Evening star., 1938-04-12

! SnacKled TO the once powerful bro
ker. who served five terms as presi-
dent of the New York Stock Exchange
were Albert Cain. sentenced to serve
from one to three years for attempted
extortion, and Richard Aston. SEN
fenced to two-to-four-year term for
second-degree assault
, Five guards accompanied. them.
whisked through the back entrance of
the station to track 80, they were put
aboard the first coach and took seats
The curtains were drawn.
! Pride and strength were still evil
dent in Whitney's bearing.
Sunshine was slanting through the
windows of Tombs Prison when Whit
ney rose from his first nights sleep
behind bars.
! Breakfast was offered him-farina
and milk. bread. jelly and coffee. He
spurned the farina and milk. Jail at
taches said. but drank a mugful of
coffee and ate several slices of bread
and jelly.
| A Jail truSty shaved him and was
paid IS cents by Whitney.
Faces Finserprintins.
/ AT Sing Sing Whitney will be
searched. fingerprinted. photogra phed
have his pedigree taken and he will be
given number.
He will be bathed. stripped of hi.
possessions and given a gray uniform
and locked up in the ancient cell block
where the cells have stone walls and q
solid iron door with a small grating al
the top
For 10 days he will be examined b,
psychologist, psychiatrist and in.
dustrial officer, school teacher. q
chaplain and by prison physicians. He
VIII be under constant supervision, for.
bldden to mingle with his fellow pris.
oners. forbidden to send or receive
mail. He may be permitted to do 6
little work. such as loading and un.
loading cars or shoveling coal.
Mail to Be Censored.
Later he will be assigned to some oc.
cupation, perhaps to clerical work. ane
in six or seven months will be assignee
to cell in the new block, where prls
oners have radios and greater freedom
All of his mail will be censored
After 10 days he may receive visitors
and spend as much as 50 a week in tn,
prison store. His pay will be anythin,
from to rs cents day. little enough
Tor man who spent at least SIS. 600 6
month for living expenses for himself
his wife and two daughters and II
servants, and may have spent more.
He will have one distinction in Sin,
Sing-he will be, according to Warder
Lewis E. Lawes. the most distinguished
inmate since Ferdinand Ward. broke
partner of President Ulysses S. Grant
was sent up the river for peculations i,
1888.
Imposed on Friends.
H. G. Wellington. member of the
Governing Committee of the New York
stock Exchange. testified today that
Richard Whitney had imposed on
his friends" in obtaining unsecured
loans.
At securities and Exchange Com
HiiSSlon nearing Mr.. wellington de.
scribed how Whitney had come to
him for loan of $3.50, 900. His firm,
he said, made an unsecured loan to
Whitney of $4,000 on September
%, 1898.
Mr.. Wellington testified how the
loan of his Arm was repeatedly ex-
tended.
Gehard Gesell. S. E. c. attorney,
asked whether Whitney had asked q
loan "for his Florida interests"
Il have no knowledge" Wellington
replied. Il knew he had Florida in
terests. think Whitney said he had
| over 100000 in his Florida ventures
at that time"
wellington then described a con-
versation he had with Whitney, and
quoted him as saying:
George has been lovely to me, and
just can't go over there to ask him
to give any more money. He has never
been sympathetic with my Florida
business. He thought it was throwing
good money after bad"