Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-08
THE WALTON TRIAL.
Walton Tells Where the Missing Eight
Thousand Dollars Went.
The Part PLAYED by Laird, Brady and Aggie
Ashton-The Dallas woman's Innocenee
Maintained by Walton.

Special to the Gazette.
MONTREAL, P. O., May THE pro-
ceedngs in the great walton robbery
case assumed an important phase to-day,
when evidence was given by Walton
showing where the missing $4,000 went.
After his arrival at st. John with the
prisoners Walton said they all went to
the Dufferin hotel, where they registered
under assumed names. Walton slept
with Brady, Laird being sick. He
never left the room all the next
day. After buying some seidlitz
powders and novels Laird went into an
other room, and Brady remaining with
Walton said that he would have to ''do
the right thing To tins appeal for
money Walton gave Brady $500, $500 of
which was for Laird. Brady asked for
more, but he refused. Later on Laird
asked Walton if he had any more money
than he had with him and Walton said
"yes, 1 have Sl7 900 with woman IN
New Orleans. (This was the Dallas
woman, George Carlin y Laird asked me
If would give him (Laird) an order
to go and see the woman and get her to
20 to St. John with the money, and
asked how much 1t was worth. ''Abont
$1,000. replied Walton. But Laird said
he thought it was worth $4,000, but that
he would come down to $1,000 and pay all
his own expenses. Previous to that l
had told him all about how 1
had stolen the money. The three
of us left the rooms together
for supper. locked the door of my
room and put the key into my pocket.
After we started to go down stairs Brady
said that he
WANTED TO GO BACK
for some medicine, and asked me for the
key. 1 gave it to him, and he returned.
He was absent about fifteen minutes.
Laird and myself were then nearly
through our supper. The valise was
then in the room, and contained all the
money. 1t was not locked
when left for supper.
When Brady returned from the room he
was very nervous, and ate only piece
of toast and drank cup of tea. After
supper we returned to the room, talked
few minutes and then went out for q
drive. l locked the door and car
ried the key with me this
time. The party visited several
houses of questionable repute and drank
beer and ginger ale. When we returned
to the Dufferin hotel we went into the
bar where Brady introduced me to man
named Boon. l heard Brady tell Boon
not to tell any one thht he BRADY had
been in St. John. We went to bed that
night about IL CLOCK. Brady slept with
me and Laird slept in the other room.
When we awoke the next morning Brady
said had better find another place
AS DETECTIVES WERE LOOKING
for some prisoner. After breakfast we
drove to the station and they left their
valises and oyercoats there. Then we
drove to the Clifton house. They told
me L had better go in and register alone
and that they would go and get my ticket
for the West Indies. 1 registered and
was assigned to room thirty-One. They
returned in half anahour and gave me
q ticket. 1 asked Brady how much it
was. He said $50 and'I gave him that
amount. They then bade ne goodbye,
wished me good luck and lett. They
both left their cards with me and asked
me to write to them. They said their
names were Frank Brady and John
Laird. This was the first time
L
Harris. / never saw them
again until 1 saw them in this court
The next Saturday morning Walton
checked over his money for the first time
and he was dismayed to find that he had
only $3.50 left in his vaIise' in which
there had been Sl7 900 altogether,
Allowing for what he had
spent walton found deficit of
between $1,000 and $4,000 and accounted
for it in this way. fFWhile 1 was in
Nellie Leslie's room my valise was I'M
locked part of the time. When l was in
Laird IS room it was also unlocked, and
when 1 was in the Dufferin hotal it was
unlocked, more particularly when Brady
went back into my room when we were
going to supper. 1 believe that these
people took the money. 1 was with no
other people but these two and the peo-
pie in Aggie Ashton's house.
Walton then described how immedi-
ately after tine robbery in February he
went to q house of prostitution kept by
Eva Howard in Dallas and met George
'Carlin. He had known her about four
months. He did not tell her of his
crime until the next morning. He had
with him Sl7 200 which he gave to
George Carlin to keep for hun.
1t was in package of $500
bills. He asked the girl to keep it until
she should hear from him and told her
he was going to Mexico. They also
agreed that as soon as he got safely
away, she would join HIM and together
they could enjoy the fruits of Walton 8
crime. 1t was not entirely due to the
solicitations of the Carlin woman that he
took the ring, in fact she had no part in
Inducing him to commit the crime.