Show WRIGHTS EVENTFUL CAREER HAS SENSA SENSATIONAL ENDING I Dies an Hur After eig S to Seven Seen Years For fraud Suicide Is Hinted at WillBe Held Thursday Startling 1 Tragedy All London I ONDON Jan 26 At S this LONDON L afternoon Whitaker Wright was sentenced to seven years penal i le At 4 o lock he Icy Iy dead on the floor of a small room in the I liv V courts Whether he took his own ownby life by poison or whether death in Ita course robbed the law of its ita will not lw known until it l mortem examination is held The Thu indications however point to The career of this man who was waa Known on three continents for his stu Mu financial operations closed in ina 4 a startling tragedy Even in his hia life which with his bis rise from poverty to wealth wae wac full of dra dramatic matic incidents ther was nothing that could compare with the manner Jt f his death All London tonight is Ia Iap Bf p thrilled with the new of it No such tragedy has ha been enacted in England for many a yar Until nearly S tonight the body of the man who formerly had eon con conA j A trolled rolled I many of the worlds markets and who had been courted by royalty remained upon the floor of the room 4 where he fell for as aa a convicted felon Wrights person had become the he prop property erty of the crown The home office finally gave trinis permission k sion aion for its removal and the body was given over to the Jurisdiction of the c Croner roner It now lies at Westminster mortuary where almost all the corpses from the Thames are laid out The inquest probably will b held on Thursday Friends Expected an Acquittal Mrs Wright the dead mans wife is isan isan an American She now lies III ill at the magnificent country howe home which Wright had in Surrey Dispatches from there say with a certain ingenuous pathos 4 The news of Whitaker Wrights has caused much sorrow He nas vi well known here for his sad and it was generally be believed that he would be acquitted and I II I I return turn home again The feeling that Justice eon oth es was wa not very judicial to gre gr v Hi in legal eI of o Lon Im ansi ana the sentence imposed d upon I Wright in Itself would haw have furnished j Ki igland and with an unexpected I n ti I counsel commenced pleading the thes s trial of Whitaker Wright scarcely j si rued roused that kf n mt interest rest which I as exhibited when Wright was wa in the States or tr when wien parliament de he did Wt come within the pale of arid and Walton to make the appeal to i the jury 11 people wok m up to LI the gravity of the issues isu sl Even Kven the gov IB involved for fr it nad nd taken the stand I that Wright e not be prosecuted 1 iirth it was an open s ret that great an 1 even royal namis s were indirectly involved in the i ro et ding ri of had asid thai tha if driven nt a corner li f would tell who had hy by his hi Suspense in mai y quarters while counsel r the tho defense made their hut but Uli the appeal was those In lv d breathed easier and nd curios Iy remained Slept During Court Session e Bigham beian summing ui t tA flay A a n I the court room rom was wa s crow J cring several sessions Wright gone to aU p He lie bad to tois liis is that thit h could not i found guilty guilly and St it wa upon thi Uon that h against the advice of i law lawers er upon returning roT thc United States to stand trial As Higham emphasized the thc I lintH against Wright i 1 to the I j r upon the immorality in issuing mis 1 a dine iding balance he t and th tb j r i PS ss 01 u the transactions of the I London ondon LondonA A v l it jl e O guIdance th showed tise interest yet when th jury n ro roc c rl Wright right d confidence in iii it acquittal He Ili reiterated ri e rated thi th IK he had hadon hadn on n nothing which was not net Gone every i in the cit For tr an hour Wright awaited mo ver ft It talking with Hup is Counsel while the city magnates I rs of tb the and the other iK who row leil the thi Ia ir upon the min man whose if U hung in the balance Vh h n a the Jury Iliad filed in at Z Wright showed his first signs of Tio Peering through his glasses It n leaned forward to catch the foremans answer anwer At the word ward guilty which broke the th tense and expectant Wright did not even flinch but sticking his hands deep down into his pockets ana 55 gazing rather primly grimly at his bis judge ue he stood up to receive sentence To the cry of a foman that canve train the bark back of the conn coert and to the w iz thin tion that hie career as a man manof of business and aad honor was ended Wright seemed ut at utterly terly He Hf tat down dawn ally atty while Mr Walton made a plea fojt mercy As JustiCe Bl Bihain ham bi Iii sharp aw ase remorseless tones answered Mr Waltor Vs alter Wright was peremptorily ordered to stand standup up Severe Arraignment of Judge Whitaker Wright raid eald Justice B Big Bigham ham opinion the jury could not noton on oil the arrive at any other eon elusion than which they have expressed fn in their verdict 1 confess 1 I see notable that in any way excuses the of O you have been found auRty and f r cannot conceive of a worse e ease than sours Under the pert sections ions of th act of parliament upon which you have been indicted and which define the s these circumstance I do not that I have any option saw to visit you with the most severe penalty which the set act permits r nd ind that Chat is that you go into penal servitude for i even year The crowd in conn gapped