Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-26
Agnes Ashton and Her ParamOur, Frank
Brady, Arrested at Montreal-How Walton
was Dragged and Robbed.
spe cial to the Gazette.


Ashton 9 house, and remained there
week, drinking heavily and spending
money like water. He divulged the en-
bezzlement, and expressed wish TO get
out of the. country ThereupOn the
inmates drugged him and robbed
him of all.the money he had except $1,000
which he had in a belt under his shirt.
He was subsequently arrested at
St. John, .,r3H.'B., and after being
liberated he is said to have given this
information 70 woman in Dallas, Tex,
with whom he entrusted SIT ,OOO or the
stolen money, and who came on mere,
became an inma te of Ashton 8 house and
secured the evidence upon which the ar
rests were made, and the authorities
! hope to recover all the stolen money.
MONTREAL, 2. O., April 25.-Ihe case
| of Walton, the express messenger who
| stole $4,000 from the Pacific express COM
! pany and was arrested at st. John, n B.,
with part of the stolen money in his pos
| session, has now acquired new interest by
! the arrest this morning of Frank Brady,
| Agnes Ashton and Laredo gambler who
| accompanied them. They arrived from
| Hot Springs, Ark. and were at once
! taken into custody. Brady is the man
| who was PAID $4,000 by Walton for
| helping HIM to escape, and the other
members of the party are supposed TO
| have been implicated in making away
with the balance of the money, which
was never found.
| THE STORY IN DETAIL.
Special to the Gazette.
MONTREAL, p. O., April 25.-On Feb
ruary l last when Fred Walton drew
S35 900 from the Third national bank of
Dallas, Tex, and left town the same
day, he handed SIT 900 to Georgia Car
lin, an inmate of Dallas sporting
house, and made her swear she
would never give it to anybody but him
self. Walton came direct to Canada.
In Montreal he visited brothel kept by
| one Agile Ashton, and took up with
| Nellie Lester, an inmate thereof. In
drunken confidence he told Nellie of his
| crime and showed her valise full
of money, which he carried with
him. Nellie Loyalty told her fancy man,
gambler named Laird, and her land
lady, who also called in her lover, an
other gambler named Brady. The four
kept Walton
DRUNK FOR a WEEK.
At the end of the time his valise was
$4,000 lighter than it was when he arrived
in the city. Then Laird and Brady
: who are old hands at the business scared
Walton by telling him that the detectives
were on his track, but for q consideration
thew would keep him out of the way of
the police, in fact would see he
got safely out of the country.
Fred agreed to give them $500 for their
risk and they took him to st. Johns, \ 6.
B., where they gave him passage ticket
on a West Indian steamer and bought
themselves q v&llse exactly like Fred g
which they intended to substitute for his
/ at the last MON ent when the steamer was
leaving. The day before the steamer left
Detective Cree of the Canadian
secret service gobbled up the whole
gang. Walton confessed and disgorged
all he had. Brady and Laird were ar
rested in this city. Brady gave up the
$500 and
WALTON RETURNED HOME.
In the meantime in Dallas there was
quite little comedy drama going on
Pinkerton had been engaged by the
express company to find Walton and
the money. He suspected that
:. Georgia knew lot about it and sent de-
tectives to Dallas to work her, if posi-
BILE, which, as he afterwards found out,
was not possible Georgia put the money
into tin can the day after she got 1t,
sealed the can up and hung 1t in well
The detective visited her and bought bot
tie after bottle of wine with the
chief of police of Dallas and
the express company's mnHsy until
over $500 was spent IL this way. Still
,, thew learned nothing of Walton, nor OF
the money. Georgia, while they were
buying wine one night, got uneasy about
the well, so she took up the can, opened
it, and taking the bills, inside a bolster
for her bed out Of them, and lined hel
mattress with them. One of the detect
j, ! ives slept on these bills fol
. three or four nights at the express
company's expense. TO make
long story short, they stopped spend
, ing money and kept close Watot
on Miss Georgia until Fred returned
Then ne and his father went to her
HGeorgia, - Fred, said when they met
''we came back, and L want the none!
I gave you
e ishll right, Fred, ''Georgia said; "I'v'
; got the money alright, - and she turned
/ it over to him with the exception of on
$50 bill which somehow had disappeared
Walton gave the money over to the ex
press company. In the mean
. time Detective Crosse had not beef
a woman as Gle yer as Georgia might d
something towards getting back the $500
e which had mysteriously disappeared il
y Ashton's house here. 1t was mora
certainty that the gamblers had got tn
money, but there was
i NO PROOF OF IT.
e The result was that Georgia and Detec
= tive Crosse laid their plans. Your CORE
sponiI ent was conveTssnt with ali tn
q plans from tbs time they were begun
n The gamblers and the Ashton an
D Leslie women had gone to Hot Springs
Ark 20 recruit their energies and spen'
the $4,000, but Ashton's house was run
ming yet aud Georgia became an inmat
b Of if. She was there about week. /
~ that time she had so ingratiated her
= self into the condolences of the othe
inmates that all the evidence needle