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Show I FUGITIVE WRITES LETTER. Declares He Did Not Escape Prom Detectives Through "Windows. ROCHESTER, N. T.f Nov. 2. Alonzo J. Whlteman, former State Senator of Minnesota und prominent politician, now a fugitive, charged with many forgeries, who recently was reported to have escaped es-caped from detectives through a window win-dow of a fast-moving train near Dunkirk, Dun-kirk, N. Y has written a letter to A. O. Bunnell In. Danville. N. Y Whlteman's former home, denying the story. He declared that ho stepped from the train In the usual way. went to the Erie hotel, registered under an assumed name and went to bed. The detectives, he said, came to the hotel later and stayed over night. He left before they were up. His whereabouts is still unknown. |