The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1908-12-12
'WHALEN TO SERVE SENTENCE
The California Supreme Court
Has Denied Nevada Mining
Swindler a Rehearing

According to the Sacramento Bee OF
December 2 William Whalen was de.
MED a rehearing of his case by the
California Supreme Court last Satur.
day, and he will have to serve a ten
years sentence at the Folsom peni-
Tertiary where he is now incarcerated,
thus ending one OF the most famous
mining swindliug cases that ever origi-
mated in Eureka County and where the
guilty culprit was finally landed be-
hind the bars.
For the information Of those who are
not familiar with the case in question
n brief history regarding the matter is
given as follows:
10 1906 an action was brought against
William Whalen by Mrs. Mildred Mar
tin in the Sacramento County, CAL.
Superior Court on the ground of OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses.
He was convicted and sentenced to a
term of ten years in the ~penitentiary.
He appealed from the judgement and
the case was taken up to the Third
District Court of Appeals, and in Octo-
Der. 1907, that body sustained the de-
cision of the lower court.
His attorneys. through some techni-
calities. later succeeded ia getting the
case before the California Supreme
Court for a ~rehearing. aud that body,
as stated above, has decided that he
must serve the term for which he was
convicted.
1t appears that Whalen met Mrs.
Martin in Sacramento and stated to her
that he represented the United States
Mining and Investment Company.
which he informed her owned eight
fully developed gold mines situated
near Alpha. Eureka County. Nevada,
on the line of the Eureka and Palisade
Railway. from which great quantities
of ore were taken. worth from $500 to
$1,000 per ton. On these representations
Mrs. Martin was induced to buy the
stock, purchasing so shares for $1,000.
The stock turned out to be worthless
aud as a result the woman brought a
criminal action against Whalen.
Some 10 years ago Whalen served a
four.year term in the Missouri peni-
Tertiary for a like fraudulent stock
transaction involving a number of
copper locations near Alpha and ada
cent to the alleged gold properties that
figured in the present case.
The following extract commenting
on the final landing of William Whalen
in the penitentiary is from the Sacra.
mento Bee of December Z:
William Whalen, probably the
shrewdest gold-brick swindler Sacra-
mento has ever had since the days of
Rebel George, has just received a sad
bit of news in his little stone cell in the
p~enitentiary. The news is to the effect
10 years behind the bars for receiving
money by false pretenses.
Whalen is the man who came into
this community two or three years ago
and succeeded in selling a lot of stock
in a Nevada gold mine, gathering in
several thousands of dollars.
Later ON the purchasers of the stock,
becoming suspicious, sent an agent to
Nevada to inspect the mine. He brought
back the distressing news that the mine
had been salted."
Whalen was arrested. tried and con
victed. III. G. Ross, his attorney, q
short time ago %petifioned the Supreme
Court for a ~rehearing Of the case.
Ross has received word that last Sat.
urday the Supreme Court denied the
petition for q reheariug, aud Whalen
will continue his residence in the PEN
itentiary.