The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-02-02


RIG H MON d, VA.-Special,-
That WHITEHALL the man who died
on Grove Avenue Wednesday morn
ing, may have been not only a dan
gerous criminal. but mentally unbal-
anced as well. is the belief that the
Richmond police are now beginning
to entertain, for though IL appears
that he had attempted to destroy all
evidence which would lead to his iden-
tity, it seems that he procured several
newspaper clippings relating to the
theft of some rings and re-wrote parts
of them and comments upon them in
the first person, making il appear that
he himself was guilty of the charges.
These clippings relate to the theft
and concealment of some rings in a
Philadelphia boarding house by a man
who gave his name as Norwood. From
them il anepars that Norwood, after
asking his landlady to change a $50
bill. got into one of the chambers and
took the rings which he concealed in
the cushions Of one of the chairs. He
was caught by a detective as he was
feeling under the cushion to make
sure that the rings were still there.
The notes written by Whytehau give
several of the above details. all being
written in the first person. Chief
Werner has procured a picture of
Norwood, however, and after compar-
ing it with the photograph of Whyte-
hall and sending detectives to Ben
nett's undertaking establishment to
make a thorough examination of the
body. has declared that if the picture
/ he has is that of the Philadelphia
I crook, then Whytehall and Norwood
are two different people. as the picture
| Of Norwood, he says, is not picture
OF the man known here as Emo Whyte-
I hall.
During the five days since the
mans. sudden death the police have
seut ont numerous kilograms and let
! ters bt:t have been able 10 learn al
most nothing of the mysterious
strangers identity except from pat
| ent office certificate found in his
| pocket and two initials stamped in
/ his hat-band.
/ Up to this time answers have been
/ received to only two kilograms. Be
4 lieving that the man had at one time
made his home in Norwich, Conn,
Chief Werner wired 10 that place for
I information. Chief John Murphy. OF
Norwich. replied that Whytehall was
i not known there. Mum * Co, who
/ had had some spondence with
| Whytchall regarding a patent. an
I severed the telegram OF Chief Wer-
| ner by saying that they had trans
/ acted certain business for Whytehall
\ i'm Washington, but knew nothing Of
Min personally.
n il was at first believed that the man
! Aas wealthy Scotchman. Mrs.
| christian Juhl. of 522 West Cary
| StA1et. with whom he had boarded
/ reuNrted TO the police that Whytel.SF$i
had represented himself as kaiS-<-,,..1l'a.l.
Nwealchy. and had told r., he w.,
fpanc'aliy inteTeSr6d in the street
raHway1@ ~ ---rrsffnburg.
So mysterious are the mans pa
pers, however and there is such
strong evidence TO show that Whyte-
hall had taken every precaution TO
| destroy all means OF Identifying him
that the police, as stated in The = >...-
n nnN g. H.
beginning 10 entertain grave suspi-
cions regarding the mans occupation
and character.
His valise contains hundreds Of ad-
dresses. The police do not know their
significance, but there are also nu-
merous collections Of pictures-most
of them of little girls-and Chief
Werner believes that these photo
graphs reveal n dark and CHASTITY
characteristic OF the man.
Hundreds Of clippings relating sto-
ries of crimes i'm which little girls
were made the victims Of fiends have
also been uncovered. Many of these
have words and sentences and whole
paragraphs underlined as if Whyte-
hall had grecdily read and had un-
derscored certain details in order that
he might remember them.
some Of the police believe that
/ Whytehall may have been a sneak
thief or hotel robber. Some of the
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charged, and there are two closely
written sheets of paper done in
Whytehalls own hand telling Of some
trial in which Whytehall, himself, OF
someone for whom he was keeping a
memorandum, was accused of trying
20 take ring.
/ Chief Werner is more inclined to
look TO the pictures for a solution
than TO the theft" theory. He has
also carefully examined dozens of pic
lures submitted to him and has com
pared them with the photograph of
WHITEHALL published several DAYS ago
in hhe Journal
he mas been abe to learn -abs6rIfe-'
| ~ nothing from these pictures. he de-
/ ciares, is as much in the dark as ever
though ne is continually sending ONT
letters and kilograms asking for in
FORMATION regarding the man.