Evening star., 1941-08-11
Whitney Is Released
From Prison After
Serving 40 Months
Former Exchange Head
Is Net by Brother
In Limousine
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
OSSINING, N. Y, Aug. 11.-Rich-
ard Whitney, who lost $1l .000. 900 in
Wall Street, left prison walls free
man today after making profit OF
$l81 oil in 40 months in Sing Sing.
The 53-year-old former president
of the New York Stock Exchange,
paroled after serving three years
and four months of a 5-to-10-year
sentence for stealing $2l4,000 from
client brokerage accounts, was met
by his brother, George, In a chauf-
feur-driven limousine.
Whitney greeted his brother, a
]. P. Morgan partner, who advanced
81 .6OO,0 900 of his own fortune in a
vain attempt to save Whitney's firm
from bankruptcy in 1888, with
silent handclasp. Neither spoke
until the big car pulled away from
the prison to carry Whitney to the
Barnstable (Mass) dairy farm which
he will superintend.
Interviews Refused.
As he emerged from the prison,
Whitney's pallid, heavy face lit with
a smile.
What a beautiful day." he said.
He refused to talk with interview
ers, however, declaring repeatedly
but with unfailing courtesy:
Il haven't got a thing to say. Not
q word. Not a world"
1t was a block from the prison
entrance to the waiting limousine,
and the one-time spokesman of
Wall Street. a bit weary, had to
make two trips to carry his suitcase.
a basket and two red twine bags to
the car. The chauffeur, looking i'll
at ease as Whitney trudged pain
fully up with the heavy suitcase, was
not permitted to enter the prison
gates to help.
Whitney followed his customary
routine his last morning in prison,
arising at 7 am. and breakfasting
on oatmeal, milk, bread and butter
and coffee.
He bade farewell to his closest
convict friend, Joseph w. Burden,
a former Manhattan investment
broker with whom he had been
closely associated in PALMER days
in Wall Street, and then went to
the head keepers Office for leave
taking.
Held Perfect Record.
Warden Robert j. Kirby disclosed
that Whitney was graduated from
Sing Sing summa cum laude-at the
top of the 194l class. He held a
perfect prison record and had
worked himself up from a cell
mopper to teaching position and
finally became chief clerk in charge
of assigning new prisoners to their
cells.
AS he left he was given a pair of
gold cuff links taken from him when
he entered April IL, 1898. He re-
fused the States customary offer
of a new suit. but accepted s192.86
in cash. This represented sl63.36
in prison pay, $3.50 of his personal
money and the States $40 rehabili-
tatlon fee, which he thriftily took.
oIiiSC iiC lidu SllOO WIlen lie IlTSI
entered the prison, he left Sl8l01
richer. -'... ...
Gained Weight in Prison.
Whitney-officially. known as No
94.835-gained little weight in
prison ana for a. time played first
base on a prison baseball team. He
had been a star athlete in college
days at Harvard
Until April II, 1948, he must re-
port on his conduct once a month
to the Massachusetts, Board of Cor
rections, which will relay the in
formation to New York parole
authorities.
A 12-room farmhouse, a landmark
in Barnstable, one of the oldest towns
on Cape Cod will become Whitney's
home
Whitney's wife and their daughter,
Alice, %, arrived in that town sew
eral days ago to open the house on
a 50-acre tract where Whitney will
become manager of a proposed dairy
farm with herd of 25 cattle.
Two maids accompanied Mrs.
Whitney and her daughter.