tn In surprise Wright was almost the only person who appeared unmoved Then turning to te the reporters in the room rather than to his judge he cried out in a firm voice All I can say is that I am as sa innocent of any Intention to deceive as any one in inthis this room It was wag apparent that he would have said more but two tipstaffs took him by bythe bythe the arms arias and led him out of court A friend pressed forward to offer his con oon condolence dolence Oh never mind said I Idon dont don t mind a bit and with a firm step and looking in perfect health the eon con vi ned man to the consultation room to take farewell of his solicitors Dead Within an Hour For some twenty minutes Wright dis cu d his family affairs and the dispo disposition sItton of his remaining moneys He frankly expressed his at the verdict and still more so at the sen sentence tence tenee but George Lewi jr Ms his so solicitor solicitor tells teUs tin the Associated Press Pre that he ht spoke rather as a man prepared to grin and bear it than as a person who contemplated suicide Suddenly Wright fell backward as tf U Ube be had tainted fainted The officer who was waiting to taka him to Brixon ran to Kings College hospital which Is near nearby by for a doctor In the meanwhile the unconscious man was propped up on two chairs chair The d re lat first thought was that Wright had liM mica In an ordinary apoplectic m bat U wag noticed that Me his heart beart begs j give out and before arrive Whitaker one hour of the th time he had b en u wea dead An examination of the body made mad t a late hour tonight points poInt t to W Tact fact that death was ss due d to The examination Will be held Wednesday Throughout The evening a crowd ri rious people lingered around the law W courts court i and id in ord order r to I scenes the tha body of Wright had to be taken out by liy a aside side entrance and conveyed almost by stealth to the mortuary PRUSSIC ACID HINTED AT Wright Kay Have Eave Had Bad It ia in Bad nd of Cigar London Leaden Jan K Without exception the London papers express satisfaction with the salutary vindication of the law in inthe the th ease case of Whitaker r Wright and admit th justice of the verdict and of the s ass n nten ten tenc f The Tho Standard alone in an edi eth editorial tonal expresses some pome surprise at the se so severity verity of the sentence on cn the ground th t there was a degree of extenuation tion iti hi the peculiar circumstances which Wright was placed under At the same time all the pars papers dwelt upon the sad sadness ness fleas of the final tragedy in tIe the vein which is reflected by the following re remark remark mark in the Morning Post Even these painful circumstances can cannot cannot not cause the slightest twinge of the na national conscience There are indications in the comments of the Liberal newspapers on the result of the case that it will be used as a po political weapon against the government which declined to Wright Pro Pre Premier mier Balfour acting on the advice of the law office of 0 crown having an announced flounced in parliament in December WIC the that t the he t ease was not one for the public prosecutor These Then papers insinuate that the government wished to shield Wright l he was a strong supporter finan financially daily and otherwise of the conservative cau and because he had bad influential I frind The Daily News New contends that tie the law laws C s Continued on o Page 7 IK hAS SEPAL Continued from One officers Sir Robert and Sir d dward ward Carson ought to resign and it re refer fees fer to the Wicked Insinuations or of Wrights friends that a of toe case would Involve the Duke of ton On naught Mho eM did Invest in lit one of Wrights Weights companies but was not e even en remotely in involved in its doings All kinds of rumors abroad last night as to the cause of Wrights Weights death and bod there was much speculation on the meteor matter but bat nothing certain could be learned It to Ia learned that Wright suf stif suffered fired greatly from insomnia for the lest last two weeks owing to the mental strata strain of the trial and he used drugs to pro procUre cUre care sleep during the last few days j I I It la Is also alec remarked l that be had S aged in while during the tha lodges ledges summing up he showed signs ot of great distress ills His fare face was pale paIn and ard haggard but bat no one had bad any idea ida that be lie suffered trout from an which was wait likely to prove fatal One rumor says that a bottle of tablOids tabloid wa was found in the dead mans sOd sad the suggestion that he had capsule of prosaic arid add fa In the end of the cigar be held n be he collapsed la ha also been made Many persons however are still con convinced i vinced that Wright had an apoplectic of heart OB mi he be was under tinder careful watch from feces the time sentence was pronounced and nothing was seen to wo eu I cur cor which gives color to the suicide Ides Idea Last night Mr Mrs Wright was in a state of great prostration as a result of the terrible stock In ILl an 0 editorial article with reference to the governments strange error in refus ing tg to prosecute Wright th the Times says 5 if only be he s fur for the govern government meat ment to recoup fully to the prosecutors ail nh U the o costs cost they ha havO moneyed Incurred In bringing to justice a culprit of a kind that under fortune generally ta Ca Casera sera vors |