Evening star., 1909-02-18
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Court Imposes Sentence on
!: TabIer and Wimsatt.
EENIENCY SHOWN LUCAS
Justice Gould Acts in Street Car
Ticket Conspiracy.
EXPLAINS THE SITUATION
Statement Of Case-Details Of Pro-
ceedings, Which eliminated
in Pleas Of Guilty.

! Henry Wimsatt of the same place, but
formerly Of Washington, and Leo Lucas
Of this city today pleaded guilty before
| Justice Gould in Criminal Court No. !
to an indictment charging a conspiracy
to defraud the Washington Railway and
Electric Company by the sale of car
tickets purloined from the Hamilton Bank
Note Engraving and Printing Company
| of New York. where the tickets We're
printed. Tabler and Wimsatt also pleaded
guilty to an Indictment charging the lar
ceny Of the tickets.
| Justice Gould sentenced Tabler and
| Wimsatt to serve a term Of two years
each in the penitentiary at Atlanta. Ga.
He suspended sentence on Lucas, but
| admonished him that if he ever again
violated the law sentence now suspended
| would be imposed.
The wife Of Lucas was in court, and was
so asitated over the plea Of guilty made
by her husband, and so fearful that
like sentence Of penitentiary imprisonment
might be imposed on him that she tainted.
and was prevented from falling to the
floor of the courtroom by a deputy mar
shall. who hastened to her assistance.
With the help of two others she was borne
from the courtroom, and it was not until
some minutes later, when she recovered
consciousness. that she learned Justice
Gould had determined to give her huS-
band another chance.
Justice Gould Explains.
In passing sentence Justice Gould re-
marked that he was about to make what
might appear to be discrimination in the
matter Of sentence as to Lucas. but he
assured the public that the circumstances
OF the case upheld his action. He de-
up the courts time in rehearsing. He
stated that both Tabler and Wimsatt had
requested that Lucas be dealt with leni-
emily. and intimated that their candor in
partially generating their companion had
gone a long way in mitigating the SEN
tence to be imposed on them.
January "a, 1908, Charles F. Tabler,
Henry Wimsatt and Leo Lucas were
indicted by the grand jury for con-
spiracy to defraud the Washington
and Wimsatt were also charged with
larceny, the latter Indictment, however.
covering substantially the matters
charged in the conspiracy indictment.
Tabler was an engrsver employed by
the Hamilton Bank Note Engraving
and Printing Company in New York
city, which had the contract to furnish
| car tickets to the Washington Railway
and Electric Company. The charge
| was that Tabler and Wimsatt. who was
the tickets from the Office of the Ham.
ilton Bank Note and Printing Company
| to which Tabler had access. and would
| send them to Lucas in Washington.
profits would be divided amonk the
three.
Scheme Broached to Lucas
Wimsatt came here from New York
| in November, 1907 and hunted up Lu-
cas-, whom he had known for a long
| time, and broached the scheme to the
latter.
Lucas was grocery clerk earning
but a small income, and being at he
time in financial straits the PROPOSE
| tlon appealed to him and he agreed
| to go into it.
Later Lucas approached a man named
Dodson, who had formerly been an en-
pioye OF the Washington Railway and
some tickets to Dodson at a greatly re-
| duced price Dodson told Lucas that he
would consider the proposition. He inl-
mediately reported the matter to the Of
| ncfals or the railway company, and was
directed by them to purchase the tickets
| from Lucas.
Detectives Watch Every Move.
| Thereupon detectives were put upon the
| case. and every subsequent act of Tabler
| Wimsatt and Lucas was watched.
! number Of tickets were brought by
| Wimsatt TO Washington and turned over
to Lucas, and later large quantities were
| sent by express, one box in December and
| another early in January.
| On the 18th of January Tabler was in
Washington, and upon the complaint of
| the railway company he and Lucas were
| arrested in Washington, and on the same
day Wimsatt was arrested in New York
| Tabfer and Lucas. the day after theif
! arrest. confessed their share i'll the con-
| spiracy.
All three were indicted January ~, and
Wimsatt was subsequently removed from
New York. after making a fight against
| the requisition.