The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-09-27
IMAM ARRESTED As WHITE
| SLAYER SAYS He GOT $500
| iPICilnGPOCEtTS ON CARS
Dressed as Laborer, Declares
He Found it Easy to Separate
Passengers From Coin
GIRL HELD AS WITNESS
Tells Police Companion Placed
Her in Resort and Threat
ened to Kill Her
GIRL HELD AS WITNESS

Dressing up In overalls and other
apparel indicative OF a laboring man
Joseph White. alias Smith, worked
hs a pickpocket on crowded estreet
Ears In Boston and Detroit, with the
result that he cleaned up" $1,000
n the cultured city" and upwards
of $500 in the place where life Ii
really worth living.
He unbosomed himself to Detec.
lives Horrigan. and McCarty In police
Headquarters. Thursday morning
Following his arrest on suspicion OF
Violating the Mann white slave law
by placing a girl. 22 years old, who
he says. is his wife, in a Catherine
st. resort. She is now being detain.
ed by the police as a witness against
white. and denies that she is mar
ried to him.
In his admissions to the detectives
White declined to 60 into details
about his dip work In Detroit He
Sdeclared, however, that he had not
visited the state fair at any time
/having confined his operations tc
the downtown district, which, he
Eliminated, was productive OF good
treturns at all times. His disguise
ne explained, threw the men around
him on their guard and allowed him
TO operate with the greatest OF ease
IS White also took the detectives into
2his confidence in regard TO some CT
mis- out-of-town history, admitting that
fhe Is wanted In New York on three
counts OF pocketpicking. He jumped
ball bond of $4,000 to get out OF New
York, he said, and would face ten
Years In prison II sent back there
With some bravado. he confessed tina:
ne had never done an honest day Q
work in his life.
n The detectives were informed, Wei
.hesday night, that White Is wanted in
New York on charge OF homicide,
but he denied this, Thursday morning
Explaining that the report doubtless
got abroad because of his being with
"a couple OF others In an attack an a
New York policeman, who tried to
Ihrrest them. White said he got tie
<pficers buttons" for the latters ei
Tort to make the arrest
Well, you seem to be a man OF IN
fiuence in New York." suggested De
fective Horrigan to White. do you
know 'Gyp the Blood and Lefty
Louie?" the officer queried
I'm no rat" White replied.
White Is 26 years old tall aud
giant-like physique. He said he had
been roming at No. 81 Abbott-st
Iefnce coming TO Detroit. /:
II Whites woman companion, girl
| lof rare beauty. % years old, whose
|lidentity the police are suppressing
|Ifor the sake Of her mother, who lives
lin Brooklyn, told Detectives Horrigan
land McCarty that she met White
Through a girl chum. who worked
with her In department store In
Brooklyn. She said that White after
Iwards took her to Boston, Albany and
Buffalo, coming from the latter city
to Detroit. Here, she said, White
Hook her to the Catherine-st resort.
| White is said to have taken her earn
ings and abused her because she
didn't give him more money He
backed her up against the wall In the
Catherine-st. resort, and pointing a
big revolver at her, told her to close
her eyes, as he was going to kill her.
He didn't Are, however. the weapon,
fully loaded, was found on him when
ne was arrested.
The Detroit authorities will not
give White up to the New York DO.
lice, desiring to prosecute him here
on the white slave charge. They are
sure they can convict him.