TO be Vaiue!ess heheie,
gain saw Whitney. who explained tlat ne 'i
invested everything he had in the Panama lsthi'u9
Gold and Mining Company. Whitney described 'he
investment so well that hemerer invested $LVo III
cash and received notes and drafts for the lui
amount from Whitney. These. ke7nerer toio An
sistant District Attorney Kindelberger were
worthless
Samuel Slegenbaum, the other complainant
charges that Whitney bought necklace. valued
at 1916 and a watch fob valued at $3.50 from him
and gave in return check for SIS drawn on the
New Amsterdam Bank and note due In February
for s1s5 on the Harlem branch Of the Twelfth Ward
Bank. Both, the jeweler says. were returned I'M
honored. Whitney confronted by the two COM
plainants but denied MS guilt.
During the early Cos he figured in many sensa-
tional raids made by the Parkhurst society. and
1885 severely Censured for attempting 10
convict a woman named Siebert of perjury.
The escap ade which brought him most into pub
lie notice was his confession in 1901 that he had
acted as a go-between for the police and the pool
room ring which fourished in this city under Chief
Devery. The investigation OF the Police Depart
ment which followed showed that the police tee-
graph system had been organized into alarm
service which warned poolroom keepers OF coming
raids and kept them posted the police situation
in general. chief Devery, Inspector then Captain
Flood Sergeant Shields his confidential man; Ed
ward F. Glennon. Devery's wardman. and num-
Der OF prominent Tammanyites We're implicated IN
the scandal.
During GIennon's trial at which Whitney was
to have been a witness. ne disappeared. and was
forced TO resign an agent OF me Ne" l"Ih Fo'-
ciety for the Enforcement Of the Excise Laws
In November 1904. detectives found him at No. 2Si
Pearl street where he was supposed TO be In The
exporting business under the firm name Of z A
Whitney & CO. He made prisoner for con
tempt of court but the complaint against him was
dismissed by Justice Newburger. in the Supreme
Court. He then held charge of keeping
a poolroom 1903 he attracted the attention OF
the police and it was shown that he had organized
an anti-vice society OF his own. He found this
Improbable. however. and gave II up
January 30 1906. he arrested for grand
larceny on an order issued by the District Attor-
He had obtained surs valued at SZ5 from a
merchant in this city and did not pay him. The
authorities heard nothing Of him until March Of
the present year when he was named as CO
respondent In n suit for divorce brought by Charles
F. Pasco OF this city. against his wife. Fannie
Pasco.
Roller has been previously convicted OF being a
fake bondsman and was arrested once before for
larceny.