Show EXBANKER WHITEMANS PLEA Convicted Forger Makes an Eloquent Address in Court San Francisco Aug 2A J White man exbanker exmi Iona Ire ex t Mayor of Duluth member of the Minnesota Min-nesota Legislature and recently convicted con-victed of forgery made a personal addles ad-dles today In the Superior Court In support of his own motion for a new trial The new trial was demanded on the score of newlydiscovered evidence The charge against Whlteman was that V he had victimized several friends in San Francisco by means of a forged check drawn by Frank Dixon upon aNew a-New York bank All through the trial Whlteman Insisted that there was such a person as Dixon although ho could 1 not be found Now It Is stated that V J i Dixon has been found and has stated 1 In the presence of certain reputable residents of Chicago that he had really i signed the 500 check and had sent It to Whlteman In payment of an indebtedness indebt-edness Then Whlteman by permission of the Court made an eloquent address reciting his social and political prominence prom-inence and his efforts to thou Dixon Ho begged the Court not to put the brand of felon upon 1 man who had been Illegally convicted of a crime Judge Wallace continued the further hearing of tho motion for two weeks instructing the special counsel for the prosecution In the meantime to ascertain ascer-tain whether or not Whltemans story Is true The Court stated that If there Is really such a person as Dixon and I if he signed that check and sent It to the defendant Whiteman would have 1 new trial t o |