At the police station, and subsequently in the Federal court, he gave his name as Arthur Travis.

It was such an unusual name for a cheap post office burglar that I determined instantly there was some connection between the attempted robbery and Whitmore's murder.
"Ordinarily, we are both aware, the capture of an unimportant post office robber, would not be allotted more than a paragraph or two in the newspapers.

As the banking investigation was occupying pages of space seven weeks ago, Travis's arrest was not even mentioned in most of the papers, while those that took note of it, buried the item on one of the inside pages.
"Whitmore, alias Travis, had the ablest lawyer in the city to advise him.

Undoubtedly Tom Luckstone counseled him as to the manner in which he was to conduct himself in jail and in court so as not to arouse newspaper curiosity.

Well, ten days before Whitmore returned to his death, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years and a half in jail.