The Sentinel=record., 1914-03-03
PlNkERTON MEN AND CHIEF FL. LlSON LAND TWO BIG OYER
 ATORS IN CITY JAIL.
ONE TALKS; OTHER Is QUIET
Alonzo Whitman Has Lonq Police Record and Edward R. Gibbs Is Be- lieVed to Be One of the Big swindie Operators Railing fro mthe East.

Trailing two crooks from Oswego, N Y, the Pinkerton detective agency through the aid of Chief Ellison and his detectives, yesterday arrested two of the big swindle operators of the country for whom police departments in the big cities and the two big de- tective agencies had been on the alert for many months.
 Chief Tom Ellison made the arrest of Alonzo Whitman and through shad- owing this crook with a long police record, he and II. & Moshier. the Pnkerton man on the case, made the arrest of Edward k. Gibbs, alias De Forrest, wso is also a crook with some record in the east.
 The men are not small operators. They were here with money and cir culating with the wealther class of visitors They had probably laid the plans for some big game in this ity.
 About the first of the year Edward R Gibbs, operating under the name of De Forrest, at Oswego, Oswego county, New York, managed to get hold of a draft from a big manufac- turing concern in the sum of s8. This little draft he manipulated to name sum of $s,000 and on that draft he secured the sum of $S10. The Buff falo department of the Pinkerton agen- cy was notified. this detective agency having the contract for the protee- tion of the bank that had been swind- led with the draft.
 The Buffalo agency trailed Gibbs and found that he had gone to Zion City, near Chicago and later that he had met Aloazo Whitman there The latter was well known in police cir cles all over the country. The Pink. ertons found that he had left Chi cago with Whitman, and they trailed him to this city, where yesterday they located Whitman, and Chief Ellison made the arrest. They did not arrest Whitman until they had shadowed him awhile to ascertain if he would come in touch with his confederate, and Whitman seemed to know he was being shadowet and tried to throw off hint to Gibbs, but this was off set and the two were grabbed.
 Pinkerton Detective Moshier wired to Chicago to ascertain exactly who Gibbs was, but received information from that city that Gibbs by name was unknown. except that Whitman had some relatives by the name of Gibbs The answer did not indicate that it was one of these with Whit man, as the name might have been the only similarity.
 It is said that Gibbs now has a draft in one of the local banks drawn on the bank in Oswego against the draft he had deposited there, and the detectives are working on an investi- gation of this rumor. Gibbs. it is said, also bought a diamond for s150 here, for which he gave piece of draft paper, that it is believed is no good. He is believed to have sent this diamond out of the city. The purchase was made from the Blake Jewelry Company
 Whitman will be taken to Zion City on a charge of defraudilg Mrs. Condlin out of the sum of S2,500. Gibbs will be taken back to Oskego to answer the charge against him there of raising the draft and of aman- ipulating it.
 Whitman, though circulating in the better circles here, has served sev- eral sentences in the penitentiaries. Tn July. 1898, at Chicago, he was sent to the house of correction and fined about $2,000 h December. 1899, he was given another house of correc- ton sentence in Chicago In 1906 in Buffalo he was given two-year sen tence in the Auburn, N r., prison after being convicted at Buffalo In 1908 in St. Louis he was again con vieted and received a sentence. He is said to have 56 aliases, and to have worked recently as Martin. Prentice Wilson and other names he picked up
 Detective Ellis yesterday afternoon shortly after the men were arrested received a telegram from the Burns Detective Agency stating that the men were wanted by that agency. and set ting forth some of their aliases and the crimes for which they were want ed.