Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-07
Walton Non Est Inventus.

The rumor got abroad, as rumors VIII
and into the papers, as rumors sometimes
do, that F. a. Walton, the defaulting
express agent, came to Dallas last night.
This astonished many people who read
the papers and who read dispatches yes
terday, which fixed the Whereabouts of
said Walton some 1000 miles from this
city, which might put him here some
time hence in the distant future. Of
course he might have shuffled off his coil
and have come swiftly in on the wings OF
the morning; but he could not have
moved hence his earthly frame over the
vast country to the north of as so quickly
travsrsed by the glowing magma
ton of the modern newspaper man.
Superintendent Aiken declares that
young Walton ia not here, and that the
arrival over which the papers have gone
wild was the father of the Young man.
1t appears that two hauls of $4,000 and
Sl7 600 of the $50 ,0C0 taken by young
Walton have been made by the Pacific
people, and these have been made, as
Mr.. Aiken says, with the assistance of
the young man 8 father. The papers
have it that the last haul of SIT 500 OF
this Doodle has been unearthed here,
and the report Is current here to-day
morning from house of unsavory repu-
taiion, where young Walton had left 1t
with one of the inmates. This rumor is
denied, Rnd another report races
around upon its heels TO the eff
feet that not a dollar of the
money has been uneaFthed in Dallas,
and that the express people recovered
both sums stated in ST. Johns, where
they got in from Walton himself. But
Mr.. Aiken is reported to have smiled
and declared that they had picked up
Sl7 500 by coming here. IA followeth
the springtime whrlwind up the dusty
road, so s,Oeth one report after another.
Some say that Walton had the money
buried near the remains OF our temple of
delayed justice aud that it was found
there last night. The result is q regi-
ment of eager lads with picks and spades
ready to dig up Sl7 800 more in the
same neighbOrhOod. On finding q feak
Of freshly turned earth one of the num-
Der got down on his knees and smelled
the hole and declared that the
earth there had the unmistakable odor
of gTeenbark bills of large denomination
Another repor: is that Walton had a
confederate who is still in Dallas and
who hesitated long before he would sur
render the money, which he claimed to
have Won from the youth in one even
iug's sitting.
SO swiftly fly the wild rumors that the
people do not attempt TO keep up with
them, but stand in mute amazement and
let them fly. 1t illustrates strikingly the
fact that grain Of truth will season and
render pRlatable fullhedged sensation
in these modern times Of ours. The only
thing about which there appears TO be no
doubt is that Walton's father is here.
To avoid identification Superinteud-
'ent Fuller and MIR. w. F. Walton left
the west bound train of the Texas and
Pacific at the Union depot, and with Col.
Aiken, Mr.. Garrison aud Detective Nc
Cane came down u back street into the
city in q closed carriage. The parties
are said to have driven directly TO
house OF i'll fame where q heavy portion
of the Doodle was found, aud from which
one of the party emerged with large
envelope in his hand which he seemed TO
consider precious. The package is said
TO have contained SIG $40, but this is de-
MED by some-in fact the recovery of the
package is denied in toto by MANY.
Marshal Arnold expresses the opinion
that young Walton is in Dallas, ana
Sheriff Lewis and deputies have been
on the alert all day, armed with war
rants for his arrest. He was indicted
for ths theft by the last grand jury,
and it behooVes him to stand aloof from
the Texas authorities. Superintendent
Fuller and the father of the defaulter
occupy room No. So at the Windsor
hotel and are as dumb as oysters con-
ce1niDg the case.