Show PLOT AGAINST WHITEMAN Blames His Sister and Brotherln Law for His Troubles San Francisco Aug 11 Alonzo J Whiteman the Duluth banker who was recently sentenced to the penitentiary for forgery declares that he has been sent to prison as the result of a conspiracy con-spiracy between his sister and her husband hus-band a man named Gibbs Whlteman declares that after the Governor of Michigan refused to issue extradition papeis to send him to California lie went to Paris From there lie was eco e-co ed to New York by his dlster and her brother on representations that his fathers estate was about to be settled and upon their promise to clear him or debt When he arrived In New York he was arrested on the forgery charge and Governor Morton turned him over to the California otlicers Whlteman exhibits letters from his mother in which she refers to her son inlaw Gibbs as a fiend and tells of the efforts of Olbbs and her daughter to embarrass Whlteman The crime for which Whlteman was convicted was the forging of a check for 500 on a New York bank using the nameor Frank Dixon He claims that Dixon wrote the check in good faith but did not have 500 on deposit in the New York bank Whlteman who cut a swath here socially cashed the check and when the bank here was informed that Dixon had no account in New York they demanded the return of the money from Whlteman He was unable un-able to pay it and the prosecution tor forgery followed |